● Latest action: The Assembly passed the legislation, Assembly Bills 130 and 131, on 93-0 votes Friday evening. The Senate has yet to consider the bills, but Wimberger in a statement Thursday night said amendments in the Assembly “will help us get this vital legislation across the finish line in the Senate and signed into law by the Governor.”

The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill Wednesday to solicit proposals from organizations seeking to run the state’s public affairs network.

The taxpayers charge that the state Legislature spent $26 million in taxpayer dollars on outside counsel to represent it when it could have been represented by the state DOJ for free.

A lawsuit against the Wisconsin State Legislature for insufficiently funding public schools was filed in the County Circuit Court on Monday, a case with the potential to move

Competing wake-surfing bills were considered Feb. 19 by a Senate committee but action in the Assembly has doomed the proposals.