For the first two years of his term, the Democratic governor’s greatest struggle was tackling a $3.2 billion budget deficit without raising taxes or gutting government services. Now entering the second half of his term, Gov. Jim Doyle faces still another deficit and growing challenges to his agenda by Republicans who control the Legislature and who already are gearing up to unseat him in 2006.

Madison – Gov. Jim Doyle’s job is so basic, even a first-grader can understand it.

When Doyle visited Kathy Rehl’s classroom at Milwaukee’s Ralph H. Metcalfe School last week, Rehl and her co-teacher asked if anyone in the class knew what Doyle does.