State proposal insulates Milwaukee County exec from revenge

Budget panel approves ending ballast water fees (UPDATE)

Published: May 21, 2013
Tags: ballast, DNR, Great Lakes

The Legislature’s budget committee has voted to end ballast water discharge fees for Great Lakes shipping in two years.

Budget committee approves sand mining plan (UPDATE)

Published: May 21, 2013
Tags: DNR, fracking, sand mine

Wisconsin’s budget-writing committee has approved pulling money from the state’s environmental management fund to cover sand mining inspections.

Finance committee wants final say over state-asset sales (UPDATE)

Published: May 21, 2013
Tags: Alberta Darling, budget, Building Commission, Jennifer Shilling, Scott Walker

The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee wants authority to sign off on any sale of state-owned dormitories, highways and power plants before those deals go down.

Obama opposes GOP bill on Keystone XL oil pipeline

Published: May 21, 2013
Tags: Keystone XL pipeline, Michels Corp.

The White House says President Barack Obama opposes a House bill that would speed approval of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

Proposal to sell state properties up for vote

Published: May 21, 2013
Tags: power plants

A wide-reaching change that would allow the state to sell off properties ranging from prisons and power plants to University of Wisconsin dormitories and state highways is up for approval before the Legislature’s budget committee.

US high court upholds FCC power in cell tower disputes

Published: May 20, 2013
Tags: cellphone towers, FCC

The Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of federal regulators to try to speed local government decisions on proposals to build or expand cellphone towers.

State’s utility plants could generate interest

Published: May 17, 2013
Tags: Building Commission, Capital Heat and Power Plant, Dale Kooyenga, Legislative Fiscal Bureau, Madison Gas & Electric, power plants, utility plants, We Energies, Zoo Interchange

Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to allow the sale of state utility plants to pay off transportation debt might not even be able to generate enough money to pay off the debt on the plants themselves.

Walker signs layoff alternative bill

Published: May 17, 2013
Tags: jobs, Scott Walker

Gov. Scott Walker on Friday signed into law a bill creating a program that gives employers an alternative to laying off employees when work slows.

Milwaukee County supervisors end bid to remove chairwoman

Published: May 16, 2013
Tags: Deanna Alexander, Jim Schmitt, John Weishan, Marina Dimitrijevic, Mark Borkowski, Milwaukee County board, Steve Taylor

A call for the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors chairwoman to step down has gone quiet, according to the supervisor who led the effort.