Milwaukee eyes boost in absentee voting

WISN’s Matt Smith in an ‘UpFront” segment reports on the Milwaukee’s Common Council’s vote to move ahead with sending absentee ballot applications to every registered voter in the city. Smith’s reporting includes interviews with former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and DNC Chair Tom Perez.  ‘UpFront” is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com.

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Dave Cieslewicz: The upside of plague

COVID-19 has caused a lot of damage. Nobody would have wanted it to happen. But if all this results in a renewed concern for a clean environment, a movement for a stronger social safety net, and stronger neighborhoods and communities then there will have been at least some upside, even to plague.

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MON PM Update: Steineke questions why Evers not relaxing restrictions on more businesses in latest order

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — One of the Legislature’s top Republicans applauded Gov. Tony Evers’ move to roll back some restrictions on nonessential businesses. Still, Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, questioned why the guv had selected dog groomers, small engine repair shops and upholstery businesses, for

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Milwaukee eyes boost in absentee voting

WISN’s Matt Smith in an ‘UpFront” segment reports on the Milwaukee’s Common Council’s vote to move ahead with sending absentee ballot applications to every registered voter in the city. Smith’s reporting includes interviews with former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and DNC Chair Tom Perez.  ‘UpFront” is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com.

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Dave Cieslewicz: The upside of plague

COVID-19 has caused a lot of damage. Nobody would have wanted it to happen. But if all this results in a renewed concern for a clean environment, a movement for a stronger social safety net, and stronger neighborhoods and communities then there will have been at least some upside, even to plague.

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‘UpFront’: Fitzgerald says Evers ‘completely circumvented’ rule-making process with stay-at-home order extension

GOP Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Dem Gov. Tony Evers has “completely circumvented” the rule-making process with his extended safer-at-home order, explaining why Republicans are going to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to force Evers to negotiate with them over the order. In an interview aired Sunday on “UpFront,” Fitzgerald

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