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Walker leads Barrett by 6 percentage points, new poll shows
Updated: 2:21 pmGov. Scott Walker has pulled ahead of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in the polls with just a few weeks before Wisconsin's historic recall race, …
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Walker releases better 2011 jobs data
Updated: 2:49 pmRepublican Gov. Scott Walker released better 2011 jobs figures on Wednesday in an attempt to rebuff a central argument of those trying to reca…
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A new farming custom: For fee, companies will do field work for you
Updated: 12:01 pmCustom farming is a growing trend among part-time farmers as well as major operations that hire out virtually every task — from crop planting …
Latest Local News
- Tech and Biotech: Fitchburg startup, Intuitive Biosciences, buys Gentel Bio assets
- Fugitive shot while fleeing US marshals in Milwaukee
- Proposal to move DFI out of Downtown removed from agenda
- Man charged with sexually assaulting drunk teen
- Dr. Zorba Paster: Allergies are the pits. What's the best treatment?
- Doug Moe: Pet psychic had a nice chat with doggy star
- Odd Wisconsin: The beginning of the end for Sauk Chief Black Hawk
- In the news Wednesday: Downtown bars, redevelopment
- Badger Boys State gathering set to begin
- City Council OKs sale to ULI for East Wash redevelopment
- Sentencing postponed for Walker aide Wink
- Herr Environmental exec: Company didn't spread excess human waste on fields
Crime & courts
Blog: On PoliticsMadison Politiscope: 2010 revisited? Barrett trails Walker by 6 points in latest poll
Only 3 percent of voters say they are undecided in the June 5 recall election.
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Preaching to the choir: Conservative media and friendly audiences are Walker PR linchpins
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Madison Politiscope: Wealthy donors often display bipartisan generosity
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May 15
Madison Politiscope: Ed Schultz becomes cable TV's champion of Wisconsin workers
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Madison Politiscope: Wisconsin GOP convention upsets gun rights activists
Crime & courts
Elections 2012 On Politics Capitol Report Laptop City Hall PolitiscopeFugitive shot while fleeing US marshals in Milwaukee
An armed fugitive has been shot and critically wounded while fleeing U.S. marshals on Milwaukee's south side.
Education
Blog: On CampusHead 'em up, move 'em out: Thousands of UW students moving out of dorms this week
Spring is here! The birds are chirping, the grass is growing, car horns are blaring and tempers are rising all over the UW-Madison campus. Why? It's move-out time.
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May 15
Campus Connection: UW prof named to panel tasked with examining achievement gap
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May 15
Chancellor search for UW-Madison to start in fall
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May 14
Campus Connection: UW offering new online engineering graduate program
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May 13
Campus Connection: Many UW students will have to vote absentee in recall election
Health & Medicine
Public health awards given to six individuals and organizations
Public Health Madison and Dane County is honoring six individuals and organizations with the 2012 public health awards, because of the recipients' dedication to the public in tough economic times.
Science & Nature
Blog: Seely on ScienceVolunteers needed for 'Get Dirty for Dane' environmental work Saturday
Dane County residents are being asked to get down and dirty on Saturday, all in the name of the environment.
Around Wisconsin
Newson says recall had no effect on data release
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Secretary Reggie Newson says the decision to release new jobs numbers early was his alone and not made in consultation with Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
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