On Aug. 23, 2020, a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake as he scuffled with law enforcement officers in one of several incidents that rocked the nation last summer. Riots that occurred in the ensuing days brought violence, destruction, and the national spotlight to the small Wisconsin city. The Washington Examiner recently went back to Kenosha to … Continued
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin is beginning the process to remove 188,000 people from the state’s voting rolls. The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Wednesday voted to send postcards to people who haven’t voted in the past four years. Anyone who doesn’t return their postcard will eventually be removed from the voter registration list. Assembly elections … Continued
The legal fight over Wisconsin’s next political map is escalating, and lawmakers haven’t even begun to draw them yet. A judge in Madison on Thursday canceled the contracts between Republican lawmakers and private lawyers they hired to help draw the maps. Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke ruled lawmakers overstepped when they signed a deal … Continued
The Biden administration’s loosening of restrictions on the use of fetal tissue in research will allow UW-Madison scientists to continue such studies, which opponents have tried several times to ban in Wisconsin. After the Trump administration suspended federal funding for most fetal tissue research in 2019, it set up a new advisory board that rejected all but … Continued
A top GOP senator is demanding to know why the U.S. Capitol Police claimed Officer Brian Sicknick suffered mortal injuries while on duty and after clashing with protesters during the Capitol riot in light of the District of Columbia’s chief medical examiner’s ruling that Sicknick died of natural causes. The Capitol Police announced Sicknick, 42, died … Continued
Perspective by Dan O’Donnell “Policing in our country is inherently and intentionally racist,” Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib tweeted Monday in a predictably hysterical response to a deadly officer-involved shooting in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. On Sunday, while arresting 20-year-old Daunte Wright for an outstanding warrant, Officer Kim Potter fired a single shot at Wright as he wrestled with … Continued
Nobody in Washington seems to care about the long-term burdens of debt and dependency. By Ron Johnson Where has all the money gone? Where will all the money go? No one really knows. Few seem to care. I left the private sector in 2010 to campaign for the U.S. Senate. I began serving in 2011, … Continued
But for the Covid pandemic and the subsequent push for mail-in ballots, and former President Donald Trump would have likely been reelected and Republicans may have even won back the House of Representatives and kept the U.S. Senate. If the swing states of Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin, whose total 43,000 vote swings favored President Joe Biden … Continued
MADISON, Wis.—Kris Teske was forced to put up with a lot of outside meddling in the weeks and months leading up to November’s presidential election. But as an election official, the frustrated city clerk of Green Bay, Wisconsin, made it clear to her superior that she would not break the law, according to new emails … Continued
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Democratic voters should remain on the voter rolls even if they move. There are laws that require that you change your address if you move within the state and naturally if you leave the state you no longer need to remain on the rolls. There is also a … Continued
The strength of conservatism in Wisconsin has always rested in its grassroots, particularly in the WOW Counties, and last night once again proved its strength when it is well-organized and motivated….. Courts Those conservatives were, however, incredibly passionate about their support for Shelley Grogan in the Court of Appeals District 2 race, and she won … Continued
Budgets are about priorities, and Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal puts small businesses and the middle class pretty low on the list. Overall, Gov. Evers’ budget would increase taxes by a billion dollars over the next two years. He would decrease taxes by $536.2 million in other areas. Fees would go up $17.16 million. Evers also … Continued
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