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A group of Green Bay citizens filed a complaint against the city for using a private grant to help run elections Thursday as Republican state lawmakers sought to change how such funds are used in the future.  The efforts may go nowhere. The complaint was brought by an attorney who has lost three lawsuits over the issue in recent months and the legislation faces a likely veto from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers if it gets to him.   But the issue is one of several election-related matters that...

Apr 9, 2021 Jay Weber Show transcript 4-9-21 7:45am Can you imagine what a firestorm this revelation from Matt Kittle would create if we had an honest Wisconsin media? MPS currently doesn’t know where huge numbers of their students are. At Bryant elementary, for example, one-in-four students are missing. The school officials have lost all contact with them...since virtual learning began over a year ago. Kittle reported on this at empower Wisconsin, I have seen the story nowhere else-and I’...

She’s lived at the same address in Germantown for five years, she said “I don’t even understand how they could have misinformation,” Brunt said. “They knew where to send my taxes. They knew how to get a hold of me when I owed them. “It’s typical of government, that’s all I can say.” Brunt is one of several thousand voters who say they were wrongly flagged by the state Elections Commission as having moved. It’s now up to the state Supreme Court to decide whether voters like h...

Panel of federal judges rules Gov. Tony Evers can keep conservative group MacIver out of events Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers takes questions from media after signing document to veto Republican bill to control $3.2 billion in federal stimulus funding on Monday, March 29, 2012 at Miss Molly’s Cafe & Pastry Shop at 9201 W. Center street in Milwaukee. “These funds don’t belong to me or...

MADISON - A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously upheld Democratic Gov. Tony Evers decision to keep a conservative organization from attending some events. A panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled Evers practice of keeping the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy out of some events, such as a briefing on his 2019 state budget, was not based on the groups ideology. The governor is allowed to hold events with some media organizations but not others, the judges...

MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that state election officials do not have to quickly take people off the voter rolls when they suspect they may have moved.  The 5-2 ruling means the Wisconsin Elections Commission will not force tens of thousands of people off the rolls near a major election, such as the 2022 contest for governor and U.S. Senate. From the outset, the case has been fraught with politics. Conservatives who brought the lawsuit said they wanted to make sure the ...

Some Wisconsin schools shed mask requirements after court ruling A week after the state Supreme Court threw out Wisconsins mask requirement, some schools are no longer requiring face coverings to prevent the spread of COVID-19.    This week the Paris Consolidated School District in Kenosha County stopped requiring masks. District Administrator Roger Gahart emailed families Monday, explaining that since the district never had its own mask policy, the end of the statewide mandate meant masks ...

Wisconsin Elections Commission to study voting in nursing homes Election officials have been confounded during the pandemic by how to handle voting at nursing homes. State law requires municipal clerks to dispatch what are known as special voting deputies to nursing homes to give residents an opportunity to vote. After attempting to make two visits, they can mail absentee ballots to the residents instead.  Visiting nursing homes often wasnt possible last year because many nursing homes were l...

MADISON - Wisconsin could start losing about $50 million per month in federal emergency funding for food stamps within weeks if state lawmakers do not replace an emergency declaration struck down by the Wisconsin Supreme Court this week.  The leader of the Assemblys health committee said Thursday he expects lawmakers will take necessary action to ensure the funding isnt lost, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said his house will discuss options in the coming weeks.  But the leader of the state...

MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers is asking two federal courts to make former President Donald Trump and a Republican Party official pay more than $250,000 in legal fees to shield taxpayers from costs in a pair of election lawsuits. Trump and his allies brought a string of lawsuits after he narrowly lost Wisconsin, but court after court threw them out.  The Democratic governor filed motions late Wednesday in two of those cases seeking to have those who brought the cases pay for legal fees.  If Ever...