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 past the governor intact. Evers used his veto power on fifty relatively minor provisions. Despite signing the budget, Evers said at a press conference in […]
State committee denies funding increase for Black Historical Society
Last Thursday, amid an outcry from Democrats and protest groups, Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Finance Committee slashed 384 budget items proposed by the governor. In a radio address today, Governor Tony Evers said that the Republicans’ decision to eliminate those proposals put the state’s economic recovery in jeopardy. “Republicans have tried to stop us from confronting this […]
On with Heg’s head
Yesterday, officials approved a resolution to restore two statues removed from the capitol building’s grounds during protests last month. The Wisconsin Capitol and Executive Residence Board, which oversees maintenance of the state capitol building and its grounds, voted unanimously yesterday to eventually restore the statues. Now, Hans Christian Heg a union soldier and anti-slavery activist, […]
