Democrats flip a historically Republican State Senate seat in an election the embattled governor of Wisconsin tried to block.

When a Democratic candidate wins, it’s about the Wisconsin people, not the Democratic Party.

Despite Democrats capturing a State Senate seat they haven’t held for four decades, a Green Bay-based Republican strategist rejects the notion that the results of a pair of legislative special elections Tuesday foreshadow a “blue wave” of Democratic dominance coming in the fall elections.

Sykes talks with The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack and Jonathan V. Last about Tuesday’s GOP primaries in Virginia and South Carolina.

Wisconsin’s Constitution doesn’t allow sports betting, but that could change.

Milwaukee’s arrest rate in murder cases outpaces that of most other large U.S. cities.

In the last two years, the federal government has passed two major pieces of legislation to combat this crisis. In 2016, Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. Earlier this year, we allocated nearly $4 billion toward opioid abuse prevention and treatment as part of a broader government funding package.

Among the hardest hit have been the state’s public school teachers. Not only were they required to pick up a significant portion of their health insurance and pension costs, Act 10 also significantly hamstrung local school districts from raising some revenue on their own even as the state cut $750 million from public education while enacting tax breaks for many of the state’s big businesses.

When deciding on a political strategy, candidates should revert back to first principles. Target metaphors do not cause violence. Being indecent is bad for our culture. Celebrities don’t have magical powers. Have some discipline and reject the bogus tricks you once mocked.

The way Wisconsin pays for schools is unfair, inequitable and antiquated.