Wisconsin

The tax cut bill would would deliver an average reduction of $106 for most qualifying filers. Married couples who file jointly would see an average cut of $145; all other filers would see an average reduction of $81. The bill also would reduce taxes for manufacturers by nearly $45 million by exempting their machinery and tools from property taxes and trim state debt by $100 million. … [Read more...] about Wisconsin Legislature sends $250 million tax cut to governor

Democrats may face an uphill battle in Wisconsin when the party’s eventual nominee goes up against President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE in November, a new poll suggests, while other battlegrounds state of Pennsylvania and Michigan are shaping up to be more friendly territory. … [Read more...] about Poll: Democrats trail Trump in Wisconsin, lead in Michigan and Pennsylvania

“Madison schools have adopted policies that violate constitutionally recognized parental rights. A public school district should not, and cannot, make decisions reserved for parents," said Rick Esenberg, president of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), which is representing the parents. … [Read more...] about Wisconsin school district sued by parents over policy allowing children to use new gender pronouns, names

Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan delivered critical -- but narrow -- victories to Trump in 2016 over Hillary Clinton, which propelled him to the presidency. Wisconsin residents were the most optimistic about their state's economy, with 76 percent ranking it excellent or good, while Michigan voters were less cheery with 63 percent giving their state's economy high marks. … [Read more...] about Trump leads in Wisconsin, trails Dem rivals in other swing states: poll

Mercurio told me that it’d been a terrible week for ex-staffers. Two days earlier, campaign reporters Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen had published Shattered, a book diagnosing the campaign’s failures as the result of catastrophic internal dissent. Many who were interviewed for this story agreed with portions of the reporting in Shattered — that Clinton listened to too many competing voices, often to the point of inaction; that there were arguments about messaging and resources that turned out to be retrospectively haunting; that the ground game was faulty in some states. What they disagreed with was that any of these problems was unique to their campaign, or that their team was anything other than close and united in their efforts to elect Hillary Clinton. “There was this inference that we were a bunch of mercenaries working for a soulless, distant candidate for whom we felt no genuine affection,” McIntosh would tell me later. “That assertion — … [Read more...] about Inside Hillary Clinton’s Surreal Post-Election Life