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Scott Walker today in his State of the State speech called for a new tax credit of $100 per child as the guv asked lawmakers to make sure checks show up before students start school this fall. Walker said the
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald charged the old GAB was engaged in an active conspiracy to tilt the recall elections of 2011 and 2012 against Republicans and push them out of power as retribution for Act 10. Former GAB Director
MILWAUKEE — The three candidates for state Supreme Court traded barbs Monday about their judicial philosophies and records during their first debate ahead of next month’s primary. Sauk County Circuit Court Judge Michael Screnock took the first shot during opening
Michael Haas, who faces a confirmation vote that could end his state employment, said now is not the time to be changing leadership at the Elections Commission. “We have some serious things coming up with foreign government agents continuing to
Gov. Scott Walker will use his State of the State speech to roll out a new plan his administration says could help rein in health care costs for about 200,000 Wisconsinites who buy their coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, voted early Saturday against a temporary funding measure to keep the government open for another four weeks, saying the GOP plan simply kicked the can down the road. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, slammed Baldwin
Gov. Scott Walker Thursday pushed the Legislature to approve a slew of welfare bills that would add work requirements for food stamps, require able-bodied adults to comply with child support orders to receive Medicaid and impose drug screening for public
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Dem Patty Schachtner won a special election for the Republican-leaning 10th SD Tuesday as Dems immediately sought to portray her upset victory over GOP Rep. Adam Jarchow as a sign a wave is headed toward Wisconsin this fall. But Schachtner
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos today was noncommittal on the future of Gov. Scott Walker’s youth prison plan, saying “it’s possible” it could pass this session. The Rochester Republican’s comments come after Walker called on lawmakers to quickly OK a plan
U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeulah, said he doesn’t trust the Democrats’ version of President Trump’s reported vulgar comments about African nations during a meeting on immigration.
House Speaker Paul Ryan Friday called immigration a “thing to celebrate” as he bemoaned the president’s vulgar comments about Haiti and African nations as “very unfortunate, unhelpful.”
The state Ethics Commission Thursday unanimously signaled its confidence in agency Administrator Brian Bell as Republican lawmakers continue to push for his ouster. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, has refused calls for a public hearing on Bell and Elections
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The offices of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Sen. Steve Nass told WisPolitics.com they have been contacted by an attorney hired by the Ethics Commission to probe charges of “partisan influence” directed at agency Administrator Brian Bell. The Ethics
Gov. Scott Walker Monday threw his support behind a plan from JFC Co-chair John Nygren to help low-revenue school districts after vetoing a similar provision from the state budget. The legislation also would boost sparsity aid $6.4 million. Still, fellow
Milwaukee County Chief Judge Maxine White said Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to close the troubled Lincoln Hills School for Boys, and move juvenile offenders to smaller regional facilities is a welcome move, and follows a “proven formula” that has worked
Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to move youthful offenders from prisons in northern Wisconsin to new regional facilities wouldn’t kick in until at least 2019. But with some Dems complaining the transition of offenders wouldn’t be fast enough, Walker’s office signaled
Senate candidates Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir have agreed to sign a unity pledge from the Wisconsin GOP so they’ll be eligible to win the party’s endorsement at the state convention in May.
