Special Report: Wisconsin Year in Politics Review
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Marquette hires Cara Consuegra as women’s basketball coach
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’There’s going to be a void’: MPS eliminates 4 trauma specialist...
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’We are going to need continuous support’: 6 hometown organizations...
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Milwaukee Bucks reveal 2024 playoff merch
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VISIT Milwaukee preview: April 19-21
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Democrat Peter Barca launches 1st Congressional Bid
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More human remains found in South Milwaukee, believed to belong...
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It’s National Garden Month; when should Wisconsinites start...
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Art festival returning to Mitchell Park Domes to close out April
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Financial advisor talks Financial Literacy Month
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Another day of showers before a dry weekend
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Milwaukee Admirals
WISCONSIN (CBS 58) -- 2018 was a year of big accomplishments and big changes.
It was all smiles from Wisconsin leaders and Vice President Mike Pence when Foxconn inked a deal to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin.
House Speaker Paul Ryan achieved one of his lifelong goals a month later, passing the most dramatic overhaul of the tax code in 30 years.
Things quickly shifted for Republicans, Democrats flipped a State Senate Seat in a special election.
Governor Scott Walker tweeted that it was a wake up call. He then gave a State of the State speech Democrats criticized as shifting his priorities in an election year.
In March, the state passed $100 million in school safety funding and shut down Lincoln Hills.
In April, Paul Ryan shocked the world, saying he would carry on as speaker until January.
The stage was then set for one of the biggest wins for Wisconsin Democrats in a decade.
After edging out a field of seven Democrats in a primary, Tony Evers defeated Scott Walker, ending his run of governor at eight years.
Evers and new lawmakers will be sworn in in January.
Both the Senate and Assembly kept their Republican majorities so Wisconsin will begin its first era of divided Government since 2011.