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Milwaukee politician pleaded guilty to 2nd drunk driving charge in 2014
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email By PETER CAMERON On an early Sunday afternoon in January of 2014, police responded to a car crash in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer. Officers arrived to...
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Brookfield politician pleaded no contest in 2000 to punching minor
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email By PETER CAMERON The future soldier and politician lost his temper, and turned violent. Dale Kooyenga tackled and punched a 17-year-old boy in 2000 during a...
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Six members of State Assembly have declared personal bankruptcy
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email By PETER CAMERON At least six members of the Wisconsin State Assembly have filed for personal bankruptcy at some point, The Badger Project has discovered in an...
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Record Campaign Cash Raised in Southwestern Wisconsin State Senate Race
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email Big name spenders include DeVos, Steyer, Koch, Jobs in rural district By PETER CAMERON A $53,000 salary. Nearly $1.5 million raised to win the seat. One of the...
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SIX OUT OF SEVEN: Wisconsin Supreme Court has highest percentage of high...
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email Historic all-woman bench possible if elections next week and next year break that way By PETER CAMERON Six of Wisconsin’s seven Supreme Court justices are...
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After Loosening of Campaign Finance Laws, Cash Poured into 2018 Race for NW...
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email Democrat incumbent survived huge wave of independent spending By PETER CAMERON Campaign donations tripled in the race for state Sen. Janet Bewley’s seat last...
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Million Dollar Checks
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email Court decisions, law change create rivers of cash from ultrarich donors to candidates, as long as they flow through the party By PETER CAMERON and MOLLY...
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Million Dollar Race for $53k Job
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email After state law change, campaign cash doubled in 2018 race for Fox Valley state Senate seat By Howard Hardee Campaign donations surpassed $1 million in the 2018...
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Wisconsin’s Full-Time (Lite) Legislature
Follow Follow Follow Follow Print Email The Wisconsin State Legislature meets in full just a few days a year, but is considered – and paid like – a full-time legislative body. What’s up with that? By...
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‘Everyone has to have it’: Broadband gap leaves rural Wisconsin behind during...
Cartoon by Alec Diab BY PETER CAMERON The Newcomer household near Monroe is fairly typical for rural Wisconsin. It is surrounded by cornfields. The nearest neighbor is a quarter-mile down the road....
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SIX OUT OF SEVEN: Wisconsin Supreme Court has highest percentage of female...
Clockwise starting from top left, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley, Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler, Justice-elect Jill Karofsky, Justice Brian Hagedorn, Chief Justice...
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Koch, Uihleins, Tribes, Kwik Trip owners spend heavily in northern Wisconsin...
By Peter Cameron, THE BADGER PROJECT Koch Industries, Native American tribes and the owners of Kwik Trip and Uline are big donors and spenders in the special election race for Wisconsin’s 7th...
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Following national trend, Wausau, Marathon County spend heavily on policing
Neither department uses chokehold, knee-to-neck tactics that have killed A standoff in Wausau on March 14, 2018. Photos courtesy of Then & Now Photography. BY PETER CAMERON, THE BADGER PROJECT...
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Following national trend, City of Racine spends heavily on policing
Mayor announces police reforms, civilian task force in wake of Floyd death, protests A protest in Racine over the death of George Floyd. Photo: Scott Anderson/PATCH. BY PETER CAMERON, THE BADGER...
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Got Lousy Internet, Wisconsinite? Here’s A Big Idea To Improve It.
Stop waiting for that web page to load and start demanding more from your local government. Cartoon by Alec Diab BY PETER CAMERON, THE BADGER PROJECT On February 19, state Sen. Jeff Smith, an Eau...
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Wisconsin’s rural students face a digital divide as some return to screens...
Schools in Wisconsin have spent millions of dollars on hotspots to help students with poor internet service learn online as the coronavirus pandemic grinds on Amy Jo Hellenbrand, center, says this...
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The Biggest Donors to Wisconsin Political Parties in 2020
BY MOLLY LIEBERGALL, THE BADGER PROJECT A loophole in Wisconsin campaign finance law allows individuals to make unlimited donations to political parties, and also allows political parties to make...
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TWO MILLION DOLLAR CHECKS: This Year, Out-of-State Liberals Dominate...
That could have big repercussions for the next decade From left: Karla Jurvetson, Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, Diane Hendricks, Liz Uihlein and George Soros BY PETER CAMERON, THE BADGER PROJECT The...
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Wisconsin schools ‘whipsawing’ as COVID-19 hits rural districts – Part 2 of 3
As infections in the state surge, some rural schools are forced to suspend in-person instruction or integrate virtual students into classrooms Matthias Millar, 5, foreground, and Sterling Millar, 7,...
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As semester ends in Wisconsin, COVID-19 fears shrink — while concerns of...
Schools are not the superspreader sites that many feared, but research indicates U.S. students fell behind in math during the pandemic Courtesy of the Hellenbrand familyLydia Hellenbrand of Dane,...
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