Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce urged a GOP-controlled Assembly committee to modify or object to proposed surface water pollution regulations. But the DNR argued failing to approve the rule could lead the federal government to step in.
Schimel, a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge, has a “special announcement” planned Thursday in Waukesha.
Allouez Village President Jim Rafter says Green Bay Correctional Institution is a “powder keg waiting to blow” as he intensifies his push to lawmakers and Gov. Tony Evers to close the prison.
Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley asked a series of pointed questions during sometimes-tense oral arguments Tuesday suggesting she believes the redistricting lawsuit now before the court threatens its integrity and legitimacy and that her liberal colleagues have already predetermined the outcome.
Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a $2.2 billion GOP tax package, ripping it as a failure by Republican lawmakers to address the state’s most pressing issues.
Matt Neumann, one of the hosts of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ private fundraiser in Milwaukee last week, says the event had “good turnout” that included some prominent Wisconsin Republicans.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the Legislature passing bills to fund Brewers ballpark maintenance and overhaul alcohol regulations, Gov. Tony Evers’ prison plan, the battle over a new engineering building for UW-Madison and more.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the Evers administration — two parties often at loggerheads politically — are both urging the state Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the state’s school choice system and instead require the case to go through the lower courts first.
The Evers administration wants to move nearly a quarter of those held at Waupun to other correctional facilities in the state to relieve staffing issues at the 19th-century prison and allow prisoners to again move more freely. Gov. Tony Evers also announced a study that will consider whether to decommission the prison, which dates back to the 1850s.
Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard, D-Madison, said there weren’t enough votes yet to pass the Brewers funding bill as negotiations intensified this weekend ahead of a vote Tuesday in the state Senate.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss developments regarding the Brewers stadium maintenance funding deal, GOP infighting over the effort to oust Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, a series of elections bills lawmakers approved this week and more.
Yesterday’s vote comes amid a standoff between the Legislature and the Universities of Wisconsin over diversity, equity and inclusion. It also comes after the state Senate voted to fire eight of Evers’ appointees, including four members of the Natural Resources Board.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said a new $32 million proposal will “go some ways” toward addressing the state’s workforce needs as UW seeks to recoup money GOP lawmakers cut from its budget over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Schimming said the state GOP, in coordination with the Republican National Committee, is preparing a major push to encourage Republicans to vote early ahead of the November election. Meanwhile, Wikler says Dems must not take anything for granted.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit against legislative Republicans over blocking Universities of Wisconsin pay raises, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ move to send articles of impeachment against the state’s top elections official to a committee, upcoming action in the state Legislature and more.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has sent to committee a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official, six weeks after five lawmakers introduced the proposal and on the heels of a new TV campaign pressuring him to move on it.
Ziegler in her third State of the Judiciary address said she’s focused on improving security for the Supreme Court and lower courts, which she says involves giving more executive powers to the judicial branch. She has proposed an independent judicial branch of law enforcement.
A group billing itself as the Wisconsin Elections Committee is up with a new TV ad that threatens to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos unless he allows the impeachment process against the state’s top elections official to proceed.
Dem Gov. Tony Evers says he was compelled to sue the state Legislature after GOP lawmakers decided to “stick it” to UW employees by holding up their pay raises over a policy dispute. The suit, which asks the state Supreme Court to take the case directly, seeks to overturn three committee actions, including the move to block the raises at the behest of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester.
Gov. Tony Evers announced today he has sued the GOP-controlled state Legislature, accusing it of unconstitutionally infringing on executive powers through several actions, including blocking pay raises for Universities of Wisconsin employees.
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce urged a GOP-controlled Assembly committee to modify or object to proposed surface water pollution regulations. But the DNR argued failing to approve the rule could lead the federal government to step in.
Schimel, a Waukesha County Circuit Court judge, has a “special announcement” planned Thursday in Waukesha.
Allouez Village President Jim Rafter says Green Bay Correctional Institution is a “powder keg waiting to blow” as he intensifies his push to lawmakers and Gov. Tony Evers to close the prison.
Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley asked a series of pointed questions during sometimes-tense oral arguments Tuesday suggesting she believes the redistricting lawsuit now before the court threatens its integrity and legitimacy and that her liberal colleagues have already predetermined the outcome.
Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a $2.2 billion GOP tax package, ripping it as a failure by Republican lawmakers to address the state’s most pressing issues.
Matt Neumann, one of the hosts of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ private fundraiser in Milwaukee last week, says the event had “good turnout” that included some prominent Wisconsin Republicans.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the Legislature passing bills to fund Brewers ballpark maintenance and overhaul alcohol regulations, Gov. Tony Evers’ prison plan, the battle over a new engineering building for UW-Madison and more.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the Evers administration — two parties often at loggerheads politically — are both urging the state Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the state’s school choice system and instead require the case to go through the lower courts first.
The Evers administration wants to move nearly a quarter of those held at Waupun to other correctional facilities in the state to relieve staffing issues at the 19th-century prison and allow prisoners to again move more freely. Gov. Tony Evers also announced a study that will consider whether to decommission the prison, which dates back to the 1850s.
Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard, D-Madison, said there weren’t enough votes yet to pass the Brewers funding bill as negotiations intensified this weekend ahead of a vote Tuesday in the state Senate.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss developments regarding the Brewers stadium maintenance funding deal, GOP infighting over the effort to oust Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, a series of elections bills lawmakers approved this week and more.
Yesterday’s vote comes amid a standoff between the Legislature and the Universities of Wisconsin over diversity, equity and inclusion. It also comes after the state Senate voted to fire eight of Evers’ appointees, including four members of the Natural Resources Board.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said a new $32 million proposal will “go some ways” toward addressing the state’s workforce needs as UW seeks to recoup money GOP lawmakers cut from its budget over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Schimming said the state GOP, in coordination with the Republican National Committee, is preparing a major push to encourage Republicans to vote early ahead of the November election. Meanwhile, Wikler says Dems must not take anything for granted.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit against legislative Republicans over blocking Universities of Wisconsin pay raises, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ move to send articles of impeachment against the state’s top elections official to a committee, upcoming action in the state Legislature and more.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has sent to committee a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official, six weeks after five lawmakers introduced the proposal and on the heels of a new TV campaign pressuring him to move on it.
Ziegler in her third State of the Judiciary address said she’s focused on improving security for the Supreme Court and lower courts, which she says involves giving more executive powers to the judicial branch. She has proposed an independent judicial branch of law enforcement.
A group billing itself as the Wisconsin Elections Committee is up with a new TV ad that threatens to oust Assembly Speaker Robin Vos unless he allows the impeachment process against the state’s top elections official to proceed.
Dem Gov. Tony Evers says he was compelled to sue the state Legislature after GOP lawmakers decided to “stick it” to UW employees by holding up their pay raises over a policy dispute. The suit, which asks the state Supreme Court to take the case directly, seeks to overturn three committee actions, including the move to block the raises at the behest of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester.
Gov. Tony Evers announced today he has sued the GOP-controlled state Legislature, accusing it of unconstitutionally infringing on executive powers through several actions, including blocking pay raises for Universities of Wisconsin employees.