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- Kohler takes the lid off high-end toilet
Wednesday - 04/20/2011 - 12:45 AMKohler Co. is preparing to hit the market with its latest toilet, a piece of minimalist design and high tech it calls the Numi.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Journal Sentinel wins Pulitzer in Explanatory Reporting
Monday - 04/18/2011 - 03:10 PMThe team of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel journalists who chronicled the quest by doctors to save a boy by searching his DNA for clues to a mysterious illness was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Conservative bloggers slam Glenn Beck for 'content theft'
Monday - 04/18/2011 - 08:33 AMA conservative website reports that a remarkably large number of conservative writers and activists are furious at broadcaster Glenn Beck for what the web site calls content theft.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5-year-old shot while turkey hunting with his dad
Sunday - 04/17/2011 - 03:08 PMA five-year-old boy from Slinger was shot more than a dozen times in the side of his head and in his chest, arm and thigh while turkey hunting with his dad in the Jackson Marsh Sunday morning.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Uncertain about future benefits, many veteran teachers are retiring early
Friday - 04/15/2011 - 02:49 AMAlthough their pensions are beyond the reach of lawmakers and local officials, many teachers fear that they soon could lose early retirement benefits such as health insurance that helps support them until they are eligible for Medicare.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - School prayer bill clears committee
Thursday - 04/14/2011 - 07:40 PMA bill that will authorize school districts to permit student-led inspirational messages, including prayer, at school-related events passed from the Senate Education PreK-12 Committee on Thursday.
Sponsor wants to empower school districts
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - DC mayor: Our city is sick of being 'shut out'
Wednesday - 04/13/2011 - 02:57 PMOPINION - Sadly, many Americans are unaware that the District of Columbia is the only jurisdiction in America that has no voting representation in the United States Congress...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Walker responds to promotion, demotion of supporter's son
Tuesday - 04/12/2011 - 04:36 PMGov. Scott Walker said Tuesday that he d ordered that a son of a prominent supporter be demoted because there were more qualified candidates available.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Quinn Tax Hike Boosts Illinois Returns
Tuesday - 04/12/2011 - 01:14 PMGov. Pat Quinn s unpopular tax increase began showing some positive progress for Illinois last month.
The state collected almost $1.4 billion in personal income taxes in March, the Peoria Journal Star reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Railroad executive charged with campaign law violations
Monday - 04/11/2011 - 10:11 AMRailroad executive William E. Gardner has been charged with two felony counts of violating campaign finance laws for reimbursing his employees for making donations in political contests, including last year s governor s races, sources said Monday.
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- NATO says it cannot stop shelling of Libyan city (AP)
Tuesday - 04/19/2011 - 08:40 AMAP - NATO military commanders conceded Tuesday they are unable to stop Moammar Gadhafi s shelling of the rebel-held city of Misrata, where hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties, while Britain said it will dispatch senior military officers to advise the opposition.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Arizona governor vetoes birther, campus gun bills (Reuters)
Tuesday - 04/19/2011 - 12:51 AMReuters - Arizona s Republican Governor Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed two controversial bills, one mandating proof of U.S. citizenship to run for president, the other allowing guns on college campuses, in a clear setback for conservatives who control the state legislature.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UW historian sucked into vortex of state politics
Monday - 04/18/2011 - 12:49 AMIn seeking to analyze the political roots of Gov. Scott Walker s budget-repair law, and the political trends that buffeted Wisconsin, UW-Madison historian William Cronon became, willingly or not, a player on a political stage.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man Bites Dog, Sues Police
Friday - 04/15/2011 - 04:30 PMA man who bit a police dog as it apprehended him for a burglary is suing two Arizona cities for violating his civil rights and using excessive force in his capture, the Arizona Republic reported Friday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House prepares to vote on $6T spending cut plan (AP)
Thursday - 04/14/2011 - 08:32 PMAP - A bold but politically risky plan to cut trillions of dollars from the federal budget steamed toward a party-line House vote Friday, as insurgent Republicans rallied behind the idea of fundamentally reshaping the government s role in health care for the elderly and the poor.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NATO struggles to resolve dispute over Libya fight (AP)
Thursday - 04/14/2011 - 02:34 AMAP - NATO nations struggled Thursday to overcome deep differences over the military campaign in Libya, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calling for unity in the face of French and British calls for other countries to help more with attacks on Moammar Gadhafi s ground forces.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California sets highest U.S. renewable power mandate
Tuesday - 04/12/2011 - 07:03 PMGov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that set nation s toughest renewable energy mandate, requiring utilities to draw 33% of their power from solar panels,windmills and other sources by 2020.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New York mom drives minivan into Hudson River, drowning herself and 3 kids
Wednesday - 04/13/2011 - 07:49 AMA mother and three of her children drowned late Tuesday after she drove her minivan with everyone inside into the Hudson River, but not before first letting out a fourth child who ran for help, the Times Herald Record reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WH: Obama regrets vote against raising debt limit (AP)
Monday - 04/11/2011 - 01:20 PMAP - The White House says President Barack Obama regrets his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt limit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Activists urge Ga. gov. to block immigration bills
Monday - 04/11/2011 - 04:17 AMActivist groups have delivered a petition that they say has more than 23,000 signatures to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to urge him to veto proposed legislation that aims to crack down on illegal immigration.
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- Ending painkiller abuse requires doctor training, drug czar says
Tuesday - 04/19/2011 - 10:28 PMTo halt prescription drug abuse, Congress must require special training for health care workers before the DEA lets them prescribe ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pentagon inquiry clears McChrystal of wrongdoing (AP)
Monday - 04/18/2011 - 02:16 PMAP - A Pentagon inquiry into a Rolling Stone magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to his dismissal as the top US commander in Afghanistan has cleared him of wrongdoing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man on Freeway Forces I-10 Closure
Monday - 04/18/2011 - 09:04 AMA scary situation shuts down part of Interstate 10 during the morning rush hour commute after a man threatens to jump off an overpass and police opened fire.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ballots are now totaled: Prosser wins by 7,316
Friday - 04/15/2011 - 04:30 PMState Supreme Court Justice David Prosser emerged as the winner Friday over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in an election that drew national attention because of the fight over collective bargaining and a vote tallying error in Waukesha County following initial results that showed Kloppenburg leading the race.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Legislators pass immigration bill
Friday - 04/15/2011 - 12:13 AMATLANTA -- During their frantic final day Thursday, Georgia lawmakers passed a tough bill cracking down on illegal immigration, clearing the way for Gov. Nathan Deal to sign it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Blago Repeats Call: Play the Tapes
Wednesday - 04/13/2011 - 03:08 PMJust as he d done in advance of his federal trial a year ago, a defiant Rod Blagojevich challenged the government and demanded it release all of the evidence they have against him, including secretly-recorded telephone conversations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nine workers suspected of netting nearly $300,000 in Food Share scam
Wednesday - 04/13/2011 - 04:40 PMNine workers for Milwaukee County ran a food stamp fraud ring from at least 2005 through late 2010, scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars for themselves in the process, a state official confirmed Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama first to put tax increases on budget table (AP)
Tuesday - 04/12/2011 - 03:14 AMAP - Higher taxes have been missing from the fierce budget battle that nearly shut down the federal government. But President Barack Obama is about to put them on the table — at least a modest version that he had pushed before and then rested on the shelf.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mequon company founder to plead guilty in health care fraud
Monday - 04/11/2011 - 01:24 PMThe founder of a Mequon firm that sells special shoes and inserts for diabetics, has agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud and pay a $27 million civil fine related to the company s improper Medicare reimbursements.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Japan set to extend nuclear evacuation zone (Reuters)
Sunday - 04/10/2011 - 10:52 PMReuters - Japan plans to extend the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high radiation levels, local media reported Monday, with engineers no closer to regaining control of six reactors hit by a giant tsunami one month ago.
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