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Four Wisconsin absentee voters have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state requirement that a witness sign their ballot envelopes, arguing it violates the federal Voting Rights Act.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement A Better Wisconsin Together From WisPolitics.com … — President Joe Biden’s campaign is launching a new TV ad in Wisconsin and other swing states that touts his middle-class background and efforts to cut costs. In

The 2024 Republican National Convention team has two recent additions: Rachel Reisner and Maria Giannopoulos. The Wisconsin natives are joining the RNC’s Committee on Arrangements staff as: Communications Director and Marketing and Digitial Director, respectively. Reisner is the former RPW

While investment activity in Wisconsin so far this year is faltering, one expert says there’s still time for “a nice uptick” in the coming months. The Tech Council has identified about $191 million in investment deals in 2023 — well

A terrible week for House Republicans, almost shutting down the government, abandoning Ukraine, theatrically launching an impeachment “inquiry” with no basis against President Biden. Democrats aren’t perfect, but it’s time to throw the GOP bums out.

We admire McCarthy for refusing to cave to the small minority that is the so-called “Freedom Caucus.” One of his supporters, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb) gave the money quote: “We’re tired of f–king around with these whack jobs.”

Whether it’s working to avoid a government shutdown or opposing dangerous policies that slash benefits for constituents like me, we need Congressman Van Orden to do the right thing.

If the Legislature is serious about public-informed, transparent, redistricting map selection, why not reopen its portal for a month and invite anyone to submit an Assembly map? This time, however, the Legislature needs to actually look at what is submitted.

Nearly every voter in next year’s presidential election will be casting votes either on paper or on an electronic machine that has a paper backup. And almost all of those ballots will be counted by a machine. This approach balances security, accuracy, speed and voter confidence — and still allows for selected hand counts after Election Day.

While Republicans want to force both the city and county of Milwaukee to help pay for stadium renovations, they wouldn’t necessarily have a seat on a new stadium board.

In 2010, the legislature put politics aside and passed a bipartisan shield law to protect journalists from revealing their sources. It should do so again to protect media outlets from being sued into oblivion — no matter who is doing the suing.

It is going to be hard to stay current on my list of reasons to vote for or against President Joe Biden and former president Trump in the 2024 presidential elections.

While some Republicans attempted to suggest that there was a point to their impeachment inquiry of Biden, Grothman in his opening statement simply admitted, “We have all kinds of smoke, maybe no fire.”

Once again, poor kids in America are struggling. We’ve rejoined the outliers among our peer nations.

Four Wisconsin absentee voters have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state requirement that a witness sign their ballot envelopes, arguing it violates the federal Voting Rights Act.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement A Better Wisconsin Together From WisPolitics.com … — President Joe Biden’s campaign is launching a new TV ad in Wisconsin and other swing states that touts his middle-class background and efforts to cut costs. In Wisconsin, the spot will run in the Green Bay, Madison

The 2024 Republican National Convention team has two recent additions: Rachel Reisner and Maria Giannopoulos. The Wisconsin natives are joining the RNC’s Committee on Arrangements staff as: Communications Director and Marketing and Digitial Director, respectively. Reisner is the former RPW Communications Director and Giannopoulos is a former Civics Outreach Manager

While investment activity in Wisconsin so far this year is faltering, one expert says there’s still time for “a nice uptick” in the coming months. The Tech Council has identified about $191 million in investment deals in 2023 — well below the year-end totals of $870 million in 2021 and

A terrible week for House Republicans, almost shutting down the government, abandoning Ukraine, theatrically launching an impeachment “inquiry” with no basis against President Biden. Democrats aren’t perfect, but it’s time to throw the GOP bums out.

We admire McCarthy for refusing to cave to the small minority that is the so-called “Freedom Caucus.” One of his supporters, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb) gave the money quote: “We’re tired of f–king around with these whack jobs.”

Whether it’s working to avoid a government shutdown or opposing dangerous policies that slash benefits for constituents like me, we need Congressman Van Orden to do the right thing.

If the Legislature is serious about public-informed, transparent, redistricting map selection, why not reopen its portal for a month and invite anyone to submit an Assembly map? This time, however, the Legislature needs to actually look at what is submitted.

Nearly every voter in next year’s presidential election will be casting votes either on paper or on an electronic machine that has a paper backup. And almost all of those ballots will be counted by a machine. This approach balances security, accuracy, speed and voter confidence — and still allows for selected hand counts after Election Day.

While Republicans want to force both the city and county of Milwaukee to help pay for stadium renovations, they wouldn’t necessarily have a seat on a new stadium board.

In 2010, the legislature put politics aside and passed a bipartisan shield law to protect journalists from revealing their sources. It should do so again to protect media outlets from being sued into oblivion — no matter who is doing the suing.

It is going to be hard to stay current on my list of reasons to vote for or against President Joe Biden and former president Trump in the 2024 presidential elections.

While some Republicans attempted to suggest that there was a point to their impeachment inquiry of Biden, Grothman in his opening statement simply admitted, “We have all kinds of smoke, maybe no fire.”

Once again, poor kids in America are struggling. We’ve rejoined the outliers among our peer nations.