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Wisconsin cheese makers who take the prize
Driving along Skinner Hollow Road, through hilly woodlands and across a tranquil stream, a motorist is about as likely to meet a milk truck as another car.
The shiny stainless-steel tankers ply this scenic stretch of blacktop every day of the year,...Tags: California, Iowa, Food Industry, Education, Family
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Wisconsin GOP pressing ahead with anti-union law
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, suggesting they may ignore a judge's warning...Tags: Elections, Unions, Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Interior Policy
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Judge weighs whether Wisconsin union law took effect
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge weighed arguments Tuesday about whether an order she issued intended to temporarily block the state's divisive new collective bargaining law was still in place, or whether Republican leaders had again...Tags: Elections, Government, Unions, Career and Workplace, Interior Policy
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Wis. appeals court doesn't rule over union law
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court says the state Supreme Court should decide whether a law that takes away nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers should be allowed to take effect. A majority of the seven-member...Tags: Career and Workplace, Republican Party, Politics, Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Judge Blocks Wisconsin Anti-Union Law
ReutersMADISON, Wis -- A judge Friday temporarily blocked Wisconsin's controversial new law stripping public employee unions of key collective bargaining rights. Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi granted the temporary restraining order, which blocks the official...Tags: Unions, Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation
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Wisconsin Republicans Say Anti-Union Law In Effect
Wisconsin Republicans said on Friday a measure stripping state public employees of most collective bargaining rights was now in effect after it was published by a legislative agency despite a judge's order against publication.
The move looked certain...Tags: Elections, Unions, Career and Workplace, Republican Party, Wisconsin
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Demand for farmland fuels higher prices, rents
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Fueled by a profitable grain market, demand for farmland is on the rise, with prices and land rents also increasing. In some cases, Wisconsin farmers will pay nearly 50 percent more for leasing land to grow crops this year. That's...Tags: Farms, Elections, Lake Geneva, Fertilizer, Federal Reserve
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The Cheddar Curtain opens
Driving the lazy roller coaster of U.S. Highway 10 just west of Marshfield, Wis., I pass the usual stretches of cornfields and dairy farms on my way to The Highlands, a Vietnam veterans memorial in nearby Neillsville. But when I see a sign that says...Tags: Cheese, Farms, Death, Family, Cheddar Cheese
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Judge appoints prosecutor to determine if charges should be filed over University of Wisconsin sheep tests
L.A. UnleashedMADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin judge has appointed a special prosecutor to determine whether criminal charges should be filed against nine University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and officials responsible for experiments that killed sheep. The... -
Same-Sex Couples Line Up For New Wisconsin Partnership Registry
(WGN-AM)- The first same-sex couple in Madison has signed up for the state's new domestic partnership registry. Fifty-six-year-old Janice Czyscon and her partner, 57-year-old Crystal Hyslop, arrived at the Dane County offices at 5:12 a.m. and waited in...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Politics, Madison (Dane, Wisconsin), WGN, Wisconsin
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