By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — The 2012 political fights advanced this week in Wisconsin, with new insights into campaign financing and a brewing battle over recall petitions.

By PA Independent Staff HARRISBURG — Redistricting continued to be the hot topic, as politicians and political watchers have scrambled to respond to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s unprecedented rejection of the state House and Senate district maps.

By M.D. Kittle Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — A Wisconsin Reporter review found 200 pages of recall petitions missing from the Government Accountability Board database of 153,000-plus pages of signatures in the recall campaign against Gov. Scott Walker.

By Lynn Campbell  |  IowaPolitics.com DES MOINES — Lisa Russell doesn’t like the cameras in some Iowa cities that lead to traffic tickets of up to $200 for speeding or running red lights, but she also knows the cameras are bringing in money.

By M.D. Kittle and Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — Tim Schell says Wisconsin’s public education system is a bit like Rip Van Winkle — it’s waking up to find success has passed its schools behind. “We were leading the nation in public education, but that was once upon a time,” Schell, director of [...]