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MADISON Deadbeat parents in Wisconsin could soon be under more pressure to pay what they owe for child support.

MADISON Despite the uproar over massive spending cuts, Wisconsin public schools still received more money per student in 2011 than the previous year and the Badger State was still in the top-third of all states in per-pupil spending.

If, as the saying goes, "words are the clothes that thoughts wear," American politics has become a full-fledged masquerade ball.

About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60 th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's historic ascent of Mount Everest, Patch and Grape-Nuts are teaming up to highlight those who inspire people around them to climb their own mountains.

Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee largely signed off Tuesday on giving Gov.

All nonprofit organizations are profitable in some way, although perhaps not financially.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks during the annual Connecticut GOP Prescott Bush Awards dinner at the Stamford Hilton Hotel in Stamford on Monday, May 20, 2013.

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.