What’s on the ballot and how to vote in 2024 Spring elections
Feb 19, 2024 · On the ballot on Tuesday are nine candidates vying to replace the retiring Mayor John Antaramian in the first mayoral election since protests against police brutality swept the city following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in 2020. The nine mayoral candidates are Gregory Bennett Jr., David Bogdala, Elizabeth Garcia, Tony Garcia, Kelly ...
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5 days ago · BY Isiah Holmes - November 8, 2024. Federal judge rejects Biden policy shielding immigrant spouses, children from deportation. BY Ariana Figueroa - November 8, 2024. Wisconsin voters pass 78% of school funding requests this week. BY Baylor Spears - November 8, 2024. After escaping the Red Wave, Baldwin thanks supporters for giving her a 3rd term.
Biden in Milwaukee announces 10-year timeline for lead pipe …
Oct 8, 2024 · The rule released Tuesday is an update of the federal lead and copper rule for drinking water. The 10-year timeline it requires for all communities to replace their lead service lines starts in 2027. “This is also about fairness,” Biden said. “Nationally, I’m directing nearly half of this funding to go to disadvantaged communities that ...
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Oct 30, 2024 · BY: Ruth Conniff - October 18, 2024. “Truth Decay” is rotting our politics and public discourse, according to political scientist Ray Block. Block delivered the keynote address at the WisPolitics “polling summit” at the Madison Club this week, where a panel of pollsters discussed trends in the 2024 election. (Top takeaway: No one knows ...
Eric Hovde wins Republican nomination to face Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Aug 13, 2024 · Businessman Eric Hovde won the Republican nomination for the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race Tuesday night, officially setting the stage for his expected race against two-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Hovde, who has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, defeated his two Republican challengers — University of Wisconsin ...
UWM chancellor presses ahead with plan that includes tenured …
Aug 13, 2024 · The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is going ahead with a proposal that will lead to the layoffs of 35 tenured faculty, despite the plan’s rejection last week by the university’s faculty senate. In a memo submitted Monday to Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman, UWM Chancellor Mark Mone wrote that he was recommending the Board ...
It’s primary election day: Here’s who and what are on the ballot
Aug 9, 2022 · Three of the leading primary candidates have ended their campaigns and endorsed Mandela Barnes, but their names remain on the ballot. Mandela Barnes, currently the lieutenant governor and a former state representative. Sarah Godlewski, currently Wisconsin state treasurer (withdrawn). Alex Lasry, a Milwaukee Bucks executive (withdrawn).
Vos fires Gableman, ending scandal-plagued 2020 ...
By: Ruth Conniff - August 12, 2022 5:15 pm. Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman in a video promoting the partisan review of the 2020 election. (YouTube | Office of the Special Counsel) On Friday, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos fired Michael Gableman, the former Supreme Court justice Vos had appointed last year to lead the Office ...
Elections commission votes to keep Kennedy on Wisconsin’s …
By: Erik Gunn - August 27, 2024 2:56 pm. The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted Tuesday to keep independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., shown here at an event in Des Moines, Iowa, in August 2023, on the Wisconsin ballot in November despite his request to be removed. (Jay Waagmeester | Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Rebecca Cooke wins Democratic primary to take on Derrick Van …
Aug 13, 2024 · Rebecca Cooke won the Democratic primary in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District Tuesday. She’ll go on to face Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden in the general election for one of the seats that will decide which party wins control of the House of Representatives. Cooke, a former small business owner who operates a non-profit and ...