Republicans Raise Questions After White House Cocaine Probe Leads to No Arrests
The Center SquareRepublicans raised questions about the security of the White House on Thursday after a U.S. Secret Service probe failed to find out how cocaine ended up in the White…
Milwaukee City Council Okays $16 Million Per-Month Sales Tax
by Benjamin Yount Taxes are going up in Milwaukee. The city’s Common Council on Tuesday approved a new 2% sales tax that is expected to bring-in $194 million next…
Madison Public Health Managers Drop Fines Against Dance Studio over COVID-Era Performance
by Benjamin Yount Dane County’s public health managers have agreed to drop the COVID-era tickets against a local dance studio over its Nutcracker production. Public Health Madison & Dane…
Medical Schools Put on Notice by Legal Group Over SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling
A legal nonprofit has pledged to sue any medical school that does not comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling blocking raced-based admissions policies, possibly ushering in a…
Wisconsin Republicans Look to End Race-Based Scholarship Programs
by Glenn Minnis Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is vowing Republicans will move to end race-based scholarship programs across the state in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court moving…
DeSantis Campaign Raises $20 Million in 6 Weeks
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted the best first fundraising quarter of any non-incumbent Republican candidate in over a decade, according to campaign finance data. The DeSantis for President campaign…
Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Ann Jacobs Defends Strategy in Wolfe/Senate Split
by Benjamin Yount One of the Democratic members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission is calling a possible Senate vote on the state’s election administrator a “sideshow.” Commissioner Ann Jacobs…
Wisconsin Is Outlier Among Great Lakes States for Medicaid Expansion
by Mary Stroka Wisconsin is the only Great Lakes state that hasn’t adopted Medicaid expansion, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. KFF has tracked states’ expansion…
University of Wisconsin to Review Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
by Benjamin Yount The University of Wisconsin says it doesn’t yet know what the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to end affirmative action university admissions will mean for UW schools.…
Supreme Court Sides With Colorado-based Christian Website Designer in First Amendment Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state of Colorado cannot force a graphic designer to make websites with messages that go against her religious beliefs, citing…