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Posts from before May 2025 can be viewed below.
The Group Insurance Board today voted to move forward with self-insuring state employees, just hours before Gov. Scott Walker is scheduled to deliver his budget address. The GIB’s recommendation, which board members approved 10-1, would need approval from the state’s
Gov. Scott Walker today proposed a $140 million boost to the UW System, including a plan that would freeze tuition for in-state undergrads in the first year before cutting it 5 percent the next. The tuition plan, which Walker unveiled
Gov. Scott Walker today said his next budget will look to eliminate the waitlist for a long-term care program that helps children with developmental and physical disabilities and children with severe emotional issues. Walker, who’s giving his budget address tomorrow, made
Starting today, the WisPolitics.com Budget Blog will be available only to subscribers. If you are a WisPolitics.com Silver subscriber or somebody who only goes to our free web site, you will need to pay for an annual Budget Blog subscription
Gov. Scott Walker today proposed a boost in funding for rural schools through sparsity aid, higher reimbursements for their transportation costs and an investment in broadband. Walker is speaking at three school districts today to outline his plan and said
The state underestimated by $3.8 billion the costs for major highway work completed over the past decade or still in progress, often because it failed to account for inflation in its estimates, according to a Legislative Audit Bureau review. The
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson is recounting his welfare reform battles from two decades ago in voicing support for Gov. Scott Walker’s “Wisconsin Works for Everyone” welfare plan. The name is a take off of the Wisconsin Works program that Thompson
A day after the release of new positive revenue projections, Assembly GOP leaders called Thursday for a $300 million tax cut as part of a plan to meet Gov. Scott Walker’s demands before pumping new revenues into the transportation fund.
The Legislative Fiscal Bureau gave the budget a boost today, both in how much money the Capitol will have to play with in 2017-19 and the state’s ending balance for 2015-17. In November, the Walker administration had projected nearly $1.4
Gov. Scott Walker said today he would provide the UW System additional state aid to cover his proposed tuition cuts for resident undergrads. Walker declined to say during a Milwaukee news conference as part of his post-State of the State swing
