Citizens United and the Big Picture
As this week’s floor sessions began in both the Senate and the Assembly on Tuesday, a group of legislators and campaign finance reform advocates...
The Assembly dabbles in bipartisanship — then gets derailed
Minority Leader Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh) offered his take on the theme of Tuesday’s Assembly floor session an hour before it even began, describing “a...
Trump impeachment trial gets personal
WASHINGTON — Even before opening arguments were made in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, things got testy.
U.S. House Democrats and...
Earthquakes in Puerto Rico touch Wisconsin
“Anxiety is the word everyone is using right now,” says Mabel Maldonado. She is a vice-president for the Milwaukee chapter of the National Conference...
Citizens United in Wisconsin: a decade of disaster
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision on January 21, 2010 has had a powerful – and profoundly negative – effect on Wisconsin politics.
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