Wisconsin in the Movies
Wisconsin may not be known for film sets, movie stars and all things glamorous, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make the occasional appearance on the big screen.
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Wisconsin may not be known for film sets, movie stars and all things glamorous, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make the occasional appearance on the big screen.
Interest groups spent about $2.7 million more to lobby the Capitol in the last half of 2017 as the state budget dragged on, compared with the same period in 2015, a WisPolitics.com review shows.
More than half of the appointees on the state Elections and Ethics commissions continued to make political donations to state candidates and groups even after joining the bodies, according to a WisPolitics.com check of campaign finance reports.
Wisconsin has plenty of local colloquialisms. Here are just a few of our favorites.
At nearly $11 billion, the property tax is not only the largest state-local tax but also second-largest for many Wisconsin taxpayers after the federal income tax.
If you want records in electronic form, ask for them that way. And that’s how responsible officials will provide them – with or without the intervention of the courts.
One of the largest declines in Wisconsin state tax collections has gone largely unnoticed. UI tax collections declined 18.6% in 2017 to $751.3 million.
Wisconsin feels like home in so many ways. For those of you who have left, what do you take with you that feels like home?
Republicans at the Wisconsin state capitol are working hard to curry favor with rural voters in this election year of 2018.
Republicans in Madison and Washington are working to rein in those who get taxpayer-funded aid amid worries from social service advocates that the poor and underemployed are being unfairly targeted.