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Five Wisconsin residents have been charged with criminal counts of vote r fraud in the November 2008 general election, state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced Monday. Two of those charged – Maria Miles, 36, of Milwaukee, ...

Tommy Thompson, who served as Health and Human Services secretary under President George W. Bush, is gearing up for a possible run for the Wisconsin.

Republican Scott Walker, the Milwaukee County executive, leads Democrat Tom Barrett, Milwaukee's mayor, in the race to succeed Wisconsin's Democratic.

Really though, who, besides folks like us with blogs and an unnatural love of politics is even thinking about the fall election? That is why those Rasmussen numbers are suspect. Although the transition of politics into a spectator sport ...

James Rowen has written for newspapers, and served as a senior Mayoral staffer, in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This blog connects politics and the environment in Wisconsin and across the Great Lakes. And, sometimes, other things. ...

The rankings were based on five categories: getting around (including commute time and walkability); health and safety (such as doctor wait times); information and technology (like Wi-Fi access); green time-savers (like the number of bicycle-friendly ...

Sign up for news, weather and sports text alerts. A Door County Board supervisor and one of seven GOP candidates, Savard was the lone participant in a Tuesday congressional forum at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley. He touted his involvement in ...

In February, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the likely Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kit Bond, released a statement strongly criticizing the Obama administration's proposed budget. She called it ...

(GREEN BAY, WI) Congressman Steve Kagen, M.D. invites high school students across northeast Wisconsin to submit their work to the 30th annual Congressional Art Competition. The exhibition, “An Artistic Discovery,” was organized in order to ...

(RFE/RL) -- One of the most prominent and respected moderate voices in the Sunni Muslim world -- Sheikh Muhammad Sayed Tantawi -- died today during a visit to Saudi Arabia. He was 81. For 14 years, Tantawi used his position as Grand Sheikh of Al ...

I don't like to say that Amazon is evil, because I'm not in the corporations-are-people legal camp. But it turns out that Amazon is evil. And now that Amazon has fired all its Colorado affiliates — mostly mom-and-pop outfits, and who can resist an ...

Everyone who has taken a high school civics class knows that governors, like the president, have the power to veto legislation. But here’s an interesting tidbit you wouldn’t get unless you were a close observer of state politics: Jim Doyle is ...

Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar -- Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning -- had been in Riyadh to attend the King Faisal awards ceremony, the official MENA news agency said. Tantawi, 81, was boarding a plane early Wednesday morning when he ...

Fort Gratiot and Port Huron townships don't want to pay higher water rates. They want a flat rate, and so do I. But it won't happen." Chris from Port Huron: "Anybody who knows anything about Port Huron politics should see the new City Council is ...

SPRINGFIELD – For the second time in two weeks the House Agriculture & Conservation Committee has passed a bill that would allow some Illinoisans to carry concealed firearms in public places. But an already controversial measure is even more ...