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Canvass shows conservative wins court race (UPDATE)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative justice has weathered attempts to link him to Wisconsin’s governor and a divisive union rights law to win re-election, according to county vote totals finalized Friday. Tallies from each of the state’s 72 counties show Justice David Prosser defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by 7,316 […]
POMMER: Will court race embolden Walker?
How will Gov. Scott Walker react to the voters' decision in the just-completed Wisconsin Supreme Court race?
Falk likely to drop lawsuit over union law
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A spokesman for Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk says she is likely to drop her lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker’s bill taking away collective bargaining rights from public workers after a judge dismissed it. Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi left open the possibility that Falk, who is leaving her post […]
Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging union law
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has dismissed one of three lawsuits filed challenging Wisconsin’s divisive law restricting collective bargaining rights. Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi on Thursday dismissed the lawsuit filed by Democratic Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk saying she does not have standing to bring the action. The judge says state law […]
Bill voiding Milwaukee sick leave law passes
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bill that does away with Milwaukee’s ordinance requiring employers to provide workers with paid sick leave has passed the Legislature and now heads to Gov. Scott Walker, who says he’s likely to sign it. The Assembly passed it 59-35 Tuesday. It previously cleared the Senate. The bill comes after a […]
Elections board committee nominees include 3 former judges
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A committee has nominated three former judges to replace an outgoing member of the state Government Accountability Board. A board committee on Tuesday announced it had selected Charles P. Dykman of Madison, Dennis Luebke of Appleton and Timothy Vocke of Rhinelander as possible replacements for Gordon Myse, whose term ends next […]
Railroad executive charged with making illegal donations (UPDATE)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin railroad magnate accused of illegally donating to Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign said Monday he would plead guilty but didn’t realize he had done anything wrong when he asked employees to donate tens of thousands of dollars and then reimbursed them. Wisconsin & Southern Railroad […]
Wis. public court record access may be threatened
By JASON SMATHERS Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin court officials fear the court’s data management system, including a popular site that allows anyone to easily look up the criminal records of friends and neighbors, could be on shaky ground if the governor’s proposed budget breaks up its funding mechanism. Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed […]
Tea party, labor spend big in high court race
By DINESH RAMDE Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pro-labor organizations and one of the country’s largest tea party groups are pouring money into Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election in an effort to turn the normally sleepy race into a referendum on the national fight over labor rights. The attention from conservative and liberal groups has […]
Wisconsin union law likely on hold for 2 months (UPDATE)
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A week ago, Wisconsin Republicans thought they’d won the fight over the state’s polarizing union rights bill. They’d weathered massive protests, outfoxed Senate Democrats who fled the state and gotten around a restraining order blocking the law by having an obscure state agency publish it. They […]
Judge extends restraining order on union law
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Madison, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge says she’s keeping in place her restraining order preventing a law stripping most public workers of most of their collective bargaining rights from going into effect while she considers whether the state open meetings law was broken in the process of passing the […]
Judge to look at how union law was passed
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Madison, Wis. (AP) — Having declared that Wisconsin’s divisive union law isn’t really a law yet, a judge was set to return to one of the underlying questions dogging the measure — whether Republicans violated the state’s open meetings law during the frenzied run-up to passage. Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s […]
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