Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state’s unemployment rate soared to 14.1 percent in April, reaching a level not seen since the Great Depression. According to a release from the state Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin’s unemployment

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Presumptive Dem presidential nominee Joe Biden today slammed President Trump’s response to COVID-19, saying it has been marked by “denials, delays, distraction, and bald-faced lies.” Biden did a virtual round table this

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Of the 43 people the Elections Commission referred to local DAs for prosecution on possible double voting in November 2018, 26 were suspected of casting ballots in Illinois as well as Wisconsin,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State officials are still unsure why some 1,600 absentee ballots from voters in the Fox Valley ended up in a Milwaukee postal sorting facility or why some Oshkosh voters — including the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers’ administration today signaled its upcoming emergency rule to deal with COVID-19 will share some similarities with its previous order that was struck down by the state Supreme Court. Meanwhile,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Twenty-five agencies, including the lieutenant governor’s office and DOT, are exempt from 5 percent cuts in GPR operations budgets the Evers administration ordered to help deal with falling revenues, according to a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Voters’ views of how Gov. Tony Evers and President Trump are handling COVID-19 have slipped over the last month, according to the latest Marquette University Law School Poll. Still, nearly two-thirds of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today announced small retailers can now reopen as Wisconsin for the first time showed a downward trajectory over a 14-day period for the percentage of daily positive COVID-19 tests.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos removed one of his most vulnerable members from JCRAR and replaced him with a departing state rep just as the committee could be thrust into the COVID-19 reopening

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state’s general fund “undoubtedly” will take a hit as tax collections fall due to COVID-19, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. But a new memo from Director Bob Lang says several

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Justice Rebecca Bradley today suggested the DHS secretary’s stay-at-home order was a form of “tyranny” and argued the Legislature never intended to grant an unelected bureaucrat such expansive powers. During oral arguments

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers said the focus of today’s meeting with GOP legislative leaders was to explore a plan to reopen the state and see where there might be common ground. The meeting

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — WEDC Secretary-designee Missy Hughes said she found WMC’s plan to reopen the economy “very thoughtful and reasonable,” but that she believes public health assessment in a pandemic should be left to the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Evers administration estimates the state will save $70 million from agency budget cuts ordered to cope with the financial impact of the COVID-19 impact. Still, that is only a fraction of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said the governor’s order today to reopen some 34 state parks and forests is meant to bring back “a little bit of normalcy” during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order.