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States WisconsinEye President and CEO John Henkes hoping for special or extraordinary session action By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 4/14/26
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 By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 3/03/26
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 By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 2/19/26
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 By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 2/19/26
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 By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 1/22/26
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 By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 1/22/26
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 By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 1/13/26
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 By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 1/08/26
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 By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 1/08/26
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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