State Superintendent Tony Evers won against a crowded Democratic field for the right to take on Republican Gov. Scott Walker in November, while GOP Sen. Leah Vukmir beat business consultant and former Marine Kevin Nicholson in the GOP U.S. Senate
The Associated Press is projecting that Tony Evers has won the Dem nomination for guv. The AP also has projected UW Regent Bryan Steil will win the GOP nomination for the 1st CD. Meanwhile, Dem Reps. Fred Kessler and Josh
Voters headed to polls across the state today to narrow the field for several offices. Voters faced a decision to choose a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and finalists for lt. governor, state treasurer and secretary of state,
State DPI Superintendent Tony Evers appears to be the favorite heading into the Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday, two Wisconsin political writers said. John Nichols of The Capital Times and Christian Schneider of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel appeared Sunday
The Dem guv candidates put down Gov. Scott Walker and highlighted their liberal credentials in what was likely their last candidate forum ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Seven of the eight seven contenders sought to distinguish themselves from the field in
Democratic gubernatorial candidates took different approaches to funding public schools at a Madison forum ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin told the Madison audience he’d want to reduce public education’s reliance on the property tax for funding and
Gov. Scott Walker knocked several Dem guv candidates for proposing to halve the state’s prison population, calling the position dangerous and based on a myth that the state’s prisons are primarily filled with non-violent drug offenders. But Dems fired back,
JFC Co-chair Alberta Darling says Senate Republicans “probably don’t” have the votes right now to pass an incentive package to encourage Kimberly-Clark to keep jobs in Wisconsin. But she said at a panel discussion during WMC’s Policy Day 2018 Monday
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she feels good about her re-election bid but “things could change any moment.” “I am number one on a list that nobody wants to be number one on, and that is super PAC, outside special
The head of Arkansas’ economic development agency said the Foxconn-like incentives Wisconsin is considering in an attempt to keep open a Kimberly-Clark plant is “unprecedented” for jobs that already exist. The Wisconsin package is part of an effort to keep
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State schools Superintendent Tony Evers is calling for indexing the revenue limit to inflation and making changes to the way 4-year-old kindergarten is covered as part of his agency’s budget recommendations. The proposals in the Department of Public Instruction’s budget
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin isn’t backing away from her support of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-all plan after a new study from a libertarian policy center found it would boost government health spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years. Still, the
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he’s more optimistic that the Trump administration will resolve its international trade disputes, and that the president understands the pain the situation is causing in agricultural and manufacturing states. Johnson, who early last week
Republican U.S. Senate candidate frontrunners Leah Vukmir and Kevin Nicholson backed President Trump and touted their conservative credentials in a televised debate tonight ahead of next month’s primary. But Vukmir lamented the controversial border policy. “We shouldn’t be separating children
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GOP Sen. Roger Roth is pushing for a quick Senate vote on a tax incentive package for Kimberly-Clark after the company indicated it was open to accepting state help to keep open a Fox Valley factory. The Appleton Republican also
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Dem guv candidate Matt Flynn is continuing to defend his work for the Milwaukee Archdiocese, insisting reporters were misreading a deposition from the former archbishop in which he testified the lawyer kept a list of priest accused of sexually abusing
