David Crowley promised Act 10 repeal, a BadgerCare option and universal pre-K in his first 30 days. A shrinking budget balance, a lost federal Medicaid bonus and a one-vote Senate cushion stand in the way.
David Crowley will be Wisconsin's first Black governor, with 18-15 and 53-46 majorities behind him. Bargaining rights, BadgerCare and school money top a long Democratic list, while two new constitutional amendments narrow the field.
Crowley carried Brown County, reportedly the first Democrat to do so since 1982, while Brandy Tollefson flipped the 88th and Green Bay's $158 million referendum passed. Gillett, Pulaski and Seymour voters said no.
Green Bay's short-term rentals more than tripled after 2022. A decade of research, Wisconsin tax law and Door County's experience test the industry's promises on housing, jobs, tourism and tax revenue.
Green Bay's draft fee on empty commercial buildings is a small cousin of Georgism, the 147-year-old case for taxing land instead of buildings. Wisconsin's constitution stands in the way of the full version.
Tuesday's Common Council agenda includes the first reading of a vacant commercial building registry, a plan to hand the City Assessor's job to a private firm, a rewritten fire station housing deal and a new Global Optics headquarters.
The two-term west side alder and former YWCA chief says she'll decide in the coming days. Her entry would make it a three-way race with Alyssa Proffitt and Jim Schmitt, with Amaad Rivera-Wagner still deciding.
Green Bay's council president is running for the open mayor's office, setting up an April 2027 contest with former four-term Mayor Jim Schmitt after Eric Genrich chose not to seek a third term.
Brown County's July count found 206 people sleeping outside. Green Bay's low-barrier winter shelter doesn't open until November, east side park restrooms are locked, and Newcap's collapse left a hole in the safety net.
Green Bay Common Council President Alyssa Proffitt will formally launch her mayoral campaign Friday, setting up a race with former Mayor Jim Schmitt for the seat Eric Genrich leaves in April.
Tuesday's Common Council agenda includes a new TIF district for 168 downtown homes, a second straight parking rate hike and a federal police grant the Finance Committee deadlocked on.
Mayor Eric Genrich will leave City Hall in April after eight years, leaving former Mayor Jim Schmitt as the only declared candidate and a council president and a state lawmaker in the wings.
Five years after Merge, LLC agreed to build a "transformative" riverfront apartment complex on land the city sold it for a dollar, the company still hasn't poured a foundation
FDR proposed that the original Bill of Rights was inadequate to the pursuit of happiness. Alder Shelton submitted a document committing, as a city, to what we stand for and to be a guiding light.
