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WisconsinEye President and CEO John Henkes hoping for special or extraordinary session action
Wisconsin lawmakers agree on the importance of providing public access to state government meetings through livestreams, but they finished their work this year without an agreement on a short-term or ...
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Democracy
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers orders special session for constitutional amendment to ban partisan gerrymandering
Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order Tuesday to call the state Legislature into a special session to vote on a constitutional amendment proposal that would ban partisan gerrymandering. The ...
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Health care
Vos relents, Wisconsin Assembly to vote on postpartum Medicaid, breast cancer screening bills
Eight Republican state Assembly lawmakers announced at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday that gridlock is ending on bills to provide a year of Medicaid coverage to postpartum mothers and ensure cancer screenings ...
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Democracy
Senate passes bill to allow for bids on Wisconsin public affairs network
The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill Wednesday to solicit proposals from organizations seeking to run the state’s public affairs network, which livestreams and archives state government proceedings. ...
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Democracy
Wisconsin Assembly leaders announce tentative bipartisan agreement on WisconsinEye funding
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) and Assembly Minority Leader Greta Neubauer (D-Racine) announced a tentative agreement on providing state funding to WisconsinEye, the nonprofit that provides ...
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Health care
Wisconsin Senate approves constitutional amendments on anti-DEI, partial veto and health emergency closures
The Wisconsin Senate passed three constitutional amendment proposals Wednesday, including one to eliminate DEI, one to limit the executive partial veto power and another to prohibit closures of ...
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Elections
Wisconsin GOP mixes up Black Democratic candidates for governor in social media post
The Republican Party of Wisconsin mixed up the two Black Democratic candidates for governor in a social media post on Monday before deleting and reposting it. Wisconsin’s open race for governor has ...
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Democracy
Two new constitutional amendments could be on November ballots
Two constitutional amendment proposals that could be on Wisconsinites’ ballots in November received public hearings on Tuesday, including one to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...
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Economy
Lawmakers seek hospital price transparency, while hospitals say they should focus on insurers
A bill to implement state-level enforcement of federal hospital price transparency requirements in Wisconsin, with the goal of bringing down the cost of health care, received pushback from hospital ...
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