The developers of the Port Washington data center and the utility that powers it are asking the Public Service Commission to reopen the case that set the terms by which data centers buy power.

With Dane County Exec Melissa Agard’s signature on an 18-month moratorium on hyperscale data centers, Wisconsin’s fastest-growing county has joined a widening cadre of communities seeking to hit pause on the developments.

According to the state Department of Justice, the $10 million is on top of the approximately $100 million Tyco has already spent to address contamination in the Marinette area. The settlement is one of the largest resulting from a DNR referral in state history, according to Evers’ office. 

State Sen. Pat Testin, who’s leading the Senate GOP’s campaign effort this fall, told an event hosted by Grover Norquist that he’s pushing for another attempt to pass a $1.8 billion surplus package.

The call prompted a sharp rebuke from a GOP senator, who accused top UW regents of lying to lawmakers during an April hearing when they denied such an increase was already locked in.

The Rochester Republican referenced a new Marquette University Law School poll finding broad support for the $1.8 billion deal using money from the state’s surplus. It failed in the GOP-run Senate with all 15 Senate Democrats and three Republicans voting against the deal.

Part of the lawsuit argues that the nearly $700 million the state put into private school vouchers in the 2025-26 school year violates a state Supreme Court ruling that the choice program is permitted only so long as “the State is already meeting its obligations to provide for public schools.”

Eighty percent of Wisconsin adults say the Legislature should have passed a $1.8 billion surplus package that included more money for schools, an effort to drive down property taxes and income tax rebates, according to a new Marquette University Law School Poll.

GOP State Sen. Chris Kapenga, one of three Republicans who voted against the tax relief deal, says Republican leaders never conducted a vote count ahead of the deal being announced publicly. “Absolutely not,” Kapenga said on WISN 12’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “There was no vote

Those who challenged the state’s congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander have filed notice they plan to appeal the ruling to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the parties in a challenge of the congressional map as an anti-competitive gerrymander are wrangling over the proper way to appeal a three-judge panel’s rejection of that lawsuit

A federal judge has sent back to the Wisconsin Supreme Court a lawsuit challenging the practice of local sheriffs holding people at the request of federal immigration officials.

“They believe that somehow putting money back into people’s pockets that are struggling financially across the state, apparently they don’t believe that’s an issue,” Evers told WISN 12’s “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics-State Affairs.

Assembly Dem Leader Greta Neubauer says she opposed Gov. Tony Evers’ $1.8 billion deal with GOP leaders because it would have put the state in an untenable financial position and could have forced funding cuts down the road. 

Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, criticized the deal right away, and Sen. Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield, expressed his opposition in a post on X late yesterday.

Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein dismissed a $1.8 billion surplus spending deal from GOP leaders and Gov. Tony Evers as coming from “three men who will not be in elected office next year.” Evers, meanwhile, said during a stop in Barneveld that he believed voting against the tax cut deal would be a “hard position” for Democrats to take in an election year.