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Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport is seeing travel bounce back after the pandemic year. Airport traffic is up year to year, and leisure travelers are leading the comeback, said Brian Dranzik, airport director. In an interview aired Sunday on “UpFront,” produced

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers has tapped former Jefferson County Judge David Wambach for the Ethics Commission at the suggestion of GOP legislative leaders. If confirmed, Wambach would fill the vacancy

On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and the Capital Times’ Briana Reilly discuss GOP efforts to end enhanced unemployment payments and reinstate work-search requirements, the Joint Finance committee delaying action on broadband funding in the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers’ call for a special session on Medicaid expansion and more.

The Joint Committee on Finance voted to continue a $1.5 million addition to the Department of Tourism’s base budget over the next biennium. Acting Secretary Anne Sayers said that money will go toward new markets to remain competitive with other

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider policy shifts in state agencies as Gov. Tony Evers gains control of boards governing the DNR, the UW System and Department of Ag Trade and Consumer Protection.

The Biden administration is working to reassert the government’s top consumer watchdog just as the U.S. economy is showing signs of a solid recovery.

We want our leaders to defend America. To stand up, unabashedly, for its inherent goodness. To provide optimistic leadership that will spur us on to success. To unite us as Americans.

Why are so many people—including those who have been fully vaccinated—still obsessively wearing masks when the science says they don’t need to?

A chorus of voices from state businesses say they can’t find enough workers to fill open jobs, a trend that might expand as Wisconsin nears the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of the summer tourist season.

Lessons from Great Recession can inform strategic choices for allocating American Rescue Plan dollars.

Republicans want to end the supplemental $300 per week unemployment benefits. Democrats say it’s not what’s keeping workers from going back to a job. I think they’re both wrong.

After two years as the Cap Times’ opinion editor, I’m returning to political reporting — and I couldn’t be more thrilled to make the move.

Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport is seeing travel bounce back after the pandemic year. Airport traffic is up year to year, and leisure travelers are leading the comeback, said Brian Dranzik, airport director. In an interview aired Sunday on “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com, Dranzik said business travel also is

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers has tapped former Jefferson County Judge David Wambach for the Ethics Commission at the suggestion of GOP legislative leaders. If confirmed, Wambach would fill the vacancy left by the expiration of former Waukesha County Judge Mac

On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and the Capital Times’ Briana Reilly discuss GOP efforts to end enhanced unemployment payments and reinstate work-search requirements, the Joint Finance committee delaying action on broadband funding in the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers’ call for a special session on Medicaid expansion and more.

The Joint Committee on Finance voted to continue a $1.5 million addition to the Department of Tourism’s base budget over the next biennium. Acting Secretary Anne Sayers said that money will go toward new markets to remain competitive with other Midwest states. Tourism is in double the markets it was

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider policy shifts in state agencies as Gov. Tony Evers gains control of boards governing the DNR, the UW System and Department of Ag Trade and Consumer Protection.

The Biden administration is working to reassert the government’s top consumer watchdog just as the U.S. economy is showing signs of a solid recovery.

We want our leaders to defend America. To stand up, unabashedly, for its inherent goodness. To provide optimistic leadership that will spur us on to success. To unite us as Americans.

Why are so many people—including those who have been fully vaccinated—still obsessively wearing masks when the science says they don’t need to?

A chorus of voices from state businesses say they can’t find enough workers to fill open jobs, a trend that might expand as Wisconsin nears the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of the summer tourist season.

Lessons from Great Recession can inform strategic choices for allocating American Rescue Plan dollars.

Republicans want to end the supplemental $300 per week unemployment benefits. Democrats say it’s not what’s keeping workers from going back to a job. I think they’re both wrong.

After two years as the Cap Times’ opinion editor, I’m returning to political reporting — and I couldn’t be more thrilled to make the move.