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View Comments MADISON - Republicans who control the Legislatures budget-writing committee plan to strip out nearly 400 items from Gov. Tony Evers two-year state spending plan, including his priorities of expanding Medicaid, legalizing marijuana and freezing enrollment in private voucher schools.    The move also will remove solutions Evers called for to long-standing problems in Wisconsin: like the closure of the states youth prison where staff and teen inmates have been physically abused a...

MADISON - The state Elections Commission determined Friday that Gov. Tony Evers and the commissions director acted properly last year when they finalized results showing Joe Biden won the presidential election in Wisconsin.  The pair of decisions rejected complaints brought by a Republican commissioner who maintained the states tally was improperly certified. At least one Republican on the commission sided with the commissions three Democrats in finding the election results were handled prope...

A Dane County judge voided a contract between Republican legislators and their redistricting lawyers.

Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke ruled Wisconsin Republican leaders didnt have the power to hire two law firms to help them with expected litigation over congressional and legislative maps they must draw before next years elections.  States must draw new maps every 10 years based on population changes detected by the U.S. Census Bureau. Those maps can give one political party an advantage over the other. Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature expect Democratic Gov. Tony Evers...

MADISON – Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes publicly distanced himself this week from Gov. Tony Evers over expanding a section of I-94 to eight lanes in Milwaukee. "I cant say that Im the person whos going to be at the press conference announcing whatever comes as a result if it includes expansion,” Barnes told WUWM-FM (89.7). “That just wont be me. I wont be present for that one." Evers’ Department of Transportation has recommended expanding I-94 from six lanes to eight between 16th and 70th st...

The Republican from Oshkosh said he supports wearing masks but expressed skepticism about their effectiveness. "I think as more evidence comes in it’s becoming harder and harder to support that masks actually work," he told constituents in a conference call. "If they would have worked we probably wouldn’t have had as many infections, as many deaths as we did, but be that as it may, I was just on a plane and I wore a mask the entire time." "So I’m not opposed to masks but I think we shoul...

The new report provides the best accounting yet of funds flowing into Wisconsin in five pandemic spending bills approved by Congress.

MADISON - Property taxes on a typical home would go up by $22 next year and $63 the year after that under Gov. Tony Evers proposed budget, according to a report issued Monday. Thats slightly less than they would go up if Republicans who control the state Legislature didnt adopt the Democratic governors budget and stuck with current policies. A home valued at $197,200 would see its property taxes rise from $3,315 this year to $3,337 in 2022 under Evers budget, according to an analysis by the no...

Wisconsin Republicans wont allow medical or recreational marijuana, top Republican says Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel State Sen. Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, speaks during a hearing regarding COVID-19 by the Committee on Senate Organization Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. MADISON - Republicans in the Legislature wont legalize medical or recreational marijuana, the leader of the state Senate said Th...

MADISON - Republicans in the Legislature wont legalize medical or recreational marijuana, the leader of the state Senate said Thursday. "We don’t have support from the caucus. That’s pretty clear, that we don’t have 17 votes in the caucus for medicinal purposes or recreational purposes (to) legalize it," Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu of Oostburg said, referring to the minimum number of votes needed to pass a bill in the Senate.  But some Republicans back medical marijuana and ...