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A bill circulating the Assembly for sponsors would roll back environmental regulations for wetlands.
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Legislation would limit regulations of wetland

By Jessica Lipaz | Oct. 3, 2017

Republican lawmakers are looking for co-sponsors on a bill that would overturn previous wetland environmental protections across Wisconsin that they say hinder economic growth. The bill precedes the arrival of Foxconn, a Taiwanese electronics industry company that is currently constructing a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin that is expected to create 13,000 jobs. One of the bill’s sponsors, state Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, says the legislation is unrelated to Foxconn’s new manufacturing campus. Part of the state’s $3 billion incentive package to bring the company to Wisconsin included environment exceptions for the construction of Foxconn’s facilities.

The deals Walker made in order to pass the months-overdue two-year budget are being called into question by opponents.
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Critics say Walker’s budget negotiations broke state rules

By Lilly Price | Oct. 1, 2017

Gov. Scott Walker used 99 partial vetoes to appease a handful of senators who were stalling the passage of the state’s 2017-’19 budget but some critics are saying Walker’s negotiations went so far as to break state laws. A state court ruling on the type of negotiations officials in the Legislature can and can’t make is unprecedented.

Ken Adams is a senior at Horizon High School, a recovery school for kids with substance abuse. For Adams, Horizon is like a second home.
STATE NEWS

Recovery high schools part of solution to end opioid epidemic

By Lilly Price | Sep. 28, 2017

Without Horizon High School, a recovery high school for teens with substance abuse, 17-year-old Ken Adams says he wouldn’t be alive. “It saved my life,” the high school senior said. Although Adams attends the school sculpted for teens recovering from drug and alcohol abuse, he’s never had an addiction problem.

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Democrats introduce bill to automatically register citizens to vote amid study that found the state’s voter ID law prevented thousands from voting

By Andy Goldstein | Sep. 27, 2017

Between 17,000 to 23,000 registered voters were prevented from casting a ballot in Madison and Milwaukee during the last presidential election, according to a recent study. On Tuesday, Democratic state legislators introduced a bill to enact automatic voter registration across the state to boost political participation. The study, conducted by UW-Madison Political Science Professor Kenneth Mayer, concluded that between approximately 17,000 and 23,000 registered voters in Dane and Milwaukee counties, both heavy Democratic strongholds, were prevented from casting ballots in the election due to current state law. Wisconsin’s voter ID law had been held up in court for years, but was in effect last year, when President Donald Trump won the state by about 23,000 votes. “While the total number affected in Milwaukee and Dane Counties is smaller than the margin of victory in the 2016 presidential election, that is the wrong measure,” Mayer stated in a press release.

Eneale Pickett holds a beheaded police officer while promoting his new clothing line that focuses on police brutality in America.
CAMPUS NEWS

State senator fires back at UW student clothing line

By Lilly Price | Sep. 20, 2017

State Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, called for local law enforcement to take action against UW-Madison student Eneale Pickett, who released a video earlier this week promoting his clothing line that Nass says is racist and anti-police. Pickett owns a clothing line called Insert Apparel, which he says is meant to initiate conversations about social justice by printing controversial messages on clothing. His newest line is centered on police brutality on black Americans.

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