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Federal, state funding approved for Presque Isle boat launch
On the heels of a grant of a little more than $30,000 from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Presque Isle Town Board last week approved a contract with Iron Mountain-based Coleman Engineering for $19,500.
Governor orders testing of nursing home residents, employees
On May 4, Gov. Tony Evers announced plans to greatly increase the number of people tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, to as many as 85,000 a week. The state also announced a plan to test residents and employees of the state’s 373 nursing homes for …
April state tax collections year-to-year decline approached $1 billion
State policy makers were expecting grim news when April’s state tax collections data rolled in; that state data has now rolled in, and the news is, well, grim. For this April, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) reported this past week, state tax collections came in $870 million below those of …
Groups: Emergency order violates state’s constitutional right to hunt and fish
A coalition of sporting groups, individual anglers, and Great Lakes businesses challenged last week state Department of Health Services secretary-designee Andrea Palm’s current emergency health order as an overreach of the department’s statutory authority and as a breach of their constitutional right to hunt and fish.
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NRB decision means no wolf hunt until November 2021
There will be no wolf hunt in Wisconsin earlier than November of this year. That was the determination reached by the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) at the end of a six hour hearing Friday, Jan. 22. Since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the delisting of the …
Senate votes to end Evers’ mask mandate
State Senate Republicans followed through on their word and voted 18-13 this week to end Gov. Tony Evers’ latest public health emergency declaration, as well as the state’s mask mandate issued under the emergency declaration. (subscriber access)
Top cabinet officials in Evers administration making the legal limit
Gov. Tony Evers has four cabinet members making the statutory legal limit, which totals more than $150,000 a year, according to a new analysis released this week by Empower Wisconsin.
State Supreme Court decision will allow larger minimum lot sizes around lakes
In a widely watched case in which a Newbold property owner challenged the town’s ability to set minimum lot sizes that conflict with state shoreland zoning standards, the state Supreme Court last week upheld the town’s more restrictive requirements.
WILL sues DNR for not scheduling wolf hunt required by state law
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) has filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County circuit court against Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) secretary Preston Cole, the Wisconsin DNR, and the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) for ignoring a state law requirement to schedule a wolf hunt season this …
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Small businesses could face steep taxes on PPP loans
Unless the state Legislature acts and the governor concurs, and some business and political groups are pressing them to do just that, tens of thousands of Wisconsin small businesses will have to pay state taxes on loans taken out last spring under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
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