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DWD Secretary Amy Pechacek and state Rep. Nate Gustafson, R-Fox Crossing, during a WisPolitics luncheon said AI has the potential to improve the jobs market for Wisconsinites.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines today to approve $825,700 in funding to cover the Department of Transportation’s costs to issue replacement license plates. But the motion approved 11-4 also rejected the agency’s request for $4.9 million to pay for issuing standard license plates.
In this week’s DC Wrap: U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, and Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, vote against a bill to avert a government shutdown.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission postponed until after the November election a vote on whether to reprimand two clerks for not accepting absentee ballots at polling places until 8 p.m. on Election Day during previous elections.
Senate Dems have dropped ad buys in two races that lean in their favor while bulking up the money they’re putting on the air for seats in the Milwaukee suburbs, Green Bay area and north of Madison, according to AdImpact.
Multiple GOP sources told WisPolitics that Trump is also looking at stops in Madison and Milwaukee on Oct. 1.
“Dane County is a very highly Democratic performing area of the state,” Rhodes-Conway said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “I think we will continue to see that. I think we’re getting even deeper blue than we have before, and as our population grows, that just changes the calculus a little bit about where you need to win.”
While every Senate seat matters, some contests expose deep challenges within the Democratic and Republican parties. Arizona, Michigan, Ohio & Wisconsin are four of the seven most competitive Senate races. Our multi-state report from State Affairs.
Kamala Harris told a Madison rally Friday that the country is in “a healthcare crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect” due to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to be removed from Wisconsin’s ballot, municipalities opting against using absentee ballot drop boxes, a Republican National Committee lawsuit over election observers, a push for more funding for the Universities of Wisconsin and more.
With thousands of ballots already in voters’ hands, the court wrote in the order that it “will endeavor to issue a written decision as expeditiously as possible.”
The state Department of Justice yesterday asked the justices to take over the case, which is now before the conservative 2nd District Court of Appeals.
— In this week’s DC Wrap: Dem U.S. Reps. Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan vote against a GOP measure to extend government funding and curb noncitizen voting.
GOP VP nominee JD Vance told an Eau Claire crowd that while he is “not perfect,” Democrats need to “tone down the political rhetoric.”
Judge Stephen Ehlke based his ruling on a state law that doesn’t allow candidates who file nomination papers to withdraw them. That statute only allows a candidate to be removed from the ballot due to death, and Ehlke found Kennedy was essentially asking the court to create an exception to that requirement for him.
Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris, says the vice president will continue returning to Wisconsin ahead of Election Day.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss results from the latest Marquette University Law School poll, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s ballot, state Supreme Court hearings in two voting-related lawsuits and more.
Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, says there should be consequences for Milwaukee Public Schools after the district failed to turn in its district aid certification two weeks ago amid ongoing financial issues.
Meanwhile, the spread in the U.S. Senate race in head-to-head questions closely matched the presidential race for the first time this year after Dem incumbent Tammy Baldwin has consistently run ahead of the top of the ticket in previous Marquette polls.
In this week’s DC Wrap: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, calls for passage of a bill aiming to prevent noncitizen voting and Wisconsin House members clash over a potential government shutdown.
DWD Secretary Amy Pechacek and state Rep. Nate Gustafson, R-Fox Crossing, during a WisPolitics luncheon said AI has the potential to improve the jobs market for Wisconsinites.
The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines today to approve $825,700 in funding to cover the Department of Transportation’s costs to issue replacement license plates. But the motion approved 11-4 also rejected the agency’s request for $4.9 million to pay for issuing standard license plates.
In this week’s DC Wrap: U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, and Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien, and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, vote against a bill to avert a government shutdown.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission postponed until after the November election a vote on whether to reprimand two clerks for not accepting absentee ballots at polling places until 8 p.m. on Election Day during previous elections.
Senate Dems have dropped ad buys in two races that lean in their favor while bulking up the money they’re putting on the air for seats in the Milwaukee suburbs, Green Bay area and north of Madison, according to AdImpact.
Multiple GOP sources told WisPolitics that Trump is also looking at stops in Madison and Milwaukee on Oct. 1.
“Dane County is a very highly Democratic performing area of the state,” Rhodes-Conway said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “I think we will continue to see that. I think we’re getting even deeper blue than we have before, and as our population grows, that just changes the calculus a little bit about where you need to win.”
While every Senate seat matters, some contests expose deep challenges within the Democratic and Republican parties. Arizona, Michigan, Ohio & Wisconsin are four of the seven most competitive Senate races. Our multi-state report from State Affairs.
Kamala Harris told a Madison rally Friday that the country is in “a healthcare crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect” due to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to be removed from Wisconsin’s ballot, municipalities opting against using absentee ballot drop boxes, a Republican National Committee lawsuit over election observers, a push for more funding for the Universities of Wisconsin and more.
With thousands of ballots already in voters’ hands, the court wrote in the order that it “will endeavor to issue a written decision as expeditiously as possible.”
The state Department of Justice yesterday asked the justices to take over the case, which is now before the conservative 2nd District Court of Appeals.
— In this week’s DC Wrap: Dem U.S. Reps. Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan vote against a GOP measure to extend government funding and curb noncitizen voting.
GOP VP nominee JD Vance told an Eau Claire crowd that while he is “not perfect,” Democrats need to “tone down the political rhetoric.”
Judge Stephen Ehlke based his ruling on a state law that doesn’t allow candidates who file nomination papers to withdraw them. That statute only allows a candidate to be removed from the ballot due to death, and Ehlke found Kennedy was essentially asking the court to create an exception to that requirement for him.
Quentin Fulks, the principal deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris, says the vice president will continue returning to Wisconsin ahead of Election Day.
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss results from the latest Marquette University Law School poll, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s ballot, state Supreme Court hearings in two voting-related lawsuits and more.
Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, says there should be consequences for Milwaukee Public Schools after the district failed to turn in its district aid certification two weeks ago amid ongoing financial issues.
Meanwhile, the spread in the U.S. Senate race in head-to-head questions closely matched the presidential race for the first time this year after Dem incumbent Tammy Baldwin has consistently run ahead of the top of the ticket in previous Marquette polls.
In this week’s DC Wrap: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, calls for passage of a bill aiming to prevent noncitizen voting and Wisconsin House members clash over a potential government shutdown.