Milwaukee City Council Okays $16 Million Per-Month Sales Tax
The Center Squareby 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…
Wisconsin Congressman Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Prevent Court Packing
M.D. KittleU.S. Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI-08) re-introduced a constitutional amendment that would prevent court packing by locking in the size of the U.S. Supreme Court at the long-standing nine justices. U.S.…
Federal Judge Orders Wisconsin School District to Allow Transgender Student to Use Girls’ Bathroom
Just the Newsby Madeleine Hubbard A federal judge in Wisconsin ordered a Milwaukee-area school district to allow biological male students who identify as female to use the girls’ bathroom and locker…
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos Calls Governor Tony Evers a ‘Liar’, Expects Evers’ Partial Vetoes to be Challenged in Court
Democrat Governor Tony Evers’ “creative” partial veto that boosts public education spending for the next four centuries “proves he’s a liar,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (pictured above, right) said during…
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…
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…
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 Governor Tony Evers Signs Budget, Guts $3.5 Billion Tax Cut with ‘Frankenstein’ Veto Pen
In signing Wisconsin’s new two-year spending plan Wednesday, Democrat Governor Tony Evers liberally applied his veto pen to the Republican-crafted biennial budget, gutting a $3.5 billion tax cut proposal that…
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…
Wisconsin ‘Moms for Liberty’ Activist Talks About Radical Left Hatred and Vitriol in the City of Brotherly Love
Scarlett Johnson says she has never seen anything like it. The parental rights activist has gotten used to nasty language and overheated rhetoric from the left. But she said the…