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Two days ago, a man with an arrest record which includes burglary shot two Milwaukee police officers.

The legal requirement that state government notify the public of its actions is a guarantee to citizens that what by law must be done actually is carried out.

The legal requirement that state government notify the public of its actions is a guarantee to citizens that what by law must be done actually is carried out.

Perhaps the Democrats on the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee thought this would be a good time to kick newspapers while they're down.

Our View: Public notice law deserves real debate May 15, 2009 When the Legislature took up the budget submitted by Gov.

The clock is ticking on Antigo's Department of Natural Resources service center, along with 23 others around the state that provide one of the few customer-friendly faces on the sprawling agency.

State legal notices of meetings affecting everyone from hunters and anglers to business owners could run online instead of in the newspaper, under a proposal passed by the Legislature's budget committee Tuesday.

MADISON - The Legislature's budget-writing committee voted Tuesday to approve a plan to end counter service at two dozen state Department of Natural Resources field offices.

Two of the fighter pilots who attempted to intercept a stolen plane Monday are from the 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth.

"I spoke to a town official in Langlade County who said, 'Gosh, we have an election cost of $500 to $1000 and we had 17 people show up to the February primary,'" said state Sen.

The state's economic slump has lawmakers looking for savings anywhere they can be found.

Wisconsin native, conservative critic of everything. "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." --G.K. Chesterton "My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders." ---Mark Twain "Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." ---G K Chesterton Thursday, March 19, 2009 ...

UP 200 mushers gratefully ate their eggs and pancakes inside on Monday morning, rehashing with their family and friends how their dogs persevered through several inches of fresh snow on the trails this weekend.

Only 6 percent of eligible voters -- 253,996 people voted in the primary out of 4.3 million statewide -- cast ballots Tuesday.

Only 6 percent of Wisconsin's eligible voters bothered to cast a ballot in Tuesday's primary.

About 19 percent of registered voters turned out for Wisconsin's spring elections last year.

It is not, in this country, a matter simply of being committed or uncommitted to democracy.

Rep. Gary E. Sherman reintroduced legislation last week to address the rising property tax burden on Wisconsin homeowners.

A state Assembly Democrat says he'll try again to move Wisconsin's spring elections to the fall.

Following only a 19 percent voter turnout during last spring's State Supreme Court election, a state representative proposed a state constitutional amendment Monday to move spring non-partisan elections to the ...