Category Archives: Elections 2026
Crowley building team of rivals
David Crowley is showing major league political smarts as the Democratic nominee for the Wisconsin governorship. He has signaled a double-barreled campaign. For openers, the Milwaukee County executive, who won by a razor-thin margin over Rep. Francesca Hong in the … Read the rest
Health costs top agenda at gov forum
The Bend Theater was the site of a healthy display of American democracy at the local level last week. Six Democratic candidates for Wisconsin governor showed up in one of the state’s reddest counties for a forum to lay out … Read the rest
Wisconsin health cost solutions: Price caps ala Oregon, Indiana
Governor elections are supposed to be all about fresh ideas, and that should be especially true this year in Wisconsin as nine bright candidates vie for the top state job. So far, with only six months before the August 11 … Read the rest
Missing issues in AG race: opioid deaths; merger health costs, crime lab
Tom Hefty, a retired Wisconsin lawyer and former CEO of Blue Cross Wisconsin, follows legal issues in public health policy, especially as they affect the coming attorney general election Nov. 5. The 2026 race for governor is … Read the rest
2026, a political dead-end for Trump?
As 2025 closes and 2026 takes off, the outlook for the nation going forward will ride heavily on the assessment by citizens of the shock and awe strategies and tactics that President Trump and his administration imposed on the nation … Read the rest
Goodby Project 2025, hello project 2026: Let’s mint more millionaires
It’s looking like Project 2025, the extremist attempt to put white, male-dominated Christian Nationalism in the forefront of national politics, is increasingly in the rear view mirror. It’s falling apart as a political theology as President Trump’s disapproval ratings plummet … Read the rest
New blood for governor? Kevin Conroy
How about a change of pace for Wisconsin governor? Instead of a long line of professional politicians in the governor’s mansion on Lake Mendota, how about an outstanding entrepreneur who has created thousands of new jobs and a bundle of … Read the rest
Schoemann confusing on UW commissions
Education, Elections 2026, Government Spending, Tom Tiffany, University of Wisconsin System, Washington County
For a leader who came up short on keeping a University of Wisconsin presence in Washington County, despite the use of two task forces, Republican governor candidate Josh Schoemann has some big ideas about reforms for the Universities of Wisconsin, … Read the rest
We’re going down Trump rabbit hole in guv’s race
Sometimes the absence of a news story is a story in and of itself. That’s been true in the areas of immigration and tariffs as it affects the Wisconsin economy. Right here in Washington County, arguably the most red, conservative … Read the rest
A governor from WOW counties?
The WOW counties look to become home to a nominee for governor of Wisconsin in 2026. Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington Counites (WOW) have seldom been in the spotlight for statewide elections. That’s surprising because they are the strongest sources of … Read the rest
