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On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan’s bill to abolish ICE; the debate over Wisconsin’s prison population; and President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the possibility that the Great Lakes Compact may upend Foxconn’s plans. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

In a recent talk on the current state of the press, I cited a poll by the website Axios in which 92 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they believe traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories.

An empowered treasurer could be an independent voice for fiscal sanity

DWD’s Pre-Employment Drug Testing Program is an easy way for employers to help grow Wisconsin’s pool of work-ready job seekers. It focuses treatment resources on Unemployment Insurance claimants who have the skills and motivation to work, but fail a drug test as part of an employment offer.

Walker will use money for income tax cut, delivering much of benefit to wealthiest.

When Nicholson criticizes Wisconsin Republicans as merely being part of a political class, he denigrates the progress that has made been made over the last eight years.

Common Council may regret stripping mayor’s power over Fire-Police director.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** July 26: WisPolitics Luncheon with Mike McCabe Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Thursday, July 26 with Mike McCabe to discuss his bid for the Democratic nomination

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The eight Dem guv candidates hit on Foxconn, reducing the state’s prison population and other issues as they met for their first televised debate of the campaign. Among

The Dem guv candidates will meet tonight at 6 p.m. in a Milwaukee debate hosted by a media partnership that includes WisPolitics.com.



On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters discuss U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan’s bill to abolish ICE; the debate over Wisconsin’s prison population; and President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the possibility that the Great Lakes Compact may upend Foxconn’s plans. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

In a recent talk on the current state of the press, I cited a poll by the website Axios in which 92 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they believe traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories.

An empowered treasurer could be an independent voice for fiscal sanity

DWD’s Pre-Employment Drug Testing Program is an easy way for employers to help grow Wisconsin’s pool of work-ready job seekers. It focuses treatment resources on Unemployment Insurance claimants who have the skills and motivation to work, but fail a drug test as part of an employment offer.

Walker will use money for income tax cut, delivering much of benefit to wealthiest.

When Nicholson criticizes Wisconsin Republicans as merely being part of a political class, he denigrates the progress that has made been made over the last eight years.

Common Council may regret stripping mayor’s power over Fire-Police director.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** July 26: WisPolitics Luncheon with Mike McCabe Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Thursday, July 26 with Mike McCabe to discuss his bid for the Democratic nomination to run against GOP Gov. Scott Walker. Check-in and lunch

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The eight Dem guv candidates hit on Foxconn, reducing the state’s prison population and other issues as they met for their first televised debate of the campaign. Among other things, Mahlon Mitchell called for an end to truth-in-sentencing,

The Dem guv candidates will meet tonight at 6 p.m. in a Milwaukee debate hosted by a media partnership that includes WisPolitics.com.