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The Legislature's budget committee is supposed to decide Tuesday whether to give Gov.

Gov. Scott Walker has reappointed Stephen Marcus, chairman of the board of the Marcus Corp., to the Wisconsin Center District board.

Lauded as a conservative hero for taking on the public employee unions in Wisconsin in 2010-11, Gov.

It is a change that could affect all of us literally down to the core. This week the legislature will take up a plan by the governor that would require anyone arrested for a felony or convicted of a misdemeanor to give a DNA sample.

Some campaign promises build in a bit of wiggle room. The one made by candidate for governor Scott Walker to "Strip policy and pork projects from the state budget" did not.

WISN 12 News investigates how widespread the practice of double-dipping is and why critics believe it could cost taxpayers millions.

Wisconsin state legislators have blocked an effort by Gov. Scott Walker to lift the state's long-time limits on foreign ownership of farmland, legislative staffers and lobbyists tell DTN.

Some top advisers to Hillary Clinton 's 2008 presidential campaign, including manager Patti Solis Doyle and strategist Mark Penn, say they don't intend to be part of any 2016 run by her.

Gov. Scott Walker embarks on a speaking frenzy this week. He's set to keynote huge Republican gatherings in Connecticut and New York City, then head back to the Midwest to be the star of a GOP gathering in Iowa.

Gov. Scott Walker's administration would gain broad authority to sell state property - including prisons, highways, heating plants and university dormitories - under a plan legislators will take up Tuesday.

The debacle at the Internal Revenue Service reached Wisconsin last week when a Texas tea party group said that the IRS closely questioned its leaders about whether they were involved in verifying recall signatures in Wisconsin last year.

We saw it in 2012 when the two weathered Wisconsin's turmoil and tribal division by earning the very same share of the vote five months apart.

Although Gov. Scott Walker has hired out gay staffers, including two who were convicted of crimes they committed while working for him as Milwaukee County Executive, he strongly opposes marriage equality.

Last week, the Legislature's budget committee cut funding for the state's land conservation program and called on the Department of Natural Resources to begin selling off property.

Zielinski had been demoted in March to an adviser from his job as the party's spokesman.

That state's Democratic party is calling him a "goon" and is using Walker's presence at the Republican's biggest annual event to raise some funding of its own.

Two years after lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to enlarge the state budget by creating a privately run bail bonds system in Wisconsin, the controversial idea could be returning.

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Just for the fun of it, let's skip ahead and think about what would happen if Gregory Thornton departed from his job as superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools.

Big cuts to the County Board's budget don't start until next year, and a 50% pay cut for supervisors won't happen until 2016, under a measure just approved by the Legislature.