Atwell, who was appointed to the Board of Regents by former GOP Gov. Scott Walker in 2017, also criticized the pay differential between UW faculty and faculty at peer institutions.
The presidential race in Wisconsin remained tight in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll, though enthusiasm has spiked among Dems with Kamala Harris now the party’s nominee.
Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed the path to the White House runs through Wisconsin as she campaigned in the state for the first time with newly minted running mate Tim Walz, the governor of neighboring Minnesota. Just across town, GOP VP nominee JD Vance continued to take shots at Walz and Harris as national voters are getting their first introduction to the Minnesota guv.
GOP senators grilled state Corrections officials about conditions at the state’s troubled youth prisons while knocking a consent decree they argued makes staff jobs more dangerous.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins independents Cornel West, Claudia De la Cruz and Shiva Ayyadurai in turning in signatures ahead of Tuesday’s deadline to qualify for the presidential ballot. If approved, they will join the nominees from the Dem, Republican, Libertarian, Constitution and Green parties on the November ballot.
Former GOP Attorney General JB Van Hollen says his involvement with the Democracy Defense Project, a bipartisan group aiming to foster more voter confidence in elections, isn’t “anti-Trump” despite how it may appear to some Republicans.
Indie folk band Bon Iver and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin will be in Eau Claire tomorrow for Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally featuring her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Meanwhile, GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance will be in the western Wisconsin city to speak with reporters as part of Donald Trump’s effort to counterprogram this week’s campaign swing for Harris and Walz.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he wouldn’t “get into hypotheticals” surrounding a potential vice presidential pick during a two-day tour in Wisconsin.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the presidential race in Wisconsin, a judge dismissing a lawsuit challenging absentee ballot envelopes, the 8th CD race and more.
Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, knocked 3rd CD primary rival Rebecca Cooke after a group backing Cooke’s campaign started running an ad claiming Shankland is “working for Republicans, not you.”
Cooke’s campaign fired back that Shankland needs to answer for her record on health care as attacks between the candidates escalated two weeks out from the Aug. 13 primary, which will decide who faces off against incumbent U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, in November.
Gov. Tony Evers announced today he’s directing the Department of Health Services to use $258 million in COVID-19 funds to boost wages for direct care workers and providers serving older adults and individuals with disabilities.
The state Elections Commission in a cost-saving move unanimously agreed to seek a waiver from the Electronic Registration Information Center to avoid sending a required mailer to eligible voters who are not registered.
A Door County judge has rejected a challenge to the absentee envelopes the state Elections Commission approved a year ago.
“What I was hearing from is not some elite or donor class,” Baldwin said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “Every rally I went to, the 4th of July parades that I attended in northern Wisconsin, just average people were coming up, and they so respect the work that Joe Biden has done. But they were conveying to me and asking me to convey to the president that they appreciate his work, and they asked him to step aside.”
Four groups have registered with the state over the past three months signaling plans to engage voters ahead of the Aug. 13 primary on constitutional amendments that would give lawmakers a say over how federal funds are spent in Wisconsin.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon and CBS 58 reporter A.J. Bayatpour discuss Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to West Allis and the shakeup in the presidential race, Democrats’ split on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, and more.
Businessman Tony Wied, state Sen. André Jacque and former state Sen. Roger Roth largely agreed on topics presented during the discussion organized by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, including workforce participation, interest rates and tax cuts, among other issues.
Baldwin said she was “deeply disappointed” Netanyahu didn’t use his time to lay out a plan to end the war in Gaza, bring home hostages, boost humanitarian assistance into Gaza and move toward a two-state solution. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Republicans praised Netanyahu and blasted Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Dem presidential nominee, for failing to attend his speech.
Vice President Kamala Harris touted her background as a prosecutor, saying on her first visit to Wisconsin as the expected Dem nominee for president that she knows Donald Trump’s “type” from her experience with predators and fraudsters.
State Dem Party Chair Ben Wikler told reporters he’s seen a surge in Dem enthusiasm about the presidential race since Vice President Kamala Harris announced her candidacy.
Atwell, who was appointed to the Board of Regents by former GOP Gov. Scott Walker in 2017, also criticized the pay differential between UW faculty and faculty at peer institutions.
The presidential race in Wisconsin remained tight in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll, though enthusiasm has spiked among Dems with Kamala Harris now the party’s nominee.
Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed the path to the White House runs through Wisconsin as she campaigned in the state for the first time with newly minted running mate Tim Walz, the governor of neighboring Minnesota. Just across town, GOP VP nominee JD Vance continued to take shots at Walz and Harris as national voters are getting their first introduction to the Minnesota guv.
GOP senators grilled state Corrections officials about conditions at the state’s troubled youth prisons while knocking a consent decree they argued makes staff jobs more dangerous.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins independents Cornel West, Claudia De la Cruz and Shiva Ayyadurai in turning in signatures ahead of Tuesday’s deadline to qualify for the presidential ballot. If approved, they will join the nominees from the Dem, Republican, Libertarian, Constitution and Green parties on the November ballot.
Former GOP Attorney General JB Van Hollen says his involvement with the Democracy Defense Project, a bipartisan group aiming to foster more voter confidence in elections, isn’t “anti-Trump” despite how it may appear to some Republicans.
Indie folk band Bon Iver and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin will be in Eau Claire tomorrow for Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally featuring her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Meanwhile, GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance will be in the western Wisconsin city to speak with reporters as part of Donald Trump’s effort to counterprogram this week’s campaign swing for Harris and Walz.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he wouldn’t “get into hypotheticals” surrounding a potential vice presidential pick during a two-day tour in Wisconsin.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the presidential race in Wisconsin, a judge dismissing a lawsuit challenging absentee ballot envelopes, the 8th CD race and more.
Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, knocked 3rd CD primary rival Rebecca Cooke after a group backing Cooke’s campaign started running an ad claiming Shankland is “working for Republicans, not you.”
Cooke’s campaign fired back that Shankland needs to answer for her record on health care as attacks between the candidates escalated two weeks out from the Aug. 13 primary, which will decide who faces off against incumbent U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, in November.
Gov. Tony Evers announced today he’s directing the Department of Health Services to use $258 million in COVID-19 funds to boost wages for direct care workers and providers serving older adults and individuals with disabilities.
The state Elections Commission in a cost-saving move unanimously agreed to seek a waiver from the Electronic Registration Information Center to avoid sending a required mailer to eligible voters who are not registered.
A Door County judge has rejected a challenge to the absentee envelopes the state Elections Commission approved a year ago.
“What I was hearing from is not some elite or donor class,” Baldwin said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “Every rally I went to, the 4th of July parades that I attended in northern Wisconsin, just average people were coming up, and they so respect the work that Joe Biden has done. But they were conveying to me and asking me to convey to the president that they appreciate his work, and they asked him to step aside.”
Four groups have registered with the state over the past three months signaling plans to engage voters ahead of the Aug. 13 primary on constitutional amendments that would give lawmakers a say over how federal funds are spent in Wisconsin.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon and CBS 58 reporter A.J. Bayatpour discuss Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to West Allis and the shakeup in the presidential race, Democrats’ split on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, and more.
Businessman Tony Wied, state Sen. André Jacque and former state Sen. Roger Roth largely agreed on topics presented during the discussion organized by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, including workforce participation, interest rates and tax cuts, among other issues.
Baldwin said she was “deeply disappointed” Netanyahu didn’t use his time to lay out a plan to end the war in Gaza, bring home hostages, boost humanitarian assistance into Gaza and move toward a two-state solution. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Republicans praised Netanyahu and blasted Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Dem presidential nominee, for failing to attend his speech.
Vice President Kamala Harris touted her background as a prosecutor, saying on her first visit to Wisconsin as the expected Dem nominee for president that she knows Donald Trump’s “type” from her experience with predators and fraudsters.
State Dem Party Chair Ben Wikler told reporters he’s seen a surge in Dem enthusiasm about the presidential race since Vice President Kamala Harris announced her candidacy.