While the attack ads fly in the races for governor and U.S. Senate, another battle is quietly taking place in Madison. The battle is over wedding barns.
The day after the Aug. 14 primary, Wisconsin’s two top gubernatorial candidates, their campaigns and their allies wasted no time in moving onto the general election campaign.
Three Republicans from northeastern Wisconsin are touting a plan to close the aging Green Bay Correctional Institution and replace it with a new facility.
Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Aug. 1 the Senate GOP caucus had a “productive” discussion over a plan to offer tax incentives to encourage Kimberly-Clark to keep a Fox Valley plant open.
Fourteen major-party challengers vying for a spot in the Wisconsin State Assembly outraised their incumbent opponents over the first six months of the year, a WisPolitics.com check of campaign finance reports found.
With the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate race only months away, Republicans are touting their fundraising advantage over Democrats. This edition of The Capitol Report follows the money leading up to the midterms.
The case of a Marquette University professor could have impact far beyond the Milwaukee campus. Some are saying universities everywhere should take notice.
When election-year politics start heating up, some government pros look the other way and focus on the upcoming state budget.
The Democrats’ loss of Wisconsin in the 2016 presidential election could bring the Democratic National Convention to Milwaukee in 2020.
District lines in Wisconsin won’t be changing for this year’s elections. But that isn’t stopping Democrats from keeping up the pressure.
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