Andrew Whitley, executive director for the State Senate Democratic Committee, filed complaints against Michele Magadance Skinner on Aug. 12 with both the Wisconsin Elections Commission and the state Department of Revenue, raising questions about her residency, tax credits and voting history in Wisconsin and Georgia.

Leah Peterson, a spokeswoman with the Committee to Elect a Republican Senate, "Michele Skinner is focused on what actually matters to people in the Chippewa Valley: lowering costs, reducing property taxes."

Eau Claire County tax records show Skinner [claimed a Lottery and Gaming tax credit](https://ascent.eauclairecounty.gov/LandRecords/Reporting/TaxBilling/ViewSingleTaxBill/308720) worth $186.34 in 2025 for her Altoona home, a credit she and her husband have claimed since at least 2020. Department of Revenue [rules state](https://www.revenue.wi.gov/Pages/FAQS/slf-lottcr.aspx#lc2) that Wisconsin residents can claim this credit on only one primary residence.

But in 2025, they also claimed a senior homestead exemption in Dawson County, Georgia, where they own a home in the town of Dawsonville, records show.

They also claimed an income-based tax exemption reserved for seniors 75 and older with a household income of $25,000 or less.

Under [Wisconsin's "false swearing" law](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/946/iii/32), it is a Class H felony to knowingly make a false statement on a legal document. 

Republicans offering working people misinformation rather than a better life.

A federal judge gave a chilling warning to Justice Department lawyers fighting the further releases of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein: If they don’t comply with court orders, contempt proceedings could ruin their futures.

Tiffany has been pushing this for years.

Kelda Roys has a solid plan to empower the state and local governments to protect citizens from unregulated datacenters that they do not want. Her solution addresses the legislation needed to fight Big Tech. A call for a moratorium is not enough. We need a comprehensive plan which Kelda Roys has.

Fascism is here and now in America. No surprise that Trump and Stephen Miller are fascists. The corrosion of Marco Rubio is. Their words reveal who they really are.

Michael Alfonso made a totally fictional claim that the U.S. funded transgender goat surgery in Afghanistan. He used this as an example of fraud and wasteful spending. He presented no evidence because there is no evidence. Alfonso is the son-in-law of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and is endorsed by Donald Trump. His political experience is working on podcasts for Dan Bongino, a notorious right wing conspiracy theorist.

SpaceX “is carving out, in essence, these archipelagos of regional monopolies,” said Sascha Meinrath, the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University. “Over time that all-in cost for satellite will be much greater than fiber. It’s just that the cost will be borne by the end user.”

Meinrath and others say it’s now acting like something more familiar: a traditional telecom company that uses its market dominance to box out potential competition and lock in increasingly dissatisfied consumers.