Former Democratic state Sen. Tim Cullen announced Wednesday he will not run for governor after all, leaving Democrats searching for someone to mount a serious challenge to Gov. Scott Walker.

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Former Democratic state Sen. Tim Cullen says he is on track for officially launching a run for governor by the end of April.

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A Sept. 5 report on Wisconsin Public Television’s “Here and Now” program called Republican state Rep. Amy Loudenbeck’s district “a microcosm of the state of Wisconsin.”

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Few legislative causes have drawn as much interest and as little momentum as redistricting, the drawing of new voter boundaries after each 10-year census.

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In his State of the State address Wednesday, Gov. Scott Walker proposed major new tax breaks in his "Blueprint for Prosperity."

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Three Wisconsin lawmakers want to revisit the state's iron mining laws after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declined the state's request to work with the state toward permits for Gogebic Taconite's potential mine near Mellen.

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In the age of 30-second attack ads that sell candidates no differently that laundry soap and cheeseburgers, most legislators surely felt they had no choice but to support a $100 million property tax cut approved last week.

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The Wisconsin Senate passed Gov. Scott Walker's $100 million property tax cut proposal Tuesday with bipartisan support, even though Democrats complained it was more a political ploy than anything that would truly help people's pocketbooks.

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Christine Pehler says she appreciates Wisconsin’s tradition of deferring to nonelected boards for workers’ benefits policies because the alternative gets messy.

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A hearing on proposed legislation that would streamline the state's mining laws drew at least 200 people to northern Wisconsin on Saturday, with most saying the measure would lead to devastating environmental damage.

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