Republicans have introduced a package of bills to clarify miscarriage treatment and other procedures are not outlawed by Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban.
The state’s largest business group is threatening to go to court to block regulations that would force stricter limits on surface water pollution.
Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy says he’s had initial conversations with some state lawmakers about the proposal to use $2 million in state money to help pay for costs associated with Green Bay hosting the 2025 NFL Draft.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest Joint Finance Committee actions on the state budget, negotiations over Republicans’ shared revenue and sales tax proposal, the Green Bay Packers’ ask for state money to help with hosting the 2025 NFL Draft and more.
Ten of 13 UW System campuses are facing deficits in their tuition funds, according to data shared by the system.
The Legislative Audit Bureau found DHS failed during the pandemic to execute appropriate agreements on ventilators it loaned providers and didn’t properly track the equipment.
A co-author of a GOP shared revenue proposal encouraged compromise on the bill during a hearing Tuesday, while Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called for lawmakers to eliminate provisions restricting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Sen. Dan Knodl, chair of the Senate’s Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee, tells WisPolitics he’s keeping an open mind on whether to require Milwaukee County and the city to get voter permission to impose new sales taxes.
Wisconsin GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the debt limit deadline “a phony crisis” while Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin said, “We cannot default.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the negotiations over the GOP shared revenue bill, Joint Finance Committee approval of pay raises for state prosecutors and public defenders, along with $125 million to fight PFAS, and new GOP legislation to tackle the state’s housing shortage.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said today his caucus will likely drop a requirement that Milwaukee County and the city approve a new sales tax via referendum as part of the GOP shared revenue bill.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to “Marsy’s Law,” finding the constitutional amendment was properly presented to voters as they expanded the rights of crime victims.
One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy farms has agreed to stop spreading liquid manure in exchange for avoiding groundwater monitoring standards.
Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said Gov. Tony Evers and GOP leaders need to “resolve their differences” and pass a shared revenue bill.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new laws Gov. Tony Evers signed to crack down on reckless driving and carjacking, committee shuffling with the new Senate GOP supermajority, shared revenue negotiations, the UW System eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion statements for employment, and more.
An Assembly committee has OK’d along party lines a GOP-authored shared revenue bill, even as Republicans noted the legislation will be revised before it hits the floor next week.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is knocking Gov. Tony Evers for appointing former Dem U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has appointed Sen. Dan Knodl to lead a new committee as he reworks membership on others to reflect the GOP’s new supermajority in the chamber. Knodl, who was sworn in last week, will chair the newly created Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee.
A Dane County judge says he will order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rehear a complaint against Republicans who presented a false slate of electors in 2020.
Dem state Sen. LaTonya Johnson said Gov. Tony Evers should veto the shared revenue bill if dramatic changes aren’t made, a move he promised last week. Meanwhile, GOP state Rep. Tony Kurtz, one of the authors of the shared revenue legislation, says “the bill as written will be changing.”
Republicans have introduced a package of bills to clarify miscarriage treatment and other procedures are not outlawed by Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban.
The state’s largest business group is threatening to go to court to block regulations that would force stricter limits on surface water pollution.
Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy says he’s had initial conversations with some state lawmakers about the proposal to use $2 million in state money to help pay for costs associated with Green Bay hosting the 2025 NFL Draft.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest Joint Finance Committee actions on the state budget, negotiations over Republicans’ shared revenue and sales tax proposal, the Green Bay Packers’ ask for state money to help with hosting the 2025 NFL Draft and more.
Ten of 13 UW System campuses are facing deficits in their tuition funds, according to data shared by the system.
The Legislative Audit Bureau found DHS failed during the pandemic to execute appropriate agreements on ventilators it loaned providers and didn’t properly track the equipment.
A co-author of a GOP shared revenue proposal encouraged compromise on the bill during a hearing Tuesday, while Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson called for lawmakers to eliminate provisions restricting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Sen. Dan Knodl, chair of the Senate’s Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee, tells WisPolitics he’s keeping an open mind on whether to require Milwaukee County and the city to get voter permission to impose new sales taxes.
Wisconsin GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the debt limit deadline “a phony crisis” while Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin said, “We cannot default.”
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the negotiations over the GOP shared revenue bill, Joint Finance Committee approval of pay raises for state prosecutors and public defenders, along with $125 million to fight PFAS, and new GOP legislation to tackle the state’s housing shortage.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said today his caucus will likely drop a requirement that Milwaukee County and the city approve a new sales tax via referendum as part of the GOP shared revenue bill.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to “Marsy’s Law,” finding the constitutional amendment was properly presented to voters as they expanded the rights of crime victims.
One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy farms has agreed to stop spreading liquid manure in exchange for avoiding groundwater monitoring standards.
Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said Gov. Tony Evers and GOP leaders need to “resolve their differences” and pass a shared revenue bill.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new laws Gov. Tony Evers signed to crack down on reckless driving and carjacking, committee shuffling with the new Senate GOP supermajority, shared revenue negotiations, the UW System eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion statements for employment, and more.
An Assembly committee has OK’d along party lines a GOP-authored shared revenue bill, even as Republicans noted the legislation will be revised before it hits the floor next week.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, is knocking Gov. Tony Evers for appointing former Dem U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry to the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has appointed Sen. Dan Knodl to lead a new committee as he reworks membership on others to reflect the GOP’s new supermajority in the chamber. Knodl, who was sworn in last week, will chair the newly created Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection Committee.
A Dane County judge says he will order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rehear a complaint against Republicans who presented a false slate of electors in 2020.
Dem state Sen. LaTonya Johnson said Gov. Tony Evers should veto the shared revenue bill if dramatic changes aren’t made, a move he promised last week. Meanwhile, GOP state Rep. Tony Kurtz, one of the authors of the shared revenue legislation, says “the bill as written will be changing.”