State Legislature
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‘No More Corners to Cut’: Northern Wisconsin Asks Legislature for More Money In Budget
Dollars for schools, local governments, and other services needed to continue services, advocates say
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Racial Disparities Task Force Releases 18 Police Reform Recommendations
The recommendations, which carry no legal weight, have an uncertain path to becoming law.
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Virtually Unprecedented: GOP Says No to Online Participation for Democratic Senator in COVID Quarantine
The Legislature successfully tested a virtual attendance option, but Republican leadership has stopped allowing it.
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Evers and Timberlake Find a Way to Bypass Vos’ Willingness to Lose Millions in Food Aid for Families
Assembly Speaker demanded governor accept a package of poison pills he’d already vetoed
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Here’s Why Republicans Are Introducing Bills All Over the US for Things Nobody in Wisconsin Is Asking For
Legislators work on cookie-cutter proposals sent out by right wing groups because gerrymandering means they don’t need to get bill ideas from their constituents.
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Evers Signs Cocktails-to-Go Bill
The law allows bars and restaurants to sell alcoholic drinks to-go.
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Wisconsin Republicans Reintroduce and Pass Controversial COVID-19 Provisions
Several provisions that killed the Legislature’s first proposed COVID-19 package this year now passed as individual bills.
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Once Again, Wisconsin Republicans Refuse to Recognize Black History Month. They Honored Rush Limbaugh Instead.
Democratic legislators spoke in the chamber Tuesday about the role Rush Limbaugh played in spreading disinformation, most recently about the coronavirus and the Nov. 3 election, which prompted the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6.
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3 Wisconsin Cities, One County Pass Mask Orders as GOP Prepares to Kill State Order
Assembly Speaker says legislators have figured out how to cancel a health emergency but still get the federal cash attached to a health emergency.
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EXCLUSIVE: Email Reveals Real Reason Vos, Republicans Created Racial Disparities Task Force
Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke wrote he wanted to “figure out some guardrails,” providing illusion of Republicans being open to reform while making Democrats look bad.
