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1 Apr 2019, 10:15 am by Bonnie Shucha
  WisconsinEye features coverage of the Wisconsin Legislature (floor sessions and committees), Governors’ addresses, Supreme Court oral arguments, as well as other programs of state interest such as panels, forums, town halls, and programs about state history. [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 9:21 am
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle may have launched an extensive ethics proposal to clean up the way politicians raise funds, but a second federal indictment has been issued involving contributors to his very own campaigns. [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 12:11 pm by J. Gordon Hylton
On December 14, following the signature of Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin trust law took on a dramatically new look when 2013 Wisconsin Act 92 took effect. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 6:00 pm by Howard Bashman
“As Covid cases soar, GOP state lawmakers keep fighting to limit governors’ power to respond; Experts say the limits conservative state lawmakers want on governors’ emergency powers would hamper the anti-Covid fight; In Wisconsin, they already have”: Adiel Kaplan of NBC News has this report. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 3:12 pm by Carter Wood
" Powerful forces, not always clearly identified, attempted to turn this election. . . into a referendum on the governor of Wisconsin. . . [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 1:54 am
The Wisconsin debate resulted in tens of thousands of protesters in the state Capitol for weeks with rallies and demonstrations against Governor Walker's anti-union legislation. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 8:54 am
"From "Wisconsin adopts new legislative maps, giving Democrats chance to win state/Governor’s signature marks end of long fight over legislative lines and greatly reduces the Republican bias baked into current maps" (The Guardian). [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 3:58 pm
WisBar reports that The State Board of Bar Governors has voted to support Wisconsin Judicial Council Petition 08-02 to amend Wis.Stat. 809.23(3) to allow the citation of unpublished appellate opinions for persuasive value. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 9:10 am by Cassandra Maas
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin filed suit in the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday, seeking the release of the elderly and vulnerable from state prisons to prevent the outbreak of COVID-19. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 11:17 am by Ken Chan
Last week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker fired the shot heard ’round the world by signing a bill that limited the rights of most municipal and state employees to engage in collective bargaining. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 10:15 am by Bonnie Shucha
  WisconsinEye features coverage of the Wisconsin Legislature (floor sessions and committees), Governors’ addresses, Supreme Court oral arguments, as well as other programs of state interest such as panels, forums, town halls, and programs about state history. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 6:51 pm by Holly Jones
Ohio Governor John Kasich has approved Senate Bill (SB) 5, a bill that is in some ways more restrictive than the highly publicized and protested Wisconsin bill that passed earlier this year. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 4:19 am by Glenn Reynolds
But while the governors of Wisconsin and Ohio have led the pushback, it’s possible that the public-pension battle could shift in the future to California—with or without the participation of its governor, the endlessly recyclable Jerry Brown. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 7:49 am by lpbncontracts
All eyes have been on Wisconsin lately, as Republican Governor Scott Walker has succeeded in pushing through legislation that repeals collective bargaining rights for state employees and requires state workers to make financial contributions for their health care and retirement... [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 12:43 pm by ALICE
Last Friday, Wisconsin State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald introduced a "right to work" bill and announced he would call an extraordinary session this week to pass it. [read post]
29 Sep 2018, 9:30 am by vforberger
At the start of 2011, when Walker and Dem Governors Mark Dayton (Minnesota) and John Hickenlooper (Colorado) took over their respective states, Wisconsin had more people living and working in their state – and a lot more when compared to Colorado (whose unemployment rate was higher than Wisconsin’s at the time, at 8.8%). [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 9:16 am by David Strifling
Then, in his January “State of the State” address, Governor Tony Evers declared 2019 the “Year of Clean Drinking Water in Wisconsin. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 7:44 pm
Recently Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the concealed weapon bill which allows residents 21 years and older to carry a concealed weapon – a handgun, electric weapon such as a taser, knife (other than a switchblade knife), and billy club – almost anywhere in the state, including most places of employment. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 1:44 pm
Tony Evers also told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that in order for President Joe Biden to win Wisconsin, he must be a frequent visitor to the state and focus his message on his successes and issues that matter to the middle class, not just the argument that the fate of democracy is at stake.Good for Tony. [read post]