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Attorney General Josh Kaul has reached a $242,000 settlement with a factory farm and a manure applicator to resolve pollution violations stemming from manure spills several years ago.
How dangerous can a lame-duck session become when the duck is as delusional, deranged and daffy as President Donald Trump?
This State Journal editorial ran on Dec. 12, 1920:
The state’s Department of Justice is suing the Legislature and its budget writing committee over a law passed shortly after Gov. Tony Evers won election in 2018.
The state Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to hear a lawsuit Republican legislators filed last year alleging Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul wasn't complying with laws passed during a 2018 lame-duck legislative session.
The highly anticipated decision comes a year-and-a-half after the December 2018 extraordinary session when Republicans passed laws limiting the powers of the incoming Democratic attorney general and governor.
The Wisconsin Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee signed off on four more legal settlements under the state's lame-duck laws in a whirlwind meeting Tuesday.
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You can't pass an agenda if one side doesn't even have the courtesy to consider it.
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The court, which has a 5-2 conservative majority, heard oral arguments in the case that was brought by a series of unions.
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Wisconsin needs a chief law enforcement officer who is fully empowered to do his job.
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Tuesday was the first time the Democrat officially brought a case he's working on before the body for review.
The December extraordinary session laws, supported by Republicans, required Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to seek permission from lawmakers before settling a case, among other things.
The Republican Legislature earlier this month sued Kaul for failing to follow parts of the December extraordinary session laws that limited his and incoming Gov. Tony Evers' authority.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, is the fifth surrounding the state's December extraordinary session, but the first brought by Republicans.
In "American Carnage," Tim Alberta of Politico wrote that the former speaker, who retired from Congress in 2018, could not stand the idea of another two years with the president and saw retirement as the "escape hatch."
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In 1941, my mother and father and I were the first family of color to move to the East Side of Madison, east of the Yahara River.
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Former Republican Gov. Scott Walker appointed Hogan to take the helm of the troubled jobs agency in September 2015.
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