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On this week's episode, WisPolitics.com's JR Ross and WisconsinEye's Steve Walters discuss the results of Tuesday’s Supreme Court election, a $30,000 settlement the state reached after Republican Rep. Dale Kooyenga removed a sign in the Capitol rotunda and the impact on Wisconsin of a potential trade war with China.

On this week's episode, WisPolitics.com's JR Ross and WisconsinEye's Steve Walters discuss House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to not seek re-election, Gov. SCOTT WALKER’s welfare overhaul package and the guv’s pledge to send Wisconsin troops to the nation’s southern border.

On this week's episode, WisPolitics.com's JR Ross and WisconsinEye's Steve Walters discuss Gov. Scott Walker’s signing of a $100 per-child tax rebate and state sales tax holiday; the guv’s race, legislative special elections, the passing of civil rights pioneer and former Secretary of State Vel Phillips and more.

On this week's episode, WisPolitics.com's JR Ross and the Capital Times’ Jessie Opoien discuss Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Milwaukee; the GOP U.S. Senate debate; and Gov. Scott Walker's campaign going up on the air next week for its first TV ad buy of the race.

Conservative commentator and author Charlie Sykes called House Speaker Paul Ryan a “decent man in an indecent era,” and said he wasn’t surprised by...

State DPI Superintendent Tony Evers said he’s leading the large field of Democrats running for governor and it's a "one-person" race at this point....

Madison businessman Eric Hovde, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 2012, said he has decided against running for Senate this year. "After wrestling with...

Tom Steyer, the California hedge fund billionaire who launched NextGen America, said the group will have a large presence in Wisconsin to engage and...

A Democratic candidate for governor, Rep. Dana Wachs, said the Walker administration has invested "too much in one company" in the Foxconn deal, and...

Milwaukee County Judge Rebecca Dallet called her victory a message from voters that the special interests can’t buy a seat on the state Supreme...

The Elections Commission has unanimously approved a plan for accepting $7 million in federal elections security funds. The funding is intended to help the commission...

The state Ethics Commission is taking public testimony today on whether to allow Wisconsin campaigns to accept cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoins. In February, the chair...

Vel Phillips, a civil rights leader and the first African-American woman elected to statewide office in Wisconsin, has died, according to Dem officials. She...

PEWAUKEE -- GOP U.S. Senate candidates Leah Vukmir and Kevin Nicholson got into a heated exchange over conservative credentials and respect for military service...

UW-Colleges and Extension Chancellor Cathy Sandeen told the Board of Regents Thursday it will need more than a year to phase out the 50-year-old...

A case involving a former Marquette University professor asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to determine the limits of free speech at private universities. Justices heard...

The Elections Commission isn't making any turnout predictions as voters today choose the next state Supreme Court justice and weigh in on a constitutional...

Gov. Scott Walker on Monday was firm in squashing the idea he might join the Trump administration sometime this term or next, adding he...

Gov. Scott Walker says he welcomes "President Donald Trump's aggressive actions to secure our nation's southern border" and stands ready to commit Wisconsin National...

Gov. Scott Walker used his veto pen to extend the August sales tax holiday from two to five days. In a partial veto message the...