Wisconsin

A University of Pennsylvania professor tweeting as “Nein Quarterly” has attracted more than 40,000 followers with his wry observations on everything from US politics to the sexiness of the German umlaut.

Each morning, the great conservationist Aldo Leopold took meticulous notes of the dawn bird chorus outside his Wisconsin home. Now, a professor and a grad student at the University of Wisconsin have used Leopold’s journals to recreate the soundscape that Leopold heard in 1940.

Wisconsonites voted Tuesday to keep incumbent Scott Walker in the governor’s seat. The recall election is over, but Tea Party supporters, union organizers and voters are speaking out on what the results mean for the rest of the country.

On Tuesday Wisconsin voters will decide whether to recall Governor Scott Walker from office. Walker’s clamp down on Wisconsin’s public sector labor unions set off a recall campaign that has spanned over a year and brought national campaign energy to the state.

Wisconsin officials ordered a recall election for Gov. Scott Walker on Friday. Despite the presidential primary occurring tomorrow, numbers show a greater focus on June’s recall election.