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Wisconsin's Joint Finance Committee Announces Budget Listening Sessions
The sessions will be held in Waukesha, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Dells, and Minocqua.
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Wisconsin Jobs Return To Pre-Pandemic Numbers, But The Workforce Is Shrinking
The state unemployment rate inched down slightly in January to 2.9%, closing in on the record 2.8% low set the same month a year ago.
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Kelly And Protasiewicz Financial Disclosures Show Only One Candidate Did Partisan Work
Since Kelly lost re-election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2020, he has mostly engaged in work on behalf of the GOP and allied groups.
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Lawmakers Announce Bill To Ban Shackling Incarcerated Pregnant Women And Create Doula Program
Doula services would be provided to incarcerated women before, during and after giving birth.
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Analysis Examines Potential Impacts Of Evers Budget Proposal, GOP Alternatives
The Wisconsin Policy Forum's budget analysis says the plan would leave the state with a structural imbalance ahead of the 2025-27 budget.
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Republicans Poised To Block DHS Vaccine Updates For Students
A public hearing Tuesday packed with vaccine skeptics wearing bright red clothes.
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Republican Legislators Take Aim At Local Zoning Rules To Address Wisconsin's Housing Shortage
Local opposition to housing projects comes even as nearly all corners of the state.
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Democrats Highlight Evers' Free School Meals Budget Proposal
The proposal would dedicate $120 million in the second year of the budget to creating the “Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids” program.
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Some Wisconsin Small Business Owners See Paid Leave Proposal As A Boon To Hiring
Gov. Evers has proposed a 12-week paid leave program for workers funded by a payroll deduction levied equally on employees and employers.
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Debate Over Wisconsin School Resource Officers Moves To The Capitol
Years of student activism, both in Milwaukee and Madison, resulted in the removal of resource officers from schools in 2020.
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UW System President Proposes 5% Tuition Increase
Rothman will ask the UW System Board of Regents to approve the increase at a meeting later this month.
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Gov. Evers' Proposed Budget Ties Medicaid Expansion To Better Pay For Health Providers
The administration plans to meet with hospital industry executives in the coming weeks to enlist their support.
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Third Ethics Complaint Filed Against Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge Michael Gableman
The complaint is over his conduct during his widely derided review of the 2020 presidential election.
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Republican Legislative Leaders Downplay Wisconsin Budget Surplus
The LFB calculates the surplus as more than $7 billion, but GOP lawmakers say it is much less.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Reappoints Trump Lawyer To Judicial Conduct Committee
Jim Troupis was heavily involved in the effort by the state GOP to cast false Electoral College votes for the former president.
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Budget Committee Co-Chairs On Potential Compromise And Evers' Proposals
They said the governor's proposed budget includes too much spending, and they plan to be cautious and focus on tax reform.
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Dan Kelly's Divine Inspiration
1991 writing reveals a man certain that he has God on his side.
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Dozens Of Open Records Requests To Wisconsin DOJ Have Sat For More Than A Year
The backlog of requests has caused wait times to grow for newer requests.
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Protasiewicz Says She'd Recuse Herself From Cases Involving Democratic Party
The party has given the Milwaukee County judge $2.5 million to support her Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign.
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Lawmakers Weigh In As Wauwatosa Asks State To Undo Racial Covenants
A path forward isn’t yet clear, but state legislators are open to possibilities.