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(02/14/18 1:31am)
The state Assembly has unanimously passed a bill to provide foster children with free college tuition to any UW school, and with the strong support of leaders in both party, it looks likely to make its way into law.
(02/01/18 4:00pm)
“Public assistance should be more like a trampoline and less like a hammock,” Gov. Scott Walker announced to roaring applause at his State of the State address, introducing a package of new reforms to the welfare system.
(01/30/18 6:17am)
College tuition could become free for foster children throughout the state under a new bill, as legislators argue that those who age out of the system receive far too little social support.
(12/07/17 1:01am)
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, announced the creation of the Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding Wednesday, part of a new initiative intended to re-evaluate how education dollars are spent by the state.
(12/07/17 12:15am)
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced a new commission to begin evaluation of existing education funding system.
(12/04/17 2:35am)
State Republicans are celebrating the momentum of their legislative agenda marked by the Senate’s passage of a new tax bill Friday night, while Democrats warn of potential costs to students and universities.
(12/04/17 2:29am)
Democratic lawmaker Josh Zepnick was accused of kissing and groping two women without consent on Friday, sparking demands from his own party that he resign.
(12/01/17 2:41am)
A set of bills aimed to support children in the foster care system is in the works to be introduced in the Legislature next month, lawmakers announced Thursday.
(11/30/17 11:10pm)
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’s Task Force on Foster Care will introduced a package of bills in December to support those going in the child welfare system.
(11/29/17 1:45am)
Majority and minority leaders in the Wisconsin Assembly have both agreed not to release records regarding complaints or investigations into sexual assault allegations against legislators or their staff, even though many professionals argue that this is ineffective when it comes to protecting victims’ rights.
(11/29/17 1:19am)
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and state Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, both defended the decision to withhold records of sexual harassment issued against legislators and their staff Tuesday in an effort to protect victim privacy.
(11/20/17 2:23am)
UW-Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, a policy center funded both privately and by the state to promote research and leadership training, held its first event Friday, after its controversial inclusion in the state budget.
(11/16/17 2:00pm)
Over 110,000 people in Wisconsin are living with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia.
(11/16/17 1:15am)
Four black Democratic legislators wrote a letter to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, in response to appointing only white men to a task force that will study the efficacy of Wisconsin prisons.
(11/15/17 11:09pm)
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, came under fire Wednesday only appointing white lawmakers to a task force that will access the state’s prison system.
(11/09/17 2:36am)
Already one of the booziest states in the union, Wisconsin could allow residents as young as 19 to belly up to the bar and walk through liquor stores under proposed legislation.
(11/02/17 12:59am)
Democratic lawmakers came out in opposition to a bill considered Wednesday that would make it more difficult for the public to access police body camera footage.
(10/23/17 10:19pm)
After receiving intense backlash for referring to three GOP state Senators as “terrorists,” the top-ranking Republican in the state Assembly issued an apology Monday.
(10/23/17 7:08pm)
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, came under fire for calling Republican state Senators who made a “backroom deal” with Gov. Scott Walker “terrorists.”
(09/18/17 9:30pm)
Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Monday giving Wisconsin’s largest state subsidy ever to a Taiwanese electronics company that promises to bring up to 13,000 jobs to the state.