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Let me see. The Walkerites want to grant the right to almost all of us to carry guns just about everywhere if we feel like it. The Capitol had been exempt, but the author of the bill has changed her mind. Huzzah! Looks like we will be able to pack heat in the Capitol as well. Then, asks Senator Erpenbach, why have metal detectors at the entry? Oh, well, they stationed them at the doors before the latest version of concealed carry had been introduced by the NRA. They have gone bonkers ! We... Read Full Story

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Organizations representing school district administrators and school boards in Wisconsin have released a new analysis that estimates school districts in the state would face a budget gap greater than $300 million in the 2011-12 school year under the state budget proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, even after districts impose some of the employee concessions he has proposed. The study, released by the Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance and the state Association of School Boards, is based on... Read Full Story

A bill introduced by Southeastern Wisconsin lawmakers State Sen. Rich Zipperer (R-Pewaukee) and State Rep. Robin Vos (R-Racine) would prevent the state’s federally required health insurance exchange from offering coverage for abortion – except in limited circumstances, such as when ending the pregnancy is needed to save the mother’s life. The federal law requires states to establish exchanges by 2014 to sell health plans to individuals and small employers. Plans offered on the exchange will... Read Full Story

The Milwaukee Common Council has given City Attorney Grant Langley the green light to sue the state over a $1.3 million cut in recycling funding. The state Department of Natural Resources announced in April it would be awarding $19 million in grants to municipalities’ recycling programs instead of the $31 million city leaders were expecting. The $13 million was lapsed to the state’s general fund to help balance it by the end of the state’s fiscal year. tom barrett Milwaukee Mayor... Read Full Story

The Milwaukee County Board today will consider paying a total of $16,500 to settle claims filed by two Milwaukee residents struck by county vehicles. In the first accident, which occurred in February 2010, Jacqueline Hawkins was crossing North 35th Street when a county pickup truck turned in front of her. A snow plow attached to the truck struck the woman’s knee, bruising it. She underwent several weeks of physical therapy. Police cited the driver, a county employee, for failing to yield... Read Full Story

Since January when Scott Walker became governor and on through April, the state Department of My way or the highway Transportation has spent an extra $13.9 million outsourcing state road work to private consultants, even though the state acknowledges the work could have been done cheaper by state employees — if it wasn’t already badgering many of them into early retirement. Some of those busy private DOT consultants belong to a state roadbuilders association that funneled noticeable amounts... Read Full Story

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Wisconsin’s nuclear power plants – the Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant and the Kewaunee Power Station – are changing their procedures in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. The accident, the worst since Chernobyl, has prompted waves of inspections led by both by federal regulators and the nuclear industry itself. Both Point Beach and the Kewaunee plant are located on the shores of Lake Michigan north of Manitowoc. Together, they produce about a fifth of the state’s electricity... Read Full Story

Although Wisconsin hasn’t suffered through the tragedy wrought by tornadoes in Alabama or Missouri, this state has had its share of twisters. Like 2010, this could be another record-breaking year. The National Weather Service has already documented 18 tornadoes in 2011, more than Wisconsin had in all of 2009. But since that year, the state has been a regular tornado alley. A total of 46 twisters hit in the state in 2010, the second-most of any year after 2005, when the NWS documented 62... Read Full Story