After eight months of disagreement over the condition of the 12-story Downtown building that houses Paisan's restaurant, the Madison Plan Commission Monday evening unanimously approved a demolition permit for the structure.
Rebecca Kleefisch, Timothy Ramthun and Kevin Nicholson all highlighted the absence of the Trump-endorsed candidate.
Johnson's comment came as the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection reveals a wide-ranging scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which appears to involve the attorney Johnson referred to on Friday.
"The timing is absolutely ripe to get a new State Street TIF district," Downtown Ald. Mike Verveer said.
The Jefferson mayor faces a farmer who accepts that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. The winner faces Rep. Don Vruwink, D-Milton, who was redrawn into a new district.
On this episode of Rewind, Emilee interviews Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler on the 2022 state convention and strategies for encouraging democratic turn out at the polls.
The ongoing investigation into the events that led to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol — including the slate of Republicans asserting to be Wisconsin’s electors — was also a talking point at this weekend’s convention.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul, who is seeking reelection this fall, said the 2022 election “is going to be remembered for the next generation as the election that came after Roe was overturned.”
"I'm mad," one 26-year-old demonstrator remarked. "I'm very, very mad. We shouldn't be in this situation in 2022."
Read complete coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ends nationwide abortion protections, and what it means in Wisconsin.
The decision is a stunning reversal of a guarantee that permitted medical providers to administer thousands of abortions in Wisconsin each year for decades.
Here's what Wisconsin legislators and advocates on both sides of the abortion issue had to say about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning a national ban on abortion.
Some anti-abortion rights groups, like Pro-Life Wisconsin, want to alter a provision in the state's near-complete abortion ban that allows abortions for when it's necessary to save the mother's life.
While Wisconsin's 1849 ban on abortions has gone unenforced since Roe v. Wade, legislators have added new restrictions in the following decades.
'Absolutely disastrous' or 'great victory': Quotes from leading Wisconsin figures on overturn of Roe
Wisconsin politicians and organizations speak to the Supreme Court decision and a 1849 law banning abortion in Wisconsin in nearly all circumstances.
In municipalities, the police chief has the authority to change the department's standard operating procedures and orders to officers.
District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said voters "need to elect someone else" if they want Dane County to prosecute abortion providers now that Wisconsin's 19th century abortion law has taken effect.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Friday, ending the federally protected right to an abortion.
Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush on Friday, June 24, 2022, reacts to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The ruling will allow states to ban abortions. Video by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
As reported by WisPolitics.com, former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman testified on Thursday that he deleted 2020 election probe records even after open records requests were submitted and worked out of a public library during a time he said he was bedridden with COVID-19. The testimo…
"It appears to this court that at this point whatever records may have been responsive are gone … that's for a separate day," Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn said.
That happened just an hour before a Pence aide denied Johnson chief of staff Sean Riley's attempt to pass those documents, which falsely stated Trump won Michigan and Wisconsin in November 2020, to the vice president.
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The deadline to request an absentee ballot for the Aug. 9 primary election is Aug. 4.
The awards — funded through borrowing authorized in the current two-year budget — are expected to bring broadband service to nearly 83,000 homes and more than 4,500 businesses across the state.
As reported by WisPolitics.com, the latest Marquette University Law Poll shows businessman Tim Michels and former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch neck and neck in the GOP primary for governor. The poll also showed Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes and Alex Lasry, on leave from his post with the Milwaukee B…
Johnson said the bill erodes Second Amendment protections through a provision providing resources to states to adopt so-called red flag laws to remove guns from people deemed dangerous.
The rankings come as legislative Republicans prepare to reject a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers seeking a repeal of Wisconsin's 173-year-old abortion ban.
The latest poll finds that 27% of Republican primary voters support Michels, the millionaire co-owner of Brownsville-based Michels Corp., while 26% support former Lt. Gov. Kleefisch. The poll has a margin of error of 6.3% among GOP primary voters.
If doctors break the law, which could activate if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, they risk a felony conviction punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said the city must do its part to help cut global greenhouse gas emissions in half in the next seven years, which scientists have warned is necessary to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.