Two Dems candidates are vying for the open 93rd AD seat, long held by retiring Republican Warren Petryk, in the hopes of flipping the district.
Two members of the Fitchburg City Council are running in the 47th AD primary for a heavily Dem seat, showing different positions on how surplus state money should be allocated.
Not all the Democratic candidates in Wisconsin’s 40th Assembly District support full marijuana legalization. Brad Cook, D-Pardeeville, said he would only support legalization for medical uses, for now, while Karen DeSanto, D-Baraboo, and Kyle Kunicki, D-Merrimac, both said they support
Amillia Heredia, 25, of Milwaukee is an intern with the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors working on getting her second masters degree from UW-Milwaukee. Sequanna Taylor, D-Milwaukee, 40, has served one term on the Milwaukee School Board.
Former state Rep. Joe Plouff, who served four terms from 1997 to 2005 and also spent time on the Menomonie City Council, is trying for a comeback. But first he’ll have to beat Caden Berg of Chippewa Falls, a manager
Two Democratic candidates, both former congressional candidates, are running in a primary for the heavily Dem 44th Assembly District seat in the Janesville area.
Milwaukee Public Schools Board Vice President Jilly Gokalgandhi says she is “not concerned” with missed deadlines in the district’s corrective action plan, adding she has “a lot of faith” in interim MPS Superintendent Eduardo Galvan to address the district’s issues.
“We had people all over the country, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, we had our county exec and our mayor on every national news outlet talking about how great Milwaukee is,” Visit Milwaukee’s president and CEO Peggy Williams-Smith told a WisPolitics-Milwaukee
In a “very conservative” estimate, Public Service Commission Chair Summer Strand at a WisPolitics luncheon Thursday said she believes every underserved and unserved location in Wisconsin would have broadband access by 2030.
Former GOP Gov. Tommy Thompson, who helped launch private school choice in Milwaukee three decades ago as a way to force change in public schools, called for a 90-day study committee to tackle the “emergency” at MPS.
“It is a big lift for us to flip 15 seats in one year, no question,” Neubauer said at Thursday’s luncheon. “Do I think we’re building the infrastructure to do it and have the candidates to do it? I do.
In February, New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein said President Joe Biden should step aside and let someone else be the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. That hasn’t happened. And now Klein says the odds of a real live nominating convention
Hesselbein said since the maps were signed into law, she has seen people who are excited to run for office in every corner of the state.
Gov. Tony Evers at a WisPolitics luncheon Tuesday said while he supports Iowa-styled redistricting, he has concerns a GOP proposal to implement the practice in Wisconsin wouldn’t guarantee a nonpartisan process.
On the heels of yet another two-year UW campus cutting back, the Universities of Wisconsin president says “we haven’t given up on those schools.”
