Dem AG Josh Kaul said he will run on his record as a prosecutor in his bid for reelection in 2022. Kaul already has two declared Republican opponents — UW-Madison law professor Ryan Owens, and Fond du Lac County District
On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and guest host Jessica VanEgeren discuss the latest political fundraising numbers, Gov. Tony Evers’ move to direct $130 million in federal COVID-19 aid into workforce development, legislation to provide loans to reopen two
GOP legislative leaders can restart legal contracts they signed in anticipation of a redistricting lawsuit after a split state Supreme Court put on hold a lower court ruling. The justices also granted Republicans’ request to take over the case on
Gov. Tony Evers announced $130 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds will be awarded to workforce development efforts. But the state’s largest business group and GOP legislative leaders said the move fails to address Wisconsin’s workforce needs. WMC continued
GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the investigation he has launched is aimed at giving citizens and candidates confidence in the 2022 election. Vos has hired three former police officers to investigate the 2020 election, and former Wisconsin Supreme Court
On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley discuss Tony Evers signing the budget, the guv vetoing a bill to repeal the personal property tax and the upcoming 37th AD special election.
Gov. Tony Evers vetoed legislation that would repeal the personal property tax for businesses, though $202.4 million to replace the lost revenue if the tax was repealed will remain in the budget. It was one of four bills Evers vetoed
Some new guidance from the U.S. Education Department added a wrinkle in the debate over education funding ahead of Gov. Tony Evers’ final deliberations on the budget. The budget GOP lawmakers produced met one benchmark to qualify Wisconsin for $2.3
The UW System is proposing that regents keep resident undergrad tuition rates flat for the upcoming school year, essentially keeping in place a freeze that lawmakers voted to let expire in the 2021-23 budget. Regents this Thursday will vote on
Since mid-February, staff vacancy rates at the state’s juvenile correctional facilities have climbed twice as fast as those at Wisconsin’s adult institutions, according to records obtained by WisPolitics.com. The increase means the vacancy rate at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake
A new task force in Milwaukee will study ways to send unarmed responders to some calls now handled by police. “Instead of having an officer with a gun, or a person with a gun showing up to a very volatile
Former conservative Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman will be paid $44,000 through this fall to oversee an Assembly investigation into the 2020 election, according to a contract obtained by WisPolitics.com. That’s more than four times what the investigators retained for
On this week’s episode, WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and the Wisconsin Policy Forum’s Jason Stein discuss the state budget before Gov. Tony Evers, President Biden’s visit to Wisconsin and the governor’s veto of GOP elections and unemployment insurance bills.
Gov. Tony Evers has signed an amendment to the state’s gaming compact with the Oneida Nation allowing its casinos to offer betting on sports and other events, a first for Wisconsin. In a press conference yesterday with Oneida Chairman Tehassi
President Biden in La Crosse today praised a bipartisan infrastructure deal as a “blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America.” In his second visit to the state since becoming president, Biden touched on the nation’s high road fatality rates and how car
