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Madison, Wisconsin — Not the creativity of bio-catastrophe writers, Richard Preston , Daniel Kalla and Robin Cook , can dream-up the econ...

Matt Flynn at NextGen America forum for Democratic Party candidates in July 2018 Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — The Republican daily, ...

South-central Wisconsin daily chooses ideology over facts and evidence This household will receive its last hard copy issue of the Wiscons...

The Wisconsin State Journal continues its years-long advocacy of 'merit selection' of Wisconsin supreme court justices, to replace ...

The editorial page editor of the Wisconsin State Journal came out with an editorial hitting the Wisconsin GOP initiatives in which "...

Kudos to the Wisconsin State Journal's news staff for its nomination for breaking coverage of the people of Wisconsin petitioning th...

Update : Rightwing radio pans Terrence Wall . "Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall has not paid personal state income taxes ...

Opponents of Wisconsin’s new domestic partner benefits registry took a political and legal hit when it was revealed that their current posit...

The foundation upon which we elect judges to Wisconsin's top appellate court is impartiality and committed application of the law and fa...

Update : Wisconsin budget: Prisoner proposal defended "They hate us for our freedom," George W. Bush used to bellow, except for th...

Justice Diane P. Wood is drawing attention as a leading candidate to fill the first vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Wood is famous in so...

Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk has joined the let’s-set-up-police-roadblocks-(sobriety checkpoints) bandwagon . See, Falk—she of the le...

Update IV : Opinion - Order and Hearing Transcript (Case No 08CV4085) Update II : GOP AG to appeal. Hoping to get to the Wisconsin Supreme C...

In this day and age we're still fighting off voter suppression? Yes, it's the age of the ahistorical GOP. But Wisconsin citizens can...

Interesting piece in the State Journal by Mark Pitsch this morning. Reince Priebus, the Wisconsin GOP party chairman, confirms that he had ...

by globalgirl and mal contends Madison, WI - We have heard numerous comments in conversation from friends and family fearful that there are ...

© 2008 Michael Leon A man charged with 12 felonies for "allegedly kidnapping ... two men, stripping them, chaining them up in his home,...

Dane County's response to the lawsuit filed by the parents of the murdered UW-Madison student, Brittany Zimmermann, is mystifying: the U...

Clean Sweep Wisconsin's foray into the state Assembly races is being fronted by former state senator Tom Reynolds (R-Outer Reaches). Re...

From bad to worse: Residents may not get flood coverage , it's just people, let's send the money to Iraq instead.