Russ Feingold calls on Sen. Ron Johnson to sign anti-super PAC “Badger Pledge”

Earlier today Democrat Russ Feingold signed the Badger Pledge and asked Sen. Ron Johnson to sign as well. The Badger Pledge, which is modeled after the successful bipartisan agreement used in the 2012 Massachusetts Senate race, would seek to limit the amount of third-party spending in Wisconsin’s 2016 U.S. Senate…

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This week in Wisconsin economic development

Given the state’s understandable concern with economic growth, I thought I would take this opportunity to highlight this week’s developments. Wisconsin drops to the bottomĀ of all states in new business startups, according to the Kauffman Foundation. Milwaukee is ranked 39th out of the country’s 40 largest metropolitan areas in startups….

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