Governor to fix potholes across Wisconsin while highlighting budget initiatives to build 21st century infrastructure, improve roads, highways, and bridges
With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to rule this summer on the constitutionality of affirmative action in college admissions, an analysis by The Sconi shows that Wisconsin is one of 41 states that currently allow affirmative action.
New proposal provides immediate assistance to border officials and authorities to help secure the border & efficiently process asylum seekers; provides support to communities that receive migrants
The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer involved critical incident in Racine, Wis. that occurred on the morning of Monday, May 22, 2023.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) today, in advance of National Missing Children’s Day on Thursday, May 25, 2023, is recognizing the 20-year anniversary of the implementation of the AMBER Alert program in Wisconsin.
Attorney General Josh Kaul today sued Michael D. Lansky, LLC, which does business under the name Avid Telecom, its owner Michael Lansky, and its vice president Stacey S. Reeves, for allegedly initiating and facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to millions of people and violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and other federal and state telemarketing and consumer laws.
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined her Senate colleagues in reintroducing the My Body, My Data Act, legislation to protect personal reproductive and sexual health data by minimizing the information collected and retained, and preventing that information from being disclosed or misused.
On Tuesday, U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Committee on the Budget, sent a letter to Special Counsel John Durham raising questions about why former high-level government officials refused to cooperate with his investigation.
On May 18, 2023, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and four of their Republican colleagues in reintroducing the Disclose Government Censorship Act.
Attorney General Josh Kaul today joined a bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general in urging Congressional leadership to pass the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act (H.R.1839/S.993), which would provide critical measures to combat the widespread illicit use and trafficking of xylazine and help prevent xylazine-related deaths.
The Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance has unanimously passed a bill to increase the salaries of public defenders and prosecutors to $36 per hour from about $27 per hour.