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Barry Burden: Accurately counting all ballots by hand is next to impossible

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.

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Lena Taylor: Take me out to the ball game, not out of the game

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.

Read More »

Bill Lueders: Protect the press against bogus lawsuits

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.

Read More »

John Torinus: Biden, Trump out of bounds on UAW strike

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.

Read More »
Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Grothman impeaches House GOP

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.”

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Dave Zweifel: ‘Cruel and stupid’ decisions erase dent in child poverty

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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

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Fitzgerald releases statement after passing of appropriations bills

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
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Republican National Convention planners on the road to securing 14,000 hotel rooms

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
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Prosser refuses to disclose names of others looking at impeachment

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
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UW professor quietly resigned after ‘falsifying grades,’ then taught at UWM

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
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Milwaukee County seeing a ‘significant’ uptick in its homeless population

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
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Most Wisconsin heating bills could decline from last year, but remain ‘near record levels’

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
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Planned Parenthood aiming to resume abortions in Sheboygan in face of prosecution risk

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s leader says the organization is working to soon resume abortions in Sheboygan County, despite DA Joel Urmanski indicating he would consider prosecuting providers under the state’s 1849 law currently before the courts.

Read More »

MON AM Update: Fitzgerald, Tiffany vote against funding bill to avert government shutdown

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — GOP U.S. Reps. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany voted against a 45-day funding bill to keep the federal government open. The rest of Wisconsin’s members of the

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Dave Zweifel: For GOP, ‘election integrity’ means lying about elections

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

The Senate’s bogus vote last week to remove Wolfe was bad enough before five GOP election deniers in the Assembly floated a notion to impeach her.

Read More »

Ruth Conniff: Learning from Bob Menendez and Robin Vos

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

Vos has made national news recently for his threats to impeach newly elected Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she dares to help the Court’s new liberal majority overturn the Republicans’ gerrymandered maps.

Read More »

Scott Walker: GOP presidential primary cycle is over

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

Second Republican debate did nothing to alter Trump’s dominance.

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Dan O’Donnell: The debate we all deserved

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

Is this really what conservatives want? Another show? If so, debates like Thursday night’s are the ones we deserve.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Transgender youth used as culture war issue in GOP ‘debate’

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

Striking the buzzword as an appeal for cash donations for their struggling, and in some cases utterly impotent campaigns, the candidates attacked transgender people.

Read More »
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Ron Malzer: Electing Trump would advance worldwide authoritarianism

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

If Donald Trump were elected, it would weaken the Western alliance and strengthen ties with autocracies like Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Read More »

Barry Burden: Accurately counting all ballots by hand is next to impossible

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.

Read More »

Lena Taylor: Take me out to the ball game, not out of the game

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.

Read More »

Bill Lueders: Protect the press against bogus lawsuits

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.

Read More »

John Torinus: Biden, Trump out of bounds on UAW strike

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.

Read More »
Portrait of John Nichols

John Nichols: Grothman impeaches House GOP

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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.”

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: ‘Cruel and stupid’ decisions erase dent in child poverty

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

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

Read More »

Fitzgerald releases statement after passing of appropriations bills

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
Read More »

Republican National Convention planners on the road to securing 14,000 hotel rooms

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
Read More »

Prosser refuses to disclose names of others looking at impeachment

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
Read More »

UW professor quietly resigned after ‘falsifying grades,’ then taught at UWM

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
Read More »

Milwaukee County seeing a ‘significant’ uptick in its homeless population

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
Read More »

Most Wisconsin heating bills could decline from last year, but remain ‘near record levels’

Monday, Oct 2, 2023
Read More »

Planned Parenthood aiming to resume abortions in Sheboygan in face of prosecution risk

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s leader says the organization is working to soon resume abortions in Sheboygan County, despite DA Joel Urmanski indicating he would consider prosecuting providers under the state’s 1849 law currently before the courts.

Read More »

MON AM Update: Fitzgerald, Tiffany vote against funding bill to avert government shutdown

Monday, Oct 2, 2023

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — GOP U.S. Reps. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany voted against a 45-day funding bill to keep the federal government open. The rest of Wisconsin’s members of the House and Senate supported the bill as it moved through

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: For GOP, ‘election integrity’ means lying about elections

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

The Senate’s bogus vote last week to remove Wolfe was bad enough before five GOP election deniers in the Assembly floated a notion to impeach her.

Read More »

Ruth Conniff: Learning from Bob Menendez and Robin Vos

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

Vos has made national news recently for his threats to impeach newly elected Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she dares to help the Court’s new liberal majority overturn the Republicans’ gerrymandered maps.

Read More »

Scott Walker: GOP presidential primary cycle is over

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

Second Republican debate did nothing to alter Trump’s dominance.

Read More »

Dan O’Donnell: The debate we all deserved

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

Is this really what conservatives want? Another show? If so, debates like Thursday night’s are the ones we deserve.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Transgender youth used as culture war issue in GOP ‘debate’

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

Striking the buzzword as an appeal for cash donations for their struggling, and in some cases utterly impotent campaigns, the candidates attacked transgender people.

Read More »
Capital Times logo

Ron Malzer: Electing Trump would advance worldwide authoritarianism

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

If Donald Trump were elected, it would weaken the Western alliance and strengthen ties with autocracies like Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Read More »
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