Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Administrator Meagan Wolfe says her No. 1 priority is to provide local clerks stability as they head into 2024 after the Elections Commission deadlocked on whether to renominate her to lead the agency. That move, Dem members argued,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission meets today to discuss who should serve as the agency administrator for the next four years. The commission plans to go into closed session to discuss litigation before coming back into open session to consider

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — With the Wisconsin Elections Commission poised to decide whether to reappoint her to the role, agency Administrator Meagan Wolfe sent lawmakers a letter “to set the record straight related to false claims” about her work. The

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — The GOP-run Joint Finance Committee wrapped up its version of the state budget, sending the full Legislature a two-year plan that includes a $3.5 billion income tax cut, a cut in state aid to the UW

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The nearly $1.8 billion the state has stashed away in its rainy day fund is generating about $7 million in earnings each month, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. While the balance is a far cry from the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly will take up a variety of bills this afternoon, including legislation to remove the Wisconsin Technical College System from property tax rolls. The GOP-run chamber also is set to take up legislation to overhaul Wisconsin’s three-tiered

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers announced this morning he has tapped former Dem state Rep. Pedro Colón to fill a coming vacancy on the 1st District Court of Appeals. Colón, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, will be

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — GOP lawmakers were planning to meet today to hash out the details of a plan to cut income taxes by at least $3 billion. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, announced at

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee early this morning approved a spending boost for the Department of Health Services by $3.1 billion in state and federal money over the next two years. The committee’s DHS motion also waded into the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — With two components of the compromise shared revenue deal now through both houses, the Joint Finance Committee is getting back to work on the state budget. Last night, both houses of the Legislature signed off on a

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