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Business, GOP unload on Biden vaccine mandate
With lawsuits being cued up to contest President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates, Wisconsin GOP leaders unleashed a withering attack on the mandate’s constitutionality this past week, while the state’s largest business association denounced the directive as a burden that would turn business owners into vaccine police.
Biden to impose vaccine mandates on 80 million workers
When asked by a reporter this past Wednesday if President Biden’s anticipated new Covid-19 plan would impact daily life for Americans, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was ready with an answer: “It depends on if you’re vaccinated or not.”
Debate rages over enhanced unemployment benefits, labor shortages
Barring an unforeseen turn of events, federal enhanced benefits will come to an end September 6, and, with more than 8 million people in the United States to be affected, liberals and Democrats are still pleading with the Biden administration and Congress to extend them.
Health department urges people to keep taking steps to avoid mosquito-related illnesses
As summer winds down and the risk for some illnesses spread by mosquitoes goes up, health officials are encouraging Wisconsin residents to use simple prevention steps to Fight the Bite.
Evers vetoes package of GOP election reform bills
Gov. Tony Evers vetoed legislation last week passed by Republicans in the Legislature that he said would negatively affect election participation in the state, saying the bills coincided with similar measures being taken up in Republican-controlled states and legislatures across the country.
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Brandtjen marches forward with election audit
It wasn’t popular with the Assembly speaker — at least not at first — and it was less popular with the left, but this past week state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, the chairwoman of the Assembly Campaign and Elections Committee, marched forward with what she promises will be a top-to-bottom audit …
Evers vetoes bill to curb defund the police measures
Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law a bipartisan bill that establishes uniform use-of-force policies for law enforcement around the state, but the governor also vetoed a Republican effort to reduce state aid to municipalities that cut funding for police.
Vaccine mandate battles grow in Wisconsin
As calls for vaccine mandates grow in Wisconsin, and resistance increases right along with it, a new study shows that the viral load of the virus that causes Covid-19 is abundant in cases around the state, even among the fully vaccinated.
Republicans fight over election investigation
State Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R-Menomonee Falls) was battling on two fronts this past week in her push for a more complete forensic investigation of potential fraud in the 2020 elections, one against the state bureaucracy and another within the Republican Party, but by week’s end the lawmaker not only vowed …
In New York, Cuomo declares gun violence a public health crisis
Following on the heels of the state’s just-expired state of emergency for Covid-19, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo has declared a first-in-the-nation gun violence disaster emergency and signed an executive order giving himself the power to suspend laws to deal with the crisis, if necessary.
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Evers calls Legislature into yet another special session
In a move derided by legislative Republicans, Gov. Tony Evers this week called the state Legislature into yet another special session, and the Legislature again responded by rejecting the governor’s plea to take up a $550-million school funding proposal.
Tiffany urges Baldwin, Johnson to oppose Stone-Manning
Northwoods U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin), a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, is urging Wisconsin’s two U.S. senators to oppose President Joe Biden’s nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning as the director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), saying that investigative reports have revealed links between Stone-Manning and an …
Appeals court: Federal law barring handgun sales to those under 21 is unconstitutional
A federal appeals court last week struck down as unconstitutional federal laws banning the sale of handguns by federal firearms licensees to customers under the age of 21.
Evers vetoes loans for purchases of north-central Wisconsin paper mills
Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a bill that would have used $65 million in federal Covid relief funds to help finance loans for private groups to purchase two north-central Wisconsin paper mills.
Evers directs $130 million in pandemic funds toward workforce development
Gov. Tony Evers last week announced that he is spending $130 million of the state’s American Rescue Plan funding to develop solutions to ongoing workforce challenges, but the state’s largest business association, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, says the plan ignores the biggest workforce problems and provides little oversight.
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