There are more than 100,000 more people enrolled in Medicaid in Wisconsin now than before COVID struck. Wisconsin Medicaid director Bill Hanna spoke at a Wisconsin Health News Newsmaker event Tuesday. He said while Wisconsin’s Medicaid enrollments are down from their peak, more people are receiving government health care now than before the pandemic.

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The outgoing state representative in the town of Summit is asking for legislative hearings into the mix up that had people there voting in the wrong statehouse race. Rep. Angie Sapik, R-Lake Nebagamon, on Wednesday called for an information hearing in front of the Assembly’s Committee on Campaigns and Elections because some voters were given ballots with the wrong Assembly district. Sapik said the recent redistricting caused “confusion,” and had the clerk send the wrong ballots to some voters in the Assembly’s 73rd and 74th districts.

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Voters in Wisconsin haven’t changed their minds in a while about their elected leaders in Madison. The latest Marquette Law School Poll shows the approval ratings for Gov. Tony Evers and the legislature are relatively unchanged. Pollsters say 51% of voters approve of Gov. Evers’ job performance, while 44% disapprove. Those numbers are largely the same as they were in the Marquette Polls from June, April, January and even November.

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