TOP STORIES What lawmakers hope to hear during Gov. Evers’ biennial budget address on Tuesday… [reviews SOTS, budget previews] … “Wisconsin spends more on corrections than most states, including all of our Midwest neighbors,” Gov. Evers told reporters during a
TOP STORIES Evers pushes to close a prison, reduce population behind bars… [$500M budget plan] would require Republican lawmakers to agree to a series of steps* Close Lincoln Hills/Copper Lake, building replacements in Dane and Milwaukee counties* Convert Lincoln Hills/Copper
TOP STORIES Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates to debate on WISN 12 ahead of April 1 electionMarch 12 primetime 60-min debate … before a live, invite-only audience at the Lubar Center at Marquette University Law School’s Eckstein Hall. … “The national
TOP STORIES MPS audit ordered by Gov. Evers recommends sweeping changes to top level operations… [MGT of America] were paid around $2.5 million by taxpayers, found the school district’s central office “is not positioned to support schools in ensuring student
TOP STORIES Lawmakers debate measure requiring state employees to return to in-office working… Senate Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs held a public hearing Tuesday on [Tomczyk-Nedweski] bill that would require all state employees to work full-time
TOP STORIESEvers visits Acelero Learning, warns of economic fallout of cutting federal childcare funding… Monday, Feb. 10, observing classrooms and meeting with staff while raising concerns about the potential consequences of … Child Care Counts program … stressed that programs
TOP STORIES Evers, Kaul join 19-state lawsuit over Musk’s access to restricted information… [documents show] several members of the DOGE team run by the South African-born billionaire were granted “administrative” access to OPM computer systems days after Trump’s Jan. 20
TOP STORIES Meagan Wolfe can stay on as WI’s top election official, unanimous Supreme Court rules… [case review] … “WEC does not have a duty to appoint a new administrator to replace Wolfe simply because her term has ended,” conservative
TOP STORIES Evers proposes $80M for farmers, food in next state budget… Much of the funding continues or expands support for existing state programs. … includes [ adding $171,300, 1 FTE to] the $5M WI Initiative for Agricultural Exports …
TOP STORIES Evers proposes $145M plan to address PFAS in his next budget for Wisconsin… [using previously appropriated $125M] would fund [$100M+] new grant programs, [$1.8M] staff [10 DNR, 1 DHS], [$26.5M] testing and research [$1.3M to monitor human exposure]
TOP STORIES Evers vows to veto GOP bill cutting funds to counties that don’t help ICE operations… Under a bill being drafted by Republican lawmakers, county sheriffs would be required to comply with federal immigration detainers and warrants … only
TOP STORIES Evers [w/WisDOT Sec. Boardman] touts electric vehicle charging station in CF visit… “We are doing it in a cleaner, greener and more energy-efficient way,” Evers said. “All will be built within a mile of freeways across the state.”
TOP STORIES Conservative Justice Hagedorn steps aside in pivotal union rights case… Hagedorn drafted the law, known as Act 10, when he was chief legal counsel for then-Gov. Scott Walker. … in a brief two-page order, said the law commands
TOP STORIES Madison school policy cited in Trump order banning teaching CRT, gender identity… declares federal money cannot be used on the “indoctrination” of children, including “radical gender ideology and critical race theory” [an “inherently racist policy”] … says civil
TOP STORIES Evers urges Trump to reconsider pause of federal grants and loansUS Judge AliKhan temporarily halted the order Tuesday [but expires Feb. 3 at 5 p.m.] … Evers sent a letter to Trump in response to [OMB’s] memo …
TOP STORIES Evers announces lower threshold for lead poisoning as part of [SOTS] kid’s health focus… to include $6M in the budget to support lead poisoning intervention and response. … new [DHS] rule will lower the threshold from 5 micrograms
TOP STORIES Battlegrounds PA, WI are back in the spotlight with high-stakes court elections… liberal majorities on both states’ high courts handed victories to Democrats in cases involving the [WI legislative] boundaries [and drop boxes] and PA congressional districts [and
TOP STORIES Judge rules Milwaukee Public Schools must have police in schools by Feb. 17Act 12 required MPS to have 25 SRO’s on duty by Jan. 1, 2024. MPS said SRO’s would be hired when City paid, but City said
TOP STORIES Evers calls for gun control measures and a bipartisan approach to immigration…. without mentioning President Donald Trump by name, said “there is a lot of angst about what may happen in the days, months, and years ahead. I
TOP STORIES Wisconsin joins challenge of Trump executive order ending birthright citizenship… Trump’s executive order asserts that the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.” …
