Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The office of state Sen. Rob Stafsholt says the New Richmond Republican is aiming for an Aug. 23 committee hearing on Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the state Natural Resources Board. Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage Committee Clerk Sharlene Konkel told WisPolitics

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — DNR Secretary Adam Payne today praised the state’s revised wolf management plan, while Wisconsinites from both sides of the issue cited concerns about it. Payne at today’s Natural Resources Board meeting in Viroqua said science was the basis for the revised plan

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders today were quick to dismiss Gov. Tony Evers’ special session call to take up a $1 billion workforce development package. Among other things, Evers wants the Legislature on Sept. 20 to take up his call to pump $365 million

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem AG Josh Kaul and a group of Wisconsin doctors today asked a Dane County judge for a final ruling that an 1849 Wisconsin law doesn’t apply to abortion, but refers to feticide instead. They also sought to keep alive their arguments

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt expects more than 200 layoffs and voluntary departures as the university faces an $18 million deficit. Leavitt in a news conference alongside UW System President Jay Rothman this afternoon said the 200-position cut is out of about 1,460

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem voters today asked the state Supreme Court to overturn GOP-drawn legislative maps, seeking new lines for the 2024 elections. The petition for original action argues the maps are such an extreme partisan gerrymander that all 33 members of the state Senate

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Director of State Courts Randy Koschnick told WisPolitics late this afternoon he was still awaiting word on his fate from the Supreme Court after liberal Justice Jill Karofsky indicated there’d be a vote to remove him from the job he’s had for

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging a privately funded GOTV effort in Milwaukee last fall touted by city officials, finding the state GOP failed to show it faced any harm or that the activities had “unduly influenced” a political campaign. The

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn agreed the least with fellow conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley and the most with liberal Justice Jill Karofsky, according to an analysis of 45 decisions from the high court’s most recent term. Marquette University history Prof. Alan

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley today ahead of a planned vote on upping the county’s sales tax warned a “no” vote is “a ‘yes’ to cutting the services and the programs that increase and maintain the quality of life.” The Milwaukee County

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee today allowed Wisconsin to withdraw itself from a lawsuit against the federal government over the Trump administration’s reallocation of $8 million in National Guard funding for a southern border wall. JFC members wrapped their sub-3 minute session with

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin will now take a phonics-based approach to literacy and help teachers implement the new learning model, under legislation Gov. Tony Evers signed today. AB 321 also will work in concert with $50 million that was set aside in the state budget

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — WisPolitics has tracked more than $56 million spent on this spring’s Supreme Court race — almost four times the previous national record — as liberals flipped control of the body for the first time in 15 years. And it’s likely the final

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, in early May repaid himself $400,000 of what he gave his campaigns in 2010 and 2016, despite insisting earlier this year he had no intentions of recouping money from old loans. Johnson took steps in recent months

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson today said he has a “strong aversion” to policy measures targeting his city in the state’s shared revenue agreement, adding he wished the issue had been dealt with when Dems had control of the Legislature. “That didn’t happen,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin women with breast cancer today urged support for a bill to cover additional screenings, saying while it might be too late for them, the change could save others’ lives. SB 121, introduced by Senate Health Committee Chair Rachael Cabral-Guevara, would require

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Milwaukee Common Council members today vowed to take legal action on state-imposed restrictions on the use of city funds before a vote approving a new 2 percent sales tax to address ongoing pension obligations. The 12-3 vote exceeded the two-thirds majority needed

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin is projected to finish the 2023-25 biennium with a more than $4 billion surplus after Dem Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the bulk of a GOP income tax cut plan, according to new figures from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. That ending balance

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A Dane County judge ruled today “there is no such thing as an ‘1849 Abortion Ban’ in Wisconsin” and instead the 174-year-old law only applies to feticide. Judge Diane Schlipper issued the declaration as she rejected a motion by the Sheboygan County

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Members of the UW Board of Regents this morning struck an optimistic tone on getting back the $32 million cut from the system budget this week over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. But Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, struck a more doubtful