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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — After lengthy debate, the Assembly passed a bill 91-2 to help rural schools. The bill would increase sparsity aid and low-revenue ceilings for school districts. Authored by
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he is taking another run at creating an alcohol czar, claiming enforcement of current rules by the Department of Revenue has fallen apart. Earlier talks this
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Feb. 22: WisPolitics Luncheon with Senator Tammy Baldwin Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Thursday Feb. 22 with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, up for re-election this year.
Legislature faces a rush of many proposed bills. Which will pass?
The donation amount won’t make much of a difference in the campaign, but what does it say when the candidate’s own parents want him to fail?
The Campaign Workers Guild has negotiated its first collectively bargained contract, with the Democratic candidate challenging Paul Ryan.
You want gimmicks? Randy Bryce’s campaign staff is unionized!
Not only his campaign staff now unionized, Randy urged them on because he knows and believes in the value of organized labor.
The fairness and impartiality of our judges depends mightily on their separation from the effect and influence of campaign contributors and outside, special interest campaign spending groups.
Citizens deserve a Supreme Court that can be viewed as a fair arbiter on the big judicial questions that face the state. We need to work to further that ideal. Voting for Burns would be a move in the exact opposite direction of what so many liberals claim to wish for the court.
It’s just a matter of time before the pretense of non-partisan judgeships is eventually dropped–and these positions move to the fall partisan election cycles–where turnout will be more than 20% every year.
Wisconsin is looking at yet another round of business-driven wetland filling — more than seven years after Walker began his reign with a wetland filling permission expressly for one of his donors outside of what law at the time spelled out.
Rather than focusing on one-off deals like Kimberly-Clark and Foxconn, here’s the question we should be asking: How do we rewire and build the new economy in Wisconsin?
For more than 29 years, professor John McAdams was a vocal conservative on campus, often through his Marquette Warrior blog. But in 2015, he found himself suspended after writing a post critical of what he saw as a retreat from the school’s Jesuit teachings.
Supreme Court candidate Michael Screnock raised $231,861 over the first five weeks of the year, with more than half of that coming from the Republican Party of Wisconsin through in-kind donations, according to his report filed with the state Ethics
State firefighters union head Mahlon Mitchell says he’s more than the union candidate or the black candidate in the Dem race for governor. Mitchell became a statewide figure as part of the opposition to the 2011 law that effectively ended
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — After lengthy debate, the Assembly passed a bill 91-2 to help rural schools. The bill would increase sparsity aid and low-revenue ceilings for school districts. Authored by Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, and championed by Gov. Scott Walker,
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he is taking another run at creating an alcohol czar, claiming enforcement of current rules by the Department of Revenue has fallen apart. Earlier talks this session about an Office of Alcohol Beverages Enforcement faded amid
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Feb. 22: WisPolitics Luncheon with Senator Tammy Baldwin Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Thursday Feb. 22 with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, up for re-election this year. Check-in and lunch begins at 11:30 a.m., with the program
Legislature faces a rush of many proposed bills. Which will pass?
The donation amount won’t make much of a difference in the campaign, but what does it say when the candidate’s own parents want him to fail?
The Campaign Workers Guild has negotiated its first collectively bargained contract, with the Democratic candidate challenging Paul Ryan.
You want gimmicks? Randy Bryce’s campaign staff is unionized!
Not only his campaign staff now unionized, Randy urged them on because he knows and believes in the value of organized labor.
The fairness and impartiality of our judges depends mightily on their separation from the effect and influence of campaign contributors and outside, special interest campaign spending groups.
Citizens deserve a Supreme Court that can be viewed as a fair arbiter on the big judicial questions that face the state. We need to work to further that ideal. Voting for Burns would be a move in the exact opposite direction of what so many liberals claim to wish for the court.
It’s just a matter of time before the pretense of non-partisan judgeships is eventually dropped–and these positions move to the fall partisan election cycles–where turnout will be more than 20% every year.
Wisconsin is looking at yet another round of business-driven wetland filling — more than seven years after Walker began his reign with a wetland filling permission expressly for one of his donors outside of what law at the time spelled out.
Rather than focusing on one-off deals like Kimberly-Clark and Foxconn, here’s the question we should be asking: How do we rewire and build the new economy in Wisconsin?
For more than 29 years, professor John McAdams was a vocal conservative on campus, often through his Marquette Warrior blog. But in 2015, he found himself suspended after writing a post critical of what he saw as a retreat from the school’s Jesuit teachings.
Supreme Court candidate Michael Screnock raised $231,861 over the first five weeks of the year, with more than half of that coming from the Republican Party of Wisconsin through in-kind donations, according to his report filed with the state Ethics Commission. The state GOP contributed $76,757 for digital ads, $28,336
State firefighters union head Mahlon Mitchell says he’s more than the union candidate or the black candidate in the Dem race for governor. Mitchell became a statewide figure as part of the opposition to the 2011 law that effectively ended collective bargaining for public employees and ended up as the