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Wisconsin’s population has increased nearly 2.9% as of Jan. 1 compared to the 2020 Census, according to final numbers from the state Department of Administration.
“Any decision you make as a business, there’s a cost you take into account,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on WISN 12’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics-State Affairs. “We’re trying to help companies understand that if you make in America, you build in America, you’ll have the benefits of sourcing from America, and that means no tariff.”
In her annual State of Education address, State Superintendent Jill Underly called to change the school funding formula and said “financial questions” schools are facing are the result of “deliberate political choices.”
Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Matt Zacher said he backs a one-year moratorium on data center construction amid growing controversy in the city surrounding a proposal to build one on the city’s old paper mill site.
The Department of Natural Resources urged the state’s highest court to reject an environmental group’s effort to overturn a permit for several natural gas-fired turbines.
Recounting the Saturday night crash, Tiffany said they were on the final approach to the airport in Wausau when the power went out suddenly. It was seconds later that Boltz made the water landing and the two climbed out of the plane as it began to submerge.
A new $4 million fundraising campaign is underway to dramatically expand the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial in Kewaskum as the nation paused to remember the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks after 25 years.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has filed a new lawsuit arguing that two state abortion restrictions infringe on personal freedoms.
The Wisconsin Technical College Board this week approved the request, which would be a 5.4% increase in state aid.
“Would I be happy about that? Yes. But I just think with the campaign going on I’m not sure it would happen,” Evers said during a stop at Madison’s Emerson Elementary School.
Sheboygan Mayor Ryan Sorenson says the city is pushing to end its contract with Flock, the latest move by municipalities against the company that has assembled a vast network of cameras nationwide that read license plates.
With state revenues coming in higher than expected, GOP gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany vowed to return all of a projected surplus to taxpayers, while Dem rival David Crowley said he’d look at property tax relief while investing in schools and healthcare.
A lawsuit filed by 47 states claimed that Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, knowingly added features to foster social media addiction among children and made false claims about the safety of its products.
Violent crime dropped 13.5% in Wisconsin last year, a bigger decrease for homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault than what the nation saw, according to new figures reviewed by WisPolitics-State Affairs.
Some 810 people have applied for commutation since Gov. Tony Evers announced he was restarting the process last April.
Representatives from Wisconsin’s banking lobby and the Department of Financial Institutions told a legislative committee examining crypto staking that they oppose deregulating the practice.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders are proposing to seek an additional $730 million in aid over the next two years with an offer to freeze tuition over that period — if the state comes up with the money to cover the lost revenue.
Green Bay Clerk Celestine Jeffreys has resigned after her office twice sent duplicate absentee ballots to voters.
The Public Service Commission has hit reset on a $1 billion transmission project set to serve the Port Washington data center campus.
Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Francesca Hong called the police killing of a Madison resident an “execution,” while presumptive GOP nominee Tom Tiffany pushed back on “rushing to judgment.”
Wisconsin’s population has increased nearly 2.9% as of Jan. 1 compared to the 2020 Census, according to final numbers from the state Department of Administration.
“Any decision you make as a business, there’s a cost you take into account,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on WISN 12’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics-State Affairs. “We’re trying to help companies understand that if you make in America, you build in America, you’ll have the benefits of sourcing from America, and that means no tariff.”
In her annual State of Education address, State Superintendent Jill Underly called to change the school funding formula and said “financial questions” schools are facing are the result of “deliberate political choices.”
Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Matt Zacher said he backs a one-year moratorium on data center construction amid growing controversy in the city surrounding a proposal to build one on the city’s old paper mill site.
The Department of Natural Resources urged the state’s highest court to reject an environmental group’s effort to overturn a permit for several natural gas-fired turbines.
Recounting the Saturday night crash, Tiffany said they were on the final approach to the airport in Wausau when the power went out suddenly. It was seconds later that Boltz made the water landing and the two climbed out of the plane as it began to submerge.
A new $4 million fundraising campaign is underway to dramatically expand the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial in Kewaskum as the nation paused to remember the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks after 25 years.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has filed a new lawsuit arguing that two state abortion restrictions infringe on personal freedoms.
The Wisconsin Technical College Board this week approved the request, which would be a 5.4% increase in state aid.
“Would I be happy about that? Yes. But I just think with the campaign going on I’m not sure it would happen,” Evers said during a stop at Madison’s Emerson Elementary School.
Sheboygan Mayor Ryan Sorenson says the city is pushing to end its contract with Flock, the latest move by municipalities against the company that has assembled a vast network of cameras nationwide that read license plates.
With state revenues coming in higher than expected, GOP gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany vowed to return all of a projected surplus to taxpayers, while Dem rival David Crowley said he’d look at property tax relief while investing in schools and healthcare.
A lawsuit filed by 47 states claimed that Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, knowingly added features to foster social media addiction among children and made false claims about the safety of its products.
Violent crime dropped 13.5% in Wisconsin last year, a bigger decrease for homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault than what the nation saw, according to new figures reviewed by WisPolitics-State Affairs.
Some 810 people have applied for commutation since Gov. Tony Evers announced he was restarting the process last April.
Representatives from Wisconsin’s banking lobby and the Department of Financial Institutions told a legislative committee examining crypto staking that they oppose deregulating the practice.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders are proposing to seek an additional $730 million in aid over the next two years with an offer to freeze tuition over that period — if the state comes up with the money to cover the lost revenue.
Green Bay Clerk Celestine Jeffreys has resigned after her office twice sent duplicate absentee ballots to voters.
The Public Service Commission has hit reset on a $1 billion transmission project set to serve the Port Washington data center campus.
Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Francesca Hong called the police killing of a Madison resident an “execution,” while presumptive GOP nominee Tom Tiffany pushed back on “rushing to judgment.”