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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republican Tom Tiffany proposed tax breaks and ways to return the state’s more than $3 billion surplus, while Democrat David Crowley avoided specifics and spoke more in generalities during the pair’s lone governor debate last week.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to expand its dorm capacity through a privately owned dorm on state land on campus that would require nearly $30 million in annual rent.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Madison’s mayor says threats, harassment and her mental health are driving her out of the race for reelection.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Both Wisconsin candidates for governor have moved closer to the same policy opinions on data centers as the campaign has progressed but a major difference in their policies has been the strategy to power them.
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(The Center Square) - With slightly more than a week until the 2026 midterm elections, political analysts are projecting Democrats will flip as many as 22 seats to gain control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The legal questions surrounding Madison’s independent police monitor’s office are not likely to end, even after the city fired the monitor.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republican Tom Tiffany said that he plans to both cut taxes and return the state’s more than $3 billion surplus to taxpayers through tax cuts and also increase funding for transportation in a way that will accelerate road construction and repair projects.
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(The Center Square) – The people who sell homes in Wisconsin are blaming higher interest rates for September’s drop in home sales.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republican Tom Tiffany backed the status quo on abortion, returning $3 billion in state surplus through future tax breaks and ending an annual levy increase allowance for Wisconsin schools installed by Gov. Tony Evers.
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(The Center Square) – A second Wisconsin lawsuit has been filed looking to block the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s guidance that those who place wagers on a prediction market on the outcome of an election cannot then vote in that election.
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