Naked bike ride ban passes Wisconsin Senate

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Dem voters petition state Supreme Court to redraw congressional district lines

The petition, filed yesterday, argued a foundation of the lines now in place was the court’s 2021 decision to take a “least change approach” to the maps that Republican lawmakers drew a decade earlier. Now that the new liberal majority has thrown out that standard, the brief argues, there’s no justification to keep in place congressional lines based upon the same principle. 

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Senate signs off on two Assembly elections bills

One would explicitly lay out in state law what information must be included on an absentee ballot envelope from the voter and the witness for it to be counted. Another would require local officials to allow observers to be closer to the activities at a polling site than now allowed.

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Howard Marklein: Legislature follows through on UW agreement

As 2023 came to a close, the legislature and University of Wisconsin System came to an agreement on a path forward that refocuses the UW’s priorities on our campuses to student success and achievement, ensures our best and brightest students remain in the state, and makes significant investments in building projects across Wisconsin’s universities.

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Naked bike ride ban passes Wisconsin Senate

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Dem voters petition state Supreme Court to redraw congressional district lines

The petition, filed yesterday, argued a foundation of the lines now in place was the court’s 2021 decision to take a “least change approach” to the maps that Republican lawmakers drew a decade earlier. Now that the new liberal majority has thrown out that standard, the brief argues, there’s no justification to keep in place congressional lines based upon the same principle. 

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Senate signs off on two Assembly elections bills

One would explicitly lay out in state law what information must be included on an absentee ballot envelope from the voter and the witness for it to be counted. Another would require local officials to allow observers to be closer to the activities at a polling site than now allowed.

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Howard Marklein: Legislature follows through on UW agreement

As 2023 came to a close, the legislature and University of Wisconsin System came to an agreement on a path forward that refocuses the UW’s priorities on our campuses to student success and achievement, ensures our best and brightest students remain in the state, and makes significant investments in building projects across Wisconsin’s universities.

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Grocers group CEO points to automation becoming ‘new normal’

Grocery store customers should expect to see more self-checkout lanes and robots doing stocking and inventory tasks, according to the head of the Wisconsin Grocers Association.  In a message published recently by the Wisconsin Bankers Association’s Wisconsin Economic Report, WGA President and CEO Brandon Scholz said the pandemic-driven higher inflation

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