Democrat Tony Evers Defeats Walker in Tight Race

Tony Evers is the newly elected governor of Wisconsin with a 30,000-vote majority. The gubernatorial race was so close that many spectators at Gov. Scott Walker’s watch party in The Ingleside Hotel didn’t know who the newly elected governor was when they left. Of the state’s 72 counties, 19 had a majority vote for Evers. […]

Bernie Sanders Electrifies Early Vote Rally at UWM

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders took the stage before an enthusiastic crowd of college students and other supporters at a boisterous early vote rally at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus, telling the audience, “It doesn’t mean anything if you don’t go out and vote.” Sanders and Wisconsin’s top Democrats encouraged the cheering crowd to re-elect Democratic […]

Wisconsin Senate Candidates Battle Over Policy

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Leah Vukmir battled over abortion, health care, veterans’ affairs and immigration at the Wisconsin Senate debate Monday evening. The crowd gasped when Vukmir, a registered nurse, graphically described a partial-birth late-term abortion. “The arms and legs of a baby can be pulled out of their mother, the brain […]

Students React to Wisconsin Foxconn Plant (Video)

Foxconn is the largest electronics manufacturing company in the world. UW-Milwaukee students weigh the benefits and disadvantages of Foxconn’s Wisconsin plant, which broke ground in Mount Pleasant this summer. Sierra Trojan reports.