Articles filed under Wisconsin
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On the road: Learning about skyscrapersMar 11, 2011 10:00 pm - Chicago Towers of strength Families with young children may want to head to the Chicago Architecture Foundation for Busy Buildings, a free workshop that allows...
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Anger brews over government workers’ benefitsMar 11, 2011 7:00 am - When Erin McFarlane looks at public workers, she sees lucrative pension benefits she doesn’t ever expect to get. And it makes her mad. “I don’t think that a federal empl...
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New Wis. fishing, hunting licenses to go on saleMar 09, 2011 10:00 pm - MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin's next round of hunting, fishing and trapping licenses are now for sale. Licenses for 2010-2011 will expire on March 31. The new year's annual...
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Wisc. defeat could rally unions in 2012Mar 08, 2011 10:00 pm - MADISON, Wis. — With the labor movement suffering an epic defeat in Wisconsin and perhaps other states, union leaders plan to use the setback to fire up their members n...
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Anger brews over government workers' benefitsMar 07, 2011 10:00 pm - When Erin McFarlane looks at public workers, she sees lucrative pension benefits she doesn't ever expect to get. And it makes her mad. "I don't think that a federal empl...
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Wis. gov. proposes union compromise in e-mailsMar 07, 2011 10:00 pm - MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has offered to keep certain collective bargaining rights in place for state workers in a proposed compromise aimed at ending...
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Hutchinson Technology moves jobs to WisconsinMar 07, 2011 10:00 pm - HUTCHINSON, Minn. — Hutchinson Technology Inc. is consolidating operations and cutting hundreds of jobs. The company said Tuesday it will move its component manufacturi...
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Man pleads guilty in La Crosse toddler's deathMar 07, 2011 10:00 pm - LA CROSSE, Wis. — A mother's boyfriend has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a 2-year-old La Crosse area girl. Thirty-year-old Justin Lake of Cannon Falls,...
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Indiana, Wisconsin governors in eye of budget stormMar 07, 2011 10:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mitch Daniels has spent years talking about issues that typically make voters' eyes glaze over: Cutting spending. Balancing budgets. Shrinking gover...
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Accuray agrees to buy TomoTherapy for $277 mil.Mar 06, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Accuray Inc. said Monday it will buy TomoTherapy Inc. for $277 million in a deal that unites two companies that make radiation therapy systems. Accuray will ...