A potential recount of last week’s presidential election would likely wrap up in the first week of December, according to a timeline laid out today by the state’s top election official. Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe told reporters today she
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Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order Tuesday urging people to stay home as much as possible while pressing businesses to take steps to protect employees and customers to combat COVID-19. But the order included no new directives limiting business
The Department of Public Instruction wants more than $1.4 billion in new GPR in the 2021-23 budget to boost school aids, special education funding and support for mental health. The budget proposal the agency submitted to the Evers administration in
The chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin credited President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state to intense work by Democrats across Wisconsin. “Democrats came out of the woodwork and worked so intensely in every corner of the state,” Ben
On this week’s episode, WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross discuss election results, the Trump campaign’s call for a recount, the state’s skyrocketing COVID-19 cases and more.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said he expects to have a similar leadership style to outgoing leader Scott Fitzgerald. “Obviously, we’re two different people,” LeMahieu said. “But over the last six years, I’ve gotten to watch Congressman-elect Fitzgerald, and
A Republican strategist said the GOP believes the race for president in Wisconsin is closer than polls show, while a Democratic strategist said it appears Wisconsin is ready to “fire” President Trump. “The intensity that is felt on the Republican
On this week’s episode, WisconsinEye’s Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross discuss the latest legal actions over the guv’s efforts to combat COVID-19, the U.S. Supreme Court keeping in place the Election Day deadline for absentee ballots and the latest
The Evers administration is asking the state Supreme Court to take over a challenge to the limits on indoor public gatherings, arguing the case involves “immediate, life-threatening public health conditions.” The 3rd District Court of Appeals last week placed the
The state Supreme Court is moving quickly to hear a challenge a Waukesha County businessman filed to Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate, setting oral arguments in the case for Nov. 16. In the 4-3 ruling late yesterday, the court
Vice President Pence warned this election is a choice on whether “America remains America.” At a campaign rally in Mosinee on Wednesday, Pence told viewers if Dem presidential candidate Joe Biden wins, he would only serve as a “Trojan horse
President Trump, Joe Biden, Mike Pence and multiple GOP surrogates are due in Wisconsin this week. Biden is returning to Wisconsin on Friday. Vice President Mike Pence will be in the state tomorrow — the day after a previously announced
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would take nothing for granted in the election, while President Trump rolled into Wisconsin for another large, outdoor rally in Waukesha Saturday night. “UpFront” host Adrienne Pedersen asked Biden how confident he is
WAUKESHA — Visiting one of the nation’s COVID-19 hotspots, President Trump insisted the pandemic is “rounding the corner” during a rally Saturday evening. The rally comes amid a continued surge of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin. The current case rate in
