Democratic lawmakers seized the opportunity to move toward the legalization of medical marijuana in Wisconsin after a prominent state Republican expressed openness to the legislation.
Three days before his official budget address, Gov. Scott Walker boasted Sunday that his 2017-’19 budget will invest more money into K-12 education than any other budget in Wisconsin history.
Republican legislators recently reintroduced three bills to enforce harsher penalties for repeat drunk driving offenders, among others to make Wisconsin’s roads safer. The bills, introduced by Rep.
JANESVILLE, Wis.—In a demonstration that Janesville police said dwarfed any they’d seen, residents of south-central Wisconsin and beyond marched to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s constituent office Saturday to protest his stance on President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. About 1,000 people—most residents from the area but some coming from as far as Chicago and Eau Claire—convened at 12 p.m.
Keeping in line with some of her party’s colleagues, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Thursday that she will vote against President Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, conservative Colorado Judge Neil Gorsuch. Baldwin issued a statement Tuesday, the day of Gorsuch’s appointment, saying she would “fully review” Gorsuch’s record and was “deeply troubled” about his rulings on disabled students, against workers and against women’s reproductive healthcare.
Behind closed doors, Republican legislators plan to vote Thursday to hire two law firms that will aid the state government’s appeal to a recent federal ruling that said current GOP-drawn legislative districts are unconstitutional.
President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court Tuesday.
As President Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments move forward through the confirmation process and into his official cabinet, stay up-to-date on how Wisconsin’s senators, Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican Ron Johnson, vote on the appointees with The Daily Cardinal’s vote tracker.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Wednesday specific details of a plan that offers more financial support to Wisconsin’s rural public schools as part of his biennial budget proposal.
Amid a national discussion of voucher programs and change in education secretary, the Madison School Board voted Monday to allow the Isthmus Montessori Academy to transition from a private to public charter institution starting in the fall of 2018, following a few required changes.
President Donald Trump was quick to dismiss former President Barack Obama-appointed Attorney General Sally Yates Monday after she refused to defend his recent executive order temporarily banning all refugees and indefinitely banning Syrian refugees in court.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside a federal courthouse in Milwaukee Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travel and immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. Many of the more than 100 protesters are Iranian-born faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin system, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Trump’s executive order, which intends to “suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants,” persons from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, spurred major protests at airports around the country. “The ban is counter to longstanding U.S.
Alongside the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Schimel’s office rolled out the “By Your Side” campaign, an initiative designed to help sexual assault survivors track the progress of their cases.
While some Republicans continue to remain silent on the issue, all four of Wisconsin’s Democratic members of Congress say they disagree with President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban.
Wisconsin’s Department of Transportation underestimated the cost of completed and ongoing highway projects due to failure from officials to account for inflation and other unexpected cost increases, according to an audit report released Thursday.
Peña Nieto, the president of Mexico, canceled his trip to Washington, D.C., Thursday following President Donald Trump’s executive action to build a wall on the Mexican border and insisting Mexico pay for it.
A recent freeze on contracts and grants awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency could potentially affect millions of research dollars at UW-Madison. The Trump administration instituted the freeze Tuesday, though the EPA has not issued any formal notices to the university about the status of existing or pending grants.
Construction will advance on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines following President Donald Trump signing an executive order Tuesday, in a move that directly opposes an environmental action taken by former President Barack Obama. Energy Transfer Partners, the owner of the 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline, were denied a permit by the Obama administration late last year after months of protests at Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which would be affected by the oil line.
Gov. Scott Walker will reveal his heavily anticipated biennial budget Wednesday, Feb. 8, he announced in a formal letter to his colleagues.
After the first weekend of Donald Trump’s presidency, UW-Madison College Democrats and Republicans both said they have reasons to feel optimistic.
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