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Kevin Dwyer, CEO of HealthConnect.Link, has made it his mission to connect low-income and uninsured people to affordable health and social services.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State political reaction to President Trump’s new immigration restrictions is generally falling along party lines. Republicans generally supported Trump’s executive order and said calling it a blanket ban on Muslim immigrants is
Senate Assistant Majority Leader Leah Vukmir, R-Brookfield, said she would be seeking an audit of the Department of Corrections as part of a package of crime “victim-prevention” bills she is co-authoring with Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, R-New Berlin, and Sen. Van
If some of the immediate counter-reaction to President Trump looked familiar, it’s because Wisconsin has “seen this movie before,” says Dem pollster Paul Maslin. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered around the Capitol last weekend to protest Trump, at levels
State superintendent candidate John Humphries says his turn-around on Act 10 could help him with conservatives as he heads into a primary next month. Humphries, a former Dodgeville School District official who lives in Mt. Horeb, signed the recall petition
From WisPolitics.com … — House Speaker Paul Ryan, who in July said he opposed any religious test for entering the U.S., praised President Trump’s executive order that halts immigration by refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries. But the order
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers QUOTES OF THE WEEK The people of Wisconsin already have endured several elections under an unconstitutional reapportionment scheme. If they are to be spared another such event, a new map must be drawn in time for
Union membership in Wisconsin last year dropped by 4,000 from 2015, according to a report released today by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2016, 8.1 percent of public and private workers were members of unions, down slightly from
A federal panel today ordered lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker to draw up and approve new Assembly district maps by Nov. 1. But the state DOJ says it expects to appeal the decision. The three judge-panel, which in November ruled
From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker touts his package of welfare changes in his radio address this week, saying it’s aimed at getting all Wisconsinites to “fulfill their true potential through the dignity that comes from work.” Walker likens
The state underestimated by $3.8 billion the costs for major highway work completed over the past decade or still in progress, often because it failed to account for inflation in its estimates, according to a Legislative Audit Bureau review. The
Gov. Scott Walker is putting off announcing a plan to “dramatically help rural schools in the state of Wisconsin” after coming down with a cold. But he had planned to touch on broadband expansion and initiatives to improve the teacher
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos took a measured approach toward what two Wisconsin political figures in key national roles, House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, could do to help the state. Speaking at a
From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker is putting off announcing a plan to “dramatically help rural schools in the state of Wisconsin” after coming down with a cold. But he had planned to touch on broadband expansion and initiatives
Guest speaker is Dane County DA Ismael Ozanne, who is to discuss new ways to work with offenders. Rotary meetings are open to members, invited guests and media. For more information: http://rotarymadison.org/wp-content/forms/newsletters/2017/Jan2017.pdf
Union backers during a public hearing Tuesday said the latest example of the GOP’s attack on workers is a bill that bans the state and local governments from requiring project labor agreements on construction bids. But Republicans and non-union firms
Kevin Dwyer, CEO of HealthConnect.Link, has made it his mission to connect low-income and uninsured people to affordable health and social services.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State political reaction to President Trump’s new immigration restrictions is generally falling along party lines. Republicans generally supported Trump’s executive order and said calling it a blanket ban on Muslim immigrants is inaccurate. New U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, however, noted he had
Senate Assistant Majority Leader Leah Vukmir, R-Brookfield, said she would be seeking an audit of the Department of Corrections as part of a package of crime “victim-prevention” bills she is co-authoring with Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, R-New Berlin, and Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine. Vukmir appeared Sunday on “UpFront with Mike Gousha,”
If some of the immediate counter-reaction to President Trump looked familiar, it’s because Wisconsin has “seen this movie before,” says Dem pollster Paul Maslin. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered around the Capitol last weekend to protest Trump, at levels Wisconsin hadn’t seen since the 2011 fight over Gov. Scott
State superintendent candidate John Humphries says his turn-around on Act 10 could help him with conservatives as he heads into a primary next month. Humphries, a former Dodgeville School District official who lives in Mt. Horeb, signed the recall petition against Gov. Scott Walker and also gave $35 to his
From WisPolitics.com … — House Speaker Paul Ryan, who in July said he opposed any religious test for entering the U.S., praised President Trump’s executive order that halts immigration by refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries. But the order drew intense blowback from many others over the weekend with
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers QUOTES OF THE WEEK The people of Wisconsin already have endured several elections under an unconstitutional reapportionment scheme. If they are to be spared another such event, a new map must be drawn in time for the preparatory steps leading up to the election, such as
Union membership in Wisconsin last year dropped by 4,000 from 2015, according to a report released today by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2016, 8.1 percent of public and private workers were members of unions, down slightly from 8.3 percent in 2015. That figure remains below the national
A federal panel today ordered lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker to draw up and approve new Assembly district maps by Nov. 1. But the state DOJ says it expects to appeal the decision. The three judge-panel, which in November ruled the current maps were an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, ignored the
From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker touts his package of welfare changes in his radio address this week, saying it’s aimed at getting all Wisconsinites to “fulfill their true potential through the dignity that comes from work.” Walker likens his proposals to the efforts in the 1990s from former
The state underestimated by $3.8 billion the costs for major highway work completed over the past decade or still in progress, often because it failed to account for inflation in its estimates, according to a Legislative Audit Bureau review. The audit also found the condition of state roads has deteriorated,
Gov. Scott Walker is putting off announcing a plan to “dramatically help rural schools in the state of Wisconsin” after coming down with a cold. But he had planned to touch on broadband expansion and initiatives to improve the teacher pipeline, according to an overview document that WisPolitics.com obtained from
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos took a measured approach toward what two Wisconsin political figures in key national roles, House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, could do to help the state. Speaking at a WisPolitics luncheon in Madison Jan. 18, Vos acknowledged the limitations
From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker is putting off announcing a plan to “dramatically help rural schools in the state of Wisconsin” after coming down with a cold. But he had planned to touch on broadband expansion and initiatives to improve the teacher pipeline, according to an overview document
Guest speaker is Dane County DA Ismael Ozanne, who is to discuss new ways to work with offenders. Rotary meetings are open to members, invited guests and media. For more information: http://rotarymadison.org/wp-content/forms/newsletters/2017/Jan2017.pdf
Union backers during a public hearing Tuesday said the latest example of the GOP’s attack on workers is a bill that bans the state and local governments from requiring project labor agreements on construction bids. But Republicans and non-union firms countered that AB 24 encourages competition in the bidding process