Madison360: Walker donor gets personal bill-signing

07/06/11 For months, Gov. Scott Walker and GOP allies whined about the unfair influence public employee unions have on Democrats in state government. But how about this for influence? A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel blog reports a trucking executive was among those who apparently violated state limits by making excess donations to Walker but, hey, it seemed to work out nicely. Walker signed a bill into law ...

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John Nichols: Using current court problems to end judicial elections would be absurd

07/05/11 Gov. Scott Walker told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the other day that he is interested in exploring proposals to end Wisconsin's historic tradition of electing those who judge us. And the newspapers that actively backed Walker for governor last year, the Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal, are making all kinds of noise about making the state Supreme Court an appointed body.

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Packers not rehiring WR James Jones?

07/18/11 The word is that when the NFL's new collective bargaining agreement is finally signed off on, teams will have 72 hours to re-sign their own free agents before everybody else gets a chance to make offers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The paper has it that there is only a 20 percent chance that Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones will be getting one of those offers and be back ...

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