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Correction: Wisconsin Budget-Circus World story
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 
May 01, 2013
 MADISON, Wisconsin — In a story April 30 about the Circus World Museum's finances, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a Legislative Fiscal Bureau analysis found the museum's 2013 operating budget assumes expenses will outpace revenues by $975,000. The budget assumes expenses will outpace revenues by $97,500.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Wis. committee nixes state control of Circus World

Wisconsin budget committee nixes Walker's plan for state control of Circus World Museum

By TODD RICHMOND

Associated Press

MADISON, Wisconsin — The Legislature's finance committee on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plan to let the state Historical Society take over Baraboo's struggling Circus World Museum, saying the site will have to find other ways to survive.

The Republican-controlled committee's co-chairs, Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, and Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, said the state faces larger problems and lawmakers must be prudent about spending tax dollars.

"Circus World will have to make it on its own," Nygren told reporters.

The museum stands on what was once the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus's winter grounds in Baraboo, a city of 12,000 people about 50 miles northwest of Madison. The museum includes original buildings from the winter camp, an extensive collection of circus artifacts, including more than 200 circus wagons, posters and ads as well as a hippodrome performance center.
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