Emilee Fannon, Capitol Reporter
Emilee Fannon joins CBS 58 after serving as the Capitol Bureau Chief for WKOW in Madison, Wisconsin for three years.
During her time in Madison, she enjoyed covering the 2020 presidential election and having the opportunity to interview major party candidates including Vice President Mike Pence, former vice president Joe Biden, as well as other prominent figures tied to the Trump and Biden campaigns.
Emilee is looking forward to continuing to build her career as a political reporter in the Milwaukee market, an area familiar to her as many of her family members are from the suburbs of Milwaukee.
Her passion to report on politics began six years ago in Springfield, Illinois where she received her Master's degree in political affairs reporting. Shortly after, she was hired as a statehouse reporter at the capitol covering Illinois politics including the rise and fall of the longest budget impasse in modern day history as well as historic school funding reform.
Even though Emilee was born and raised in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, she is a huge Green Bay Packer fan and happy to continue rooting for her team in Wisconsin.
Articles by Emilee Fannon
- Here’s the series of changes lawmakers want to make to our elections
- Paul Ryan predicts how 2024 election could end badly for Republicans
- Planned Parenthood plans to resume abortion services in Sheboygan
- Planned Parenthood decision to resume abortions could face legal challenge
- Capitol Connection: Proposal to fund stadium renovations
- Legalizing marijuana: Democratic leader proposes new bill for recreational use
- Republicans introduce resolution to impeach state's top election official
- Republicans, Gov. Evers split on child care funding after special session
- Republicans seek updated abortion laws amid legal battle, Planned Parenthood resuming services
- GOP unveils $700 million Brewers stadium bill to keep team until 2050, here's how lawmakers are reacting
- State elections officer doubts vote to fire her will restore trust in elections
- Senate vote to fire state's election officer Meagan Wolfe triggers lawsuit
- Vos asks former justices to review impeachment framework, Senate GOP leader not involved
- GOP proposes nonpartisan redistricting process, a plan Evers calls 'bogus'
- GOP-led committee recommends firing elections chief Meagan Wolfe
- Senate committee schedules vote on Wisconsin's chief election officer
- Senate GOP leader doesn't rule out impeachment
- Gov. Evers defends not having policy against supervisors dating staffers
- Hundreds of union workers celebrate Milwaukee's Laborfest
- Knodl doubles down on impeachment as GOP ramps up attacks against Justice Protasiewicz
- State's top election official praised by supporters, targeted by election deniers as job remains in limbo
- Vos says GOP would consider impeachment if Justice Protasiewicz doesn't sit out redistricting cases
- Who will benefit the most from debate performances?
- Key moments from Milwaukee's GOP debate
- Democrats launch media blitz in Wisconsin to counter GOP debate
- How beneficial will Milwaukee's GOP debate be for voters? Experts weigh in
- 'The best birthday present I could ever have': Madison man declared top Earnest Hemingway lookalike
- Milwaukee prepares to host 7,000 visitors for GOP debate, RNC meeting and vendor fair
- CDC director visits Wisconsin to promote school-based immunizations, restore trust in vaccines
- State GOP chair named in latest Trump indictment, here's what we know
- Biden, GOP presidential candidates to descend on Milwaukee for dueling events
- Capitol Connection: American Family Field renovation plan
- Why removing a state Supreme Court justice from office is not an easy task, slim chances of success
- 'Win or lose, I don't care': Leader of college Republicans launches U.S. Senate bid against Baldwin
- Chief justice speaks out after new liberal court strips powers, weighs in on legal options
- Madison chefs celebrate James Beard Award for best in the Midwest
- Capitol Connection: New WI Supreme Court Justice sworn in
- VP Kamala Harris makes visit to southeast Wisconsin, touts broadband and job expansion
- Progressives file new lawsuit challenging state's political maps, director of state courts fired
- Liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz sworn into State Supreme Court
- Democrats seek to capitalize on new liberal majority on state's high court, conservatives warn swift action could backfire
- 'Get the F - up': Wisconsin Congressman Van Orden curses, yells at high school students during Capitol tour
- GOP presidential candidates hope to make gains during debate with or without Trump, pollster says
- Here's why some school officials are slamming Evers for increasing school aid for 400 years
- Republicans propose election bills amid new early voting push
- 'Earth-shattering event': Republicans brace for busy summer ahead of 2024 convention
- 'It will be very difficult for him to say no': Reince Priebus predicts Trump will attend GOP primary debate
- Special election Tuesday: The candidates for the 24th Assembly District
- Evers, Vos both want larger tax cuts but remain divided on the issue
- Republicans renew push to ban transgender girls, women from competing in sports
- What does Milwaukee's new sales tax apply to? What's exempt?
- Sales tax debate shifts to Milwaukee County: Here's what you need to know
- 5-year anniversary of Sun Prairie explosion, community reflects on deadly blast
- EXPLAINER: How a budget veto increased school funding by 400+ years
- Gov. Evers signs state budget into law with few dozen vetoes to boost school aid, reduce tax cuts
- Fallout continues over Wolfe's future as Wisconsin's top election official
- Senate proposes last-minute resolution to force vote on chief elections officer
- Senate Republicans pass state budget, reject Democrats' proposed changes
- GOP lawmakers propose guaranteed UW admission program for high schoolers without additional revenue for campuses
- Elections commission deadlocked on reappointing Wisconsin's top election official
- Lawmakers to vote on state budget, here's what's in and out of the spending plan
- Republicans propose $3.5 billion income tax cuts, slash UW System diversity funding
- Assembly passes bills to overhaul alcohol industry, help kids learn to read
- Pharmacists could prescribe birth control under bill approved by lawmakers
- Evers signs shared revenue bill, here's what the new law means for Milwaukee and the possible legal challenge ahead
- Republicans open to deeper cuts at UW System related to diversity efforts
- Sweeping local government funding bill heads to Gov. Evers' desk
- 'That was some BS': Democrats, teacher unions unhappy with school funding compromise
- Evers, Republicans reach deal on shared revenue. Why it could be a lifeline for Milwaukee
- Republicans propose $50M bill to help kids read, state's top education official opposes aspects of it
- GOP leaders threaten to remove Milwaukee lifeline if deal on local government funding bill isn't reached
- Bipartisan bills seek to combat voter fraud, address voting concerns in battleground state
- Kaul makes pitch for crime lab funding as lawmakers craft state budget
- Thousands fill the streets of Milwaukee for annual Pride Parade
- Finance Committee OK's $2M to help Packers host NFL draft
- Bills targeting sexual assault procedures at Wisconsin National Guard receive public hearing
- Gov. Evers: State agencies prepping to return federal COVID aid under debt deal
- Low inventory, competition driving up home prices -- here are the bills Republicans say could help the problem
- Democrats hold roundtable on paid family leave after Republicans reject proposal
- New bill targets sexual harassment at schools