By Matt Pommer Contribution rates for the Wisconsin Retirement System’s main program will rise sharply in 2011, and the higher rates will play a key role in public employee collective bargaining and this year’s elections. Costs covering most WRS workers ...

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By Matt Pommer A half century ago, Jack Kennedy, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in western Wisconsin — then solid Hubert Humphrey country — ended up being driven around Dunn County in a car with a Nixon bumper sticker. ...

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By Jennifer Loven AP White House Correspondent Washington — Jobs, jobs, jobs. If there’s any path out of the mess President Barack Obama found himself in on the first day of his second year in office, more aggressive promotion of ...

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Wisconsin governor has full agenda for rest of term Madison (AP) — Don’t count out Gov. Jim Doyle just yet. The governor and his allies say he still has time for major achievements despite his decision not to run for ...

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