Racine Mayor Cory Mason said he would prefer to be jailed than testify behind closed doors in the ongoing election probe conducted by former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman.
"It is far from clear that Mr. Gableman has any authority to act for the Legislature at this point," Jeffrey Mandell told Circuit Judge Ralph Ramirez.
Gableman has asked the court, which plans to take up the matter on Dec. 22, to compel the two mayors to meet with him.
The Wisconsin special counsel looking into how the 2020 election was administered made some news during an hourlong appearance before the state Assembly Campaigns and Elections Committee.
Republican lawmakers say Mayor Eric Genrich and his staff gave consultant Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein too much authority in the election.
La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat is calling for President Donald Trump to reconsider his plans to host a rally in La Crosse on Saturday, as the area and state experience a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Lawmakers will move forward on Thursday with a public hearing on a bill that would allow developers to build on Wisconsin wetlands without a permit, despite calls from Democrats to delay it.
In Walker, we have a governor who comforts the comfortable and afflicts the afflicted.
Rep. Gordon Hintz was chosen by his colleagues in the Assembly to lead them once Minority Leader Peter Barca steps down at the end of the month.
The "BadgerCare for All" bill, introduced by Rep. Eric Genrich, D-Green Bay, and Sen. LaTonya Johnson, D-Milwaukee, would make BadgerCare a public option available to anyone in Wisconsin through the federal health insurance exchange.
Rep. Eric Genrich, fellow legislators and Citizen Action of Wisconsin introduced new legislation allowing Wisconsinites to buy in to BadgerCar…
Wisconsin residents could purchase BadgerCare, the state's Medicaid plan, at full price as a "public option" for health insurance under propos…
Minority members will seek $500 million in additional support for the UW System.
The new facility would open by 2022, if approved.
State superintendent candidate Lowell Holtz says Democratic Rep. Eric Genrich is using his position to "politicize a non-event."
The story describes Teske as an appointee of Green Bay's Republican mayor, Jim Schmitt.
Green Bay's city clerk refused to open an early voting location on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus in part because she feared doing so would unfairly benefit Democratic candidates, according to emails released Tuesday.
Gov. Scott Walker finally has something to say about foreign affairs.
A proposal introduced by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos could face opposition in the Senate.
A Wisconsin public school student's name and address — and in some cases their height, weight and photo — can be released to anyone who asks for it under current state law, unless parents or school boards intervene.
To recapture positions of power within our state Capitol we will need the sustained effort and input of every Democrat in the state, in a shared and unrelenting campaign to express what we want to do, how we would do it, and how it would benefit the people of Wisconsin.
State Sen. David Hansen, D-Green Bay, and state Rep. Eric Genrich, D-Green Bay, introduced legislation Wednesday that would create a private p…
Because of gerrymandering, Republicans won more Assembly seats even though Democrats got more votes. Wisconsin needs nonpartisan redistricting reform.
It's time to set up a nonpartisan commission to draw legislative districts in Wisconsin.