“I think what you really saw was that family conversation of coming together,” Steil said on WISN’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com. “I think at the end of the day, we ended up with a rules package that’s going to allow us to come together to address one of the biggest concerns in Washington, and that’s the runaway spending that we’ve seen driving inflation.”

Gov. Tony Evers today appointed former state Sen. Jon Erpenbach chair of the Parole Commission. Erpenbach, D-West Point, didn’t seek reelection last fall after more than two decades in the state Senate.  The Parole Commission became an issue for Evers last year after former Chair John Tate II originally agreed

The move comes after the GOP-controlled Legislature previously blocked the Evers administration’s attempts to ban conversion therapy. That effort expired last year, and the administration moved last month to put the policy back in place.

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed dairy farmer Paul Buhr to the Natural Resources Board, giving him five picks on the seven-member body.

Republicans at a joint hearing touted a proposed constitutional amendment on bail as a way to promote public safety, while Dems argued the measure would prioritize the wealthy and wouldn’t fix issues in the pretrial system.

Gov. Tony Evers says “the plan is not to” veto the state budget after working with the Republican-controlled legislature during the next several months, but he isn’t ruling it out.

Wisconsin’s U.S. senators are signaling they will start over the vetting process for a vacancy on the federal bench in Green Bay after Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, opposed the president’s original pick.

The combined state and local tax burden in Wisconsin fell in 2022 to its lowest share of income on record thanks to a new round of tax cuts and growing salaries, the Wisconsin Policy Forum reports.

Wisconsin’s Medicaid fund is now projected to finish the fiscal year with a $774.8 million surplus — $269.9 million more than what was expected three months ago — in another shot of good news for the state’s bottom line.

Gov. Tony Evers today will call for “generational, transformative improvements” in how the state provides aid to local communities as he is sworn in for a second four-year term.

The Assembly will overhaul its salary structure early next year after a national group found starting wages for most staff positions lag market rates, according to a report obtained by WisPolitics.com.

Internal prison records show a Wisconsin prisoner charged with murdering a Black inmate housed near him drew officials’ attention for earlier saying he fantasized about “slaughtering” Black people while he was housed at a different facility.