WISCREPORT.COM - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that Medicare beneficiaries have six weeks to change or add coverage to their current Medicare health and prescription drug plans. The Medicare annual Open Enrollment Period runs from November 15 through December 31, 2006. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - The White House has announced that President Bush will replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld following what President Bush referred to as the Thumping that Republicans received in the 2006 November General Election. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Progressive Majority Wisconsin candidates won in 9 State Assembly and 4 State Senate races November 7, 2006, flipping the State Senate to 18-15 Democratic control for the first time in 4 years, and putting the State Assembly within 4 seats of a majority, with a 7-seat gain. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Political analysts, news commentators, most voters, and a large number of politicians, especially Democrats, believe that the American people voted for a new direction by electing a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives when they cast their ballots in the November 2006 General Election. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Fed up with inaction by the Legislature on skyrocketing health insurance costs, Wisconsin residents in six counties and seven municipalities cast their vote November 7th decisively in favor of health care reform. The YES votes represent 82 percent of potential voters. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation President is looking forward to what he calls some leadership needs and leadership opportunities resulting from the outcome of the 2006 November General Election. Bill Bruins says the legislature now has some big shoes to fill. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Democrats, the Marriage Protection Amendment, Governor Jim Doyle, and Republican J.B. Van Hollen, were some of the big winners in the Wisconsin edition of the 2006 November General Election. Even though 40 percent of state-wide voters did not approve of the way the Marriage question was worded, 60 percent did. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - A state wide referendum, referred to as the Marriage Protection Amendment, is still causing a stir, even as voters go to the polls to settle the issue. Vote Yes for Marriage is claiming deceptive practices by the Fair Wisconsin group, which opposes the question. The Vote Yes president doesn't appreciate Fair Wisconsin phone calls to what she calls Conservative Areas of the state, during which the Fair people tell why people should vote no. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Research experts at FaceTime Security Labs(TM), the threat research division of IM and greynet security leader FaceTime Communications, have discovered a new IM-borne threat targeting MSN Messenger users. A link opens up a Web site that leads users to click on a Virtual Card Waiting For You. The threat installs files to steal a user's banking and personal data. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - To counter a Congressman Mark Green attack charging that Governor Jim Doyle made a deal with Casinos, the Doyle campaign released a new ad that sets the record straight. Calculations indicate Wisconsin is getting five times more than tribal compacts negotiated by Republican Governor Thompson. The money helps fund schools, police and fire fighters. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Do you have what it takes to be Wisconsin's 60th Alice in Dairyland? Do you enjoy delivering speeches, meeting people, traveling, and working with school children? If so, you may want to consider applying to become Wisconsin's next agricultural ambassador. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - In response to Wal-Mart's decision to offer $4 costs on limited generic drugs and initially at a limited number of Wal-Mart stores, Kmart reiterated its support for its 90-Day Generics Program, which offers a convenient 90-day supply of selected generic prescriptions for $15. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Steve Kagen, the Democrat who is trying to win Mark Green's Congressional seat, questions Republican John Gard’s commitment to cracking down on illegal immigration in light of what Kagen's campaign is calling Gard’s past history of accepting contributions from businesses who benefit from foreign workers who are hired illegally. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - The Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) has announced their recommendation of Kathleen Falk for Attorney General. The WEAC president says Falk has the experience, the vision and values needed to lead as Attorney General. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) has introduced a resolution calling for more resources to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a key staging ground for terrorists in the continued fight against al Qaeda, its affiliates and its sympathizers. Feingold is a thirteen-year member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - One of the television and movie viewers favorites, Michael J. Fox was in Milwaukee to encourage Wisconsin voters to put Democrat Steve Kagen, MD, in the halls of the U.S. House of Representatives. As a vocal proponent of medical research, Fox is supporting candidates who support all forms of stem cell research. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - State Representative Scott Suder (R-Abbotsford) has harsh words for the UW system after the release of an audit, which the lawmaker requested into the system’s personnel policies. Suder claims the once efficient University system has become fiscally bloated and accountable to no one. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - State Senator Russ Decker (D-Weston) says Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce needs to come clean about its relationships with companies that move Wisconsin jobs overseas. A recent report confirmed at least three members of WMC’s board of directors are CEOs for companies that are America’s most flagrant job exporters. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - A Congressman Mark Green campaign spokesperson is saying that Governor Jim Doyle's new ad can't change what Green has said about the Governor's deal with Casino tribes. Green for Wisconsin campaign spokesman Mike Prentiss says Jim Doyle continues to run from his own record and misrepresent Mark Green's record. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson says, in an ad supporting Mark Green's campaign for governor, that Jim Doyle has failed us and is lying about Green to cover up. Thompson also says Green does so support stem cell research. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager has announced that a Dane County Circuit Court has entered a judgment against Bulk Petroleum Corp., in the Attorney General’s lawsuit against the company for illegally raising the posted prices of gasoline more than once in 24 hours in the days following Hurricane Katrina. (read more)...
WISCREPORT.COM - Troubles continue to mount for Congressman Mark Green as a nonpartisan campaign watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) asking that Green be required to remove almost the entire, alleged, $1.3 million he transferred from his federal to his state campaign account last year because it violates federal campaign finance law. Green's campaign manager says the complaint is without merit. (read more)...
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