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Dozens of Wisconsin parents are expressing their support for a package of Republican bills aimed at limiting school authority.

Dozens of Wisconsin parents are expressing their support for a package of Republican bills aimed at limiting school authority.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of Wisconsin parents are expressing their support for a package of Republican bills aimed at limiting school authority. A letter organized by the IRG Action Fund, an offshoot of the conservative Institute for Reforming Government, was signed by group of 120 parents and sent to lawmakers ahead of a public hearing on the legislation.

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers said the state is ending the most recent fiscal year with a $1.8 billion surplus.

Wisconsin Examiner ‘For so long we’d been beating our head against the wall at the state level’ Marijuana leaf in the sunset | Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash While ending cannabis prohibition remains a key ambition of many Badger State residents, their toolbox of strategies may need to change. Advocates like Eric Marsch, of Southeastern Wisconsin NORML, a pro-cannabis organization, are beginning to re-focus their efforts away from the state level. “For so long we’d been beating our head...

‘Beating our head against the wall’ pushing Legislature to legalize pot. //end headline wrapper ?> A joint. (Pixabay License). While ending cannabis prohibition remains a key ambition of many Badger State residents, their toolbox of strategies may need to change. Advocates like Eric Marsch, of Southeastern Wisconsin NORML, a pro-cannabis organization, are beginning to re-focus their efforts away from the state level. “For so long we’d been beating our head against the wall at the st...

MADISON - People injured on the job in Wisconsin haven’t seen an increase in benefits in four years because of political disputes over the state’s workers compensation system. Wisconsin lawmakers for decades took the advice of a panel of labor and management representatives to decide how to run the system and how much to pay injured workers. That approach has broken down in recent years. Republicans who control the Legislature have been unable to agree among themselves on workers compensat...

One provision would expand vaccination to everyone by March, DHS says bill doesnt address "critical limitation." //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. photo by Lisa Ferdinando. U.S. Secretary of Defense, (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons Two bills that would impose new requirements on the state’s COVID-19 vaccination program sailed through an Assembly Health Committee public hearing Wednesday and could head to t...