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The capitol police in Madison have created a new web site that gives details and information about the protests in Madison from there prospective.  It's a good source for news for Walkerville residents.

John Nichols talks about what's up next for Wisconsin in The Nation.

The breaking news: One Wisconsin Now has obtained documents showing that 12 current Republican members of the State Senate are forcing you to pay the cost for their private membership in one of the nation's most powerful and influential corporate policy outfits - the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Record crowds of supporters and opponents flooded town hall meetings throughout southeastern Wisconsin on Tuesday to hear Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan defend his plan to trim government savings — including controversial changes to the Medicare program.

Statement from Kucinich on his grilling of Walker yesterday.

I joined 1,300 people in the Barrymore Theater last night. This crowd needed absolutely no assistance in warming up. While we waited for start, one audience member in the front in green face paint and a fright wig, stood up to lead the chant “This is what Democracy looks like”, while a cowbell waving member clanged along.

Nice interactive timeline of the protests, bills, and mayhem in Wisconsin.

Nice interactive timeline of the protests, bills, and mayhem in Wisconsin.

The recall drives in Wisconsin, where Democrats are seeking to throw Republican state Senators out in a backlash against Gov. Scott Walker's newly-passed law curtailing public employee unions, are picking up further steam -- with local Dems saying they might already have enough signatures to recall GOP state Sen. Randy Hopper.

Judge Maryann Sumi issued a declaration that the anti-union law is not a law because the Secretary of State never reached the point of publication of the law in the official newspaper of record. This is the relief requested by District Attorney (DA) Ismael Ozanne after the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) posted a link to the Legislature's website with the anti-union law that the GOP then claimed constituted publishing of the law sufficient for the law to take effect.

An interesting summary of the 8 Republican Senators up for recall, and the various ways they are propping up Walker's agenda.