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MILWAUKEE (September 1, 2022) – Reagan High School is slated to begin work on expansions and improvements and will welcome media to a ground breaking ceremony on Wednesday, September 7, at 12:30 p.m. Milwaukee Public Schools will host a media event to

MADISON, Wis. – Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin (AFP-WI) today announced its support for three state legislative candidates running for State Senate and State Assembly. The grassroots organization endorses the following policy champions: Rob Hutton (SD-5), Rep. Jesse James (SD-23), and Chanz Green

MADISON, Wis. — Tim Michels has doubled down on his loyalty to extreme anti-abortion groups, both in statements and fundraising emails. Pro Life Wisconsin, cited in Michels’s fundraising email, wants to go even further than the already restrictive 1849 abortion ban by making all

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is launching an online program for Wisconsinites to get free at-home rapid COVID-19 tests delivered directly to them. Starting today, Wisconsin residents can go to the Say Yes! COVID Test website(link is external) and place

Wisconsin Truth PAC — which is funded by the special interest donors Ron Johnson delivered $215 million in tax deductions to — is falsely attacking Lt. Governor Barnes over his record of working to keep all Wisconsin communities safe. Lt.

Madison – State Representative Janel Brandtjen (R- Menomonee Falls) issued the following statement regarding the Wisconsin Elections Commission proposal to circumvent legislative oversight: “Yesterday the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) began plans to develop an Elections Inspector Office with 10 new

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. —  More than 300 members of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville community and tri-state region gathered to celebrate the opening of Sesquicentennial Hall – UW-Platteville’s newest, $55 million state-of-the-art engineering building – at a ribbon-cutting celebration on Sept. 1. “While showcasing

MADISON — Yesterday, Ron Johnson suggested hauling seniors out of retirement and putting them back to work. Johnson’s attacks on Social Security and Medicare put hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin retirees at risk of losing their livelihoods and the benefits they have paid into throughout

“The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is pleased to see the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation that eligible Wisconsinites will soon have additional protection against COVID-19 with the approval of COVID-19 bivalent boosters. These bivalent boosters

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WI – President Biden delivered a national address tonight in which he continued to use the divisive rhetoric his administration has been marked by. Biden promised to work toward unity and yet his policy agenda and rhetoric

[Appleton, WI] – “Tonight President Biden addressed the nation and tried to have it both ways. In one breath he asked for unity from all Americans, and in the next, he vilified half the nation as dangerous extremists. Through his

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) asks nature lovers and landowners in Wood, Portage, Adams, Juneau, Waushara, Marquette, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Walworth, Jefferson and Washington counties to collect wild common milkweed seedpods to help grow habitat for

MILWAUKEE, WI – Today, Milwaukee County announced that it is accepting applications to the revived Milwaukee County Youth Commission. The resolution, co-authored by County Board Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson, County Executive David Crowley, and Supervisor Sequanna Taylor, was adopted by the County

MILWAUKEE— Fair Elections Project Director Sachin Chheda released the following statement in response to yesterday’s decision by a federal judge ensuring access to absentee ballots for disabled voters: “The decision by a federal judge to carve out a small sliver

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) joined a group of 20 states in filing a friend of the court brief supporting the federal government’s efforts to regulate “ghost guns”: unserialized, untraceable weapons that are often made at

MADISON, WI (September 1, 2022) — Central Wisconsin natives Jere and Anne Fluno have committed $4.28 million to support several programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This includes a $3 million estate commitment to create the Jere D. Fluno Distinguished

Chancellor Frank: As Vice-Chairman of the Senate Universities and Technical Colleges Committee, I was contacted by an individual affiliated with UW-STOUT sharing their concerns regarding the cost of your upcoming investiture events and a speaker participating in the “Celebration Week

MADISON – Today, the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) released a limited-scope review of certain broadband expansion grant programs (report 22-11). In February 2022, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee directed LAB to evaluate the State’s administration of supplemental federal funding received in response

MILWAUKEE — Nominations of Wisconsin PK through 12 teachers and principals can now be submitted online at KohlEducation.org for the 2023 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation teacher Fellowship and principal Leadership awards. The deadline for submission is Tuesday, October 4, 2022

The Bureau announces the release of Certain Broadband Expansion Grant Programs (report 22-11). The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) administers programs that award grants to telecommunication providers that make broadband service available to businesses and residences. In October 2020,