David Blaska: Does Trump help or hurt Tiffany?
That Democrats have any chance at all there is owing and due to fear and loathing of Donald Trump.
Tom Still: Focus is back on Wisconsin’s decentralized election process
While no system is perfect, the decentralized administration of all elections in Wisconsin comes with multiple checks and balances – mainly because much of the work is done by ordinary people in cities, counties, villages and towns. These supervised poll workers are largely volunteers accountable to their own communities.
Michael Lucas: LeMahieu: Two more senators’ support would send surplus deal to governor
The surplus deal, which failed to pass in the Senate last month, may not be dead.
Patrick McIlheran: Why did New Richmond’s bathroom policy make girls give way?
School district now faces lawsuit and federal investigation
Dave Zweifel: Paying tribute to Wisconsin’s ‘last progressive’
Among my collection of books on Wisconsin’s famed Progressive Party and the family of “Fighting Bob” La Follette is one by professor Patrick Maney, an acclaimed historian and accomplished author who grew up in Wisconsin and recently retired from the history faculty at Boston College.
Jake Leigh: We must do everything in our power to keep families together
As an evangelical Christian, it is important to me that our immigration policies do everything they reasonably can to keep families together. But it’s not just me.
Bill Barth: For engaged (and, maybe, enraged) citizens
If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weaker. Standing up to power is hard to replicate.
Scott Walker: Good riddance to CBS News’ Scott Pelley
The firing is a step toward restoring public trust in media.
Jamie Stiehm: After Trump, we can never go back to the past
The Founding Fathers had plenty of flaws. But they would never believe this would come to pass in the republic they cherished. They had standards. They would weep with me. All in time for the Fourth of July, the nation’s 250th birthday.
Dept. of Transportation: Ferry, river traffic to close for center span install for new WIS 82 / IA 9 Mississippi River Bridge
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), together with the Iowa Department of Transportation, are announcing a key milestone in the IA 9 / WIS 82 Mississippi River Bridge project. The center span of the new bridge will be installed on Thursday,
Edvest 529: Plan reaches $7 billion in assets
MADISON, Wis. – June 5, 2026 – Wisconsin’s Edvest 529 college savings plan has achieved a major milestone in reaching $7 billion in assets under management. The growth has prompted another reduction in the plan’s plan manager fee to just 0.04%
DCCC: Statement on Trump’s visit to the Chippewa Valley in WI-03
Ahead of Trump’s visit to the Chippewa Valley today, DCCC spokesperson Katie Smith released the following statement: “Derrick Van Orden hauls in his elite friends from Washington to remind Wisconsin families the reason why they’re hurting: because Van Orden does
Karas campaign: Democrats try to kick Green Party candidate off the ballot. He’s not having it.
MUSKEGO, WI — Pete Karas filed his nomination papers to run for Wisconsin Secretary of State as a Green Party candidate. Today, someone hired a law firm to make sure you never get to vote for him. A verified challenge was
A Better Wisconsin Together: Who’s looking out for rural Wisconsinites? Hint: It’s not Tom Tiffany or Donald Trump
MADISON, Wis. — In anticipation of Trump’s visit to Wisconsin today, A Better Wisconsin Together is setting the record straight on how the MAGA agenda has devastated rural Wisconsin communities, all thanks to Trump’s Badger State Bestie Tom Tiffany. “Donald Trump
Van Orden campaign: Wisconsin farmers can’t afford Rebecca Cooke’s anti-energy allies
LA CROSSE, WI. – Rebecca Cooke has built her campaign around her family’s farm story, but her CCP-linked, anti-energy allies undercuts her claims to be a champion for agriculture and rural Wisconsin. Cooke is backed by the Natural Resources Defense