How “Boss” Robin Vos Does Business: Self-Dealing Edition
An investigative report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel exposes the self dealing ways of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
An investigative report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel exposes the self dealing ways of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
People Who’ve Profited From Lead Paint Have Shown They’ll Spend Big Money to Support People Like Brian Hagedorn.
Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn put corporate profits before protecting seniors from abuse and kids from lead poisoning.
Analiese Eicher of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now hopes Kaul does change how the state deals with the opioid crisis.
The GOP A.G. of Colorado is suing Purdue Pharma, alleging the drug manufacturer engaged in “fraudulent and deceptive marketing of prescription opioids.”
Brad Schimel’s latest excuse for not suing his campaign donor Purdue Pharmaceuticals is a poor one.
One Wisconsin Now, a Madison-based liberal advocacy group, contend Schimel has been lax with efforts to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable.
Scott Walker has not authorized the DOJ to pursue legal action against the manufacturers behind the opioid crisis. Brad Schimel is opposed to filing a lawsuit.
As the home of Robin Vos traveling companion Cliff Rosenberger is raided by federal authorities, lobbyist reveals payday loan industry business discussed on trip.
In his first campaign tv ad, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel blames families for the current opioid crisis, not pharmaceutical drug manufacturers.
Brad Schimel is sitting on his hands in holding manufacturers behind the opioid addiction crisis accountable.
Robin Vos has subsidized his lifestyle with first class travel on junkets paid for by payday lenders and other special interests.
"Payday lenders and the others paying for these junkets have stamped Robin Vos' passport to corruption," Browne said in a statement.
Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign has released a second campaign television ad this week, the latest focusing on opioid addiction.
MOM: Tyler was only 80 pounds. I had his funeral planned. TYLER: I was addicted for years. But we stuck together as a family and we fought back. DAD: We are the...
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that protects landlords by limiting local governments’ inspection authority. Under the bill, local governments can inspect rental properties only in blighted areas or in areas...
The GOP Attorney General of Alabama has filed suit seeking damages from opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharmaceuticals while Brad Schimel refuses to act.
The governor signed the orders Friday afternoon. One order creates the Governor’s Commission on Substance Abuse Treatment Delivery. The commission will include the co-chairs of the Governor’s Task Force on Opioid Abuse...
Wisconsin likely will experience a hiring spree in the coming years, and a new advertising campaign spurred by the state’s top economic development office puts Chicago-based millennials in the state’s crosshairs to...
“This is a sleazy attempt to prioritize a predatory industry over the consumer safety and financial well-being of Wisconsinites,” Scot Ross.
You have to wonder what’s up with Brad Schimel when even fellow Republicans are going to court to hold opioid manufacturers accountable.
Wisconsin would target heroin and opiate addiction by expanding treatment, hiring special agents and establishing a charter school for addicted teens, under legislation approved unanimously by the state Senate on Tuesday. The...
Three months after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called on the Legislature to take swift action to combat the state’s opioid epidemic, the state Assembly nearly unanimously passed nine pieces of legislation Tuesday,...
A call from Gov. Scott Walker for the Wisconsin Legislature to heighten its focus on fighting heroin and opiate abuse drew widespread praise this week, but some say the proposals still fall...
Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday called for a special legislative session to fight heroin addiction and ordered state agencies to ramp up their response to a drug that kills hundreds in Wisconsin...
Wisconsin doctors should prescribe opioids sparingly, tell patients they could become addicted and avoid the drugs as the first option to treat pain, according to new guidelines the state Medical Examining Board...
Since 2014, Wisconsin legislators have adopted, and Gov. Scott Walker has signed, 17 bills to curb the state’s opioid abuse epidemic, which includes addiction to heroin and prescription painkillers such as oxycodone...
Another bill signed into law permits libraries to report borrowers who owe late fees to collections agencies, or in some cases, to law enforcement. It allows a library to report delinquent accounts...
For Gov. Scott Walker, the justice system is not about ensuring all are equal before the law, but rather how can he manipulate the system for his benefit.
Signed a bill that set limits on liability in tort actions and failed to protect veterans who become sick as a result of asbestos exposure during military service and for a bill...
The 2013-15 budget bill contained measures weakening consumer protection in Wisconsin, including: retroactively throwing out lawsuits from individuals poisoned by lead paint; easing regulations of predatory payday lending operations; allowing cable companies...
Walker signed into law a bill which would limit attorneys’ fees to three times the amount of compensatory damages. (2011 September Special Session SB 12, introduced 10/11/11; Senate Roll Call; Assembly Roll...
Walker signed into law a bill that allows landlords to discriminate against renting to individuals based on their conviction record or income. The Senate passed the bill June 14, 2011, 18-14, on...
Opponents of a pair of Republican-backed litigation reform bills argued before a state Assembly committee Friday that the proposals will gut consumer protection laws and effectively stop the filing of lawsuits against...
A proposed change in rule-making power criticized as an attack on consumer protection has been abandoned by the governor’s office. Defended by Gov. Scott Walker’s office because “it makes more sense” and...
Walker signed into law a bill that eliminates many regulations on telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities. It also lowers the rates that telephone companies charge for use of each other’s lines...
Many long-standing regulations on traditional landline telephones will be dropped under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Scott Walker that is the first big rewrite of the state’s telecommunications laws since 1994....
In trying to tie the lawsuit reforms to job creation, Walker asserted the issue is “one of the most important factors” when businesses are deciding to expand or invest in Wisconsin. That’s...
Walker signed into law a bill that limited the amount of damages victims can receive in lawsuits, including: Limit non-economic damages – payments for loss of companionship, mental distress and pain and...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) signed into law today Special Session Senate Bill 1, legislation aimed at reforming the state’s civil justice system. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) commended newly-elected Gov....
The bill “establishes the criteria to determine if a product manufacturer, distributor or seller is liable to a person injured by the manufactured product” and “specifies when a manufactured product is defective.”
The bill established maximum amounts, “that a claimant may recover for noneconomic damages caused by the negligence of a health care provider or health care provider employee.
The bill proposed several changes to the state family leave law including eliminating, “civil actions for violations of the family and medical leave law.”
The new law revised standards and procedures for awarding punitive damages in certain civil cases.