Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee approved spending an additional $1.55 billion on transportation projects over the next two years. It also signed off on a motion that would pump $1 billion more into K-12 education, with $647 million

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee reconvenes today as the panel begins its final push to complete work on the two-year state budget. Today’s agenda includes the departments of Public Instruction and Transportation, as well as the UW

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — The deal GOP legislative leaders struck with Dem Gov. Tony Evers on shared revenue and education is set to move quickly through the Legislature. The Senate Education Committee has a public hearing today on the bill that

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — Dem AG Josh Kaul is knocking the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee for declining to put additional state dollars into the Office of School Safety. During its executive session late yesterday, the committee voted 11-4 to approve

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu was threatening to walk away from a proposal to allow Milwaukee County and the city to impose new sales taxes unless the guv accepted Republicans’ “last, best offer” on shared revenue. LeMahieu, R-Oostburg,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly and Senate will both be on the floor today. The Senate plans to take up five bills that would make various changes to the state’s unemployment program. They include clarifying what qualifies as misconduct and adding

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Turnover and staff vacancies among state workers outside the UW System are at their highest since 2004 and driven in part by wage increases lagging inflation, a new Wisconsin Policy Forum Report found. Last year, 15 of Wisconsin’s

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — DNR says a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting which wetlands are subject to the Clean Water Act doesn’t change the state’s wetland regulations. At the same time, DNR Waterway and Wetland Policy Section Manager Tom

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — UW officials are vowing to continue pushing for a new engineering building on the Madison campus after the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee left the project out of its $2.3 billion capital budget. The GOP motion, approved 12-4 along

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — Elections Commission staff recommended commissioners reject a challenge seeking to push Republican Paul Melotik off the ballot in the special election for suburban Milwaukee’s 24th AD. The staff found the nomination papers for the most part

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — An Assembly committee plans to take testimony today on legislation that would overhaul how the Wisconsin National Guard investigates and addresses sexual assault and harassment. The bills grew out of the Legislative Council Study Committee on Wisconsin National

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate Natural Resources Committee plans to exec several bills by paper ballot today, including one that would require the DNR to create a biennial plan setting goals and priorities for habitat work on agency lands. SB 159

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee are accusing DOA of withholding documents from the Legislative Audit Bureau as it reviewed how the agency used federal COVID-19 funds. But Administration Secretary Kathy Blumenfeld wrote to the lawmakers

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today will consider whether to sign off on a package that would give a manufacturer $5.6 million in refundable tax credits to help expand its Milton plan. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. submitted the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — There will be no primary for the 24th AD special election in suburban Milwaukee after only one Dem and one Republican filed by the deadline. On the GOP side, Ozaukee County Supv. Paul Melotik filed by

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will be in today or the first of two executive sessions this week on the budget. The budget areas on today’s agenda are: Workforce Development, Insurance, Veterans Affairs, Higher Educational Aids Board and the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Ben Wikler will be unopposed at next month’s state convention for a third two-year term as state Dem Party chair after no one else filed to run by the deadline. Wikler, who has been a prolific fundraiser, also

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Hospital Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee approved investing $125 million to combat PFAS — but left the details of how to spend the money for a trailer bill introduced just this week. Dems last night slammed the GOP plan —

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos declares his caucus is “done negotiating” on the shared revenue bill, but a spokesperson for Tony Evers says the Dem guv hasn’t signed off on any of the amendments Republicans have added to the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers, who two weeks ago threatened to veto a GOP shared revenue bill, this morning expressed optimism that he’ll reach a deal on a revised proposal with Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu and Assembly Speaker Robin