Your Right to Know
Your Right to Know: AG rivals all back more openness
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All four candidates said the state’s online court records website is an important source of public information and should continue pretty much as is.
Attorney General race
More heat than light in AG race flap
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Brad Schimel, the lone Republican candidate for state attorney general, ignited a firestorm with his response to a letter alleging pay-to-play politics. But beyond the spin, it isn’t clear that Schimel and his Democratic rivals are all that far apart.
Money & Politics Column
Reports track campaign cash, lobbying
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Donations to Walker of $1,000 or more accounted for $2.6 million, more than half his total take. Burke got about $870,000 in donations of at least $1,000, or 68 percent of her total, excluding herself.
Guns
Police account of shooting disputed
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The owner of a home mistakenly entered by an intoxicated neighbor who was shot and killed by a Madison police officer arriving on the scene said he tried repeatedly to inform the officer that the intruder was someone known to him.
Budget Repair Bill
Walker hires lawyer to defend DA who sued state
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Gov. Scott Walker has hired private legal counsel to represent a county district attorney being sued for allegedly violating a state open government law — a move made necessary because the DA has sued the state for allegedly violating another open government statute.