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(05/04/11 6:00am)
As the Assembly Committee on Election and Campaign Reform passed
the Voter ID bill on partisan lines, Government Accountability
Board Director Kevin Kennedy criticized it for creating
administrative hassle and deterring student voters.
(05/03/11 6:00am)
As the recall deadline for most state senators passed Monday,
activists trying to hold recall elections for state Sens. Glenn
Grothman, R-West Bend, and Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, failed to
collect enough signatures.
(04/27/11 6:00am)
As the Joint Finance Committee continued hearings on the biennial
budget, there was bipartisan support for a provision ensuring
legislative oversight. However, legislators were divided along
party lines over child support enforcement with the Republican
majority voting to end funding.
(04/26/11 6:00am)
The Government Accountability Board outlined rules Monday for the
state-wide recount of votes from the April 5 Supreme Court
election.
(04/20/11 6:00am)
State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, proposed an alternative to the
New Badger Partnership Tuesday that would delay any decisions from
being made until after the biennial budget passed.
(04/19/11 6:00am)
Commemorating the day Americans file their tax returns, roughly 100
liberal activists protested outside the Madison Club Monday, where
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was giving a speech, to show their
discontent with his deficit plan.
(04/12/11 6:00am)
Railroad executive William Gardner was charged Monday with giving
excessive and illegal contributions to Gov. Scott Walker's campaign
last year, by prompting his employees, daughter and ""woman
friend"" to make donations and reimbursing them through his
company.
(04/07/11 6:00am)
Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg declared victory
Wednesday in a state Supreme Court race that looks certain to go to
a recount.
(04/05/11 6:00am)
Thousands of union supporters gathered at the Capitol Monday to
continue Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 fight against racism and
poverty in Madison in 2011.
(03/31/11 6:00am)
Gov. Scott Walker reintroduced fiscal portions of the budget repair
bill Wednesday, after removing them to bypass the Senate's quorum
requirement, in a move he said would refinance the state's debt to
save $165 million and balance the 2010-'11 budget.
(03/30/11 6:00am)
The Joint Finance Committee began hearings on Gov. Scott Walker's
biennial budget Tuesday by listening to testimony from heads of
agencies on how the budget affects them and what changes they
recommend.
(03/29/11 6:00am)
Despite controversy over the budget repair bill's legal status, the
Department of Administration began instituting the law Monday by
withholding contributions for pensions and health care from wages
and restoring money previously taken for union dues.
(03/23/11 6:00am)
While listening to candidates discuss fixing the economy, reducing
racial disparities and protecting the environment, community
members enjoyed beer in the lobby, a childcare service for parents
and an interpreter for Spanish speakers.
(03/22/11 6:00am)
State Sen. Timothy Cullen, D-Janesville, introduced a
constitutional amendment last Tuesday that would end the quorum
requirement for fiscal legislation, which would prevent senators
from fleeing the state to block legislation.
(03/10/11 6:00am)
State Senate Republicans removed all fiscal items from the
budget repair bill, avoiding the need for a quorum, and passed
limits on collective bargaining Wednesday, sparking massive
protests and raising questions of constitutionality.
(03/09/11 6:00am)
E-mails released by Gov. Scott Walker show progress in the budget
repair bill stalemate, although Republicans and Democrats still
refuse to budge.
(03/08/11 6:00am)
As the fourth week of protests over Gov. Scott Walker's budget
repair bill began Monday, the state Capitol was unrecognizable
compared to the past few weeks. The building's walls were clear of
signs, its halls devoid of sleeping bags and protesters inside
numbering less than a hundred.
(03/02/11 6:00am)
In front of a joint session of the legislature Tuesday, Gov. Scott
Walker presented his 2011-'13 budget, which reduces Wisconsin's
projected shortfall of $3.6 billion to $250 million.
(03/01/11 6:00am)
More than 24 hours after the Department of Administration closed
the Capitol to the public, dozens of protesters remained inside
Monday, refusing to leave until the police arrested or forcibly
removed them.
(02/24/11 6:00am)
After Gov. Scott Walker continued to defend the budget repair bill
in a press conference Wednesday, Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison,
unexpectedly took the podium to rebut the governor's
statements.