Gov. Scott Walker issued 99 partial vetoes of the state’s two-year budget on Wednesday, rejecting several highly-anticipated additions to the bill, which was written by the Republican-held Wisconsin Legislature.
The Republican Governors Association, led by Gov. Scott Walker, is getting heat from both sides of the aisle. The RGA runs a website called “The Free Telegraph” that presents itself as a media outlet but is paid for and controlled by the association.
In 2018 Democrats hope to win their biggest electoral achievement since former President Barack Obama’s reelection: a congressional majority. Randy Bryce hopes to lead that charge, launching a difficult and insurgent campaign against House Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville. Bryce is pitching himself as the Wisconsin solution to the Washington problem: a progressive union worker, cancer-survivor, Army veteran, and labor organizer who wants to take on powerful special interests. In an age of widespread distrust in government, it’s his authenticity that he hopes to win on. “I’m not trying to be anything I’m not,” Bryce told The Daily Cardinal.
The Republican-controlled state Senate clinched just enough votes Friday to pass Wisconsin’s two-year budget and send it to Gov.
The incentive package that would give Foxconn $3 billion in incentives passed through the state Assembly Thursday with bipartisan support, sending it to Gov.
Without a clear idea if the state Senate has enough votes to pass the state’s two-year budget, the overdue spending bill lurched forward with passage in the state Assembly Wednesday. The $75.7 billion budget is more than two months late due to several disputes between Republican leaders over transportation funding and tax levels.
The state Senate voted 20-13 to pass the Foxconn incentive bill Tuesday nearly on party lines, with one Democrat supporting the legislation and one Republican opposing it. The bill will now return to the State Assembly for a vote Thursday before Gov. Scott Walker.
Universities across the country may have to rewrite their policies on how to handle investigations of sexual assault on campus, U.S.
The state’s budget writing committee wrapped up their work Wednesday, completing the budget two months late and adding in multiple provisions affecting the UW System. In the last motion of the budget, the state’s Joint Finance Committee threw in non-fiscal items proposed in Walker’s budget pitch which had previously been removed. Those provisions included a policy to track and report how many hours UW System professors teach in a classroom.
Legislation to secure Wisconsin's multi-billion dollar investment in bringing a technology giant to the state is moving swiftly through the state Legislature after the state’s budget writing committee passed the incentive package Tuesday on a party-line vote. Lawmakers hope to pass two massive pieces of legislation by the end of the week.
The state’s budget-writing committee unanimously voted Monday to approve a proposal that would give UW-Madison $60 million to repair and maintain buildings on campus. The bipartisan 16-0 vote by the Joint Finance Committee grants $1 billion for building projects throughout the state, $60 million of that portion going toward the UW System.
State lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday on a bill which would bar UW medical students from receiving training on how to perform an abortion, a move which critics say could threaten the accreditation of some programs. The bill, sponsored by state Rep.
Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature will not pass the state’s two-year budget on time due to disputes between leaders in the Assembly and Senate over how to fund road and highway projects. The state’s current budget ran out on June 30, a date that arrived without a consensus between the two chambers.
A Republican bill aimed to protect free speech by issuing penalties to students who disrupt speakers passed an Assembly committee on higher education Tuesday.
Lawmakers passed a motion to continue the UW System tuition freeze, rejecting a proposal by Gov. Scott Walker that would slash tuition by 5 percent, electing instead to use those funds for other pieces of the 2017-’19 biennial budget.
To avoid losing Wisconsin’s top students to other top universities, state lawmakers and agency officials presented a bill Tuesday establishing “the largest scholarship in state history” for UW schools. The scholarship, referred to as the Wisconsin Merit Scholarship, would grant $5,000 per student based off metrics such as test scores and GPA.
In April, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., sat down for with The Daily Cardinal an hour-long interview to discuss issues surrounding the university, Wisconsin and the nation as a whole.
Madison police are searching for a man who reportedly pulled a knife on an employee at a State Street hookah shop Wednesday night when he was caught shoplifting. The 20-year-old female employee was not hurt. Police responded to the incident at Azara Hookah, located on the 400 block of State Street, around 9:02 p.m., Madison Police Department Sgt.
In April, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., sat down for with The Daily Cardinal an hour-long interview to discuss issues surrounding the university, Wisconsin and the nation as a whole.
The waiting is truly the hardest part, at least according to stakeholders in the biennial budget. But after months of speculation, agency hearings, more speculation and public hearings, the state's powerful Joint Finance Committee is slated to begin debating Monday the actual budgets for several state agencies.
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