Author: Jon Styf | The Center Square, Washington Examiner

(The Center Square) – If a video game production company wants to move from California to Wisconsin, Sen. Patrick Testin wants them to feel welcome. Testin, R-Stevens Point, is proposing a 30% tax credit for both wages paid and expenses for companies in expenses relating to creating games or video game products. “While the hub…

(The Center Square) – A trio of Wisconsin Republican lawmakers are pushing a pair of nuclear power initiatives that include spending a combined $2.25 million. That spending includes $1 million on a nuclear power siting study, more than $140,000 while adding a full-time employee focusing on nuclear power and $250,000 to organize a Nuclear Power…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s budget bill will have to have both tax cuts and some increase investments, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said at a news conference. But those will all have to come in one bill, not separate bills, Gov. Tony Evers said. The two sides met nearly three weeks ago with one staff…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin sent a $2 million earmark to Discover Green Bay and released $5 million of opportunity attraction and promotion funds to tourism agencies in the state heading into next week’s NFL draft, scheduled to run from April 24-26 near Lambeau Field. That’s in addition to the $1.25 million being requested for…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin voters approved $950.8 million in new funds through K-12 school referenda this spring in the February and April elections, including $441.7 million for operations and $509.1 million for capital projects. But just three of the 10 largest referenda proposals in the state were approved – in Oshkosh, Racine and Port…

(The Center Square) – In the day after the Wisconsin Energy Reform Act was introduced, several Republican lawmakers spoke out against the energy bill they believe is the failed right of first refusal legislation with a different name. The new bill would include bidding controls and restrictions for interstate and intrastate electrical transmission lines rather…

(The Center Square) – The CEO of Wisconsin’s MacIver Institute and leaders from conservative groups across the country wrote to the chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee asking for an end to taxing capital gains inflation and to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% or less. The corporate tax letter asks…

(The Center Square) – Third District Congressman Rep. Derrick Van Orden defeated Rebecca Cooke in a race that was called late Wednesday morning by multiple outlets. Van Orden, the Republican incumbent, had 51.35% of the vote with 211,696 to Cooke’s 48.65% with 200,556 votes in the district that includes Eau Claire and areas south of…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin saw a record 949,157 in-person absentee voters heading into Tuesday’s election. Those votes, along mail-in absentee ballots, will be counted Tuesday and then included in unofficial election results posted by the state’s 72 counties. Overall, Wisconsin voters have completed and returned 1,510,773 ballots. The state will have 3,611 polling places…

(The Center Square) – One week after saying he could not make a proposed debate at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 3rd District Congressman Derrick Van Orden said he would accept a debate with candidate Rebecca Cooke sponsored by the Adams County Chamber of Commerce. Van Orden cited a story in the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram…