The Founding Editor of UpNorthNews, Pat was a familiar presence on radio and TV stations in western Wisconsin before serving in the state Legislature. After a brief stint living in the Caribbean, Pat and wife returned to Chippewa Falls to be closer to their growing group of grandchildren. He now serves as Chief Political Correspondent and occasional pontoon captain.
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Here’s one way to respond to book bans: Pass a law to ban book bans
Legislative Democrats introduce a measure that would prevent schools and other institutions from banning books based on the authors’ background, politics, or other views.
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Landmark lawsuit seeks to end taxpayer vouchers for private and religious schools
The complaint says a small experimental program in Milwaukee in the 1990s has been “transformed by our Legislature into a large and growing cancer” on public education.
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Unprecedented: GOP Senators fire several Evers appointees, after admitting they knew an earlier firing was bogus
The Natural Resources Board no longer had a quorum to meet. Two former legislators are among those fired. A domestic abuse survivor is dropped from a board because a senator didn’t like her tweets and asked if she was emotional and hated men.
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Despite record surplus, Republicans again reject childcare help for Wisconsin families
Gov. Tony Evers’ special session bill has been replaced with another tax cut geared toward higher incomes. Evers is responding with funding that will keep the childcare assistance coming into 2025. Republican legislators have dashed any remaining hopes that a fall legislative session would address critical workforce issues in Wisconsin—doing to Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal…
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Assembly Republicans pass anti-trans bills, despite Evers’ veto promise
The Assembly’s rush job—passing the bills two weeks after they were introduced–is in stark contrast to their refusal to consider bills that would provide a middle class tax cut and invest in childcare.
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Even after conservative former justices warn against it, Vos may still try to impeach Protasiewicz
Only a justice for two months, Protasiewicz has yet to hear a challenge to Republicans’ gerrymandered maps—but the Assembly Speaker is threatening impeachment if he doesn’t like how she rules on the case.
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Vos backs down from impeaching Protasiewicz, while hinting the US Supreme Court could intervene
A conservative former justice advised Rep. Robin Vos not to pursue impeachment for “partisan politics,” but the Speaker telegraphed potential US Supreme Court interference in Wisconsin’s political maps—again.
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Katrina Shankland Joins a Growing Democratic Field Seeking to Replace Van Orden in Congress
The Stevens Point legislator joins Eau Claire business owner Rebecca Cooke, former La Crosse County Board chair Tara Johnson, and a Milwaukee college student in announcing for the 3rd Congressional District.
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The Auto Workers Strike Expands to Wisconsin. Here’s What It Means in the Short-Term and for All Workers.
While car prices and inventories are among the immediate impacts of the dispute, we should be mindful of how all workers are helped or hurt by the eventual outcome.
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Impeachment-palooza: Republicans Are Now Targeting Wisconsin’s Top Election Official, Using the Same ‘Big Lie’ Material from 2020
Also this week: The special session that just might tie together childcare help, a new tax cut, and stadium renovations for the Brewers. And the state superintendent rips DEI critics.
