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MADISON, Wis.-- A wide-reaching change that would allow the state to sell off properties ranging from prisons and power plants to University of Wisconsin dormitories and state highways is up for approval before the Legislature's budget committee.
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MADISON, Wis.-- Prosecutors announced Thursday they won't file charges against loggers whose equipment apparently started a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin, concluding there was no criminal intent or negligence.
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MADISON, Wis.-- Wisconsin's budget surplus grew by $500 million Thursday, leading to a bipartisan call by state lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker to put some of the money toward public schools two years after funding was cut by more than $1 billion. The state entered this year with roughly a $500 million surplus, but Walker spent nearly all of that in his budget proposal.
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WAUKESHA, Wis.-- Two state lawmakers vented their frustration over Wisconsin's job-creation agency Wednesday, telling members of the agency's board the Legislature would look to impose changes unless the organization showed signs of improvement.
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Another 49 in the city plan to enter into labor agreements with the UFCW this year, the union says. During the last few years, unions, led by the UFCW, have played an increasingly significant role in campaigns to allow medical marijuana, now legal in California, 17 other states and Washington, D.C..
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Money can't buy you love, but it certainly can help out in other ways, reports CNBC's Robert Frank, who looks at whether money can really make you happy.
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*Law sparked failed effort to recall Wisconsin governor. Jan 18- A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a controversial Wisconsin law that restricts the power of public-sector unions, the passage of which sparked an unsuccessful effort to recall the state's Republican Governor, Scott Walker.
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*Law sparked failed effort to recall Wisconsin governor. Jan 18- A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a controversial Wisconsin law that restricts the power of public-sector unions, the passage of which sparked an ultimately failed effort to recall the state's Republican governor Scott Walker.
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Conservatives may be under attack in Washington, but many of htem are winning huge battles in the individual states. John Gizzi, Human Events Senior White House Correspondent, weighs in.
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*Michigan outcome a "catastrophe" for unions. CHICAGO, Dec 13- Laws that weaken the power of organized labor could spread to more U.S. states in 2013 after supporters of the measures scored a major victory over unions in Michigan this week, and earlier in the year in Indiana, experts said.
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From outside Michigan Republican circles, it appeared that the Republican drive to weaken unions came out of the blue - proposed, passed and signed in a mere six days.
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LANSING, Mich., Dec 13- As a trained aerospace engineer, Patrick Colbeck applied his penchant for data analysis and "systematic approach" to his new job in early 2011: a Michigan state senator, recently elected and keen to create jobs in the faded industrial powerhouse.
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Here are some key facts about Michigan and right-to-work:. **Michigan would be 24th of the 50 U.S. states to pass laws making it right-to-work, and the second in the industrial heartland of the country after Indiana passed such legislation earlier in 2012. Most other right-to-work states are in the South and Plains regions.
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Here are some key facts about Michigan and right-to-work:. **Michigan would be 24th of the 50 U.S. states to pass laws making it right-to-work, and the second in the industrial heartland of the country after Indiana passed such legislation earlier in 2012. Most other right-to-work states are in the South and Plains regions.
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DETROIT, Dec 9- Union members and others opposed to Michigan becoming a "right-to-work" state plan major protests in the state capital this week to try to stop Republicans from restricting labor unions in the cradle of the unionized U.S. auto industry.
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LANSING, Mich., Dec 7- The proposed Michigan "right-to-work" law will not apply to existing union contracts, a leading sponsor of the proposal said on Friday, which may blunt its immediate impact on the state's huge auto industry.
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LANSING, Mich., Dec 6- Michigan's Republican-controlled Legislature passed separate bills on Thursday aimed at making the home of the U.S. auto industry the 24th "right-to-work" state banning mandatory union dues, setting off raucous demonstrations and the arrests of some protesters.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 4- With a few weeks remaining. The governors making the rounds Tuesday, who hold leadership positions in the National Governors Association, are Democrats Jack Markell of Delaware, Mark Dayton of Minnesota and Mike Beebe of Arkansas and Republican Gary Herbert of Utah, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Mary Fallin of Oklahoma.