Politics
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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has become hyper political. The rise and fall of Michael Gableman’s career shows how that happened.
The former Supreme Court justice has agreed to surrender his law license after years of avoiding consequences for his behavior, including a previously unreported incident at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
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Green Bay area Republicans seek $1.25M from state to reimburse safety costs of NFL draft
About 250,000 people are expected to descend on Green Bay next week for the NFL draft. Republican lawmakers from the region say they’ll seek more than $1 million in the next state budget to reimburse local law enforcement agencies tasked with keeping it safe.
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How cuts impacting a federal climate report could affect Wisconsin’s disaster preparedness
“Thermometers don’t care who’s in office,” said Dan Vimont, a professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “By undercutting our ability to monitor and assess the current state of our world, we are disadvantaging ourselves economically, and we’re disadvantaging ourselves in our national security as well.”
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Future of federal energy assistance uncertain as Wisconsin’s moratorium on utility shutoffs ends
Wisconsin’s seasonal moratorium on utility shutoffs ends Tuesday, just weeks after the Trump administration fired all of the federal employees running a program that provides energy assistance to low-income households.
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Craft brewers, roofer talk Trump’s tariffs with Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Milwaukee
A brewery on the banks of the Milwaukee River hosted a roundtable discussion between tool distributors, farmers, roofers, craft brewers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Monday.
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The race to replace Ben Wikler as Wisconsin Democratic Party chair is shaping up
Three Democrats have already announced campaigns to succeed Wikler, who is credited with leading the party through a transformation.
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Madison clerk resigns after being placed on leave over uncounted ballots
The nearly 200 absentee ballots that went uncounted in November 2024 would not have changed the outcome of any race or referendum. But bipartisan members of the Wisconsin Elections Commison have been sharply critical of the error.
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Trump says tariffs will bring back manufacturing, but Wisconsin’s labor shortage may stand in the way
The shifting rollout of Trump’s tariffs has made it hard for manufacturers to plan for the future.
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Wisconsin teen charged in parents’ deaths is accused of plotting to kill Trump
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow […]
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Sen. Ron Johnson concerned about Trump tariffs but supportive of more targeted efforts toward China
“The sooner this can conclude, the sooner that the entire strategy plays out and we end up with whatever the result will be, the better,” Johnson told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”