Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) From WisPolitics.com … — A series of election-related bills are headed to Gov. Tony Evers after Assembly approval, including one that would place new requirements on absentee voting. SB 204 would require indefinitely confined voters to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Construction Business Group (CBG) From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly is set to take up several election-related bills during its floor session today. Members are also to take up a bill that would cut shared revenue payments to municipalities that cut funding for law

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate is moving ahead with legislation to eliminate the personal property tax after the Joint Finance Committee put money aside in its version of the budget. SB 189 was formally introduced March 10 and was sent

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Construction Business Group (CBG) From WisPolitics.com … — The GOP-run Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to approve a two-year state budget after adding a $3.4 billion tax cut. It now goes to the full Legislature, where approval is expected by the end of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers is calling on GOP legislative leaders to quickly send him four policing bills while urging them to do more. The Assembly yesterday concurred on Senate bills to: ban chokeholds except in self-defense or when an officer’s

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin would put another $129 million into expanding broadband under a motion Ok’d by the GOP-run Joint Finance Committee. Of that, $125 million would be covered through bonds with another $4 million transferred

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Construction Business Group (CBG) From WisPolitics.com … — Polls are open in the GOP primary for the 37th AD near Watertown. Eight Republicans are squaring off the party’s nomination to replace John Jagler after the Watertown Republican won a special election in April for

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers says he’s leaning toward vetoing a GOP bill that would cut off enhanced federal unemployment benefits of $300 a week. “I’ll take a look at it but certainly leaning that way,” he said on UpFront,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) From WisPolitics.com … — The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program would be renewed for four years with $32 million annually under a motion the Joint Finance Committee approved along party lines. That money for preservation and recreation initiatives was

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Construction Business Group (CBG) From WisPolitics.com … — Adult corrections guards are on pace for 2.2 million hours of overtime in the current fiscal year, amounting to a 13.5 percent increase over 2019-20, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The agency has long been plagued

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to boost transportation spending by $357.3 million over current law and use more general purpose revenue to cover those costs. The motion, approved 11-4 last night, would borrow $223.6 million

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — A coalition of unions and construction groups is urging the Joint Finance Committee to embrace Gov. Tony Evers’ nearly $2.4 billion capital budget. In a letter to committee members ahead of today’s vote on the capital budget, the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Democratic Party of Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — The nation’s top Dems told state party activists Wisconsin is key in 2022, urging them to mobilize around successes such as a refundable child tax credit to turn out voters next fall. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The UW Board of Regents today will select a new president. Michael Grebe, the current vice president and a Gov. Scott Walker appointee, is expected to square off with Edmund Manydeeds, a Gov. Tony Evers appointee for the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — An Assembly committee is set to vote today on seven bills recommended by the Speaker’s Task Force on Racial Disparities. One of those bills would require the Department of Justice to collect and report how many no-knock warrants

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Democratic Party of Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — In another sign of a likely reelection bid, Gov. Tony Evers today rolled out four new hires for his political operation including Cassi Fenili as campaign manager. Along with Fenili, Haley Barbour will serve as finance director,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Campaigns and Elections Committee will take testimony on three elections bills and vote on another today. The committee was supposed to meet last Wednesday but rescheduled the hearing for today amid

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Democratic Party of Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … SUBSCRIBERS: Today’s AM Update and News Summary will be the last WisPolitics.com products ahead of the holiday weekend. The products return to their normal schedule on Tuesday. Platinum subscribers will receive any breaking news updates in the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) From WisPolitics.com … — GOP lawmakers would have to put another $428 million into K-12 and higher education to ensure Wisconsin gets $2.2 billion from federal COVID-19 relief packages, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. That price

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Construction Business Group (CBG) From WisPolitics.com … — State Sen. Chris Larson, of Milwaukee, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate, the latest Dem to join a growing field looking to unseat GOP incumbent Ron Johnson. While Larson registered yesterday to run for the