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The state Supreme Court has rejected a petition from 54 retired judges and justices to change its recusal rules, with the conservative majority voting to keep the current standards in place.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today will wrap up its public hearings on Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget with a final hearing in Marinette, the home town of GOP
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state Supreme Court has rejected a petition from 54 retired judges and justices to change its recusal rules, with the conservative majority voting to keep the current standards in place. Justice
Fitzgerald today expressed disappointment that Canadian officials haven’t “demonstrated the sense of urgency” Wisconsin officials have shown over a dairy trade dispute. State officials have pushed the Trump administration to call for a change in Canada’s trade policies, saying a
Two GOP lawmakers took to Twitter and statements this afternoon to debate the UW System budget and the tuition freeze. It began when Sen. Steve Nass sent out a press release criticizing comments that Joint Finance Committee Co-Chair John Nygren
Gov. Scott Walker is touting the state dropping its unemployment rate to 3.4 percent, the lowest it’s been since April 2000, as “the latest sign of strength for Wisconsin’s economy.” The figure for last month is down 0.3 percentage points
An Assembly committee today signed off on four GOP-authored bills to address homelessness, with two of them passing unanimously. One bill from Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, would create an interagency council that
Daniel Speckhard, a former ambassador who now works for Lutheran World Relief in Baltimore, has emerged as another possible Dem candidate for guv, according to sources. Speckhard, who did not return a message left at his office this afternoon, was
Shilling today appointed Milwaukee attorney Jeralyn Wendelberger to replace former AG Peg Lautenschlager on the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. According to Shilling’s office, Wendelberger’s background includes specializing in business and employment law, campaign finance and election law, and civil rights. She
Jennifer Shilling today slammed Scott Fitzgerald’s criticism of Sentry hiring their former Dem colleague Julie Lassa as a lobbyist, saying the Juneau Republican “can’t demonstrate some political class and just be magnanimous about this announcement.” Fitzgerald, the Senate majority leader,
The state Supreme Court has rejected a petition from 54 retired judges and justices to change its recusal rules, with the conservative majority voting to keep the current standards in place. Justice Annette Ziegler, who made a motion to dismiss
In recent testimony before the Legislature, the Secretary of the Department of Revenue for the Walker administration claimed that a runaway manufacturing and agricultural tax giveaway to the wealthy and corporations enacted in the 2011 state budget is helping create jobs. But in response to an open records request by One Wisconsin Now seeking documentation to back up Rick Chandler’s job creation claim the agency replied: “We do not have any such records.”
On this episode of Indivisible, Right Wisconsin Editor Charlie Sykes asked listeners who are affected by the opioid crisis to call in and say how it may or may not have influenced their vote.
This disastrous law is bad for Wisconsin and bad for America, which is why Republicans are working to repeal and replace it with a plan that increases access to coverage, lowers premiums, and provides more options for health care consumers.
It is time for Sensenbrenner to face the facts. Obamacare is popular. It is not failing. He can continue to work against it or he can help his constituents afford quality health care.
I don’t know which is more distressing – the Democrats thinking the game is over because the party has not locked in lead candidates for Wisconsin governor in 2018, or the party assumption expressed at social gatherings that it has to be someone personally well heeled to take on incumbent Scott Walker.
A cadre of liberal senators believe America’s real tax problem is how companies like Quicken make money with products like their Turbo Tax software, not the fact that the tax code is so complex. They fail to see the forest from the trees to realize that filing one’s taxes is so much of a hassle that the average taxpayer needs help.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday, May 4: WisPolitics.com luncheon: “Medicaid in Transition” The WisPolitics.com lunch at the Madison Club on Thursday, May 4 features a “Medicaid in Transition” panel discussing proposed changes to the federal-state Medicaid program. Panelists: –
The state Supreme Court has rejected a petition from 54 retired judges and justices to change its recusal rules, with the conservative majority voting to keep the current standards in place.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today will wrap up its public hearings on Gov. Scott Walker’s biennial budget with a final hearing in Marinette, the home town of GOP co-chair Rep. John Nygren. Today’s hearing is in the Marinette
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state Supreme Court has rejected a petition from 54 retired judges and justices to change its recusal rules, with the conservative majority voting to keep the current standards in place. Justice Annette Ziegler, who made a motion to dismiss the petition,
Fitzgerald today expressed disappointment that Canadian officials haven’t “demonstrated the sense of urgency” Wisconsin officials have shown over a dairy trade dispute. State officials have pushed the Trump administration to call for a change in Canada’s trade policies, saying a recent policy decision led a company to cut the contracts
Two GOP lawmakers took to Twitter and statements this afternoon to debate the UW System budget and the tuition freeze. It began when Sen. Steve Nass sent out a press release criticizing comments that Joint Finance Committee Co-Chair John Nygren has made, showing he’s open to ending the in-state tuition
Gov. Scott Walker is touting the state dropping its unemployment rate to 3.4 percent, the lowest it’s been since April 2000, as “the latest sign of strength for Wisconsin’s economy.” The figure for last month is down 0.3 percentage points from February and remains lower than the national unemployment rate,
An Assembly committee today signed off on four GOP-authored bills to address homelessness, with two of them passing unanimously. One bill from Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, would create an interagency council that would find ways for state agencies to collaborate on the
Daniel Speckhard, a former ambassador who now works for Lutheran World Relief in Baltimore, has emerged as another possible Dem candidate for guv, according to sources. Speckhard, who did not return a message left at his office this afternoon, was born in Clintonville and has a master’s degree in public
Shilling today appointed Milwaukee attorney Jeralyn Wendelberger to replace former AG Peg Lautenschlager on the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. According to Shilling’s office, Wendelberger’s background includes specializing in business and employment law, campaign finance and election law, and civil rights. She also previously served as vice president of Legal Affairs and
Jennifer Shilling today slammed Scott Fitzgerald’s criticism of Sentry hiring their former Dem colleague Julie Lassa as a lobbyist, saying the Juneau Republican “can’t demonstrate some political class and just be magnanimous about this announcement.” Fitzgerald, the Senate majority leader, told WisPolitics.com yesterday he hoped Sentry would reverse its decision
The state Supreme Court has rejected a petition from 54 retired judges and justices to change its recusal rules, with the conservative majority voting to keep the current standards in place. Justice Annette Ziegler, who made a motion to dismiss the petition, said the proposed rule changes wouldn’t stand constitutional
In recent testimony before the Legislature, the Secretary of the Department of Revenue for the Walker administration claimed that a runaway manufacturing and agricultural tax giveaway to the wealthy and corporations enacted in the 2011 state budget is helping create jobs. But in response to an open records request by One Wisconsin Now seeking documentation to back up Rick Chandler’s job creation claim the agency replied: “We do not have any such records.”
On this episode of Indivisible, Right Wisconsin Editor Charlie Sykes asked listeners who are affected by the opioid crisis to call in and say how it may or may not have influenced their vote.
This disastrous law is bad for Wisconsin and bad for America, which is why Republicans are working to repeal and replace it with a plan that increases access to coverage, lowers premiums, and provides more options for health care consumers.
It is time for Sensenbrenner to face the facts. Obamacare is popular. It is not failing. He can continue to work against it or he can help his constituents afford quality health care.
I don’t know which is more distressing – the Democrats thinking the game is over because the party has not locked in lead candidates for Wisconsin governor in 2018, or the party assumption expressed at social gatherings that it has to be someone personally well heeled to take on incumbent Scott Walker.
A cadre of liberal senators believe America’s real tax problem is how companies like Quicken make money with products like their Turbo Tax software, not the fact that the tax code is so complex. They fail to see the forest from the trees to realize that filing one’s taxes is so much of a hassle that the average taxpayer needs help.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday, May 4: WisPolitics.com luncheon: “Medicaid in Transition” The WisPolitics.com lunch at the Madison Club on Thursday, May 4 features a “Medicaid in Transition” panel discussing proposed changes to the federal-state Medicaid program. Panelists: – Michael Heifetz, state of Wisconsin Medicaid director – John R…