Dropping a fishing line or starting a camping fire is no longer exactly the simple pastime we may have taken for granted in Wisconsin. Now to make sure we can enjoy the best Wisconsin has to offer outdoors we must work together to assure that aquatic and insect invasive species do not threaten our wildlife. This effort is the small price we pay to continue to enjoy our outdoors lifestyle and our great heritage of preservation of natural areas.... ... READ MORE
Madison – Wisconsin consumers will be able to sign up their cell phone numbers to be added to the “Do Not Call” list starting today. The new list will be sent to telemarketers on September 1; to make that list consumers must sign up before the end of August.... ... READ MORE
In politics, like in life, you can’t always get everything that you want. The budget repair the Legislature passed this week is not perfect. It represents a compromise between the Senate and the Assembly, currently two very different houses. In March, Governor Doyle posed a challenge to the Legislature; the Senate and Assembly leadership needed to come up with a compromise to fix the budget hole as soon as possible. It didn’t happen as quickly as all of us would have liked, but it is now done and will pass both houses of the Legislature this week.... ... READ MORE
Madison – Wisconsin’s pristine lakes will be preserved with the passage of Great Lakes Compact through the Senate today. Completing another Special Session, the Senate took positive action on a vote of 32-1 in favor of the Great Lakes Compact, a negotiated deal between the eight Great Lakes states and Canadian providences.... ... READ MORE
Madison – The budget repair agreement announced today by Leadership from both houses included adding cell phones to Wisconsin’s “Do Not Call” law. Senator Erpenbach was pleased Leadership decided to add the measure as a part of the compromise announced today. Senator Erpenbach had been disappointed that the measure failed to pass before the end of last session despite a unanimous vote out of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Senate.... ... READ MORE