Scott Walker News

After years of deep budget cuts, several states are poised to boost higher education funding this year, often in exchange for a promise by public colleges and universities to freeze tuition.

Gov. Scott Walker announced in Milwaukee on Tuesday that his administration has pledged $500,000 to support his own summer youth employment program.

The state Senate has unanimously confirmed two of Gov. Scott Walker's nominees to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

Lawmakers are poised to pass a budget this week which will cut the state's health care program for low-income people.

TODAY our WI State Assembly picks up the "SHELL GAME" which is our WI State Budget for 2013-15! Are YOU are aware of the REAL provisions of the budget approved by the Joint Finance Committee even after their ALL-NIGHT session? I urge you to be sure YOU are aware.

Yes, I was completely surprised by all of the kind words on Friday; an I'm very grateful for the effort behind it and the sentiments expressed.

Wisconsin lawmakers are headed to Madison to talk about Governor Scott Walker's budget proposal.

Congressman getting along is a dreamy thought, but it would do nothing to change the sorry state of affairs that exist in Washington.

Formal charges are expected to be filed later this week against the Rib Lake mother accused of trying to kill four of her six children.

Scott Walker fiefdom formerly known as Wisconsin has fast-tracked three anti-abortion bills ostensibly about "having full knowledge of the decision that women are about to make" - including one mandating that a medically unnecessary ultrasound be performed on a pregnant woman, with the image, fetal heartbeat and description of the fetus provided to ... (more)

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker polls near the bottom of would-be presidential contenders.

After recent mass shootings, a nationwide call to action was issued to help those who suffer from mental health issues.

The predictable buzz from the state Democratic Party convention was, "Watch out, Gov. Scott Walker.

Public taxes must only support public schools, which are for all people. Would the vouchers proposal have passed if there were more Muslim-affiliated private schools than Christian-affiliated ones in the area? I don't think so.

Wisconsin has been cutting taxes, curbing unions, expanding private school vouchers and rejecting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

In this June 13, 2013, photo Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talke with reporters in Madison, Wis.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel cakewalked into office, from his former position as the White House chief of staff to President Obama, to succeed the two-decade reign of Richard M. Daley.

If you're wondering how an overt right-wing extremist like Gov. Paul LePage could get elected in Maine, it's because, in 2010, he received 38.3% of the vote in a race where three other candidates, Eliot Cutler , Libby Mitchell , and Shawn Moody got at least 5% of the vote.

At the very least, half of Wisconsin's population should be outraged at legislation speeding through Madison.

Social studies teacher Sam Van Hefty wanted his eighth-grade students to understand just how outnumbered the Americans were at the outset of the Revolutionary War.