Primary elections are administered by the state, and changing how we vote there would require a new law. Many cities and a couple states already use it, but opposition to a change is significant.

Two Democrats and three Republicans round out the top five. Senators who live outside Dane County can claim $140 per day they are in Madison on official business.

The youngest Republican legislator in the state claimed the most per diem in 2025. Two DSA members also finished in the top five. Per diems are paid on the honor system, as no checks exist to ensure ...

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 ...

The March donation was the biggest the young super PAC has ever received. Many ultrawealthy people have been granted access to the president after making major donations to MAGA Inc.

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In what projects to be a good year for Democrats, their leading gubernatorial candidate is scaring some in the party who fear she can't beat a fierce Trump ally, who has his own weaknesses.

An exterior shot of the Johnson Creek Police Department. Photo from the department's website. The Johnson Creek Police Department stopped employing Peter Chin in June, about a month after his drunk ...