Network partner Brennan Center for Justice released results for a national poll that shows 26 percent of Americans are less likely to vote because of the increased influence that super PACs have over elected officials. Additionally, the poll found that…
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declined to immediately hear cases involving the state’s voter ID law, and has sent them back to circuit courts in Waukesha and Madison. Dane County Circuit Court judge David Flanagan,…
Federal judges in Wisconsin have chosen to redraw two Wisconsin state legislative districts in favor of the area’s Latino community. The judges stepped in and redrew districts 8 and 9 after Republican legislators drew the…
Wisconsin voters went to the polls on April 3 for their state’s primary, and Republican voters turned out in favor of Mitt Romney. Because of pending lawsuits, including one by Network partner League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, the state’s voter…
A lawsuit filed by Network partner League of Women Voters of Wisconsin against the state’s voter ID law will head to the Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, where the justices will decide whether arguments will be heard.…
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The Federal Communications Commission has issued a ruling that will require television stations to post their station information online, including the records of how much they charge for ad time, and which political committees buy time. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes in…
From the sweltering Mississippi of 1964’s “Freedom Summer” to Washington’s marbled corridors of power to the rough-and-tumble of Illinois politics, Larry Hansen devoted his nearly 50-year career to making American democracy work better. Hansen, vice president of the Joyce Foundation…
The Newseum and First Amendment Center launched the “
As Sunlight Labs continues to invest in retrieving data out of the U.S. government, the non-profit wonders why others have not followed their path.By using data to try and improve and create…
CHICAGO -- An alliance of Midwest civic and political reform groups is calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to impose stronger public interest obligations on local television broadcasters as part of the new regulatory framework that will…
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