As with his first budget, Gov. Evers’ proposal for 2021-2023 seeks to dramatically increase government spending in Wisconsin, raise taxes on the many to hand out aid to the select few, and create dozens of new initiatives to address social justice, equity, global warming and the public health crisis. Read More Governor Evers Introduces The 2021-2023 State Budget
The Senate and Assembly have passed two different versions of AB 1, Wisconsin’s latest COVID-19 response legislation. We analyze key provisions in the two bills and discuss the significance of what the Senate deleted from their version of AB 1. Read More MI Analysis: Update On Senate Changes To AB 1, The New COVID-19 Relief Package
A wave of county ordinances are being taken up across Wisconsin that give local public health officials sweeping power and authority to control communicable diseases. While local health officials say their authority already exists in state statute, citizens are concerned about the broad “new” powers these ordinances give. Read More UPDATED: County Governments Seeking Great Powers For Public Health Bureaucrats, Despite Public Opposition
Our nation has been in a perpetual fight to uphold our founding principles and continue to work for a more perfect union. Dan O’Donnell talks about that uniquely American fight in this perspective piece. Read More A More Perfect Union
Late on March 28, Governor Evers leaked a 65-page bill that he had presented to Republicans. We’ve looked through his bill and laid out our analysis of what it would do if it were to pass through the legislature as presented. Read More Analysis: Governor Evers’ Public Health Emergency Bill
Gov. Evers’ had a golden opportunity to rise above partisan politics and to lay out his vision for Wisconsin. Our full analysis of the speech reveals how he let that slip away by what he chose to say, and almost more importantly, what he left out. Read More MI Analysis: Gov. Evers’ Missed Opportunities In His State Of The State Address
The Milwaukee Common Council wants to test out universal basic income—something Dan O’Donnell argues might be the most destructive welfare program yet devised. Read More Milwaukee’s Universally Dumb Idea
By Dan O’Donnell – Society may like to pretend that character still counts in politics, but when it comes down to it, Mandela Barnes is living proof that it doesn’t. Read More A Question of Character
By Matt Kittle – At a press event surrounded by cabinet secretaries, Dem lawmakers, and, of course, children, Evers not-so-begrudgingly signed into law an $81.4 billion biennial budget crafted by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The governor made the document a bit more to his liking with 78 line-item vetoes, cutting some GOP initiatives while bolstering k-12 funding by $63 in per-pupil over the life of the budget. Read More Evers Trades In Campaign Promises For A Big-Spending Budget With 78 Vetoes