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The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider whether Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Legislature is ready to legalize medical marijuana. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
WEDC would have to find $4 million in its existing appropriations to cover efforts to attract and retain talent, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved along party lines.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to pay for new technology at the Department of Revenue to improve delinquent tax collections. The committee also passed on Gov. Tony Evers’ call to add auditor positions at the agency’s debt collection operation. Also, the committee decided to keep 38 auditors as project positions rather than making them permanent jobs.
On this week’s Capitol Chats episode, Rep. Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, explains why the shared revenue proposal floating around the Capitol is so important for Milwaukee. He also expresses some of his frustration with policy and spending restrictions that specifically target Milwaukee in the Assembly’s version of the shared revenue deal.
The Joint Finance Committee voted today to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire an outside contractor to study the troubled State Veterans Home at King to find ways to improve residents’ quality of life.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to increase state funding for youth apprenticeship grants and career and technical education programs in school districts to help address the state’s workforce shortage.
Quotes of the Week We are done negotiating. We have negotiated in good faith literally for months. – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, ahead of a floor vote to send the Republican-authored shared revenue bill to the Senate for consideration.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the negotiations over the GOP shared revenue bill, Joint Finance Committee approval of pay raises for state prosecutors and public defenders, along with $125 million to fight PFAS, and new GOP legislation to tackle the state’s housing shortage.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider potential GOP candidates to run against incumbent Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin in 2024. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
The Joint Finance Committee late Thursday approved investing $125 million to combat PFAS — but left the details of how to spend the money for a trailer bill introduced just this week.
In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Port of Milwaukee Director Jackie Carter discusses plans to develop a new cruise ship dock, commodity shipping and more.
League of Wisconsin Municipalities Executive Director Jerry Deschane says this session is turning out to be one of the most consequential for local governments in a generation. Several bills are circulating the Capitol to address shared revenue, workforce housing and PFAS “forever chemical” contamination.
The shared revenue bill’s referendum requirement for Milwaukee sales tax increases remain a big sticking point for Republicans and Dems. Rep. Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, and Rep. Jessie Rodriguez, R-Oak Creek, during a WisPolitics luncheon at UW-Milwaukee’s Zilber School of Public
The Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously today to give state prosecutors and public defenders a pay raise of $8.76 an hour — equal to $18,221 a year — as both fight vacancy rates that advocates say have led to slowdowns in the criminal justice system.
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau today projected state tax collections through mid-2025 would come in $755.1 million lower than what the agency expected just four months ago.
Quotes of the Week Do you think it’s a little weird that you’re pushing a ban on advisory referenda at the local level, but, yet, the Legislature pushed a statewide advisory referendum in the April election? – Rep. Clinton Anderson,
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new laws Gov. Tony Evers signed to crack down on reckless driving and carjacking, committee shuffling with the new Senate GOP supermajority, shared revenue negotiations, the UW System eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion statements for employment, and more.
The WisOpinion insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the signature items each party hopes to include in the 2023-24 biennial budget. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
The Joint Finance Committee will meet twice next week, resuming deliberations on the budget after a break while awaiting new revenues projections from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode, U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, says he’ll need to see a border security bill included in the debt limit increase for him to support it. He also talks about a possible Senate bid for next year’s election.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider whether Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Legislature is ready to legalize medical marijuana. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
WEDC would have to find $4 million in its existing appropriations to cover efforts to attract and retain talent, under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved along party lines.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to pay for new technology at the Department of Revenue to improve delinquent tax collections. The committee also passed on Gov. Tony Evers’ call to add auditor positions at the agency’s debt collection operation. Also, the committee decided to keep 38 auditors as project positions rather than making them permanent jobs.
On this week’s Capitol Chats episode, Rep. Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, explains why the shared revenue proposal floating around the Capitol is so important for Milwaukee. He also expresses some of his frustration with policy and spending restrictions that specifically target Milwaukee in the Assembly’s version of the shared revenue deal.
The Joint Finance Committee voted today to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire an outside contractor to study the troubled State Veterans Home at King to find ways to improve residents’ quality of life.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to increase state funding for youth apprenticeship grants and career and technical education programs in school districts to help address the state’s workforce shortage.
Quotes of the Week We are done negotiating. We have negotiated in good faith literally for months. – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, ahead of a floor vote to send the Republican-authored shared revenue bill to the Senate for consideration. A sticking point in the negotiations has been whether the
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the negotiations over the GOP shared revenue bill, Joint Finance Committee approval of pay raises for state prosecutors and public defenders, along with $125 million to fight PFAS, and new GOP legislation to tackle the state’s housing shortage.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider potential GOP candidates to run against incumbent Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin in 2024. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
The Joint Finance Committee late Thursday approved investing $125 million to combat PFAS — but left the details of how to spend the money for a trailer bill introduced just this week.
In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Port of Milwaukee Director Jackie Carter discusses plans to develop a new cruise ship dock, commodity shipping and more.
League of Wisconsin Municipalities Executive Director Jerry Deschane says this session is turning out to be one of the most consequential for local governments in a generation. Several bills are circulating the Capitol to address shared revenue, workforce housing and PFAS “forever chemical” contamination.
The shared revenue bill’s referendum requirement for Milwaukee sales tax increases remain a big sticking point for Republicans and Dems. Rep. Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, and Rep. Jessie Rodriguez, R-Oak Creek, during a WisPolitics luncheon at UW-Milwaukee’s Zilber School of Public Health clashed over various provisions in the Republican-proposed shared revenue
The Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously today to give state prosecutors and public defenders a pay raise of $8.76 an hour — equal to $18,221 a year — as both fight vacancy rates that advocates say have led to slowdowns in the criminal justice system.
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau today projected state tax collections through mid-2025 would come in $755.1 million lower than what the agency expected just four months ago.
Quotes of the Week Do you think it’s a little weird that you’re pushing a ban on advisory referenda at the local level, but, yet, the Legislature pushed a statewide advisory referendum in the April election? – Rep. Clinton Anderson, D-Beloit, in an Assembly Local Government Committee hearing on the
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new laws Gov. Tony Evers signed to crack down on reckless driving and carjacking, committee shuffling with the new Senate GOP supermajority, shared revenue negotiations, the UW System eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion statements for employment, and more.
The WisOpinion insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the signature items each party hopes to include in the 2023-24 biennial budget. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
The Joint Finance Committee will meet twice next week, resuming deliberations on the budget after a break while awaiting new revenues projections from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode, U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, says he’ll need to see a border security bill included in the debt limit increase for him to support it. He also talks about a possible Senate bid for next year’s election.