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(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill on a voice vote Wednesday afternoon that would fund WisconsinEye with more than $585,000 in taxpayer funds for the next year while collecting requests for proposal for a public affairs network.
The proposals must be submitted by June 30.
Sen. Mark Spreitzer, D-Beloit, called the compromise between parties on Senate Bill 994 true bipartisan work that worked toward a solution after what he called a “breach of contract” when WisconsinEye took its archives off its website along with stopping production of new meeting coverage Dec. 15.
When asked for the reason WisEye was taking the archives off its site, WisEye President and CEO Jon Henkes told The Center Square that taking the more than 30,000 hours of archives offline is to show donors the value of WisconsinEye’s work and the fiscal situation for the company.
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