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Federal authorities say five people have been indicted over allegations that they cut down trees on the Menominee Indian Reservation in order to sell timber to saw mills outside the reservation without the consent of the Wisconsin tribe.
Read More »Democratic group to spend $100M targeting 2020 battlegrounds
A big Democratic group announced plans on Thursday to spend at least $100 million in battleground states during the 2020 election in hopes of denying President Donald Trump a second term.
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Read More »HNTB moving 90 professionals to offices in downtown Milwaukee
The architecture, civil-engineering and construction-management firm HNTB Corp. announced plans Thursday to move 90 infrastructure planners, engineers and other professionals to a building on East Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee.
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Read More »Assembly speaker hopes Foxconn air permits aren’t changed
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he hopes that air permits granted to the electronics giant Foxconn Technology Group aren't tightened by Gov. Tony Evers.
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Read More »Assembly leader says ‘too early to tell’ on veto override
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says it's "too early to tell" if lawmakers will attempt an override of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' veto of a GOP bill meant to lower income taxes for the middle class.
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Read More »Study: Wisconsin most reliant on property taxes in Midwest
A new report says Wisconsin's municipalities rely on property taxes far more than most states.
Read More »Evers argues for order blocking lame-duck law
Gov. Tony Evers has joined a coalition of labor unions in asking a judge to suspend a lame-duck law passed by Republicans who control the state Legislature to limit his powers, filing an affidavit calling for an injunction to block the measure.
Read More »Wisconsin governor vetoes tax plan; early showdown with GOP
Gov. Tony Evers vetoed on Wednesday a GOP proposal to reduce income taxes in an early showdown with legislative Republicans who had moved to weaken the Democrat's powers just weeks before he took office.
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Read More »Ohio governor to announce proposal to increase gas tax
Much like his counterpart in Wisconsin, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is calling for a gas-tax increase to deal with a chronic shortfall in spending on roadwork, the governor said at an annual forum sponsored by The Associated Press.
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Read More »Evers to take action on Republican tax cut bill
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he expects he won't support a Republican tax-reduction bill passed with no Democratic votes.
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