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The GOP leaders of the Legislature’s budget committee plan to hold three in-person sessions — along with an online session — to gather public input on the state’s 2021-23 budget. Gov. Tony Evers earlier this week announced six other online sessions to collect input on his “Badger Bounceback” budget agenda. But Republicans who control the Legislature have already signaled plans to scrap the Democratic governor’s proposal and draft their own budget. Are you one ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee plans to hold three in-person public hearings on Gov. Tony Evers' $91 billion state budget proposal, with one virtual hearing for the first time due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The in-person hearings will be in Whitewater, Rhinelander and Menomonie. "We are not going to hide in Madison," said Rep. Mark Born, one of the two Republican co-chairs of the Legislature's budget-writing Joint Fin...

The hearings will be held at UW-Whitewater, UW-Stout and Rhinelander, plus a virtual session, as the public gets chance to weigh in on budget.

The Wisconsin Legislatures Joint Finance Committee plans to hold three in-person public hearings on Gov. Tony Evers $91 billion state budget proposal, with

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul worked Wednesday to persuade...

The hearings will be held at UW-Whitewater, UW-Stout and Rhinelander, plus a virtual session, as the public gets chance to weigh in on budget.

State Republicans are wondering why the state hasn’t spent educational COVID relief funds more quickly. Theyve also raised calls for schools that have been at least partially in-person to be

From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Tuscaloosa: Students across the three-campus University of Alabama System will return to in-person instruction for the fall semester with no limits on class size in Birmingham, Huntsville or Tuscaloosa to guard against COVID-19, officials said Monday. The system, which has held classes in multiple formats since the pandemic began a year ago, said in a statement that current models show it should be safe to resume traditional teaching after the sum...

Assembly Republicans ask Tony Evers to prioritize $21 million for in-person schools Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, area schools are reopening in a variety of different formats including in-person learning, virtual or a hybrid of the two. On Monday, Lacey Tomczuk takes a photo of her masked children outside their home in Bayside before they board the bus for their first day of school. The childr...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Republicans urged Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Monday to...