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Billionaires soar with new profits during pandemic
With national unemployment claims surpassing 40 million, many if not most American households are suffering from the impact of coronavirus shutdowns, but at least one class of Americans has profited quite nicely: billionaires.
Millions in federal stimulus aid to be used for absentee ballot request mailing
The state will spend more than $2 million in federal stimulus dollars this year to send absentee ballot applications to approximately 2.7 million voters, after a unanimous vote last week of the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC).
Dueling math: Evers administration says promised budget cuts delivered
The Evers administration has found ways to cut about $70 million from the state budget in the past month, the administration announced last week, but a Republican lawmaker says the percentage is less than half of what Gov. Tony Evers promised.
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to take up Wisconsin election challenge
The campaign of President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its challenges to Wisconsin’s presidential election results, charging the state Supreme Court’s dismissal of those challenges allowed more than 50,000 illegal absentee ballots to be counted in violation of both Wisconsin state law and the …
In first year, Hagedorn voted with liberals more than with Rebecca Bradley
Conservatives seem astonished state Supreme Court justice Brian Hagedorn has bailed on them in a string of high-profile high court decisions, the latest being his dismissal of President Donald Trump’s challenge to Wisconsin’s election results without even hearing the case, but what is most surprising is his votes shouldn’t be …
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Democrats poised to take Georgia, secure effective majority
Democrats were close Wednesday morning to securing an effective majority in the U.S. Senate, giving the party complete control of Congress and the White House for the first time since Barack Obama’s first two years in office. (subscriber access)
Conservatives divide over efforts to deny electors certification
Republicans were mounting a stronger-then-expected challenge to the certification of electoral vote slates this week, with about a dozen senators and 140 Republican representatives expected to join the protest quest. (subscriber access)
Aspirus, Ascension health systems ink deal
Aspirus Health and the Ascension Medical Group announced in a press release Tuesday an agreement has been signed to transfer from Ascension to Aspirus ownership of seven hospitals, 21 physician clinics and air and ground medical transport services in north and central Wisconsin. (subscriber access)
Evers returns to familiar themes for 2021
Gov. Tony Evers rang in the political new year with his annual State of the State address this past week, but it could have been any old year, as the governor returned to familiar themes for his 2021 priorities. (subscriber access)
Lawsuit filed in federal court looks to overturn wolf delisting
Wolves have bounced back and forth on and off the Endangered Species List (ESL) in the last few years. Last November the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced the delisting of the gray wolf once again. Sixty days after the delisting was published, it went into affect, meaning wolves …
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Wisconsin, the nation, the world: COVID-19 cases plunge
The experts are holding their breath, hoping it will last — many mainstream media outlets aren’t even reporting it — but the number of new cases of COVID-19 are plummeting around the world, around the United States, and in Wisconsin, prompting one Johns Hopkins scientist to predict an end to …
Tiffany sworn into Congress
Former state Sen. Tom Tiffany (R-Minocqua) is now U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany after being sworn into Congress on Tuesday.
Supreme Court strikes down Safer at Home order
In a 4-3 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has voided Gov. Tony Evers’s order that shuttered businesses — many of them forever — closed schools and in-dining for restaurants, banned non-essential travel, and forbade most private and public gatherings.
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