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Proposal also includes tax hikes for wealthy, Medicaid expansion, environment investments By Baylor Spears, Wisconsin Examiner Gov. Tony Evers unveiled a sweeping 2025-27 state budget proposal Tuesday evening that would come at the cost of $55.5 billion in state funds across the biennium — an increase of about 18%. The proposal lays out many priorities including investments […]
By Baylor Spears, Wisconsin Examiner Wisconsin Republicans in the state Assembly passed a package of education bills Wednesday to implement new standards for standardized test scores, school funding allocations, responding to curriculum inspection requests and for keeping cell phones out of schools. Republicans argued that the state needs to ensure that schools are meeting certain […]
A thumbnail look at the Superintendent of Public Instruction candidates is presented below. The Primary Election is on Tuesday, Feb. 18. An overview of the candidates by Wisconsin Watch can be read here. Another viewpoint by the Badger Institute can be read here. The top two vote recipients will face off in the Spring Election. […]
The Milwaukee Brewers, the Koch Network, Kwik Trip and Google also spent hundreds of thousands lobbying officials in Wisconsin last year. By Peter Cameron, THE BADGER PROJECT The heaviest-spending lobbiers in the state last year were a lineup of the usual suspects, as big trade groups representing construction, hospitals, manufacturers, realtors and farms all spent hundreds […]
State Rep. Brent Jacobson is backing a bill requiring county sheriffs to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in identifying and deporting illegal aliens arrested for felonies. Under the proposal, sheriffs must verify citizenship status when they make an arrest. If the individual is not a citizen, they would have to report to […]
PRESS RELEASE U.S. Rep. Tony Wied (R-WI-08), along with Reps. Glenn Grothman (R-WI-06) and Tom Tiffany (R-WI-07), introduced his first piece of legislation Friday, called the Sturgeon Protected and Exempt from Absurd Regulations (SPEAR) Act, which would proactively exempt the state of Wisconsin from any listing of lake sturgeon under the Endangered Species Act. In 2018 an […]
According to a Capitol Times news story of Jan. 21, only six of Gov. Tony Evers’ Cabinet choices have been confirmed by legislators. “Some agency secretaries, known as designees until confirmation, were recently appointed while legislators were out of session. Other appointees have been in their roles for years without the state Senate’s OK,” the […]
Republicans not seeing the vision By Baylor Spears, Wisconsin Examiner In his seventh State of the State address Wednesday night, Gov. Tony Evers started to outline his budget priorities — declaring 2025 the “Year of the Kid” and laying out investments and policies to support children and their families. The address came at the start […]
PRESS RELEASE Under Milwaukee Police Department’s (MPD) Standard Operating Procedure 130, MPD officers are directed not to ask an individual being arrested about their citizenship. They are also banned from arresting someone solely for being suspected of violating immigration law. “The American people and the voters of Wisconsin spoke loud and clear,” said State Rep. […]
Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members are known for violence, murder, kidnapping, extortion, bribery and human and drug trafficking. In Wisconsin, a confirmed TdA member was arrested in Crawford County late last year on six charges including strangulation, false imprisonment, sexual assault and child abuse, WXOW News 19 reported. Read the story here. The WXOW […]
