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			<title><![CDATA[Milfred: State reaches for credit card again]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/wsj/home/opinion//index.php?ntid=285810</link>
			<description><![CDATA[State leaders could save around $100 million in the current state budget simply by delaying for one year a tax break on Social Security income.The tax break for retirees is supposed to kick in during tax year 2008. That means most of the eligible Social Security recipients would save money when filing their 2008 taxes in early 2009.Delaying this tax break a year -- so that it first applies to 2009 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By SCOTT MILFRED]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[O&#39;Connor&#39;s verdict: Merit works]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/wsj/home/opinion//index.php?ntid=285765</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court came to Wisconsin this week with a judgment the state should heed: There is a better way to select state supreme court justices than by conducting elections.  Sandra Day O &#39;Connor knows. She lives with a better way in her home state of Arizona. It &#39;s called merit selection.  &quot;I &#39;m so proud of how it &#39;s worked there and the quality of the judges that we have, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Wisconsin State Journal editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shield taxpayers from Overture risk]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/wsj/home/opinion//index.php?ntid=285764</link>
			<description><![CDATA[City, arts and community leaders in Madison are wise to search for ways to help Overture Center now -- before its growing financial troubles demand a taxpayer-funded bailout. The Downtown arts and entertainment center &#39;s trust fund fell, in March, to a level where it could not make some of its debt repayments. Several sources -- including philanthropist W. Jerome Frautschi, who made the original $205 million gift to build Overture Center -- will help make ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Wisconsin State Journal editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Halt repeat drunken drivers]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/wsj/home/opinion//index.php?ntid=285580</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The warning signs glared. But Wisconsin failed to heed them. Now Jennifer Bukosky, a 39-year-old pregnant high school administrator, and Courtney Bella, her 10-year-old daughter, are dead.   And Mark Benson, a repeat drunken driver, is charged with three counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle after a crash April 25 in Oconomowoc.  Had Wisconsin intervened more forcefully, before Benson got behind the wheel that day, Bukosky, her daughter and her unborn child would be alive ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Wisconsin State Journal editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Law stops cash-and-carry justice]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/wsj/home/opinion//index.php?ntid=285472</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Justice is not for sale in Wisconsin. That &#39;s the forceful message state leaders sent in March by prohibiting prosecutors and judges from requiring criminal suspects to pay fines to crime-prevention organizations.   A 2003 State Journal investigation by reporters Dee J. Hall and Andy Hall revealed that a prosecutor with aspirations to become attorney general had secretly allowed some potential defendants to avoid prosecution by donating money to the prosecutor &#39;s favorite groups.   Former Outagamie County ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Wisconsin State Journal editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reduce 911 abuse: Dial responsibly]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/wsj/home/opinion//index.php?ntid=285283</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thursday night&#39;s Dane
County Board committee meeting offers a chance to learn more about how
and why the county&#39;s 911 center mishandled a call from Britanny
Zimmermann&#39;s cell phone around the time she was murdered on April 2.

 The public should
demand that officials use the meeting, along with investigations yet to
be completed, to identify and fix the problems with deliberate speed. 

 In the meantime,
there is something for the public to do, too: Cut down ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Wisconsin State Journal editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-07T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;Voter ID&#39; wrong for Wisconsin]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/wsj/home/opinion//index.php?ntid=285035</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that states can require citizens to show government-issued photo ID cards before voting. What the high court did not say is that states should do so.  The justices left it up to individual states to decide if adopting a &quot;Voter ID&quot; law makes sense.  And in Wisconsin, it doesn &#39;t.   Requiring a photo ID every time someone goes to the polls is unnecessary, given scant evidence of fraud. Requiring a photo ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Wisconsin State Journal editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Learn from loss of Badger Games]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/wsj/home/opinion//index.php?ntid=284804</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Is Dane County better off without the Badger State Summer Games? Absolutely not. That &#39;s why local government officials, private sector executives and UW-Madison leaders should learn from last week &#39;s announcement that the annual amateur sports festival will leave Dane County after this year.  The area should respond by cooperating on an improved strategy to attract and retain events, such as the Badger State Games, that contribute to the economy and culture.  One place to check for ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Wisconsin State Journal]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-05T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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