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Public funding for childcare is a direct investment in Wisconsin workforce and would be a boost for Wisconsin businesses and employers. Wisconsin desperately needs workers. Wisconsin needs workers on farms, in factories, in offices and in retail. Each month, tens of thousands of public and private sector jobs across the state go unfilled. Still more jobs never are posted, because there is no on...

Imagine voting for the candidate you actually support, rather than having to hold your nose and vote for the candidate who pundits and pollsters have said has the best chance of winning. Ranked choice voting allows more voices in the political process while making sure that the person elected reflects the will of the majority. Wisconsin voters in Northern Wisconsin are facing crowded partisan p...

The Wisconsin Ethics Commission’s new dashboard tries to make campaign finance information more accessible to the public. It cost $285,000 to build and will cost more than $270,000 to maintain over two years, plus another $20,000 to eliminate erroneous and duplicative records, according to Daniel Carlton, administrator of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. “The biggest gain for the public is ...