In 2011, Dane County accepted Dr. LaVar Charleston into the First Offenders Deferred Prosecution program after his felony arrest for the strangulation and suffocation of a Madison police officer.

And the Federal Reserve is making it worse.

Voter survey shows major concerns about our republic heading into midterms

Late in the evening, a federal appeals court handed down a blistering ruling that unleashed the Justice Department so to rightly resume using documents marked as classified that were seized from Donald Trump in the FBI search.

Changing our election laws is the first step in a well-orchestrated process to weaken and create distrust in American elections.

The calendars show the Democrat has often put in less than an eight-hour day over his term, much less a 40-hour week, doing the people’s business.

Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has it just right. Which makes him an unlikely ally for those who have been saying for years Wisconsin should allow the people to weigh in definitively on some of the state’s most contentious issues.

Mandela Barnes wants to bring them back.

The city of Milwaukee presents another budget with cuts to the police force.

The state polls released since Labor Day, in contrast with those released earlier this summer, have tended to show Republicans in a somewhat healthier position in key Senate races.

For Biden, a month of woes, then a suspicious surge of popularity.

Enthusiasm for royalty often gives way to enthusiasm for elitist arrangements in our economics and our politics.

My Republican colleagues have been suspiciously quiet this summer about two proposals they floated near the end of session that would take more from Wisconsin consumers and taxpayers.

This is the summer that the climate chickens came home to roost.

To celebrate National Voter Registration Day, we encourage all citizens to take the time to register to vote if you haven’t, double-check your voter registration to make sure it’s correct, and if you would like to early vote, order an absentee ballot to vote from home. You can do it all at: myvote.wi.gov.

Evers is trying to do what voters want him to do with the surplus. Unfortunately, he has been stonewalled by Republicans playing political games and trying to hurt the governor before the election in November.

Both Johnson and Michels are claiming their opponents, Barnes and Evers, are in favor of defunding the police.

I thought I was prepared for the ugly and racist ads that I figured the Republicans would be throwing at Mandela Barnes, but it’s just been disgusting to see.

Johnson pulls ahead of Barnes; Michels, Beglinger support tops Evers.

Breaking down races for governor and senator in this crucial swing state.