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The Board of Regents has signed off on the UW System asking for a $108 million boost in state aid for its next two-year operating budget and a $1.9 billion capital budget for large projects. The $6.3 billion operating budget

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Two UW System Board of Regents members have signaled it may be time to reconsider Gov. Scott Walker’s tuition freeze. Walker and Dem guv candidate Tony Evers have
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv hopeful Tony Evers raised $1 million between the night of his primary win last week and today, his campaign said. Evers’ campaign said the haul came from more than 4,000

Edge Messaging’s Brian Fraley talks with colleague Dan Deibert about the latest Marquette University Law School Poll.

So claims a NYT story. But the party generally fares better by allowing differing views.

We have the sitting Republican governor running for reelection, Donald Trump and legislative Republicans lying through their teeth about Foxconn. Evers won’t say a word.

Wisconsin’s event barn owners and operators are unhappy about the direction of a legislative study committee on the state’s alcohol distribution laws so far. These “wedding barn operators,” as they’re commonly known, have good reason to be concerned.

As the flood waters recede, let’s hope that the plainly obvious significance of public spending and public service so evident in Wisconsin’s flood-ravaged communities doesn’t dry up until the next calamity brings us back to basics.

Although Social Security has never missed a payment in more than 70 years, the constant repetition of such falsehoods as “Social Security is broke” or “the trust fund money was stolen” have led many, particularly the young, to fear that Social Security will not be available when it is their time to retire.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Sept. 19: WisPolitics.com Luncheon with Axios Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Johnston Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, 1240 N. 10th Street, Milwaukee on Wednesday Sept. 19 with

The board that controls state employees’ health benefits has voted to again cover gender identity-related benefits and services. The vote comes after the Group Insurance Board opted to do so in July 2016, before rolling back the call in early

The Board of Regents has signed off on the UW System asking for a $108 million boost in state aid for its next two-year operating budget and a $1.9 billion capital budget for large projects. The $6.3 billion operating budget request includes a total ask of $888 million in general

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Two UW System Board of Regents members have signaled it may be time to reconsider Gov. Scott Walker’s tuition freeze. Walker and Dem guv candidate Tony Evers have both said they’d continue the freeze as governor. But regents
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv hopeful Tony Evers raised $1 million between the night of his primary win last week and today, his campaign said. Evers’ campaign said the haul came from more than 4,000 donors. It’s much more than the $605,052 Evers had raised

Edge Messaging’s Brian Fraley talks with colleague Dan Deibert about the latest Marquette University Law School Poll.

So claims a NYT story. But the party generally fares better by allowing differing views.

We have the sitting Republican governor running for reelection, Donald Trump and legislative Republicans lying through their teeth about Foxconn. Evers won’t say a word.

Wisconsin’s event barn owners and operators are unhappy about the direction of a legislative study committee on the state’s alcohol distribution laws so far. These “wedding barn operators,” as they’re commonly known, have good reason to be concerned.

As the flood waters recede, let’s hope that the plainly obvious significance of public spending and public service so evident in Wisconsin’s flood-ravaged communities doesn’t dry up until the next calamity brings us back to basics.

Although Social Security has never missed a payment in more than 70 years, the constant repetition of such falsehoods as “Social Security is broke” or “the trust fund money was stolen” have led many, particularly the young, to fear that Social Security will not be available when it is their time to retire.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Sept. 19: WisPolitics.com Luncheon with Axios Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Johnston Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, 1240 N. 10th Street, Milwaukee on Wednesday Sept. 19 with Axios Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Johnston. He is set to discuss th…

The board that controls state employees’ health benefits has voted to again cover gender identity-related benefits and services. The vote comes after the Group Insurance Board opted to do so in July 2016, before rolling back the call in early 2017. Wednesday’s narrow 5-4 decision comes as the Department of