Rewind: Your Week in Review for Feb. 21

On this week’s episode, WisconsinEye senior producer Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com editor JR Ross discuss Tuesday’s primary results, the state Supreme Court race, the GOP’s tax cut and “Tougher on Crime” bills headed to the governor, along with other actions from the Legislature this week.

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Pence to visit Wisconsin March 5

Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence are to visit Onalaska March 5 for a Women For Trump event. The two are also to participate in a bus tour in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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FRI PM Update: Trump, Bloomberg dominating early ground game in Wisconsin

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … Political Stock Report -A collection of insider opinion- (Feb. 15 – 21, 2020) Rising: Tom Tiffany, Chris Larson and David Crowley, F-35s, body cam legislation Mixed: Tom Barrett, Tax talk, Dem drinking, Staush Gruszynski Falling: Ed Fallone, livestock siting changes Read the Political Stock Report here: https://www.wispolitics.com… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a WisPolitics free trial and to view the different subscription options. Username or E-mail Password * Remember Me     Forgot Password

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WisPolitics Midday – February 21, 2020

In today’s WisPolitics Midday update, brought to you by Spectrum: Assembly passes and State Senators will take a look at a bill to extend bar closing time during DNC. Rep Nygren says PFAS legislation can pass in the WI Sen.

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Sen. Erpenbach: Republicans chose to increase penalties instead of educational opportunities

Note: If this post has anything to do with Evers, the Evers administration or lame-duck legislation and related lawsuits, please tag it as Evers Administration. Please delete this note before publishing…. Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a WisPolitics free trial and to view the different subscription options.

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Wisconsin Conservation Notice: Assembly attempts to provide political cover while constituents suffer the consequences

MADISON – In a return to late night, last-minute tactics just before the end of the Assembly’s session, GOP legislators hastily wrote and passed a pitiful amendment to an already inadequate bill and are now claiming it as a victory over potentially deadly PFAS pollution. At the center of this failure is Rep. John Nygren who, on the floor of the Assembly, rationalized his own failure to pass a decent PFAS compromise bill co-authored by Sen. Dave Hansen by falsely claiming that PFAS chemicals are merely a “local issue.” PFAS are a well-documented problem across Wisconsin, and as testing continues, the scope

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Trump, Bloomberg dominating early ground game in Wisconsin

At the moment, the presidential ground game in Wisconsin looks like a battle of the 70-something New York billionaires. President Trump and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have aggressively built a Wisconsin campaign presence on the ground, while Bloomberg has the airwaves virtually to himself.  Besides Bloomberg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the only one of Trump’s Democratic challengers to open a Wisconsin office and deploy paid staff here as of mid-February.

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U.S. Dept. of Agriculture: Wisconsin ag news 2019 corn county estimates

The Wisconsin District recording the highest corn for grain production in 2019 was the South Central District with 118 million bushels according to estimates released by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Rock County was the largest corn producing county with 27.0 million bushels. Grant, Dane, Lafayette, and Dodge rounded out the top five. Rock led all counties in Wisconsin with a county average yield of 199.7 bushels per acre. Grant (198.3), Lafayette (196.6), Iowa (192.4), and Green (189.2) Counties rounded out the top five. Ten counties exceeded the 180 bushel per acre yield mark. Yields are derived from production

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FRI News Summary: GOP tax cut heads to Evers’ desk; Assembly passes PFAS, DNC bar hours legislation

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** March 3: WisPolitics DC breakfast: Congress after Impeachment Join WisPolitics.com for a breakfast with two members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation on Tuesday, March 3 from 7 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. at the Washington Hilton. The program with U.S. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, and Mark Pocan, D-Town of Vermo… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a WisPolitics free trial and to view the different subscription options.

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Rewind: Your Week in Review for Feb. 21

On this week’s episode, WisconsinEye senior producer Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com editor JR Ross discuss Tuesday’s primary results, the state Supreme Court race, the GOP’s tax cut and “Tougher on Crime” bills headed to the governor, along with other actions from the Legislature this week.

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Pence to visit Wisconsin March 5

Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence are to visit Onalaska March 5 for a Women For Trump event. The two are also to participate in a bus tour in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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FRI PM Update: Trump, Bloomberg dominating early ground game in Wisconsin

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … Political Stock Report -A collection of insider opinion- (Feb. 15 – 21, 2020) Rising: Tom Tiffany, Chris Larson and David Crowley, F-35s, body cam legislation Mixed: Tom Barrett, Tax talk, Dem drinking, Staush Gruszynski Falling: Ed Fallone, livestock siting changes Read the Political

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WisPolitics Midday – February 21, 2020

In today’s WisPolitics Midday update, brought to you by Spectrum: Assembly passes and State Senators will take a look at a bill to extend bar closing time during DNC. Rep Nygren says PFAS legislation can pass in the WI Sen.

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Trump, Bloomberg dominating early ground game in Wisconsin

At the moment, the presidential ground game in Wisconsin looks like a battle of the 70-something New York billionaires. President Trump and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have aggressively built a Wisconsin campaign presence on the ground, while Bloomberg has the airwaves virtually to himself.  Besides Bloomberg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the only one of Trump’s Democratic challengers to open a Wisconsin office and deploy paid staff here as of mid-February.

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U.S. Dept. of Agriculture: Wisconsin ag news 2019 corn county estimates

The Wisconsin District recording the highest corn for grain production in 2019 was the South Central District with 118 million bushels according to estimates released by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Rock County was the largest corn producing county with 27.0 million bushels. Grant, Dane, Lafayette, and Dodge rounded

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FRI News Summary: GOP tax cut heads to Evers’ desk; Assembly passes PFAS, DNC bar hours legislation

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** March 3: WisPolitics DC breakfast: Congress after Impeachment Join WisPolitics.com for a breakfast with two members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation on Tuesday, March 3 from 7 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. at the Washington Hilton. The program with U.S. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, and

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