Gov. Evers' first executive order encourages opportunity for LGBTQ+ state employees
Jessica Lipaz |Gov. Tony Evers' first executive order protects LGBTQ+ individuals from discrimination while seeking jobs within state government offices. READ MORE
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Evers takes first step toward bridging partisan divide during inauguration
Sydney Widell and Robyn Cawley | 01/07/2019 5:16pm
Gov. Tony Evers becomes Wisconsin’s 46th governor and calls for bipartisanship in the wake of lame-duck efforts to limit the power of his new office.
A month before stepping down, Walker successfully enacts lame-duck legislation
Jessica Lipaz | 12/14/2018 4:34pm
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, ...
What Democrats can (and can’t) do with a weakened governorship
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 ...
GOP disempowers state offices in lame duck session before Democrats take them
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.
Hundreds of protesters brave cold to object to lame duck Republican legislation
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 ...