GOP pledges tuition freeze following report of UW System surplus

By   /  April 19, 2013  /  News, Wisconsin  /  4 Comments

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By Kirsten Adshead  |  Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin System has stored up a sizable chunk of change, and that’s not sitting well with Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislative leaders.
The UW System had in excess of a billion-dollar balance when the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to a new report [...]

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Feds find fraud, bad bookkeeping at Milwaukee nonprofit

By   /  April 19, 2013  /  Featured, News, Wisconsin  /  7 Comments

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By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON — A Milwaukee non-profit community health center supported by federal grants hasn’t been keeping its books properly, according to a report from the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services.

The audit also confirmed that a former employee at Milwaukee Health Services, Inc. had embezzled from the company.

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Week In Review: Wisconsin eyes Boston, China as rain and snow continue

By   /  April 19, 2013  /  Wisconsin  /  No Comments

SAY CHEESE: Someone connected to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday tweeted this photo of himself and Gov Scott Walker standing, ostensibly, at the Great Wall of China.

By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – With bombings in Boston, a plant explosion in Texas and Gov. Scott Walker on a trade mission to China, most eyes turned to events outside Wisconsin’s borders this week.

“There is no explanation for the kind of evil that seeks to destroy,” Walker said in a statement, following the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people Monday. “Our hearts go out to the victims of the bombing today in Boston. Tonette and I join our fellow Americans in sending our prayers and deepest sympathies to those injured and the families of those killed.”

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What’s Walker doing on trade mission? Ancient Chinese secret, huh?

By   /  April 17, 2013  /  Wisconsin Commentary  /  11 Comments

SAY CHEESE: Someone connected to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday tweeted this photo of himself and Gov Scott Walker standing, ostensibly, at the Great Wall of China.

By Kirsten Adshead  |  Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – Gov. Scott Walker spent Wednesday at the Great Wall of China.
Apparently.
You wouldn’t know that, of course, from any information coming out of the governor’s office, which has refused to give all but the most general  information about Walker’s trip to China.
And you certainly wouldn’t know it by tracking media coverage [...]

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WI waits longer than most for Tax Freedom Day

By   /  April 15, 2013  /  News, Wisconsin  /  No Comments

ALL PAID UP: Wisconsin's "Tax Freedom Day," the day when Wisconsinites have earned enough to pay their total tax burden for the year, arrives Saturday, the ninth-latest "Tax Freedom Day" in the country.

By Kirsten Adshead  |  Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — Liz Nickerson is a happy transplant.
But the former East Coaster admits to a bit of sticker shock when she moved to the Madison area six years ago and got her first property tax bill.
“I do feel like taxes are a little bit higher here,” said Nickerson, a Fitchburg resident [...]

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