A group of over 40 Wisconsin health care providers and business groups are urging the state legislature to amend Gov. Walker’s budget proposal by taking federal health care financing to strengthen the BadgerCare program. The coalition made the request in a letter delivered this week to all state lawmakers. Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee), member of [...]

Fired Palermo’s Pizza workers announced this week they have filed new charges against the company, and called on Palermo’s to comply with a government decision to reinstate and provide back pay for nine workers that Palermo’s improperly fired in the summer of 2012. Palermo’s committed in November 2012 to reinstate nine of these workers but [...]

By Cassandra Lans It’s like going back in history again. Governor Scott Walker announced that he plans to reject $12 billion from the federal government that would expand the state’s Badger- Care program with no additional cost from Wisconsin’s taxpayers. Many legislators and community leaders say that the governor is playing politics with literally the [...]

File an online application in less than 10 minutes Time Warner Cable last week announced the addition of 200 new full-time jobs to its downtown Milwaukee workforce. The new hires will work as Retention Representatives, developing expertise in Time Warner Cable’s products and services so they may help manage the relationship Time Warner Cable has [...]

At a news conference at the State Capitol Tuesday Sen. Jon Erpenbach and Rep. Jon Richards announced a new bill to roll back Governor Walker’s slashing cuts to BadgerCare. They were joined by health care advocates and BadgerCare enrollees to unveil a bill which will take away the power of the Walker Administration to force [...]

Richards demands Van Hollen report on attorney time being devoted to politically-driven lawsuit Madison — State Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee), member of the Joint Committee on Finance and Chair of the Assembly Committee on Health and Health Reform, urged Governor-elect Scott Walker and Attorney General J.B Van Hollen to stop preparing a politically-motivated lawsuit to [...]

By Lynda L. Jones County executive and gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker has failed to act regarding the controversy that has developed regarding the actions of at least two staffers associated with his campaign. On Monday, Aug. 16, while the president was in Milwaukee, Jill Bader, a spokesperson for Walker re-tweeted a message from Michael Brickman, [...]