Outside groups have spent a record-breaking $45 million in the showdown between U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin and former Gov. Tommy Thompson, helping to make the race the most expensive U.S Senate election in Wisconsin history.
While both major party presidential candidates have canvassed the state in the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s election, the lesser-known Green Party and its candidate, Jill Stein, have been operating directly out of their Madison headquarters on State Street.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Joe Diedrich changed his conservative political views to embrace the independent, Libertarian party in his later high school years, when he said he realized the Bush administration’s continued shipment of U.S. soldiers and supplies to fuel warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan “didn’t make any sense.”
Madison B-cycle and DreamBikes Madison will provide bicycle parking Monday at Peace Park, located between State and Gilman Streets, during President Barack Obama’s rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The City of Madison issued more than 30,000 absentee ballots for the Nov. 6 election, most of which have already been returned to the City Clerk’s Office.
Metro Transit buses will alter its routes in the downtown area Monday morning due to President Barack Obama’s rally Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School will launch a new Veterans Law Center Thursday to provide legal assistance to veterans in the Madison area.
In a last ditch effort to win the support of Wisconsin voters before Tuesday’s election, Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney rallied thousands of supporters at the state fair grounds in Milwaukee Friday.
Dane County Board members announced a set of initiatives Friday for the homeless that includes a temporary warming shelter and housing.
Police arrested a Madison man for allegedly entering and removing a backpack from an apartment on Fahrenbrook Court early Friday morning.
President Barack Obama will speak Monday outside the City County Building and the Madison Municipal building on the 200 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the Capitol, according to a statement from Mayor Paul Soglin.
President Barack Obama will be joined by Bruce Springsteen at his second rally in Madison in just over a month as part of a three-state tour the day before the election, his campaign announced Thursday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry professor has developed a simple bacterial test that could be used to save infants’ lives in developing countries, after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation granted him $100,000 for the project, according to a UW-Madison news release.
Madison police are looking for two men who allegedly knocked a University of Wisconsin-Madison student unconscious early Thursday morning on the 200 block of Langdon Street.
Many University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, staff and community members have signed an online petition asking the Office of Human Resources to release a list of changes to be included in the personnel system redesign following recent campus feedback.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison historian, who contributed to a well-known, written historical account of the university, died Oct. 23 at the age of 66.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee approved budgets for Sex Out Loud and F.H. King Thursday, after making minor adjustments to the food expenditures in both budgets.
Downtown residents and community members met at a neighborhood meeting Thursday to discuss two proposed student-oriented apartment buildings on North Bassett Street and North Frances Street.
President Barack Obama discussed his major achievements over the past four years, specifically highlighting his support of the middle class, during a stop in Green Bay Thursday, the first of three rallies taking place in Wisconsin over a five-day period.
The city of Madison Mayor’s office confirmed Thursday President Barack Obama plans to host a rally in Madison Monday, the day before the Nov. 6 election.
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