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So far, during its state budget deliberations on Tuesday, the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee approved:

-- Allowing public safety workers to bargain over their health insurance premiums, but not other costs of their health plan, such as deductibles and co-pays

-- Requiring public workers to wait at least 75 days (instead of 30), before they could be rehired

-- Charging state workers $50/month more for health insurance, if they smoke

-- Creating a high-deductible insurance option for public workers, along with a tax-free health savings account

Why should the State maintain funding for county conservationists? One analyst explains they help farmers - and Wisconsin's water.

Among other revolutions, the early 1970s saw the dawning of one age – the computer revolution – and the sunset of another – an age of innocence in the rock music industry.

Metal joint implants are wreaking havoc on the MRI images doctors use to determine treatment, but a new process improves picture quality.

Wisconsin is moving toward the time of year that produces the most tornadoes here. June has been the most common month for tornadoes to occur in Wisconsin. The average number to hit each year is 21.