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$3.5 M & counting: Parties dump cash into race for SW Wisconsin Senate seat that pays $64k per year
Both parties are using a well-worn loophole – that the Legislature could close – to boost their candidate, creating a tsunami of advertising in the relatively small race.
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INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC: See how Wisconsin Republicans redrew the 33 state Senate districts to their advantage
Click where you live to see gerrymandering in action.
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30 officers who were fired or forced out back working as jail guards in Wisconsin
More than 500 jail officers have been fired or forced out across the state in past five years, including more than 200 in Milwaukee County. Counties are struggling to fill…
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Nearly 200 Wisconsin officers back on the job after being fired or forced out
Nearly 200 law enforcement officers currently employed in the state were fired from previous jobs in law enforcement, resigned in lieu of termination or quit before completion of an internal…
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Tiffany among 14 House members to oppose making Juneteenth a holiday
Every other U.S. House member from Wisconsin – Republican and Democrat – voted in favor of making the day celebrating the end of slavery in the U.S. a federal holiday.
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Republican redistricting put Fitzgerald brothers – who live 13 miles apart – in different congressional districts
Experts call it “shenanigans,” “different species of gerrymandering”
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BEFORE AND AFTER: See how Wisconsin Republicans redrew the state’s congressional districts to their advantage
The Badger Project has put together a side-by-side comparison of how the eight Congressional Districts changed in the 2011 redistricting process to show how Republicans gave themselves a partisan advantage.