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  • Foxconn Incentives Criticism Persists

    Democrats aren’t letting up in using the $3 million Foxconn incentives package as a campaign issue.

    This past  week Senate Democratic leader Jennifer Shilling of La Crosse suggested that the Foxconn deal could be in trouble, given the pending departure from

  • Downtown Kenosha Developments: Two Purchases on Council Agenda

    The Kenosha City Council is expected to vote Monday night on two downtown land purchases that'll act to advance a couple of high profile projects. 

  • Coal Dust Controversy Spreads At Large Southeast Wisconsin Power Plant

    (WPR)---Nationwide, more than 200 similar power plants have shut down in recent years, or plan to do so. Earlier this month, We Energies shuttered it's coal-fired Pleasant Prairie

  • 1st Congressional District: Vos Not Running

    Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will NOT run for the 1st District Congressional seat being vacated by Paul Ryan.

    In a statement issued Friday, Vos said he can do more good continuing to push state-based conservative changes---so---he will—instead--- run

  • Milwaukee Common Council Questions Foxconn's Hiring Goals

    Workforce Diversity Primary Concern For Council

    (WPR)---Some members of the Milwaukee Common Council are questioning Foxconn Technology Group's promise to hire a diverse workforce when building and operating its planned LCD

  • Southeastern Wisconsin Counties Have Highest Eviction Rates In State

    Researcher: Data Shows Evictions Are Not Limited To Large Cities

    (WPR)---Wisconsin's southeastern counties have the highest eviction rates in the state, according to a new database compiled by Princeton University researchers.

  • List of Democratic Candidates in the 1st District Could Get Longer

    Even though Randy Bryce and Cathy Myers have been campaigning for months for the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District, Peter Barca says he’s considering a run of his own, now that Paul Ryan is out of the race.

  • Ryan Reaction: Open Mike in Downtown Kenosha

    In downtown Kenosha Wednesday, it wasn't easy finding people who were willing to sing Paul Ryan's praises outright. 

    Many of the two or three dozen people who were approached--like Margaret Cochran--were happy to see him go. "I'm ecstatic," she said. "He's

  • Ryan Retirement Adds To GOP Worries

    (NPR)---As House Republicans poured out of the closed-door meeting where Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told them he won't run for re-election this year, there was a constant theme: Things are on track. All is well.

  • GOP 1st District Scorecard

    Check each day for updates on who's in and who's out and who's on the fence

    Updated: 4/27 

    List of Republicans that have either declared or are considering or have been mentioned as possible candidates:  

    Former Rep. Mark