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Evers won’t seek to phase out vouchers in 1st budget plan
Gov. Tony Evers says he won't seek to eliminate or phase out taxpayer-funded school vouchers in his first state budget.
Report: Evers to propose decriminalizing marijuana
Gov. Tony Evers will propose decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana in his plan for the next state budget, a newspaper reported Sunday.
GOP signals Wisconsin will stay in Obamacare lawsuit
One of the top officials on the state Legislature's budget-writing committee is signaling Republicans won't let Attorney General Josh Kaul pull Wisconsin out of a multistate lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act.
Evers’ budget to include more money for guards at juvenile prison
Gov. Tony Evers says delaying the closing of Wisconsin's troubled juvenile prison isn't "ideal" but the process can't be rushed.
A look at lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s lame-duck laws
A coalition of five labor unions on Monday filed the third lawsuit to be pursued to challenge legislation Wisconsin Republicans passed last year to curtail the powers of the governor and state attorney general.
Evers: Lincoln Hills closing must be pushed back 2 years
Officials in Gov. Tony Evers' administration told lawmakers on Tuesday that plans to close the state's juvenile prisons ought to be delayed by two years, pushing back the 2021 deadline in state law that the Legislature unanimously approved last year.
Wisconsin should speed up legalization of marijuana
Five years ago state Rep. Melissa Sargent rejected the backward thinking of those who seek to maintain a failed "drug war" and announced: "The facts clearly show that legalization is right for Wisconsin and that the most dangerous thing about marijuana is that it's illegal."
Campaigns spend record $93M in Wisconsin gubernatorial race
Campaign spending reached a state record of $93 million during Wisconsin’s 2018 gubernatorial race between the Republican Scott Walker and Democrat Tony Evers, according to a watchdog group’s review.
Analysis: Evers can’t pull Wisconsin from health lawsuit
Gov. Tony Evers lacks the authority to withdraw Wisconsin from a lawsuit seeking the repeal of the federal health-care law, an attorney for the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau said on Wednesday.
Wisconsin Assembly approves pre-existing coverage bill
The Wisconsin Assembly overwhelmingly approved a bill on Tuesday that would force health insurers to cover pre-existing conditions should Republicans succeed in achieving their long-held goal to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, heading off likely criticism of GOP legislators on the 2020 campaign trail.
Kaul noncommittal on Evers push to withdraw from lawsuit
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul isn't saying yet whether he will withdraw from a multi-state lawsuit seeking repeal of the federal health-care law known as Obamacare, as Gov. Tony Evers wants.
Evers calls for bipartisanship on pressing matters in Wisconsin
Gov. Tony Evers, in his first State of the State speech Tuesday, called on the Republican-controlled Legislature to scale back a corporate-tax credit to pay for reducing income taxes, make sacrifices to find a bipartisan transportation plan and work together to bolster spending for schools.
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