Sen. Baldwin: Statement on net neutrality

Contact: press@baldwin.senate.gov (202) 224 – 6225 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin today released the following statement on the FCC’s plan to repeal Net Neutrality rules: “Rolling back net neutrality rules will allow internet service providers to create an

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Sen. Wanggaard: Statement on Racine unified test scores

Contact: Van Wanggaard 608-266-1832   “I am encouraged that Racine Unified’s reforms appear to be pointing the school district in the right direction. While the immediate threat of a district breakup and OSPP may have been lifted, a one-year improvement in test

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Sen. Baldwin: Secures funding for Wisconsin’s Great Lakes

Contact: press@baldwin.senate.gov (202) 224 – 6225 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Appropriations Committee today released the Fiscal Year 2018 Interior and Environment funding bill, which includes $300 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) that Senator Baldwin secured as

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Rep. Anderson: GOP air pollution package

Contact: Logan Vidal logan.vidal@legis.wisconsin.gov (608) 266-8570 Madison – Today the Assembly Committee on Federalism and Interstate Affairs will hear two bills endangering our clean air. AB 587, the most troubling bill would remove from regulation all air pollutants that are

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One Wisconsin Now: Video of State Senate hopeful Shannon Zimmerman’s University lecture raises red flags about attitude toward women and sexual assault

CONTACT Mike Browne, Deputy Director mike@OneWisconsinNow.org (608) 444-3483 MADISON, Wis. — As an “Executive in Residence” at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, now-State Representative Shannon Zimmerman gave a lecture in which he commented, in response to a question, that “woman” was the hardest language to translate because, “Sometimes she says

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Sen. Baldwin: Statement on net neutrality

Contact: press@baldwin.senate.gov (202) 224 – 6225 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin today released the following statement on the FCC’s plan to repeal Net Neutrality rules: “Rolling back net neutrality rules will allow internet service providers to create an uneven playing field in the online marketplace for services and

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Voces de la Frontera: Ending protected status for Haitian refugees is latest cruel attack from Trump & GOP

Contact: Sam Singleton-Freeman, 414-469-9206, sfreeman@vdlf.org MILWAUKEE — The Trump Administration has announced they will end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for almost 60,000 Haitian refugee families who came to the United States following the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake. TPS was created in a bipartisan 1990 bill signed into law by

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Sen. Wanggaard: Statement on Racine unified test scores

Contact: Van Wanggaard 608-266-1832   “I am encouraged that Racine Unified’s reforms appear to be pointing the school district in the right direction. While the immediate threat of a district breakup and OSPP may have been lifted, a one-year improvement in test scores does not make a successful school district. Just as

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Sen. Baldwin: Secures funding for Wisconsin’s Great Lakes

Contact: press@baldwin.senate.gov (202) 224 – 6225 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Appropriations Committee today released the Fiscal Year 2018 Interior and Environment funding bill, which includes $300 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) that Senator Baldwin secured as a member of the committee. “The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

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Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty: On K-12 school report cards

Contact: Cameron Sholty | WILL Communications Director cameron@will-law.org | 414-727-7416 | 262-409-9816 November 21, 2017 – Milwaukee, WI – Today the state released the mandated K-12 school report cards for 2016-2017. The report cards include two major changes from previous years: the full inclusion of private schools in the choice

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Rep. Anderson: GOP air pollution package

Contact: Logan Vidal logan.vidal@legis.wisconsin.gov (608) 266-8570 Madison – Today the Assembly Committee on Federalism and Interstate Affairs will hear two bills endangering our clean air. AB 587, the most troubling bill would remove from regulation all air pollutants that are not covered by the EPA. In Wisconsin there are 358

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