Primary elections are administered by the state, and changing how we vote there would require a new law. Many cities and a ...

In addition to their $60,924 yearly salary they get in the 2025-2026 legislative session, Wisconsin state senators, like their counterparts in the Assembly, can claim supplementary payment for days ...

At more than $22,000, the youngest Republican legislator in Wisconsin claimed the largest amount of per diem payments in 2025, the last full legislative year. A pair of Democratic Socialists from ...

In what projects to be a good year for Democrats, their leading gubernatorial candidate is scaring some in the party who fear ...

The March donation was the biggest the young super PAC has ever received. Many ultrawealthy people have been granted access ...

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, as ...

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