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23 Feb 2011, 3:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds
That’s the huge deficit facing public workers’ pensions in America and the reason Walker and other state governors are facing tough choices including demanding public workers contribute more. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 11:49 am by Katlin Newman, J.D.
Wisconsin Republicans plan to call an extraordinary session to amend state election law rather than comply with a court order to hold special elections. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 12:43 pm by Bill Raftery
Numerous state legislatures in 2011 that have a version of merit selection (Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma) or have considered adopting merit selection (Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin) have put in provisions for Senate confirmation. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 7:55 am by Ashby Jones
Walker, a Republican who took office three months ago, has said that the law is necessary to balance the state’s budget. [read post]
There's no shortage of debate about how to deal with fiscal crises around the nation; the protests in Wisconsin and other states over budget cuts reflect the passion surrounding this hot topic. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 6:49 am
For the most part, over the long weeks of the Wisconsin protests, people supporting the Governor have stayed away, while the anti-Walker people have chanted "Whose house? [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 10:56 am by Erik Slobe
A second lawsuit, led by Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and New York Attorney General Letitia James, was filed in the US District Court of Oregon on Tuesday. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 6:23 am
Although Governor Scott Walker won his recall election, one state senate seat shifted from Republican to Democrat, and that created a Democratic majority, which triggered massive office moves in the Capitol building. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 7:14 pm by by PritzkerLaw
The NBC television news affiliate in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has featured national food safety lawyer Fred Pritzker for his views on raw milk. [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 10:44 am
Acoording to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times from Nov. 18, 2005 (see this ILB entry):Fear that fast-growing, thirsty communities -- as far off as China and as close as Wisconsin -- could get their hands on Great Lakes water has driven border-state governors to band together to control the largest single source of fresh surface water on the planet. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 8:29 am
The Cap Times reports that there's a good chance a group called United Wisconsin will begin collecting signatures beginning November 4th, which is the earliest date permitted under state law. [read post]
18 Aug 2017, 11:00 am by Joe Mullin
Both houses of Wisconsin's legislature are controlled by Republicans, and the deal is supported by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican who negotiated the deal. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 3:48 pm
Beto will join Scott Walker, the Republican former governor of Wisconsin, in showing that a politician who makes a big splash in their own state can't necessarily transplant their local star power onto the national stage. [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 7:33 am
While struggles over the role of unions have boiled over in recent years in Republican-held Midwestern states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio, a fight in Illinois, President Obama’s home state and a Democratically controlled union stronghold, marks new ground. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 6:53 pm
Right now, I still feel called to be the governor of the state of Wisconsin, and I’m going to do the best job I can over the next four years. [read post]
6 Aug 2011, 11:53 am by Lovechilde
(It was too early to force a recall of the newly-elected governor.) [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 1:31 pm
ALSO: If the bill passes the Assembly and is signed by the governor, the cream puff will join all the other state symbols, including the state fossil (trilobite), the state soil (Antigo silt loam), the state dance (the polka), and the state animal (guess!). [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 4:26 am
"Joshua Pleasnick is the man in "Man with handgun seeking governor arrested in Wisconsin Capitol, returns with assault rifle" (Wisconsin State Journal). [read post]