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On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss a potential recount in the state Supreme Court race, the JFC hearings on Gov. Tony Evers’ budget and Wisconsin being withdrawn from a lawsuit to void the Affordable Care Act.

Foxconn spent nearly $100 million on its Racine County development last year with the lion’s share going to land acquisition. And about half the Taiwanese tech company’s hires last year were made in the last three months of 2018, according

With recent questions about the type of construction proceeding at Foxconn, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the past stumbles by the Taiwanese company and its future impact on the political landscape. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers STORY TOPICS – White house – State government – Federal government – Local government – Banking and investment – Courts – Economy – Education – Elections – Energy – Environment – Foxconn – Health care –

WisPolitics.com is profiling some of the newly announced state agency heads. Our latest installment features Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Secretary Brad Pfaff. Pfaff previously held several roles within U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency, including serving as

50 counties’ voters or their boards have now voted for nonpartisan redistricting.

The conservative grassroots appeared to get its groove back Tuesday. And southeast Wisconsin’s WOW counties wowed again in helping to deliver a narrow victory to conservative state Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn, a victory that could keep the court in conservative hands until at least 2023.

If his win holds up, it is doubly depressing for Democrats since he will replace for a 10-year term one of the most respected jurists in Wisconsin history, Shirley Abrahamson, and give the court an insurmountable 5-2 conservative majority with only one supreme court race on the horizon in the next three years.

Satya Rhodes-Conway identified her voters, closed the deal with them and got them to the polls. No wasted effort.

His new job: finance chair of a national group opposing non-partisan redistricting.

MPS was contacted by at least two interested buyers for Hayes in 2012 and 2013, but the building has sat empty for the last several years.

Trump is so obsessed with promoting fossil fuels regardless of their contributions to long-term climate change that he’s now decided to make wind power, the renewable energy powering more and more homes every year, a villain of major proportions.

Tech jobs, whether they are found inside tech-based companies or in other business sectors, are vital to state and regional economies. Wisconsin is no exception to what is becoming a national rule.

After years of deferring vital maintenance and safety upgrades, Gov. Tony Evers prioritized our state infrastructure to improve our public buildings while creating jobs and boosting local economies statewide.


On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss a potential recount in the state Supreme Court race, the JFC hearings on Gov. Tony Evers’ budget and Wisconsin being withdrawn from a lawsuit to void the Affordable Care Act.

Foxconn spent nearly $100 million on its Racine County development last year with the lion’s share going to land acquisition. And about half the Taiwanese tech company’s hires last year were made in the last three months of 2018, according to capital investment and job creation tax credit forms the

With recent questions about the type of construction proceeding at Foxconn, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the past stumbles by the Taiwanese company and its future impact on the political landscape. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies…. Please log in to access subscriber content.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers STORY TOPICS – White house – State government – Federal government – Local government – Banking and investment – Courts – Economy – Education – Elections – Energy – Environment – Foxconn – Health care – Iowa – Law and order – Public health and safety

WisPolitics.com is profiling some of the newly announced state agency heads. Our latest installment features Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Secretary Brad Pfaff. Pfaff previously held several roles within U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency, including serving as Wisconsin state executive director and the National Deputy Administrator for

50 counties’ voters or their boards have now voted for nonpartisan redistricting.

The conservative grassroots appeared to get its groove back Tuesday. And southeast Wisconsin’s WOW counties wowed again in helping to deliver a narrow victory to conservative state Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn, a victory that could keep the court in conservative hands until at least 2023.

If his win holds up, it is doubly depressing for Democrats since he will replace for a 10-year term one of the most respected jurists in Wisconsin history, Shirley Abrahamson, and give the court an insurmountable 5-2 conservative majority with only one supreme court race on the horizon in the next three years.

Satya Rhodes-Conway identified her voters, closed the deal with them and got them to the polls. No wasted effort.

His new job: finance chair of a national group opposing non-partisan redistricting.

MPS was contacted by at least two interested buyers for Hayes in 2012 and 2013, but the building has sat empty for the last several years.

Trump is so obsessed with promoting fossil fuels regardless of their contributions to long-term climate change that he’s now decided to make wind power, the renewable energy powering more and more homes every year, a villain of major proportions.

Tech jobs, whether they are found inside tech-based companies or in other business sectors, are vital to state and regional economies. Wisconsin is no exception to what is becoming a national rule.

After years of deferring vital maintenance and safety upgrades, Gov. Tony Evers prioritized our state infrastructure to improve our public buildings while creating jobs and boosting local economies statewide.