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Gov. Tony Evers wants to deliver the State of the State Jan. 22 or Jan. 28 and then follow up with his budget address on either Feb. 25 or March 4.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu are vowing to appeal a Dane County judge’s ruling that restored collective bargaining powers for public employees who lost them under Act 10 more than 13 years ago.
“What we discovered when I started is that our universities, a number of them, 10 to be exact, were spending more money than they were bringing in,” Rothman said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com.
Records show DNR has issued letters identifying responsible parties for PFAS contamination across 22 sites since 2020. And a WisPolitics review found DNR issued at least two such letters to parties even though the agency pinned the blame on others for causing the contamination. State law does not include a responsibility exemption for so-called “innocent landowners.”
Following the death of a counselor, the Department of Corrections has taken a more aggressive approach to managing youth prisoners who made perceived threats or were violent, according to a new report.
Outgoing state Sen. Duey Stroebel is encouraging his Senate GOP colleagues to be skeptical of working with Terrence Wall in the upcoming legislative session. The developer told WisPolitics Stroebel, R-Saukville, is being “vindictive” after he sent the lawmaker a text message stating he was happy to have contributed to the lawmaker’s defeat.
Vos hired Gableman to review the 2020 election. Later, he fired him. The Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation recently filed a complaint accusing Gableman of numerous ethical violations during his review.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Wisconsin’s fiscal outlook, a state Supreme Court hearing that could determine whether Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe continues in her role, Republican Eric Hovde conceding to Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and more.
State and local taxes in 2022 totaled 9.9% of personal income, a record low that was driven by rising incomes, state caps on property taxes and an income tax cut, according to the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The state is now projected to finish the 2023-25 budget with a $4 billion surplus, and the Evers administration expects nearly $1.7 billion in new tax collections over the following two-year period.
The Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation is accusing Michael Gableman of lying to the public, his former client and the agency in a complaint that knocked the former justice’s behavior during a review of the 2020 election.
Duffy represented northern Wisconsin’s 7th CD for almost nine years before he resigned in 2019.
GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde today conceded to Dem Tammy Baldwin, saying a recount would not change the results.
“It was a close election,” U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said. “I’m sure it’s a difficult loss for him to take. He wants to make sure all the votes are counted, know all these things have been certified. There are questions that remain unanswered.”
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Republican Eric Hovde’s refusal to concede to Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and his claims about election improprieties, the state Supreme Court hearing on the state’s 1849 abortion law, agency budget requests and more.
Enbridge is seeking to relocate a 12-mile segment of Line 5 and build a new 41-mile segment outside the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation. The proposal came after a federal judge ruled in 2022 Enbridge had illegally trespassed on the tribe’s land.
In this week’s DC Wrap: The candidate U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, backed for Senate majority leader falls short. Also, Johnson calls U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., an “interesting pick” for attorney general after President-elect Donald Trump chose Gaetz for the role. GOP U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, who has clashed with Gaetz, voices his support for Trump in response to the decision.
“This is a very consequential outcome, but to call it a ‘wave election,’ or worse, a ‘landslide election,’ I think, really ignores the closeness that is still an important part of the story,” Franklin said at a WisPolitics-Milwaukee Press Club luncheon Wednesday.
See WisPolitics maps comparing county-by-county results for the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections.
GOP businessman Eric Hovde posted a more than 4-minute video on X in which he made a series of claims about the election, including some that have already been debunked, rather than conceding to Dem Tammy Baldwin. He said in the video that some of his supporters had encouraged him to challenge the results, and he is waiting for the final information to come in before deciding how to proceed.
Gov. Tony Evers wants to deliver the State of the State Jan. 22 or Jan. 28 and then follow up with his budget address on either Feb. 25 or March 4.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu are vowing to appeal a Dane County judge’s ruling that restored collective bargaining powers for public employees who lost them under Act 10 more than 13 years ago.
“What we discovered when I started is that our universities, a number of them, 10 to be exact, were spending more money than they were bringing in,” Rothman said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com.
Records show DNR has issued letters identifying responsible parties for PFAS contamination across 22 sites since 2020. And a WisPolitics review found DNR issued at least two such letters to parties even though the agency pinned the blame on others for causing the contamination. State law does not include a responsibility exemption for so-called “innocent landowners.”
Following the death of a counselor, the Department of Corrections has taken a more aggressive approach to managing youth prisoners who made perceived threats or were violent, according to a new report.
Outgoing state Sen. Duey Stroebel is encouraging his Senate GOP colleagues to be skeptical of working with Terrence Wall in the upcoming legislative session. The developer told WisPolitics Stroebel, R-Saukville, is being “vindictive” after he sent the lawmaker a text message stating he was happy to have contributed to the lawmaker’s defeat.
Vos hired Gableman to review the 2020 election. Later, he fired him. The Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation recently filed a complaint accusing Gableman of numerous ethical violations during his review.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Wisconsin’s fiscal outlook, a state Supreme Court hearing that could determine whether Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe continues in her role, Republican Eric Hovde conceding to Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and more.
State and local taxes in 2022 totaled 9.9% of personal income, a record low that was driven by rising incomes, state caps on property taxes and an income tax cut, according to the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The state is now projected to finish the 2023-25 budget with a $4 billion surplus, and the Evers administration expects nearly $1.7 billion in new tax collections over the following two-year period.
The Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation is accusing Michael Gableman of lying to the public, his former client and the agency in a complaint that knocked the former justice’s behavior during a review of the 2020 election.
Duffy represented northern Wisconsin’s 7th CD for almost nine years before he resigned in 2019.
GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde today conceded to Dem Tammy Baldwin, saying a recount would not change the results.
“It was a close election,” U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said. “I’m sure it’s a difficult loss for him to take. He wants to make sure all the votes are counted, know all these things have been certified. There are questions that remain unanswered.”
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Republican Eric Hovde’s refusal to concede to Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and his claims about election improprieties, the state Supreme Court hearing on the state’s 1849 abortion law, agency budget requests and more.
Enbridge is seeking to relocate a 12-mile segment of Line 5 and build a new 41-mile segment outside the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation. The proposal came after a federal judge ruled in 2022 Enbridge had illegally trespassed on the tribe’s land.
In this week’s DC Wrap: The candidate U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, backed for Senate majority leader falls short. Also, Johnson calls U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., an “interesting pick” for attorney general after President-elect Donald Trump chose Gaetz for the role. GOP U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, who has clashed with Gaetz, voices his support for Trump in response to the decision.
“This is a very consequential outcome, but to call it a ‘wave election,’ or worse, a ‘landslide election,’ I think, really ignores the closeness that is still an important part of the story,” Franklin said at a WisPolitics-Milwaukee Press Club luncheon Wednesday.
See WisPolitics maps comparing county-by-county results for the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections.
GOP businessman Eric Hovde posted a more than 4-minute video on X in which he made a series of claims about the election, including some that have already been debunked, rather than conceding to Dem Tammy Baldwin. He said in the video that some of his supporters had encouraged him to challenge the results, and he is waiting for the final information to come in before deciding how to proceed.