Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The UW System Board of Regents will receive an update today on President Ray Cross’ UW merger plan. The plan folds the 13 two-year UW Colleges into seven nearby four-year institutions. The board recently passed it via a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Like legislative leaders, AG Brad Schimel says it’s important to shield sexual harassment complaints filed with his agency, saying making them public would discourage victims from coming forward. Still, the agency released the names of two employees who

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Ethics Commission staff is asking if they should look at FCC information as part of audits into whether groups are complying with state law on reporting independent expenditures. The staff has asked the commission ahead of today’s meeting

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — State Rep. Josh Zepnick is refusing to resign while apologizing after two women alleged he kissed them without their consent at political events in 2011 and 2015. The Milwaukee Dem says he has no recollection of the incidents

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Officials from Racine County and Mount Pleasant are poised to sign the local incentive deal with Foxconn this morning. The deal includes $764 million in local incentives for the Taiwanese technology company. Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn Chairman

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The U.S. Senate last night began debate on the GOP tax bill, with U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson joining all Republicans in voting to kick-start discussion. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, joined all Dems in voting against the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker will address the WMC Foundation’s fourth annual Future Wisconsin Summit today in Madison. This afternoon, Walker will participate in a ribbon cutting ceremony at Industries for the Blind in Menomonee Falls. — Wisconsin Veterans Affairs

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he plans to vote against the GOP tax overhaul bill today in the Senate Budget Committee. The Oshkosh Republican and member of the committee told reporters on a media call yesterday that unless

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker will be at Indianhead Technical College in Rice Lake today to tour the school and discuss workforce development and broadband investment initiatives. — The Elections Commission has certified candidates in three upcoming special elections. In

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The fields for three special elections are a bit clearer after candidates turned in their nomination papers. But one candidate seeking to run in the 10th SD did not turn in the 400 valid signatures needed to

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Racine Unified School District scored a passing grade in the latest round of state report cards, meaning it won’t face the possibility of area villages breaking off and forming their own districts. Under the state budget, if the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The five positions Gov. Scott Walker vetoed from the Elections Commission has left it with a staffing level that “poses a significant obstacle to successfully administering” Wisconsin’s elections, the agency’s administrator wrote the board ahead of today’s meeting.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Dana Wachs says the state’s youth prisons should be closed. Wachs, a Dem state rep from Eau Claire, said in a statement last night those incarcerated at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state Dem Party is filling its new executive director positions with internal candidates. George Gillis, who had been the political director, now becomes the executive director for political affairs. Meanwhile, Breianna Hasenzahl-Reeder, who had been working as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A Dem bill that would require state and local government contracts to be executed with a preference for American-made materials is getting a public hearing today in an Assembly committee. The so-called “Made in America Act” is from

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker is now calling on Roy Moore to drop out of the U.S. Senate race after originally only saying the Alabama Republican should withdraw if the allegations against him are true. Since Walker’s original comments, another

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, has three stops planned in the state today for a “major political announcement” with all signs pointing toward him getting into the race for guv. Mitchell’s campaign

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker today appointed GOP state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf the first female DATCP secretary, calling the longtime lawmaker “an excellent fit to lead the agency.” Harsdorf, who won her Senate seat in 2000 and served in the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — GOP Reps. Adam Jarchow, of Balsam Lake, and Shannon Zimmerman, of River Falls, are expected to look at running for Sheila Harsdorf’s northwestern Wisconsin seat if Gov. Scott Walker names the Republican senator his new DATCP secretary. Harsdorf,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The mining bill is headed to Gov. Scott Walker after the Senate approved the legislation to lift a nearly two-decade old moratorium. The bill cleared the Senate 19-14, helped by a key amendment the Assembly OK’d last week