At a time when we need to grow additional state revenue, this is the fiscally responsible decision for Wisconsin, says Sen. Agard. Prohibition does not work, time to plant seeds in Wisconsin’s future.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/marijuana-farm-s5.jpgProposal regulates and taxes marijuana much like alcohol, generates more than $165 million annually beginning in Fiscal Year 2023. Portion of revenue to go for equity initiatives and rural schools.

COVID-19 legislation finally passed by Republican controlled Legislature doesn't live up to compromise version.

MADISON — After Republican legislators abandoned compromise legislation, Gov. Tony Evers today vetoed Assembly Bill (AB) 1. The governor issued a statement earlier today indicating he would be vetoing the bill following passage in the Senate. Gov. Evers also called on Republicans to send him the compromise version of AB 1 passed by the Senate almost unanimously and with bipartisan support weeks ago, which the governor had previously indicated he would sign. 

The veto message for AB 1 is available here.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/assembly-wi-robin-vos-s5.jpgLegislature abandons bipartisan compromise, sends first bill to governor’s desk in more than 290 days

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/farmer-wicorn-s5.jpgThese are common sense, practical solutions meant to help farmers, stop the use of Wisconsin’s agriculture industry as a political football in Madison.

Bill would institute mask order for the remainder of the COVID-19 pandemic

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/wisc-dairy-farm-s5.jpgGovernor’s 2021-23 biennial budget to include more than $43 million investment in agricultural industry

Rep. Gordon Hintz thinks Assembly Republican action Thursday to repeal Wisconsin’s statewide mask order is politically motivated.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/schools-reopening-2020-cnn-s5.jpgEvers responds to Republicans in the Legislature who came in to vote down state’s public health emergency order and end requiring face coverings in public places.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/unemployment-virus-outbreak-dp-s5.jpgLegislature yet to take action on governor’s special session to modernize unemployment system. Governor tells them "I don't care who gets the credit, I just want to get it done."