Foxconn to receive $28.8M in state tax credits

Foxconn will receive $28.8 million in state tax credits for 2020, just shy of the maximum award the Taiwanese manufacturer could receive under the revised deal Gov. Tony Evers signed this spring. WEDC CEO Missy Hughes said Wednesday the state

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Assembly Dems choose Neubauer, Haywood to lead caucus

Incoming Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer, D-Racine, told WisPolitics.com the Dem caucus has some healing to do after Rep. Jimmy Anderson charged that some of his colleagues questioned his ability to be in leadership due to his disability. Anderson, D-Fitchburg,

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Curtis passes on AG bid

Republican Jake Curtis, a Milwaukee attorney and first lieutenant in the Wisconsin Air National Guard, is passing on a bid for AG, saying it’s not the right time for his family. Curtis called it an “excruciating” decision. He said he

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Thompson resigning as UW System interim president in March

Interim UW System President Tommy Thompson will resign his post in March, writing to Regents President Edmund Manydeed today that doing so will allow the university to put its full attention on his successor. Thompson, the longest serving governor in Wisconsin history, was brought in to lead the system on

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Green Bay Mayor Genrich seeks sanctions against Gableman

Eric Genrich has asked a Waukesha County judge to sanction Michael Gableman over the former justice’s effort to have the Green Bay mayor detained unless he sits for a deposition at a private office in Brookfield. Among other things, Genrich wants Gableman to take out full-page newspaper ads to offer

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Medicaid fund projected to finish biennium with $185M GPR surplus

Six months into the budget, the Department of Health Services is projecting the Medicaid fund to finish the 2021-23 biennium with a surplus of $184.9 million in general purpose revenue. That’s up from September’s projection of a $39.4 million surplus. In a letter to the Joint Finance co-chairs yesterday, DHS

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State seeing roughly 20K COVID-19 vaccine doses wasted each week

At least 393,810 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been wasted in Wisconsin since the vaccines became available in December 2020, according to state DHS numbers reviewed by WisBusiness.com. That’s about 4 percent of the more than 9.8 million total doses the state has received. The number of doses wasted each week

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Evers talks COVID-19 vaccines, bail in year-end interview

Gov. Tony Evers told WisPolitics.com he would consider offering new incentives to get Wisconsinites vaccinated against COVID-19. But he said ultimately it will be more effective to appeal to Wisconsinites’ desire to help their neighbors as the state pushes to get more residents vaccinated. Evers likened it to what he

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Foxconn to receive $28.8M in state tax credits

Foxconn will receive $28.8 million in state tax credits for 2020, just shy of the maximum award the Taiwanese manufacturer could receive under the revised deal Gov. Tony Evers signed this spring. WEDC CEO Missy Hughes said Wednesday the state certified 579 jobs the company had created at its Racine

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Assembly Dems choose Neubauer, Haywood to lead caucus

Incoming Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer, D-Racine, told WisPolitics.com the Dem caucus has some healing to do after Rep. Jimmy Anderson charged that some of his colleagues questioned his ability to be in leadership due to his disability. Anderson, D-Fitchburg, was one of five members who originally planned to run

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Underly pushes back against GOP demands on spending COVID-19 funds

State Superintendent Jill Underly is firing back at the Joint Finance Committee co-chairs over their “disappointing, disingenuous, and nakedly political letter” demanding her agency propose a new plan to direct $77 million in COVID-19 funds to districts that provided in-person learning. Responding to a letter from Rep. Mark Born, R-Beaver

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Curtis passes on AG bid

Republican Jake Curtis, a Milwaukee attorney and first lieutenant in the Wisconsin Air National Guard, is passing on a bid for AG, saying it’s not the right time for his family. Curtis called it an “excruciating” decision. He said he will be on extended military leave this spring, and “I

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