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Wisconsin is projected to finish the 2023-25 biennium with a more than $4 billion surplus after Dem Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the bulk of a GOP income tax cut plan, according to new figures from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says Republicans are preparing to sue over Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto that increases public school funding for 402 years, saying he sees “very little option left but to go to the courts.”
Small business owner Rebecca Cooke, who finished second in the Dem primary for the 3rd CD last year, announced she is taking another shot at the western Wisconsin seat. She is the first Dem to formally announce plans to run
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the state budget and the governor’s veto powers, the fate of Elections Administrator Meagan Wolfe, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s latest fundraising numbers and more.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is accusing Dem Gov. Tony Evers of lying to voters and GOP lawmakers after he vetoed into state law a provision annually increasing caps on K-12 school spending for the next four centuries.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and taxpayer groups warned homeowners will see higher property taxes after Gov. Tony Evers used his veto pen to allow school districts to annually increase per pupil spending limits for the next four centuries.
Gov. Tony Evers today signed a budget that cuts income taxes by $175 million over the next two years — a fraction of what GOP lawmakers had proposed — while nixing Republican provisions to cut diversity, equity and inclusion positions at the UW System.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin over the past three months raised $3.2 million, which her campaign says is the most ever raised by a Wisconsin Senate candidate for a quarter in a non-election year.
Ann Jacobs, a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, isn’t ruling out filing a lawsuit on her own in the turmoil surrounding the state’s top election chief just as Administrator Meagan Wolfe’s term expired.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the GOP budget headed to Gov. Tony Evers’ desk, uncertainty surrounding whether Meagan Wolfe will continue as Wisconsin’s top election official, federal broadband funds heading to Wisconsin and more.
The Assembly approved 63-34 along party lines a $98.7 billion two-year budget that would pump more money into K-12 education, raises for state employees and transportation projects.
Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard says her caucus is “disgusted and frustrated” after Republicans moved late last night to pave the way for a vote on whether Meagan Wolfe will continue to serve as Wisconsin’s top election official.
The GOP-controlled state Senate sought late Wednesday night to pull Meagan Wolfe’s position as the state’s top elections official before the body, even though the Elections Commission deadlocked on whether to renominate her as agency administrator.
The state would reduce income taxes by $3.5 billion, fund a boost in shared revenue and cut $32 million in state aid for the UW System under a $98.7 billion state budget that cleared the state Senate today.
The Senate today approved a bill to turn Wisconsin’s approach to literacy into a phonics-based program in an attempt to improve reading.
The state Elections Commission failed Tuesday evening to reach consensus on renominating Meagan Wolfe as Wisconsin’s top election official, which Dem appointees argued left her in the administrator’s job indefinitely.
The federal money announced Monday will be provided under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden two years ago. The funding is part of more than $42 billion in grants across the country, according to a White House release.
The state Senate will take up the budget on Wednesday as the Legislature works to complete its work on the document this week.
Gov. Tony Evers says he is “hopeful sanity will prevail” as lawmakers are set to vote on the state budget this week, while declining to say whether he will veto the state budget if it comes to him as is.
Gov. Tony Evers today was noncommittal about potentially vetoing the GOP’s $3.5 billion income tax cut passed by the Joint Finance Committee but said he still believes tax cuts shouldn’t go to the rich.
Wisconsin is projected to finish the 2023-25 biennium with a more than $4 billion surplus after Dem Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the bulk of a GOP income tax cut plan, according to new figures from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says Republicans are preparing to sue over Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto that increases public school funding for 402 years, saying he sees “very little option left but to go to the courts.”
Small business owner Rebecca Cooke, who finished second in the Dem primary for the 3rd CD last year, announced she is taking another shot at the western Wisconsin seat. She is the first Dem to formally announce plans to run against freshman U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Prairie du Chien.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the state budget and the governor’s veto powers, the fate of Elections Administrator Meagan Wolfe, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s latest fundraising numbers and more.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is accusing Dem Gov. Tony Evers of lying to voters and GOP lawmakers after he vetoed into state law a provision annually increasing caps on K-12 school spending for the next four centuries.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and taxpayer groups warned homeowners will see higher property taxes after Gov. Tony Evers used his veto pen to allow school districts to annually increase per pupil spending limits for the next four centuries.
Gov. Tony Evers today signed a budget that cuts income taxes by $175 million over the next two years — a fraction of what GOP lawmakers had proposed — while nixing Republican provisions to cut diversity, equity and inclusion positions at the UW System.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin over the past three months raised $3.2 million, which her campaign says is the most ever raised by a Wisconsin Senate candidate for a quarter in a non-election year.
Ann Jacobs, a Democratic Party member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, isn’t ruling out filing a lawsuit on her own in the turmoil surrounding the state’s top election chief just as Administrator Meagan Wolfe’s term expired.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the GOP budget headed to Gov. Tony Evers’ desk, uncertainty surrounding whether Meagan Wolfe will continue as Wisconsin’s top election official, federal broadband funds heading to Wisconsin and more.
The Assembly approved 63-34 along party lines a $98.7 billion two-year budget that would pump more money into K-12 education, raises for state employees and transportation projects.
Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard says her caucus is “disgusted and frustrated” after Republicans moved late last night to pave the way for a vote on whether Meagan Wolfe will continue to serve as Wisconsin’s top election official.
The GOP-controlled state Senate sought late Wednesday night to pull Meagan Wolfe’s position as the state’s top elections official before the body, even though the Elections Commission deadlocked on whether to renominate her as agency administrator.
The state would reduce income taxes by $3.5 billion, fund a boost in shared revenue and cut $32 million in state aid for the UW System under a $98.7 billion state budget that cleared the state Senate today.
The Senate today approved a bill to turn Wisconsin’s approach to literacy into a phonics-based program in an attempt to improve reading.
The state Elections Commission failed Tuesday evening to reach consensus on renominating Meagan Wolfe as Wisconsin’s top election official, which Dem appointees argued left her in the administrator’s job indefinitely.
The federal money announced Monday will be provided under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden two years ago. The funding is part of more than $42 billion in grants across the country, according to a White House release.
The state Senate will take up the budget on Wednesday as the Legislature works to complete its work on the document this week.
Gov. Tony Evers says he is “hopeful sanity will prevail” as lawmakers are set to vote on the state budget this week, while declining to say whether he will veto the state budget if it comes to him as is.
Gov. Tony Evers today was noncommittal about potentially vetoing the GOP’s $3.5 billion income tax cut passed by the Joint Finance Committee but said he still believes tax cuts shouldn’t go to the rich.