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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...

Each May about 4 million young people graduate from high schools across the country. The ceremonies are similar. Family, friends and relatives gather on football fields or gymnasiums. Music plays and young people in robes solemnly process. Speeches are given. Tears are shed. There is polite laughter as the school official delivers the same joke for the 23rd year in a row. Names are called. Dipl...

“Wisconsinites, as always, are helpers by nature, so please take good care, look out for each other, and take care of one another,” Governor Tony Evers in his statement declaring a state of emergency prior to last weekend’s severe winter storm. A deadly combination of snow and strong winds blew through Wisconsin over the past weekend. In its wake, communities in Central Wisconsin reported...