2025-2026 Senate Committees
Date Fri, Dec. 20, 2024 - 10:14am By Hamilton
Sen. LeMahieu announced Senate Committees and committee membership for the 2025-2026 Session on December 19. The committee assignments will formally take effect in January. 2025-26 Senate Standing Committees: Senate Committee on Agriculture & Revenue Senator Patrick Testin, Chair Senator Cory Tomczyk, Vice-chair Senator Howard Marklein, Member Senator Rachael Cabral-Guevara, Member Senator André Jacque, Member […]
County Judge Strikes Down Parts of Walker-Era Collective Bargaining Reforms
Date Thu, Dec. 19, 2024 - 2:33pm By Hamilton
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Frost has struck down key provisions of a 2011 law, including provisions barring general employees from negotiating for anything other than base wage increases capped for inflation and prohibiting public employee unions from forcing employees to pay dues. The reform has saved state and local units of government $17 […]
The Healthcare Dollar
Date Thu, Nov. 21, 2024 - 2:30pm By Hamilton
AHIP (formerly, America’s Health Insurance Plans) recently released their analysis on where America’s health care premium dollars go. The survey found that nearly two-thirds of every dollar Americans pay for health care premiums goes towards hospital and prescription drug costs. More specifically, 40 cents of every premium dollar paid goes to hospital costs – such […]
Wisconsin Election 2024: Election Results and Analysis
Date Wed, Nov. 6, 2024 - 9:47am By Hamilton
Wisconsin reaffirmed its status as a crucial battleground state, becoming the first in the “blue wall” to flip for Trump, virtually sealing his victory. Despite months of polls indicating a tight race, the final margin was just over 30,000 votes, with Trump leading Harris by less than 1% (49.7% to 48.8%).This is a larger margin […]
Legislative Study Committee on the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Continues Work
Date Wed, Sep. 18, 2024 - 10:30am By Hamilton
The Legislative Council Study Committee on the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence continues to meet and learn more about the use of AI in a variety of industries. Chaired by Sen. Julian Bradley, the committee includes legislators and members of the public. The Committee has met three times since it began its work in July. Typically, […]
DOR Releases FY2024 Tax Collections Figures
Date Fri, Sep. 13, 2024 - 2:26pm By Hamilton
On Aug. 28, the Department of Revenue (DOR) released the Fiscal Year 2024 General purpose Revenues report. According to preliminary information, collections for the year increased 1.7 percent in FY 2024 to $21,329.6 million. This amount is 1.3 percent higher than the Legislative Fiscal Bureau’s modified estimate of $21,053.9 million. The increase is mainly attributed […]
Hamilton Holiday Card 2023
Date Wed, Dec. 20, 2023 - 11:00am By Hamilton
From all of us here at the Hamilton Consulting Group, we wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy Holiday Season, and a Happy New Year! Please enjoy our holiday video featuring the Hamilton team:
Tidbits Holiday Quiz: Answers
Date Thu, Jan. 13, 2022 - 11:17pm By Hamilton
The last edition of Hamilton Political Tidbits included a brief quiz with political and holiday trivia. Below are the answers. Congratulations to the winner of the trivia contest, John Schulze of Associated Builders and Contractors, who submitted the most correct answers. Excluding partial vetoes of items in the 2021-2023 state budget, how many bills has […]
2020 Tidbits in Words
Date Sun, Dec. 13, 2020 - 2:54pm By Hamilton
To celebrate the end of this unprecedented year, we took all article titles from Hamilton’s 2020 Tidbits to find out what we wrote about the most – no surprise here on the number 1 word of 2020…