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TOP STORIES To scuttle Evers’ partial-veto authority, Republicans push legislation with no funding… 15 such bills this session … bills could be used to incentivize Democratic votes for the budget, or to ensure that Republicans can control funding for programs
From WisPolitics … — Chief Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, who will retire when her term ends next month, says politicization and the record spending in recent state Supreme Court races is a danger to the future of the court. “It’s
Subscribers: We are sending this PM Update today instead of the usual REPORT, which will return next week. Thank you for subscribing! From WisPolitics … — The office of Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August says a review found no issue
TOP STORIES Wisconsin state budget work breaks down as deadline nears… the second time Republican legislative leaders have publicly acknowledged [talks with Gov.] Evers have fallen apart, this time with [JFC] canceling a planned set of votes and both [Evers
As Wisconsin lawmakers debate competing approaches to restricting foreign ownership of land, a new study finds similar bills elsewhere are more likely in states with Republican legislative majorities, military installations and more foreign-owned cropland.
From WisPolitics … — Circulating legislation would prevent health insurers from requiring care providers to accept reimbursement through “virtual credit card payments,” a financial tool used for business-to-business transactions. Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara, R-Appleton, and Rep. Clint Moses, R-Menomonie, recently sent
From WisPolitics … — The Joint Finance Committee today canceled its meeting set for this afternoon as GOP legislative leaders appear at odds with each other and Gov. Tony Evers over a 2025-27 state budget deal. Meanwhile, Joint Finance Committee
The Joint Finance Committee today canceled its meeting set for this afternoon as Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said talks between Gov. Tony Evers began again this week.
TOP STORIES Lawmakers on edge as statehouse security tightens after Minnesota shootings… Legislatures in most states are done meeting for the year, but those like Wisconsin that are still in session are taking emergency action to bolster security. … Visitors
Everyone benefits when someone succeeds. Student parents are taking steps into success by earning degrees. Do we want these parents and their children to succeed long-term? It just requires some additional support right now.
Jerrel Jones, the visionary founder of Courier Communications, whose groundbreaking work in Black media has left an indelible mark in Milwaukee and beyond.
Yeah, you read the headline right. Little Marco Rubio, otherwise known as the former U.S. senator and now secretary of state, has become a titan inside the Trump administration, and nowhere is his power and importance more noteworthy than in the arena of free speech.
At a time when our politics is so loud, brittle, and chaos-driven, Tony Evers comes across as a reminder of how our elected leaders once conducted themselves as individuals and worked in the office they were elected to hold.
Bernie Sanders has sponsored an anti-war resolution in the Senate, while conservative Thomas Massie is doing the same in the House.
Consumption (conspicuous or otherwise) is, I would submit, the quintessential American idol. No god and no religion that I know of has a fraction of its power over people’s lives.
Ben Wikler was probably the smartest Wisconsin Democratic Party chair in the last 40 years or so. The Democrats had many victories under him. And he was a zealot about campaigning in rural areas.
From WisPolitics … — The Joint Finance Committee will meet today for the second time this week in a session that includes the capital budget. Gov. Tony Evers proposed a $4.3 billion plan that included more than $3.8 million in
From WisPolitics … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, today confirmed his caucus supports cutting $87 million from the Universities of Wisconsin budget, but “you’ll have to wait and see” whether that happens. “It’s not about cutting money, what it
TOP STORIES JFC GOP vote to add new prosecutors, but won’t replace expiring federal funds$ARP$ funds that paid for about 29 prosecutor jobs are set to expire in July [Evers budget refunded expiring gigs] … would add 42 prosecutor positions
From WisPolitics … — The Assembly today is set to take up a variety of bills, including a plan to create a new certification for advanced practice registered nurses and a measure aiming to help gig workers. Under AB 257,
TOP STORIES To scuttle Evers’ partial-veto authority, Republicans push legislation with no funding… 15 such bills this session … bills could be used to incentivize Democratic votes for the budget, or to ensure that Republicans can control funding for programs that are widely popular, said [WPF’s] Byrnes … This year
From WisPolitics … — Chief Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, who will retire when her term ends next month, says politicization and the record spending in recent state Supreme Court races is a danger to the future of the court. “It’s dangerous to the court,” Walsh Bradley said on WISN 12’s
Subscribers: We are sending this PM Update today instead of the usual REPORT, which will return next week. Thank you for subscribing! From WisPolitics … — The office of Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August says a review found no issue in the Assembly’s voting system after Dem lawmakers raised concerns
TOP STORIES Wisconsin state budget work breaks down as deadline nears… the second time Republican legislative leaders have publicly acknowledged [talks with Gov.] Evers have fallen apart, this time with [JFC] canceling a planned set of votes and both [Evers and Vos] urging Senate Republicans to work with them. …
As Wisconsin lawmakers debate competing approaches to restricting foreign ownership of land, a new study finds similar bills elsewhere are more likely in states with Republican legislative majorities, military installations and more foreign-owned cropland.
From WisPolitics … — Circulating legislation would prevent health insurers from requiring care providers to accept reimbursement through “virtual credit card payments,” a financial tool used for business-to-business transactions. Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara, R-Appleton, and Rep. Clint Moses, R-Menomonie, recently sent a cosponsorship memo to other lawmakers seeking support for the
From WisPolitics … — The Joint Finance Committee today canceled its meeting set for this afternoon as GOP legislative leaders appear at odds with each other and Gov. Tony Evers over a 2025-27 state budget deal. Meanwhile, Joint Finance Committee Dems charged Senate Republicans with allowing “extremists” within their caucus
The Joint Finance Committee today canceled its meeting set for this afternoon as Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said talks between Gov. Tony Evers began again this week.
TOP STORIES Lawmakers on edge as statehouse security tightens after Minnesota shootings… Legislatures in most states are done meeting for the year, but those like Wisconsin that are still in session are taking emergency action to bolster security. … Visitors to the … Wisconsin’s state Capitol, one of the most
Everyone benefits when someone succeeds. Student parents are taking steps into success by earning degrees. Do we want these parents and their children to succeed long-term? It just requires some additional support right now.
Jerrel Jones, the visionary founder of Courier Communications, whose groundbreaking work in Black media has left an indelible mark in Milwaukee and beyond.
Yeah, you read the headline right. Little Marco Rubio, otherwise known as the former U.S. senator and now secretary of state, has become a titan inside the Trump administration, and nowhere is his power and importance more noteworthy than in the arena of free speech.
At a time when our politics is so loud, brittle, and chaos-driven, Tony Evers comes across as a reminder of how our elected leaders once conducted themselves as individuals and worked in the office they were elected to hold.
Bernie Sanders has sponsored an anti-war resolution in the Senate, while conservative Thomas Massie is doing the same in the House.
Consumption (conspicuous or otherwise) is, I would submit, the quintessential American idol. No god and no religion that I know of has a fraction of its power over people’s lives.
Ben Wikler was probably the smartest Wisconsin Democratic Party chair in the last 40 years or so. The Democrats had many victories under him. And he was a zealot about campaigning in rural areas.
From WisPolitics … — The Joint Finance Committee will meet today for the second time this week in a session that includes the capital budget. Gov. Tony Evers proposed a $4.3 billion plan that included more than $3.8 million in new bonding. The Building Commission deadlocked on Evers’ proposal in
From WisPolitics … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, today confirmed his caucus supports cutting $87 million from the Universities of Wisconsin budget, but “you’ll have to wait and see” whether that happens. “It’s not about cutting money, what it is is about getting some kind of reform to the
TOP STORIES JFC GOP vote to add new prosecutors, but won’t replace expiring federal funds$ARP$ funds that paid for about 29 prosecutor jobs are set to expire in July [Evers budget refunded expiring gigs] … would add 42 prosecutor positions in 23 counties [Brown 7, Waukesha 6], Most others on
From WisPolitics … — The Assembly today is set to take up a variety of bills, including a plan to create a new certification for advanced practice registered nurses and a measure aiming to help gig workers. Under AB 257, APRNs, with the exception of certified nurse-midwives, would be required