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Gerrymandering guarantees undemocratic elections. Activists in Wisconsin are organizing to win an uphill battle for a fairer process. By KATJUSA CISAR  High school student Michael Nichols became an activist against gerrymandering as he was wrapping up his senior year...

By Cathy Kozlowicz It can be hard to get state-elected officials to focus on school issues, said Summit resident Jane Speer. She said one reason might be that although she lives in the Oconomowoc Area School District, neither of her state...

Plan For Drawing Political Maps Is Based On A Similar System In Iowa By Shawn Johnson With the next round of redistricting looming, a group of lawmakers has reintroduced a long shot proposal to create a nonpartisan system for drawing the state's political map for the...

By: Riley Vetterkind The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from Republicans to adopt new redistricting rules meant to keep litigation over drawing the state’s next political maps before the state’s highest court. The decision, handed down via an...

By Ruth Conniff The conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns an emergency public health order in the middle of a pandemic — even as new COVID cases rise. Writing for the majority, Justice Brian Hagedorn acknowledges that the...

Our Legislature could be doing more to help Wisconsinites, but they aren’t By Mel Barnes It didn’t have to be this way. Our state Legislature could be doing more to help Wisconsinites, but they aren’t. Why? Because too many legislative districts are drawn so that...

By Deon J. Hampton At one point during the pandemic, Black residents of Milwaukee County were six times more likely to die from the coronavirus than Wisconsin's white residents, state health officials said. The state's governor, Tony Evers, a Democrat in his first...

By David Foust Dear Editor: I recently saw an alarming op-ed written by Jay Heck about some GOP proposals surrounding how electoral votes are counted in Wisconsin. Apparently, there is a new proposal to apportion them by congressional district in the state...

By Stef W. Kight Democrats are preparing a mix of tech and legal strategies to combat expected gerrymandering by Republicans, who are planning to go on legal offense themselves. Why it matters: Democrats failed to regain a single state legislature on Election Day,...

By Hansi Lo Wang The U.S. Census Bureau has stopped working on a Trump administration-initiated project to produce citizenship data that could have politically benefited Republicans when voting districts are redrawn. Citing President Biden's executive order...