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Milwaukee's nascent water-research hub may benefit from Obama executive order

So is Milwaukee a tired, rustbelt industrial city with no modern technological base? Not really.After the waterborne cryptosporidium crisis in 1993, Milwaukee moved light years toward better treatment...

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Scotty's Used State Office Buildings: Shop our going out of business sale!...

You didn't read about this today in Wisconsin's largest newspaper because, well, apparently it's not suprising enough to be news in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. But the Associated Press thought...

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Ron Johnson's "meteoric" rise in the Senate? More like a fiery death plunge.

"Oh, my name is Ron Johnson and I come from Wisconsin..."Today while puttering around the house I overheard a blurb on Milwaukee Public Radio's WUWM-FM from Milwaukee Magazine. Be sure, we were told,...

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Yet another PolitiFrack moment: Walker rates a "half true" on health care...

Back in the 1930s, famed aviator Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigon earned headlines and that nickname when, on a supposedly planned flight from New York to California, he wound up in Ireland. But it's not...

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Apalled GOP lawmakers saw Scott Walker's anti-union plan as going "nuclear,"...

In Scott Walker's new book, "Unintimidated," recounting his largely self-imposed and on-going travails as Wisconsin governor, we learn how some conservative Republican Party lawmakers were aghast at...

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Walkergate is in major part an outgrowth of Milwaukee's especially virulent...

Joan Walsh at Salon.com does yeowoman's work summarizing an important but not well understood aspect of Walkergate: How did it become possible for a conservative like Walker to rise in political...

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JOHN DOE-HO-HO: Oh, the twisted webs they weave!

What!? The Milwaukee County district attorney who's a Democrat is having himself defended by private lawyers at taxpayer expense in a lawsuit filed by conservatives!?  Yes, I can already hear the...

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Scott Walker: The man with two mouths

It's now become apparent that Scott Walker really is trying to have it both ways. He claims in public he's not going to get into the details of the first John Doe case that investigated his Milwaukee...

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Wausau's "Open-Carry" national poster man arrested on gun-related charges

What's wrong with Wisconsin's recently minted "open carry" gun law? Plenty. And let S. Wright over at DailyKos.com tell you all about the latest evidence of that, up in our state's fine city of Wausau....

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Capt. Renault (er, Gov. Walker) is simply shocked -- shocked! -- about big...

Scott Walker yesterday did his best impersonation of Capt. Louis Renault from the 1942 Bogart flick "Casablanca," saying he was going to get to the bottom of just how state prison wardens got...

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Apalled GOP lawmakers saw Scott Walker's anti-union plan as going "nuclear,"...

In Scott Walker's new book, "Unintimidated," recounting his largely self-imposed and on-going travails as Wisconsin governor, we learn how some conservative Republican Party lawmakers were aghast at...

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Walkergate is in major part an outgrowth of Milwaukee's especially virulent...

Joan Walsh at Salon.com does yeowoman's work summarizing an important but not well understood aspect of Walkergate: How did it become possible for a conservative like Walker to rise in political...

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JOHN DOE-HO-HO: Oh, the twisted webs they weave!

What!? The Milwaukee County district attorney who's a Democrat is having himself defended by private lawyers at taxpayer expense in a lawsuit filed by conservatives!?  Yes, I can already hear the...

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Scott Walker: The man with two mouths

It's now become apparent that Scott Walker really is trying to have it both ways. He claims in public he's not going to get into the details of the first John Doe case that investigated his Milwaukee...

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Wausau's "Open-Carry" national poster man arrested on gun-related charges

What's wrong with Wisconsin's recently minted "open carry" gun law? Plenty. And let S. Wright over at DailyKos.com tell you all about the latest evidence of that, up in our state's fine city of Wausau....

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Capt. Renault (er, Gov. Walker) is simply shocked -- shocked! -- about big...

Scott Walker yesterday did his best impersonation of Capt. Louis Renault from the 1942 Bogart flick "Casablanca," saying he was going to get to the bottom of just how state prison wardens got...

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Walker projects outsourcing onto opponent Mary Burke; Journal Sentinel covers...

Scott Walker's gubernatorial campaign is now trying to outsource its own crummy economic development policies to Democratic challenger Mary Burke. A new Walker attack ad paints Burke as a jobs...

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What Scott Walker actually may be good at: Meat auctions

More news stories are talking about Mary Burke's surprising strength against Wisconsin's strong-man Governor Scott Walker in this fall's gubernatorial election. That image was bolstered Tuesday night...

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Defending his Medicaid fiasco, Scott Walker employs self-serving, circular logic

So here is the sum total of Scott Walker's totally weak political argument against expanding Medicaid-based health care to a greater number of low-income Wisconsin residents: Unlike other federal...

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More Journal Sentinel shark-jumping: Virtually all disciplined state workers...

This is a journalistic excess that's obviously now gone over the top. David Haynes, who is editorial page editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information...

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