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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.

With time running out, Mayor Tom Barrett and city lobbyists continue to work to convince state legislators to leave the city's 75-year-old residency rule alone.

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to freeze student tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses for the next two years would mark the first two-year tuition freeze for the four-year campuses in the 42-year history of the UW System.

A Texas tea party group said the Internal Revenue Service asked about its involvement in verifying signatures provided in the effort to recall Republican Gov.

A noisy cultural moment, and a lucrative one: China has embraced Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

Back in February, Governor Scott Walker announced that he was rejecting Medicaid expansion under the federal health care law.

Many of the groups who helped Scott Walker win the Wisconsin recall were 501 Tea Party groups that worked in close tandem with his campaign despite their non-political tax designation.

Planned Parenthood gets hit with budget cuts and on Thursday, one of four branches closed its doors to people in the Chippewa Valley.

Governor Scott Walker has revised his budget for Wisconsin, freezing tuition for the University of Wisconsin System for the next 2 years.

See videos of Rep. Gwen Moore's visit on the Colbert Report, including topics like Rep.

A party-line vote cut funding to Wisconsin's Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program by $63.5 million dollars over the next seven years.