Your Right to Know
Your Right to Know: Lawmaker contacts shouldn’t be secret
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There is a broader issue: the public has a right to know who is saying what to elected officials.
Money & Politics Column
Elections need army of poll workers
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Bills now before the state Legislature would let municipalities use poll workers from anywhere within their counties and tinker with rules that allow political parties to nominate poll workers.
redistricting
GOP pressed on redistricting
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Wisconsin’s last redistricting, after the 2010 Census, was done in secret and cost taxpayers more than $2 million. Ruling Republicans strategically carved districts to maximize their electoral prospects, much as Democrats would had done had they been able.
Abortion
Wisconsin law increases abortion delays, risk
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Planned Parenthood has not provided abortions by medication since April, claiming a new abortion law’s language was too vague to comply with. As a result, many women have had surgical abortions instead and face delays in making appointments.