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Capitol Notes: Will Wisconsin's top elections official keep her job? The latest in GOP efforts to oust her
This Tuesday, the State Senate has scheduled votes to confirm or reject top elections official Megan Wolfe. The state's Democratic attorney general s…
2 years, 11 months ago
Capitol Notes: Democratic control of Wisconsin state senate could stem from new redistricting lawsuits
Within a week of liberals taking control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, law firms and groups representing mathematicians and statisticians filed two…
3 years ago
Capitol Notes: A new day on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Liberal-backed State Supreme Court justice Janet Protasiewicz gets sworn into the role on Tuesday, Aug. 1. Litigation is already in the works for Dem…
3 years ago
Capitol Notes: Milwaukee's sales tax hike, Wisconsin's tax breaks, what does it all mean?
This week's Capitol Notes looks at taxes: Milwaukee's vote to raise sales taxes and Evers' actions on GOP tax breaks for the wealthy in the 2023-2025…
3 years, 1 month ago
Capitol Notes: The sizable power of the governor's veto pen
JR Ross, of WisPolitics.com, looks at how Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers might apply vetoes to the state budget.
3 years, 1 month ago
Capitol Notes: the uncertain future of Wisconsin's top election official
After baseless complaints of fraud by former President Donald Trump and a tumultuous pandemic election cycle in 2020, Wisconsin Republicans have repo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Capitol Notes: GOP version of Wisconsin's capital budget slights UW-Madison
This week's Capitol Notes digs into the partisan discord over the state's capital budget, which funds state-building projects and looks into what's n…
3 years, 2 months ago
Capitol Notes: The latest on Wisconsin's shared revenue debate
Milwaukee is facing a fiscal cliff in 2025. What will the state government do about it (and for money to other counties and municipalities, as funds …
3 years, 3 months ago
A look at Wisconsin Assembly Republicans' shared revenue bill and how it would affect Milwaukee
It's all things budget and shared revenue in the Wisconsin state capitol as local governments try to stave off fiscal cliffs after years of frozen st…
3 years, 3 months ago
Capitol Notes: Is medical marijuana legalization possible in Wisconsin?
The end of April has been busy for state legislators, the Assembly and State Senate have been taking up bills on everything from public safety to ope…
3 years, 4 months ago