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On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the proposed deal between the Universities of Wisconsin and GOP lawmakers, a Dane County judge ruling an 1849 law doesn’t ban consenual abortions, a GOP bill to eliminate the Wisconsin Elections Commission, and Gov. Tony Evers signing the Brewers stadium bills and acting on more than four dozen others.
UW officials and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos have discussed a deal that would target a third of the university’s DEI positions and cap the overall number of jobs in exchange for several top financial priorities, according to sources with knowledge of the talks.
Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer is getting used to recruiting candidates for an upcoming election without being able to tell them what their districts might look like. But the big difference this cycle is the Racine Dem has more time to recruit.
Despite her ruling on the 1849 law, Judge Diane Schlipper declined to issue a permanent injunction late yesterday barring its enforcement because the three district attorneys who were named as defendants in the case had all pledged to abide by her ruling. Thus, she found there was no need to issue an injunction.
Gov. Tony Evers has signed legislation that will put more than $500 million in taxpayer money toward upkeep at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium through 2050, saying it will allow a generation of Wisconsinites to grow up rooting for the state’s baseball team like he did.
Taxpayers will pick up the tab for Jon Wilcox’s private attorneys in a lawsuit over the advice he and other former conservative justices gave GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on possibly impeaching liberal Janet Protasiewicz.
Reince Priebus, chair of Milwaukee’s Host Committee ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention, says fundraising efforts are “ahead of where we need to be” in raising $68 million before next summer.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the new lawsuit challenging ACT 10, Madison Dem Sen. Melissa Agard’s bid for Dane County executive, a judge dismissing an open meetings complaint against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos over his impeachment advisory panel, Gov. Tony Evers’ alias email account, the redistricting lawsuit before the state Supreme Court and more.
Former GOP AG Brad Schimel, now a Waukesha County judge, today launched his bid for the state Supreme Court in 2025, pitching it as an opportunity for conservatives to take back the majority.
Proponents of a bill to offer a tax credit for businesses that operate child care programs for their employees said the measure would help mitigate the state’s workforce shortage.
Remington wrote he was compelled to dismiss the open meetings violation component of American Oversight’s suit because the Washington, D.C.-based group failed to follow state statute in seeking private enforcement of the open meetings law.
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.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the proposed deal between the Universities of Wisconsin and GOP lawmakers, a Dane County judge ruling an 1849 law doesn’t ban consenual abortions, a GOP bill to eliminate the Wisconsin Elections Commission, and Gov. Tony Evers signing the Brewers stadium bills and acting on more than four dozen others.
UW officials and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos have discussed a deal that would target a third of the university’s DEI positions and cap the overall number of jobs in exchange for several top financial priorities, according to sources with knowledge of the talks.
Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer is getting used to recruiting candidates for an upcoming election without being able to tell them what their districts might look like. But the big difference this cycle is the Racine Dem has more time to recruit.
Despite her ruling on the 1849 law, Judge Diane Schlipper declined to issue a permanent injunction late yesterday barring its enforcement because the three district attorneys who were named as defendants in the case had all pledged to abide by her ruling. Thus, she found there was no need to issue an injunction.
Gov. Tony Evers has signed legislation that will put more than $500 million in taxpayer money toward upkeep at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium through 2050, saying it will allow a generation of Wisconsinites to grow up rooting for the state’s baseball team like he did.
Taxpayers will pick up the tab for Jon Wilcox’s private attorneys in a lawsuit over the advice he and other former conservative justices gave GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on possibly impeaching liberal Janet Protasiewicz.
Reince Priebus, chair of Milwaukee’s Host Committee ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention, says fundraising efforts are “ahead of where we need to be” in raising $68 million before next summer.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the new lawsuit challenging ACT 10, Madison Dem Sen. Melissa Agard’s bid for Dane County executive, a judge dismissing an open meetings complaint against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos over his impeachment advisory panel, Gov. Tony Evers’ alias email account, the redistricting lawsuit before the state Supreme Court and more.
Former GOP AG Brad Schimel, now a Waukesha County judge, today launched his bid for the state Supreme Court in 2025, pitching it as an opportunity for conservatives to take back the majority.
Proponents of a bill to offer a tax credit for businesses that operate child care programs for their employees said the measure would help mitigate the state’s workforce shortage.
Remington wrote he was compelled to dismiss the open meetings violation component of American Oversight’s suit because the Washington, D.C.-based group failed to follow state statute in seeking private enforcement of the open meetings law.
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.