President Obama Makes a Statement on the Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut

Salvation Army moving on up E. Washington Ave from downtown to Darbo neighborhood. Find out all about it! [...]

The State Assembly Wednesday passed its version of the state budget that includes statewide expansion of taxpayer-funded private school vouchers and severe underfunding of Wisconsin [...]

Timeline PhotosIt was 96F in Alaska on Monday. That beat the all time record high for Alaska of 91F set... on Sunday. [...]

I take one morning off from following the politics of Wisconsin and all of a sudden I find out the Assembly passed the 2013-15 Biennium [...]

One of the best comeback's for Republican attacks on liberals is to tell them they'er working from a "false premise." A false premise like job [...]

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/scottwalker-dream-279h.jpgSenator Kathleen Vinehout gives an overview of provisions included in the AB 40, the 2012-15 State Budget Bill and the impact of some of those [...]

ThinkProgress: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has emerged as one of the Senate’s most vocal opponents [...]

Once again, we would think stories about legislation Wisconsin state republicans continue to propose and pass are really spoofs from the Onion. But they're not.First [...]

I had planned to spend all this week writing about economic development and beating the bejesus out of the Republicans. But we can return to [...]

A few years ago I wrote this piece for the Milwaukee Journal Crossroads section about the myriad consequences of the blockade by the suburbs put [...]

The State of Wisconsin Building Commission has approved improvements, repair and maintenance on a number of state-owned buildings and areas. [...]

More disclosures would help ensure that the political process isn't being corrupted by entities with a financial stake in the outcome, said Matt Kozlowski, treasurer of the local progressive p… [...]

Milwaukee Justice Center. Photo by William Bott. Greg Anderson had gone to his ex-fiance’s house to settle an argument but she wouldn’t come to the door. Frustrated, he knocked hard enough on a window to break it. “It wasn’t intentional, but it broke,” he recalls. He later wrote her a note [...]

Members of the Republican-led House education panel are sending their rewrite of No Child Left Behind to the full House for a vote. [...]

Gogebic Taconite has taken the first formal steps to apply for a permit to mine iron ore at a proposed $1.5 billion open pit mine. [...]

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A Green Bay woman will spend at least three months in jail for her role in last year's assault of four people. [...]

Tensions rose last week as the Kinnickinnic Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) #44 approved a $350,000 plan to revitalize Bay View’s main commercial [...]

The issue: The U.S. Supreme Court rules it's legal to collect DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes. [...]

Enjoy a nice crisp apple recently? Chances are you can thank a honeybee for that. Like to snack on almonds or perhaps sip a glass of orange juice in the morning? Those foods were also made possible by bees. Bees pollinate much of the food we eat, but they're dying [...]