Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has been granting pardons at a torrid pace after his predecessor didn't issue any for eight years, and has announced new moves to streamline and simplify the pardon application process.

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Gov. Tony Evers has signed "Ethan's Law," a law that tightens out-home-home placement restrictions in an effort to protect children from abusive guardians.

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The state Senate approved a bill Wednesday that establishes a uniform use-of-force policy for Wisconsin, sending the proposal on to Gov. Tony Evers.

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Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that authorizes Wisconsin's participation in a settlement in a prescription opioid multidistrict litigation case.

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The Wisconsin Judicial Council is considering its options after another unsuccessful attempt to restore its funding.

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Highlights of Gov. Tony Evers' state budget proposal submitted to the Legislature on Tuesday.

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Gov. Tony Evers called on the Republican-controlled Legislature Tuesday to bolster funding for K-12 and higher education and reform both the state's criminal justice systems, while delivering a state budget with $1 billion in taxes increases and liberal policy priorities that are almost certainly dead on arrival.

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Gov. Tony Evers pardoned nine more people this week, raising the total number of people he's pardoned to 65.

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Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday ordered $250 million in cuts to state agencies this year — the latest financial hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Gov. Tony Evers has announced the official application and selection processes for The People’s Maps Commission, a nonpartisan redistricting commission charged with drawing voting maps following the 2020 U.S. Census.

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Gov. Tony Evers vetoed four bills in the Republican-backed "Tougher on Crime" bill package on Friday. The measures aimed to impose tougher sanctions and sentences on criminals, including making it easier to revoke extended supervision, parole or probation for people charged with a crime.

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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration scrapped a public website created under his Republican predecessor to track compliance on public records requests, a move criticized in a report issued Monday by a conservative law firm.

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Faced with a tight deadline, the Republican co-chairs of the Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee said Thursday that their attorney will sign a confidentiality agreement requested by Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to end a stalemate over lawsuit settlements.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Monday called on the Republican-controlled Legislature to take action on bills that would limit access to guns, which he said would make the state safer following a pair of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 people dead.

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The Wisconsin Senate is expected to give final approval to the state budget on Wednesday. After that, it will head to Gov. Tony Evers, who can sign it into law with no changes, sign it with alterations made through his partial-veto powers, or veto the entire plan.

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Gov. Tony Evers has appointed an assistant corporation counsel to be the top prosecutor in Columbia County.

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Gov. Tony Evers has appointed three new University of Wisconsin System regents.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is scheduled to sign a bill into law for the first time, enacting a proposal barring the term "mental retardation" from state agency rules and regulations.

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One of Gov. Tony Evers' Cabinet secretaries who was charged with felony child abuse in 2005 after jabbing her 5-year-old son's hand with a pen said during a state Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday it was a "horrendous mistake" that has not been repeated.

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Gov. Tony Evers' pick to lead the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Wednesday defended naming a former vice president at Planned Parenthood as a top deputy, saying she won't have any involvement in lawsuits challenging the state's abortion laws.

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Gov. Tony Evers wants to indefinitely delay closing the state's troubled juvenile prison, spend nearly $200 million more on replacement facilities and increase the age for charging juveniles as adults from 17 to 18.

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A new report confirms what advocates of replacing Green Bay's maximum-security institution have long been arguing: the prison is overcrowded, out-of-date and dangerous.

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Five unions and a Democratic lawmaker have filed another lawsuit challenging measures Wisconsin Republican approved in a lame-duck session.

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The Wisconsin attorney general has rejected Democratic Gov. Tony Evers request to withdraw from a multi-state lawsuit targeting the Affordable Care Act, saying in a letter released Thursday that only the Republican-controlled Legislature now has the power to take such action.

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Gov. Tony Evers has signed an executive order requiring state agencies to develop and implement policies preventing discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Moments after being sworn in as governor, Tony Evers called on Monday for a rejection of "the tired politics of the past," cautioning in his inaugural address that "we've become content with division."

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The National Rifle Association spent more than $870,000 campaigning against Gov.-elect Tony Evers in the election this fall.

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Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers has named Quarles & Brady's Rebecca Cameron Valcq chairwoman of the Public Service Commission.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers named four Milwaukee-area leaders to his Cabinet on Wednesday, including a former campaign manager to Mayor Tom Barrett and a 30-year veteran of the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department.

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Gov. Scott Walker says the powers of his Democratic replacement will remain among the strongest of any governor in the country, even if he signs bills passed in a lame-duck session.

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