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

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Steven Olikara, who co-founded the Millennial Action Project to bridge the partisan divide, announced today he is forming an exploratory committee to look at running for the U.S. Senate as a Dem. Olikara said he will take the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers has tapped former Jefferson County Judge David Wambach for the Ethics Commission at the suggestion of GOP legislative leaders. If confirmed, Wambach would fill the vacancy left by the expiration of former Waukesha County Judge Mac

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission will meet via teleconference tomorrow morning to approve candidates for the special election in the 37th AD if no challenges are filed to their nomination papers. Challenges are due at 4:30 p.m. today. If a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin’s House delegation voted along party lines on a bill that would create a national commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The bill, now in the Senate, would create a special commission to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — A Republican-run panel will move today to again require those on unemployment to do at least four work searches a week to remain eligible for benefits. The Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules will first take public testimony

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Democratic Party of Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — An Assembly committee will begin taking public testimony on a package of bills from the Speaker’s Task Force on Racial Disparities. The package includes one bill that would ban the use of chokeholds by law enforcement officers

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — State Dem Chair Ben Wikler, who has built a financial juggernaut during his time leading the party, will be unopposed next month for another two-year term. A party spokesman said Wikler was the only one to file papers

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Environmental Defense Action Fund From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders want a ruling by May 21 from an appeals court putting on hold a Dane County judge’s action that voided legal contracts ahead of an expected redistricting suit. In an expedited motion for a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Democratic Party of Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders are moving to pay private attorneys to intervene in a lawsuit against the Biden administration over the use of federal stimulus funds. That comes after Dem AG Josh Kaul declined their overtures to represent