Rep. David Steffen is spending part of his time fighting the “ghost of Stanley” as he pitches a bill that would let a private company build a new prison in the Green Bay area that the state would then lease
Citizens and environmental activists in southwestern and western Wisconsin are calling on the DNR to extend rules aimed at further protecting groundwater to their area, saying they don’t want to become “another Kewaunee County.” The DNR has been in the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report Sources: Road map emerging to resolve budget impasse Citizens, activists want additional areas covered by groundwater protections ‘Ghost of Stanley’ haunts Green Bay-area prison proposal Week
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Contact: Nathan Conrad info@developourresources.org 608-441-1647 [Madison, Wis.] – The Natural Resource Development Association, a new Wisconsin-based advocacy group, launched today in support of efforts to encourage clean and safe economic development of our state’s natural resources. “Wisconsin has a quality
Contact: Mike Browne mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel has made no public comments in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s comments coddling white supremacists and neo-Nazis whose hateful gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia resulted in deaths
Contact: Alec Zimmerman (608) 257-4765 [Madison, WI]— Senator Tammy Baldwin is continuing her defense of the status quo. After a Fox 6 story exposed Senator Baldwin for ignoring yet another whistleblower claim, a new report from the Washington Free Beacon
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Contact: Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 MADISON, Wis. — One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross released the following statements about the announced Joint Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday on the $3 billion taxpayer subsidy Gov. Scott Walker wants to
MADISON – Representative Warren Petryk (R-Eleva) released the following statement after the Wisconsin State Assembly passed the Wisconn Valley Special Session legislation on a bipartisan vote of 59-30. “As Chairman of the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, I view
Contact: Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) 1-608-266-5830 Representative John Nygren (R-Marinette) 1-608-266-2343 Madison – On Friday, State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) and State Representative John Nygren (R-Marinette), the Co-Chairs of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, released the following statement
WisconsinEye Senior Producer Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross review the news of the week in state politics.
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The Joint Finance Committee will end a two-month break next week, coming in Tuesday for a public hearing on Foxconn and Thursday to take up several remaining pieces of the budget. Tuesday’s public hearing will be at Gateway Technical College
MADISON, Wis. – Today, Attorney General Schimel led a bipartisan coalition of 24 states in filing an amicus curiae brief in Artis v. District of Columbia. In the brief filed in the Supreme Court of the United States, Attorney General
Contact: 608.266.0645 MADISON – State Representative Evan Goyke (D-Milwaukee) released the following statement regarding yesterday’s passage of legislation by the State Assembly to benefit the possible construction and operation of a Foxconn manufacturing site in Wisconsin: “Today I registered my
Contact: Raj Shukla rshukla@wisconsinrivers.org (608) 257-2424 x115 River Alliance of Wisconsin conducted a poll (MoE +/- 3.6) of 739 Wisconsin voters from August 4-6, 2017, to gauge public opinion on elements on both Foxconn and then-anticipated mining legislation. Previously released
Contact: Ryan Billingham 608-208-1129 ryan@conservationvoters.org MADISON – After months of secretive deliberations with lobbyists, Senator Tom Tiffany finally released his Industrial Acid Mining Bill, LRB2652-1, to the public. It is exactly what conservationists feared: a repeal of the Prove It
Rep. David Steffen is spending part of his time fighting the “ghost of Stanley” as he pitches a bill that would let a private company build a new prison in the Green Bay area that the state would then lease and operate. Steffen, R-Green Bay, says he often gets questions
Citizens and environmental activists in southwestern and western Wisconsin are calling on the DNR to extend rules aimed at further protecting groundwater to their area, saying they don’t want to become “another Kewaunee County.” The DNR has been in the process of drafting an administrative rule change to NR 151
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers TABLE OF CONTENTS Quotes of the week Political stock report Sources: Road map emerging to resolve budget impasse Citizens, activists want additional areas covered by groundwater protections ‘Ghost of Stanley’ haunts Green Bay-area prison proposal Week ahead Political TV Names in the news Lobbyist watch QUOTES
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Contact: Nathan Conrad info@developourresources.org 608-441-1647 [Madison, Wis.] – The Natural Resource Development Association, a new Wisconsin-based advocacy group, launched today in support of efforts to encourage clean and safe economic development of our state’s natural resources. “Wisconsin has a quality workforce and beautiful outdoors, and the Natural Resource Development Association
Contact: Mike Browne mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel has made no public comments in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s comments coddling white supremacists and neo-Nazis whose hateful gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia resulted in deaths and injuries to peaceful protesters and law enforcement officers. One
Contact: Alec Zimmerman (608) 257-4765 [Madison, WI]— Senator Tammy Baldwin is continuing her defense of the status quo. After a Fox 6 story exposed Senator Baldwin for ignoring yet another whistleblower claim, a new report from the Washington Free Beacon shows she may have been shielding a long-time political donor.
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Contact: Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 MADISON, Wis. — One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross released the following statements about the announced Joint Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday on the $3 billion taxpayer subsidy Gov. Scott Walker wants to give Taiwan’s Foxconn. “If Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou wants Wisconsin
MADISON – Representative Warren Petryk (R-Eleva) released the following statement after the Wisconsin State Assembly passed the Wisconn Valley Special Session legislation on a bipartisan vote of 59-30. “As Chairman of the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Workforce Development, I view last night’s vote as an historic first step to putting
Contact: Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) 1-608-266-5830 Representative John Nygren (R-Marinette) 1-608-266-2343 Madison – On Friday, State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) and State Representative John Nygren (R-Marinette), the Co-Chairs of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, released the following statement regarding a scheduled public hearing on the Foxconn bill at
WisconsinEye Senior Producer Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross review the news of the week in state politics.
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The Joint Finance Committee will end a two-month break next week, coming in Tuesday for a public hearing on Foxconn and Thursday to take up several remaining pieces of the budget. Tuesday’s public hearing will be at Gateway Technical College in Sturtevant. The committee will then meet again Thursday to
MADISON, Wis. – Today, Attorney General Schimel led a bipartisan coalition of 24 states in filing an amicus curiae brief in Artis v. District of Columbia. In the brief filed in the Supreme Court of the United States, Attorney General Schimel argues that Wisconsin businesses and individuals, who have successfully
Contact: 608.266.0645 MADISON – State Representative Evan Goyke (D-Milwaukee) released the following statement regarding yesterday’s passage of legislation by the State Assembly to benefit the possible construction and operation of a Foxconn manufacturing site in Wisconsin: “Today I registered my position against 2017 Special Session Assembly Bill 1, the Foxconn
Contact: Raj Shukla rshukla@wisconsinrivers.org (608) 257-2424 x115 River Alliance of Wisconsin conducted a poll (MoE +/- 3.6) of 739 Wisconsin voters from August 4-6, 2017, to gauge public opinion on elements on both Foxconn and then-anticipated mining legislation. Previously released results showed wide distrust of industry claims on Foxconn. Newly-released
Contact: Ryan Billingham 608-208-1129 ryan@conservationvoters.org MADISON – After months of secretive deliberations with lobbyists, Senator Tom Tiffany finally released his Industrial Acid Mining Bill, LRB2652-1, to the public. It is exactly what conservationists feared: a repeal of the Prove It First mining law and a reckless giveaway to out-of-state polluters.