A month before stepping down, Walker successfully enacts lame-duck legislation
Outgoing Gov. Scott Walker signed lame-duck session legislation to limit his successor’s power merely 24 days before leaving office.
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Outgoing Gov. Scott Walker signed lame-duck session legislation to limit his successor’s power merely 24 days before leaving office.
At least Wisconsin has hockey, right?
For the second time in two games, Wisconsin jumped out to a big lead early in the second period, before letting its opponent roar back into the game.
In the two-plus seasons since head coach Tony Granato took the program’s reins, Wisconsin’s men’s hockey team has been defined as much by the depth of its lows as by the height of its highs.
No. 1 Wisconsin women’s hockey (17-1-0 overall, 7-1-0-0 WCHA) starts its three-week away series with a matchup against St. Cloud (5-13-1 overall, 2-10-0-0 WCHA) this weekend. With 21 points so far in the WCHA, the Badgers will look to close the gap to conference leaders Minnesota and Ohio State in their return to conference play, which was broken up by series against Harvard and Syracuse.
In the wake of several last minute reforms from state Republicans, Democrat Tony Evers will likely not inherit the full authority enjoyed by Gov. Scott Walker during his time in office, despite defeating the two-term incumbent last month.
In an extraordinary lame duck session that began late Tuesday evening and lasted well into Wednesday morning, state Republicans have stripped Gov.-elect Tony Evers and other state Democrats of some powers in a final move to protect existing conservative reforms.
Hundreds of protesters lined the steps of the state Capitol building Monday night to oppose Republican legislation that would strip power from newly-elected Democrats and restrict early voting in future elections.
State Republicans have released a series of proposals that could be passed as early as this week to limit the authority of Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers and empower the state Legislature in a final extraordinary session under Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
“The great teams are the teams that when the game is on the line, you figure out how to turn it into a W,” head coach Tony Granato had said the night before.
Officially, it’ll go down as a tie.
In the wake of a recent report which warned that the effects of climate change are already being felt across the country, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin called for a wider acknowledgement of the problem and stronger political response to it.
The number of uninsured Wisconsin children rose by 3.9 percent in 2017, departing from a decade-long trend of falling rates of uninsurance, according to a new report by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
Wisconsin is home to a variety of stereotypes: an affinity for dairy, land as flat as can be and of course, overwhelming whiteness.
As Governor-elect Tony Evers announced a team of progressive health policy advisors, he has prepared to push for health care reform against a heavily conservative Legislature.
Tuesday night, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team faced a home test for the first time. To make matters more difficult, NC State (0-0 ACC, 6-1 overall) applied pressure throughout the game, daring the Badgers to make them pay. The Wolfpack seemed to have an answer for every Wisconsin run. It appeared the Badgers would succumb to the pressure.
One year after the establishment of the Interagency Council of Homelessness, the group has released a plan to coordinate and expand efforts to combat homelessness in Wisconsin.
In a controversial move, state GOP leaders have proposed to move the date of the 2020 presidential primary election so that it does not coincide with the state supreme court election.
13-year-old Milwaukee native Sandra Parks was shot and killed when a bullet pierced her bedroom wall earlier this week, leading to increased calls for gun reform from state officials.
Madison Rep. Melissa Sargent committed to re-introducing a bill to legalize marijuana after voters in several localities overwhelmingly supported legalization in referenda around the state.