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Blaska's Blog has no gifts for the G.A.B. assault on political speech

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 3:58 p.m.

Do you blog? Do you Tweet and Twitter? Do you e-mail? Stuff mailboxes? Paint signs? Lead protest rallies? Be careful that you don't do so within 30 days of a primary -- the clock starts August 15 -- or 60 days before a general election without checking in with the State of Wisconsin Government Accountability Board ...

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Amcore Bank closed by government regulators

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Published April 24, 2010 at 3:17 p.m.

Federal and state banking regulators closed Amcore Bank's 58 branches on Friday ...

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Call for Government Accountability Board to investigate phone calls

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Published April 28, 2010 at 7:34 a.m.

Kathy Kiernan, a delegate to the Wisconsin Republican Party state convention is asking the state Government Accountability Board to investigate calls that she and other delegates to the convention say they received asking who they endorsed in the governor's race ...

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Moderates deal with aftermath of health care debate

Published March 22, 2010 at 1:07 p.m.

The fight over health care reform ended late Sunday night, but the real fun is just beginning. Check out this mythical conversation between a mythical moderate Republican Congressman and a mythical moderate Democratic Congressman at a pub in Washington, D.C.

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Some Workers Will Get Paid For Snow Day

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Published Dec. 12, 2009 at 2:07 p.m.

Most people stayed home from work on Wednesday during the blizzard, but the snow day had many state government workers wondering if they would be paid for the day ...

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State Government Holiday Parties

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Published Dec. 20, 2009 at 3:10 a.m.

What Wisconsin's agencies and offices are doing to celebrate this holiday season -- with your money ...

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Blaska's Blog hears the fat lady singing

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Published Nov. 12, 2009 at 5:35 p.m.

It is over for the Democrats in Wisconsin. The report card is in on the Jim E. Doyle-Mark Pocan-Mark Miller state budget. The Pew Center for the States, as disinterested party as you can find, puts Wisconsin among the 10 states whose government is in the worst budgetary shape ...

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WI paid ACORN $760 in 2007

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Published Sept. 25, 2009 at 7:18 p.m.

Officials say a Wisconsin state government agency paid the controversial community organized group ACORN $760 in 2007. That was to reimburse wages of a disabled person hired for on-the-job training ...

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Republicans respond to Obama's health care speech

Published Sept. 9, 2009 at 11:17 p.m.

Louisiana Rep. Charles Boustany delivered the Republican response to President Obama's speech on health care. Here is the full text of Boustany's rebuttal: