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Evers' budget allows local sales tax increases. Will Republican legislators agree? By Steven Walters - Feb 22nd, 2021 11:33 am //end headline wrapper ?> Milwaukee Center from City Hall. Photo taken September 23rd, 2012 by Erik Ljung. In November, City of Milwaukee officials approved a 2021 budget that won’t replace 60 police officers who retire or quit. Last week, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed a state budget that would let the City of Milwaukee – and all local governments with populations of 30,000 or more – begin charging a 0.5% local sales tax, i...

Statewide Coalition Urges Decision-Makers to Support Transit and Local Infrastructure, Not Highway Expansion Megaprojects Yesterday Governor Tony Evers announced his Executive Budget. In the Governor’s budget address, he emphasized improving infrastructure, addressing climate change and increasing racial justice. Disappointingly, the enumeration of the I-94 E/W expansion project in Milwaukee was included in the Governor’s budget recommendations. “MICAH’s opposition to rebuilding I-94 between the Marquette and Zoo Interchange lanes is longstanding,” stated Rev. Joseph Jackson, Presi...

Gov. Tony Evers delivered his $91 billion budget proposal for 2021 to 2023, named the “Badger Bounceback Agenda,” Tuesday night. In his address to the legislature, Evers said he put the budget together with the help of people across Wisconsin with the state’s post-pandemic future in mind. The total $91 billion two-year state budget plan would raise the budget by 7.3% the first year and 2% the second year. “As both a state and a country, we find ourselves with a decision to make,” Evers said. “When this pandemic is over, we could go back to the way things have always been, or we ca...

DOA reports CARES Act investments MADISON — On Feb. 2, the Wisconsin Department of Administration provided an updated accounting of federal funds invested in public health, emergency response efforts and economic stabilization in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This update follows the latest report to the federal Treasury Department of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds. The nearly $2 billion was allocated by the Evers Administration from the state’s Coronavirus Relief Fund, which was made available to Wisconsin through the federal governme...

By Dan O'Donnell Feb 2, 2021 In announcing that Summerfest would be postponed for a second straight year Tuesday, the festival's CEO made it clear that Wisconsin's slow vaccine rollout was a major issue. "While the progress made through the vaccine rollout is encouraging, we believe it is in the public’s best interest to hold the festival in September to give government leaders and healthcare organizations enough time to distribute the vaccine," Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Don Smiley said in a statement announcing that Summerfest would be moved to ...