http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/badgercare-save-s426.jpg15 advocacy groups & unions call on Gov. Evers to use veto power to force BadgerCare expansion onto the table.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/dairyfarm-wi-wpr-news-s5.jpgGovernor celebrates June Dairy Month, enacts bill creating the Agricultural Roads Improvement Program.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/teaching-students-s435.jpgAB 321 is a half-baked bill that burdens our schools further by legislating mandates and bans that take away tools from our educators say legislators.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/clean-hydrogen-economy-s450.pngCommission will advise on the creation of the Green Innovation Fund to leverage public and private financing to invest in environmental and clean energy solutions.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/guns-domestic-violence-s441.jpgPlan in reaction to Statewide funding crisis.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/childcare-s451.jpgRepublicans on the Joint Finance Committee have chosen to cut continued childcare funding from the 2023-25 state budget, a shortsighted move that will lessen productivity and hurt working families statewide.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/gb-bridge-close-s5.pngGovernor signs key portions of bipartisan compromise on shared revenue, including a 20 percent increase in support to most municipalities statewide, increasing school low revenue ceiling $1,000 per student.

MADISON – Today, Senate Democratic Leader (D-Madison), and her Democratic colleagues introduced the Pollinator Protection Package to promote a healthy and robust pollinator population in Wisconsin. The package creates rules for state agencies on the use of certain insecticides and native prairie and forage plants, allows local governments to limit or prohibit the usage of certain insecticides, establishes proper labeling of certain plants, creates specialty license plates, establishes Rusty Patched Bumble Bee as the state native insect, and designates June 2023 as Pollinator Awareness month. Senator Agard released the following statement:

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers announced today his appointment of Judge Pedro Colón to the Court of Appeals – District I. The appointment will fill the vacancy being created by Judge Timothy G. Dugan’s retirement, effective November 18, 2023. Colón will complete a term ending July 31, 2024.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/juneteenth-1900-s5.jpgOn Juneteenth, we honor the day that word of emancipation reached the last enslaved Americans in Texas, marking the end of a long, dark chapter in our history.