By Lynda L. Jones As Governor Walker continues with his National GOP agenda, thousands of protesters continue to grow and support of the 14 Democratic Senators who left the state grows as well. They are being called ‘Heroes’, because when the State Republicans and Governor Walker decided that they didn’t deserve respect or to have [...]

Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will join the Marquette University Law School faculty as visiting professor of law beginning the spring semester 2011, the university announced this week. Feingold completed his third term in the U.S. Senate January 3. “Senator Feingold joins Marquette Law School with a substantial academic, legal and legislative background,” said Joseph [...]

Dear Editor, As I leave the Senate, I want to thank the people of Wisconsin for the incredible opportunity to serve them, and to represent our state. Serving Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate has been the greatest honor of my life. I have been so proud to work for the people of our state, and [...]

Barrett and Feingold come up short The good news from Tuesday’s election resulted in the successful re-elections of Congresswoman Gwen Moore and Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke. Moore won with 69 percent of the vote and Clarke won by a similar margin. County Supervisor Elizabeth Coggs made it to the State Legislature winning the [...]

Senator Russ Feingold is our pick to continue his years of good works in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Feingold has a proven record of reaching across the party aisle to work on legislation that is beneficial for working families and families that are in distress. He has demonstrated that he cannot be bought by the [...]

In a time when there is little room for error in handling our economy, our education system, and health care structure we cannot afford an experiment of a first time candidate running for the United States Senate. We cannot afford Ron Johnson. Johnson runs a successful business in Wisconsin, great…and that means what in a [...]

As Election Day nears, multimillionaire Republican candidate Ron Johnson is taking heat for leading an effort to bring Charles Murray, an extremist education “expert,” to speak to education and business leaders in Oshkosh – leading the community to demand an apology for Murray’s elitist, offensive theories. Murray has made a career trying to “resume some [...]

By Cassandra Lans With the November 2, general election less than two weeks away, it is more than evident that Wisconsin Republican candidates are not interested in receiving the African American vote. The two standouts Scott Walker and Ron Johnson are in the most competitive races, the race for governor and the race for U.S. [...]

Opponent Ron Johnson would repeal the New Health Care Bill, which invests in more access to better care in greater Milwaukee area U.S. Senator Russ Feingold recently welcomed an investment of more than $2.6 million for a Milwaukee community health center just as a new report details a troubling lack of primary care available in [...]

On President Obama signing the Small Business Jobs Act into law “This new law will help fuel the engine of our economy, our small businesses. The lack of available credit is a problem I have heard a lot about from Wisconsin small business leaders since the recession started. By freeing up credit and reducing taxes [...]