Plouff campaign: Announces Caden Berg as campaign manager
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Harris campaign: Wisconsin local leaders praise VP Harris’ support of small businesses, warn of Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda
On Friday in Merrill, Green Bay and Superior, local leaders and small business owners gathered to highlight Vice President Harris’ new proposals to bolster small businesses and call out Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda that will favor wealthy corporations at the
John Nichols: Tommy Thompson had the right formula in 1994 campaign
Thirty years ago this fall, Tommy Thompson built one of the most remarkable electoral coalitions in Wisconsin history.
Bill Kaplan: Liz and Dick Cheney endorse Harris
Former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney put country over party.
Larry Tye: Dear Kamala: There’s a middle ground, and you can claim it
Show us you’re Bobby Kennedy’s kind of tough liberal — or perhaps tender conservative — which is precisely what we need to stitch back together this divided land.
Jessica McBride: Reagan movie review: Why the elite, snobby film critics are wrong
Was Ronald Reagan perfect? No. But he was the perfect man for the time. Was the Reagan movie perfect? No. But it’s the perfect movie for THIS time.
Gregory Humphrey: What happened to modern-day Republican Party?
Can you imagine the Republican titans of the 20th century coming back and hearing these outrageous comments?
Barry Burden: A big problem with Electoral College is often overlooked
Dumping the Electoral College would have a variety of consequences, but it would immediately remove opportunities for disrupting elections via battleground states.
William Osmulski: Tammy Baldwin’s stolen valor problem
She’s lied about protecting the American steel industry and union pensions, but now Baldwin’s lying about helping veterans and that really crosses the line.
Oliver Willis: Another GOP Senate candidate caught pushing a rags-to-riches lie
In 1987, a year after graduating from college, Hovde and his father, Donald Hovde, launched Hovde Financial. And the elder Hovde had connections at the highest level of American politics.
Dave Zweifel: Ron DeSantis employs Scott Walker playbook on car chargers
If Florida shuns the federal money, its taxpayers are essentially funding EV chargers in other states, like California and New York, just as Wisconsin taxpayers did when Walker rejected the train money.
Michelle Bryant: Must it always come back to slavery
Legacy of segregation and Jim Crow still impacts Black lives.
John Pelletier: Personal finance teachers need training for Wisconsin’s literacy efforts to succeed
We face the additional challenge of ensuring that states have confident, competent educators to teach this critical subject.
David Blaska: Madison’s police chief calls for reinstating school resource officers
Don’t get excited. It’s not going to happen.
Hovde campaign: Calls on Sen. Baldwin to disclose her partner’s assets and client list
MADISON — Following U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s years-long decision to withhold her life partner and New York City private wealth manager Maria Brisbane’s assets and client list from public view, the Hovde campaign is formally calling for Baldwin to disclose those