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No matter who Democrats wind up nominating for governor, they’re already backed up against their own goal line against Republican Tom Tiffany.
Experts from both parties weigh in. And where does this leave Democrats?
The ‘blob’ of the Democratic Party organization is the problem, and solution, he says.
Wikler probably knows more than anyone about what it takes for Democrats to win elections in Wisconsin, and he seemed to betray a real worry.
A conversation with Ben Wikler.
If you buy property and hold legal title to it but cannot exercise practical authority or control over that property, do you really own it?
Every year thousands of people fall prey to the whims of their local assessor. Even if you’ve made no improvements to your home, and even if local levy limits stay the same, your property tax bill can still go up.
But only a minority of counties use existing capabilities to send messages automatically
A rescission from the Trump administration that would strip Biden-era protections from LGBTQ+ children in the foster care system.
City Attorney Evan Goyke can help.
My party is being very much my party. Just as its crowded gubernatorial primary was coalescing around the candidate most likely to win in November, that candidate’s campaign stumbled hard, her less electable opponents pounced and, just like that, somebody else will get the nomination.
There was a unity of sorts as collectively we gawked at a political plot twist so strange, so unexpected, and so oddly compelling that everyone from the most dyed‑in‑the‑wool conservative in Waukesha to the most caffeinated liberal on Madison’s isthmus paused and said, “Wait… what?”
This is positively Shakespearean. What a wild ride of a governor’s race. You have Gov. Tony Evers as the aging King Lear, who fatally miscalculated when deciding how to divide his kingdom upon retirement, possibly pushing a guy who already quit back into the race over his former lieutenant governor, Mandela Barnes.
New-on-the-scene businessman Jon Aleckson is making a serious challenge to win the 50th AD.
As the head of the Wisconsin Hospital Association, I can personally guarantee that you will find a “Price Transparency” link on the front page of every Wisconsin hospital website.
The decision to remove Flock cameras from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus demonstrates that Wisconsin’s public-sector unions can still have an impact, even with Act 10 still on the books.
Trump has restarted and escalated his endless Iran War in a flurry of death, lawlessness and stupidity.
The Exonerated Five have long been cleared in the eyes of the law, but accountability also means acknowledging the rhetoric that helped shape one of the nation’s most infamous wrongful convictions.
Florida has long had a high execution rate, but in January 2025, DeSantis, a Trump acolyte, began signing death warrants at an accelerated rate. What followed, Times reporter Pamela Colloff tells us, was the busiest period of executions in more than eight decades.
Apparently, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was so entranced by the prospect of being able to shovel “real money” to his boss, patron and former client Donald Trump, that he ignored the ethical obligations that govern his conduct as a lawyer.
No matter who Democrats wind up nominating for governor, they’re already backed up against their own goal line against Republican Tom Tiffany.
Experts from both parties weigh in. And where does this leave Democrats?
The ‘blob’ of the Democratic Party organization is the problem, and solution, he says.
Wikler probably knows more than anyone about what it takes for Democrats to win elections in Wisconsin, and he seemed to betray a real worry.
A conversation with Ben Wikler.
If you buy property and hold legal title to it but cannot exercise practical authority or control over that property, do you really own it?
Every year thousands of people fall prey to the whims of their local assessor. Even if you’ve made no improvements to your home, and even if local levy limits stay the same, your property tax bill can still go up.
But only a minority of counties use existing capabilities to send messages automatically
A rescission from the Trump administration that would strip Biden-era protections from LGBTQ+ children in the foster care system.
City Attorney Evan Goyke can help.
My party is being very much my party. Just as its crowded gubernatorial primary was coalescing around the candidate most likely to win in November, that candidate’s campaign stumbled hard, her less electable opponents pounced and, just like that, somebody else will get the nomination.
There was a unity of sorts as collectively we gawked at a political plot twist so strange, so unexpected, and so oddly compelling that everyone from the most dyed‑in‑the‑wool conservative in Waukesha to the most caffeinated liberal on Madison’s isthmus paused and said, “Wait… what?”
This is positively Shakespearean. What a wild ride of a governor’s race. You have Gov. Tony Evers as the aging King Lear, who fatally miscalculated when deciding how to divide his kingdom upon retirement, possibly pushing a guy who already quit back into the race over his former lieutenant governor, Mandela Barnes.
New-on-the-scene businessman Jon Aleckson is making a serious challenge to win the 50th AD.
As the head of the Wisconsin Hospital Association, I can personally guarantee that you will find a “Price Transparency” link on the front page of every Wisconsin hospital website.
The decision to remove Flock cameras from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus demonstrates that Wisconsin’s public-sector unions can still have an impact, even with Act 10 still on the books.
Trump has restarted and escalated his endless Iran War in a flurry of death, lawlessness and stupidity.
The Exonerated Five have long been cleared in the eyes of the law, but accountability also means acknowledging the rhetoric that helped shape one of the nation’s most infamous wrongful convictions.
Florida has long had a high execution rate, but in January 2025, DeSantis, a Trump acolyte, began signing death warrants at an accelerated rate. What followed, Times reporter Pamela Colloff tells us, was the busiest period of executions in more than eight decades.
Apparently, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was so entranced by the prospect of being able to shovel “real money” to his boss, patron and former client Donald Trump, that he ignored the ethical obligations that govern his conduct as a lawyer.
