By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court declined to rule Thursday on whether to allow a law stripping public employee unions of nearly all their collective bargaining rights to take effect, saying the issue ...

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Wisconsin residents have long prided themselves on the openness and transparency of the government that serves them. After all, it’s the law, as Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen pointed out in his Sunshine Week column in the La Crosse ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge says no one should expect a quick ruling in a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s contentious collective bargaining law. Secretary of State Doug La Follette said he plans to publish the law on March 25. But ...

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By Jack Zemlicka A judge has denied an emergency request to block a law that takes away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of Wisconsin’s public workers. Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed the legislation Friday morning, but ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk is now interim county executive. Falk had held the job since 1997 and announced last fall that she was leaving this April. Falk had to quit early enough in order ...

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By Jan Basina There soon will be a place at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison dedicated to all things children. Thanks to a donation from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation, children of all ages will be able to get up-close ...

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By Jan Basina There soon will be a place at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison dedicated to all things children. Thanks to a donation from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation, children of all ages will be able to get up-close ...

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By Paul Snyder Wisconsin county highway commissioners, lacking federal stimulus money and local revenue, are facing the likelihood of fewer projects in 2011. “When county budgets are tight and they’re looking for ways to save money, it becomes easy to ...

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Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk on Thursday announced that AECOM, a global engineering company, will perform a feasibility study for the county on turning food waste into electricity. The first phase of AECOM’s feasibility study will be completed this fall. ...

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By Paul Snyder A half-cent sales tax increase would give Dane County planners the money they need to craft a regional transit strategy. But the Dane County Regional Transit Authority needs the strategy to persuade voters to hand over the ...

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