A referendum asking voters if the salaries of Milwaukee County supervisors should be sliced nearly in half has left supervisors predicting dire consequences if the answer is “yes.”
Leaders in the Geneva Joint 4 School District are considering what to do next after failing to persuade voters to approve $5.55 million for space and security upgrades.
A referendum that would let the Menomonie Area School District borrow money to pay for maintenance has a former School Board member wondering why officials cannot use the regular budget.
Milwaukee County’s four-year effort to levy a 1 percent sales tax still has a few friends in the Legislature, but even they have doubts about the tax becoming a reality.
The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors Intergovernmental Relations Committee decided 6 to 1 Monday to postpone a vote on whether to reaffirm the county’s position on a 2008 referendum question.
Voters in the Brown Deer School District in Milwaukee County passed two referendums Tuesday to allow the district to consolidate elementary schools and expand the gym and indoor track at the high school.
By Matt Pommer Let’s have some advisory votes on the future of Social Security and Medicare. Wisconsin and other populist states have a history of deciding spending issues by the way of referenda in which all citizens can vote. We ...
By James Briggs A Milwaukee alderman on Monday called for a referendum to let voters advise Common Council members on whether the city should build a $64.6 million streetcar line. Calling financial projections for the project “rosy,” Alderman Bob Donovan ...