Outgoing Gov. Scott Walker signed lame-duck session legislation to limit his successor’s power merely 24 days before leaving office. Although Walker spoke about potential provisional vetoes, all parts of the bill were signed and passed in Green Bay on Friday, despite a media frenzy calling the December session a GOP power grab and highly energized bi-partisan protesting across the state. READ MORE
Andy Goldstein | 12/06/2018 8:00am
Democrats rode an ambitious agenda to their clean sweep of Wisconsin’s state offices, but questions around their ability to execute now surface as it seems likely that the offices they inherit will ...
Andy Goldstein | 12/05/2018 1:30pm
In an unprecedented move, state Republicans have passed a series of reforms to disempower the offices of the governor and attorney general on key issues before they fall into the hands of Democrats.
Michael Bogaards | 12/04/2018 12:56am
As state Republicans prepare to strip the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of some powers and stifle future voter turnout, hundreds of protestors descended on the Capitol building to ...
Andy Goldstein | 12/02/2018 4:54pm
As part of an extraordinary session while Gov. Scott Walker remains in office, GOP leaders aim to pass a series of reforms this week to significantly disempower newly-elected state Democrats as well as ...
Sydney Widell | 11/29/2018 8:51pm
In the wake of a recent report which warned that the effects of climate change are already being felt across the U.S., State Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., called for a wider acknowledgement of the problem ...
