Media Contact: Saul Newton, Executive Director [email protected] (414) 207-4376 MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Wisconsin Veterans Chamber is asking Milwaukee businesses to celebrate Veterans Day by holding discounts or other promotions for veterans and military families during this year’s Milwaukee Veterans Week, Nov. 4 to Nov. 11. The Wisconsin Veterans Chamber will highlight the promotional efforts of local veteran-friendly businesses offering giveaways, discounts and other promotions to veterans and their families. Current promoters include the Milwaukee Bucks, Harley-Davidson and the Milwaukee Rep among others. If you are a business interested in running a promotion or to find a full list of participating

Contact: Austin Altenburg   WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) introduced legislation Wednesday to permanently authorize the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act, and ensure that students and their families in the District of Columbia have continued choice and increased opportunity for their education through the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OPS). The senators had this to say about the bill: “The Opportunity Scholarship Program has helped thousands of students from low-income households attain a graduation rate 21 percentage points

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Contact: Philip Shulman, [email protected] (KENOSHA, WI) — Yesterday, on the same day as Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the Wisconsin, union members, community leaders, and Kenosha-area Democrats rallied together to call out Trump’s broken promises to hard working Wisconsinites. They highlighted how his tax scam bill was a $1 trillion handout to the wealthiest Americans and hurt working people, that his trade war is crushing farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses, and that he has failed to lower health care costs and prescription drug prices.  TMJ4: “In 2016, they promised they’d bring manufacturing jobs back,” Ben Wikler, Chair of the Democratic Party

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Contact: [email protected] or 608-219-7443 MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced the members of the Legislature who will be appointed to the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change. This task force was created through Executive Order #52 and will advise and assist the governor in developing strategies to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change for the benefit of all Wisconsin communities. “We need to ensure that we are building a sustainable future for our state and for future generations of Wisconsinites,” Gov. Evers said. “I look forward to seeing the innovative and bipartisan solutions this task force develops to help us address and tackle

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