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Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald is ramping up his clash with the state Elections Commission, saying its decision to retain its chief administrator, Michael Haas, in spite of a Senate vote to remove him was illegal. Source: LacrosseTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Ethics Commission Administrator Brian Bell returned to his old job at the state Department of Safety and Professional Services on Thursday, two days after Senate Republicans refused to confirm his appointment to the commission. Source: LacrosseTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Senate Republicans on Thursday proposed about $52 million in mid-year cuts to Iowa’s $7.2 billion state budget, including reductions to higher education and the courts that administrators overseeing those systems warned would have detrimental effects. Source: LacrosseTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Members of the state Ethics Commission have decided not to appoint a new administrator for the agency, for the time being. The 5-1 vote follows the Senate’s decision earlier this week to reject the confirmation of interim administrator Brian Bell. Ethics Commission Chairman David Halbrooks said he wants to wait and see how a looming […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

A hearing on a bill to make sexual molestation of animals a fellony was prompted by Brown County horse molestation case        Source: WisconsinRapidsDailyTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]