Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate will be on the floor tomorrow in special session to take up legislation stemming from Gov. Tony Evers’ call to modernize the state’s unemployment insurance system. The office of Senate

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — In his budget address tonight, Gov. Tony Evers will tell Wisconsinites to ignore those who say the state can’t make health care more affordable while fully funding schools and cutting taxes. What’s

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — After an adverse court ruling, the state’s Natural Resources Board today unanimously signed off on a February wolf hunt. The board had originally rejected establishing a hunt in a 4-3 vote last

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — JCRAR today advanced a measure designed to stop the Elections Commission from telling local clerks they can send absentee ballots to assisted care facilities without first having special voting deputies visit. Meanwhile,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee voted 11-4 today to ensure Wisconsin businesses that received PPP loans aren’t taxed on the expenses they covered with the money, saving those businesses $419 million through mid-2023.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A Waukesha businessman today asked the state Supreme Court for an injunction halting enforcement of Tony Evers’ latest public health declaration, accusing the guv of having “plunged this State into a constitutional

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin’s first community-based vaccination clinic is set to open in Rock County on Feb. 16. The announcement comes as the state has dramatically improved vaccination rates. Gov. Tony Evers and the Department

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Declaring he is putting the public before politics, Gov. Tony Evers this afternoon issued a new public health declaration and mask mandate before Republicans had taken the final step to overturn the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly has scheduled a floor session for 10 a.m. tomorrow to adopt a new amendment to the COVID-19 bill and pass its own version of a resolution aimed at overturning Gov.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The GOP co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee today warned Gov. Tony Evers against introducing another budget like his first one that was “full of tax increases, excessive spending and divisive non-fiscal

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Department of Transportation says it’s looking at $26 million in savings on all active major and southeastern Wisconsin mega projects. Meanwhile, the cost to do an environmental impact study for proposed

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos slammed Gov. Tony Evers for “acting like a dictator” by declaring health emergencies to address COVID-19 without support from the Legislature. The Rochester Republican said in a WisPolitics.com

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Lawmakers in 2020 claimed per diems totaling $555,149, about 70 percent of what they took home in the previous election year, as the COVID-19 pandemic cut into activity at the Capitol. Overall,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State tax collections through mid-2023 will be nearly $1.2 billion higher than what Gov. Tony Evers’ administration had expected just two months ago, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. LFB Director Bob

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A court-ordered monitor says staff at youth lockups in northern Wisconsin are making “every attempt to maintain facility operations as best as possible” during the “challenging” COVID-19 pandemic. Monitor Teresa Abreu today