It has been a refreshing few weeks off for summer vacation, but the seasons are changing it's time to get back to work! That's right, fall is in the air and as the leaves start to drop, so will crisp

Attention dear listeners, we have an announcement: The WPR Politics Podcast is going on summer vacation!!

We were preparing for this for weeks. Training day and night. Running through all the eventualities. Time to cover Gov. Tony Evers' action on the two-year state budget. Partial vetoes? One big veto? Y

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature has been passing a lot of bills lately that raise the prospect of gubernatorial vetoes. For some of the legislation it seems likely, for others it's har

Long week in the Legislature — Joint Finance wrapped up their work on the state budget, Republicans introduced a massive tax cut proposal, and Laurel didn't get much sleep. So how about some terrible parody karaoke to bring it all together?

What happens when you run a state like, say, Wisconsin, and all of a sudden you find out that your state has more money coming in than you expected? Like a lot more money? Billions of dollars more money? Well, you fight about it of course!

Alright class, settle down. If you'll open your budget papers, today we're talking about state and federal funding for Wisconsin's K-12 schools and the UW System. Now who knows how the ed funding plan from the GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature compares

Another week in Wisconsin's divided state government and it seems like we've seen this one before — Both Democrats and Republicans push big ideas that they know they other side won't buy. But maybe that's part of the point.

It's that time in point in the Wisconsin legislative session where things are humming along — bills are being considered, votes are being taken — pretty run-of-the-mill stuff. But wait just a darn minute, because even run-of-the-mill lawmaking can be pret

It's that time in the biennium when the budgetary blocks are being stacked. The governor has made his spending proposal, lawmakers have held public hearings on the issues, and this week the Legislature's budget committee took their first vote. But there w