The state of Wisconsin's efforts to attract and retain a younger workforce are coinciding with a growing public reckoning in Madison and surrounding Dane County with the fact that many of its minority residents don't necessarily experience the city as welcoming or inclusive
Attack ads are hitting the airwaves for the 2018 general election. UW-Madison marketing professor Tom O'Guinn breaks down the messaging behind them and how effective they are at swaying voters.
Elected officials looking to get reelected or climb the political ladder or have a degree of leeway that most other public employees and private-sector workers don't.
Wisconsin officials say they have taken multiple steps in recent months to guard against the type of attack that Russian hackers unleashed on neighboring Illinois when they allegedly stole data about hundreds of thousands of Illinois voters before the 2016 election.
A private vendor inadvertently introduces malware into voting machines he is servicing. A hacker hijacks the cellular modem used to transmit unofficial Election Day results. An email address is compromised, giving bad actors the same access to voting software as a local elections official.
Wisconsin's economic recovery since the Great Recession has been "slow by historic standards," explains Laura Dresser of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, which has issued a report on the "State of Working Wisconsin" over the past decade.
Wisconsin voters prepare for another round of school referendums as districts around the state seek funding for building projects and other expenditures.
