Democrats took control of state government Monday, as legislators were sworn in for a two-year legislative session that will require them to fix a record budget deficit.
A bill that would return authority to a citizens board to appoint the secretary of the Department of Natural Resources stands its best chance of passage in more than a decade. But whether Gov. Jim Doyle would sign the legislation is another matter.
He stands 5 feet 7 inches tall, but Howard Nolan looks as if he should be taller.
Something isn't normal. To Nolan, normal means near-constant pain. He battles exercise-induced asthma. The skin on his legs and arms looks odd. And then you learn his story.
A Milwaukee lawyer - sort of - has found himself in the center of a national storm. Roland Burris was chosen to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate by embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. And fired. One by one, coach Mike McCarthy gutted his defensive staff and axed his strength coach during a 24-hour period unlike any other in the long history of the Green Bay Packers.
