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By Austin Montgomery Adams Publishing Group Advocates of open government have said the county’s process for filling vacancies violates the state’s open meetings law, but a county attorney argued the selection committee’s work is not subject to that law. The following information about the applicants was made available by the Rock County administrator’s office: John Burt has been a Janesville resident for more than 32 years. He has a bachelor of science degree in civil engine...

David Hogg, a survivor of the 2017 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and gun-control activist. Sachin Chheda, a Democratic strategist in Wisconsin, says that billionaires supporting and normalizing the fringes of the Republican party’s right wing extremes has a harmful effect on democracy. “We’ve reached a crisis point in American politics, every red line we thought existed about what was acceptable or unacceptable in public discourse is being violated,” Chheda says. “This...