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May 20, 2012          9:45 am At age 4, Serra Crawford was doing second-grade multiplication and essentially reading at an adult level. By 6, she advanced to algebra and trigonometry. A year or two later, she was writing books about an osprey that flew around the world, her mom recalled. Serra was [...]

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May 16, 2012 Governor Walker’s Revised Employment Data in Context (To be updated on Thursday with the release of official BLS data.) Today, the Wisconsin DWD took the unusual — one might say unprecedented [1] [2] – step of announcing their estimates of what they call “actual job numbers” (see press release here). These are based on the unemployment [...]

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May 16, 2012 Governor Walker’s Revised Employment Data in Context (To be updated on Thursday with the release of official BLS data.) Today, the Wisconsin DWD took the unusual — one might say unprecedented [1] [2] – step of announcing their estimates of what they call “actual job numbers” (see press release here). These are based on the unemployment [...]

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Residents are reporting hearing strange booms and feeling shaking in Clintonville, Wisconsin since Sunday, March 18, 2012 about 9:30 p.m. Sunday – Monday Boom Timeline SUN MAR 18 2012 @9:30 p.m. — Looking back people recalled booms, explosions, rattling noises. MON MAR 19 2012 @1:45 a.m. — Calls started coming in to emergency operations MON [...]

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  THURSDAY JANUARY 05, 2012 AT 08:50 AM PST A former campaign aid to Gov. Scott Walker was arrested and charged with two felonies. Tim Russel, who had worked for Walker during his tenure as Milwaukee County Exectutive, as well as his political campaigns. His partner was also arrested. It is not clear that this [...]

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Walker probe puts prominent Milwaukee commercial Realtor in jail Andrew P. Jensen Jr., a principal with Milwaukee-based commercial real estate brokerage The Boerke Company Inc., was booked into the Milwaukee County Jail Tuesday night. Jensen was taken to the jail by an investigator with the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office, said [...]

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November 1, 2011 Mahlon Mitchell is not talking himself up as a candidate for governor. In fact, when the president of the Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin union received a civil rights award at the Voces de la Frontera 10th anniversary gala in Milwaukee Thursday, he didn’t mention the topic. But others have in recent days, [...]

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August 8th, 2011 After weeks of going door-to-door, volunteers tirelessly making phone calls day after day, and both candidates shaking hands and smiling for interviews, Election Day has arrived. Beginning 7 a.m. Tuesday, voters will hit the polls to choose between incumbent Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) and her challenger, Rep. Sandy Pasch (D-Whitefish Bay). [...]

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Sunday, 07 Aug 2011, 9:58 PM CDT Voters in parts of the state including our area will once again head to the polls this week for some recall elections. This Tuesday will be the general election for six Republican incumbent State Senators. That includes three from our area: Rob Cowles of Allouez, Luther Olsen of [...]

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011 — 3:54 p.m. The case detective has indicated that the suspect was arrested on 2 counts of Physical Abuse of a Child on July 1st, and that the original tentative charges were amended on July 5th, when the 1st Degree Reckless Homicide tentative charge was made. ______________________________________ UPDATED Wednesday, July 6, [...]

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011 — 3:58 p.m. The Madison Police Department is investigating the apparent double homicide of two brothers, ages three and four years old. The following is a chronological summary of what we believed happened at this time: • At 2:06 p.m. yesterday, the 22 year biological mother of the two children came [...]

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011 UPDATE — 11:25 pm — The woman struck by the bus has been identified as Maureen Grant, an employee of Memorial Library, according to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8. She was not a UW student.   A Madison woman died after she was struck by a Madison Metro bus Wednesday morning [...]

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Mar 4, 2011 at 9:43 AM CST State Representative Nick Milroy got into a confrontation with police Thursday night. The video shows Superior Native, and South Range Representative, Milroy, attempting to get into the Capitol. The police officer who was guarding the door then tackles the representative. No one is allowed inside the Capitol until [...]

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February 22, 2011 2:40 PM ET Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello spent Monday at the Wisconsin protests, performing acoustic songs at a rally and delivering a fiery speech to the thousands inside of the capital rotunda who are protesting Governor Walker’s attempt to end the right of state employees to collectively bargain. “What’s [...]

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