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Audit raises questions over feasibility of making DNR a charter agency

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Governor Walker is working on a proposalto turn the state DNR into a so-called charter agency, thatwould have more flexibility, primarily to help businesses. But an audit released in Iowa this year, says a charter experiment in that state had significant problems.Chuck Quirmbach repots.

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