Dem leaders back local sales tax options, minimum wage hike

The Legislature’s top Dem leaders in a WisPolitics.com luncheon voiced support for Evers’ budget proposals to raise the minimum wage and allow for expanded local sales taxes. Evers’ budget would allow counties to add an additional half-cent sales tax and municipalities of at least 30,000 people to implement a new

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FRI AM Update: DPI candidates call for quickly reopening schools, 90% funding for special education

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Both state superintendent candidates said they want to reopen schools to in-person instruction as soon as possible now that teachers are getting vaccinated. Pecatonica School District Superintendent Jill Underly and former Brown Deer School District Superintendent Deborah Kerr

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Elections Commission: Submits notice of emergency administrative rulemaking on special voting deputies for spring election

Contact: Reid Magney, 608-267-7887 MADISON, WI – The six-member, bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission on March 2 unanimously approved new guidance for Wisconsin municipal clerks regarding voting in nursing homes and other care facilities for the April 6 Spring Election. The Commission also directed staff to start the emergency rulemaking process,

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