WORT 89.9FM Madison · Wisconsin Governor Seeks to Mandate Parental Leave In Bulgaria, by law, new mothers get 26 weeks of paid parental leave. In the United Kingdom and Canada, […]
Gov. Evers reintroduces goal to legalize marijuana
Also included in Governor Evers’ budget proposal: legalizing marijuana for medical or recreational use. Legalizing marijuana has remained steadily popular. 64 percent of voters are now in favor of legalization, […]
Governor Evers signs 2021-2023 state budget
Today, Governor Tony Evers made his deadline, and signed into law Wisconsin’s next state budget. The Republican-authored spending plan, which clocks in at more than $87 billion, largely made it […]
Finance Committee continues hashing out state budget
Yesterday morning, the state legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal bureau announced that Wisconsin is set to take in 4.4 billion dollars more in tax collections over the next three years than originally […]
State budget committee to weigh school spending priorities
Tomorrow, Wisconsin’s Budget-writing Finance Committee will take up spending priorities for the state’s public and private schools and the University of Wisconsin system. Since shredding the Governor’s proposed biennial budget […]
Amid protests, budget committee shreds Evers’ proposals
As the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee was poised to strip hundreds of Governor Evers’ proposals from the next state budget today, folks from across the state crowded inside the Capitol […]
