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     MILWAUKEE (AP) – A public-policy group says spending on Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court election has reached $1.7 million.      The figure was released Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school. It says most of the money came from outside groups.      The race is between incumbent Justice David More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin’s Republican leaders appear to be taking the same confident and bullish approach to implementing their divisive collective bargaining law that they took to passing it.      They are suggesting they may ignore a judge’s warning that there would be consequences to moving ahead while challenges to the law are More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The co-chair of the Legislature’s budget-writing committee and a fellow Republican member of the panel are breaking with Gov. Scott Walker on his proposal to change the SeniorCare program.      Co-chair Sen. Alberta Darling and Sen. Randy Hopper said Wednesday that they oppose Walker’s proposal to require participants in the More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Chicago-based wind energy company has suspended development plans in Wisconsin.      Midwest Wind Energy’s president, Stefan Noe, says the company was working on a 98-megawatt farm in Calumet County and another project it hadn’t announced publicly. But he says Wisconsin’s regulatory climate has grown too unstable.      Republican legislators More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Gov. Scott Walker has re-introduced his plan to refinance state debt and make other changes to balance the state’s budget projected to be $137 million short by the end of the fiscal year in June.      Walker had previously proposed steps to balance the budget as part of the collective More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Nearly every Wisconsin county saw its unemployment rate rise slightly last month.      Kenosha County was the only county whose seasonally adjusted rate remained the same, at 10.1 percent. Every other county saw increases in February unemployment compared to January’s rates.      The figures were released Wednesday by the state More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A new study commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison says the campus contributes more than $12 billion to the state economy annually.      The NorthStar Economics study released Wednesday also credits the university for creating, directly or indirectly, some 128,000 jobs across the state.      UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin says More >

     MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Federal labor officials have issued 10 safety citations at Tyson Foods’ plant in Jefferson.      The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the citations resulted from an inspection conducted in October.      The agency says nine of the citations resulted from violations that could lead to death or serious More >