The first hydroelectric plant in the United States began operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, on September 30, 1882. The Wisconsin town of Bloomer hosts an annual jump rope competition and is the Jump Rope Capital of the World. Eagle River, Wisconsin, hosts the annual World...
The Wisconsin Conservative Coalion -- of which Wolf River Area Patriots is a member -- released on July 1, 2024 its scorecard for Northeast Wisconsin state representatives and senators for 2023-24. Fourteen members of the Assembly and six members of the Senate representing Northeast Wisconsin were...
Thousands of demonstrators took over the Capitol on Wednesday night after Wisconsin Republican senators voted to curb collective bargaining rights for public union workers in a surprise vote with no Democrats present. U.S. News Decision Points Your trusted source for the latest news delivered weekdays...
To suggest that "Fighting Bob" La Follette and his two sons - one named during the 1950s as one of the five greatest United States senators of all time (Robert M. La Follette, Sr.), another Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal choice to succeed himself in the White House and selected by...
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in 2010, creating a split in the state’s Senate delegation that continued after Democrat Tammy Baldwin bested Thompson to succeed Kohl in 2012. That’s the opposite of the nationwide trend, where it’s becoming increasingly common for states to elect two senators of the same party, Canon ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge's overturning of Wisconsin's 13-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for teachers and most state government employees has rekindled a battle over labor rights in a state where the first public sector uni
Welch was one offour senatorswho called on Biden to drop his reelection bid. After Biden did so, Welch originally said on Sunday that he wouldnot endorse Harris at that time. — Josephine Rozzelle Tue, Jul 23 202410:17 AM EDT George Clooney endorses Harris, praises Biden for 'saving demo...
Sen. Jon Tester was in even more trouble than Sen. Sherrod Brown. Most senators believed that Brown had a better chance of getting reelected than Tester. So if Tester goes the way of Brown, that would absolutely guarantee Democrats lose control of the Senate. ...
Both senators made their announcements today, the same day the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee held a hearing to consider nominations for the positions of under secretary of veterans affairs for memorial affairs, chief financial officer and general counsel. Responding to Gallego’s and Blumenthal’...