Published: January 20, 2011
Tags: bill, John Fales, Litjens, Mary Williams, prevailing wage, repeal, Robb Kahl, Turonie
By James Briggs State Rep. Mary Williams keeps in her Capitol office a tangible reminder of a law she says is holding down Wisconsin’s construction industry. Opening the top-right drawer of her desk Wednesday afternoon, the Republican from Medford pulled out a thick stack of paper and let it drop like a brick, smacking the [...]
Published: June 17, 2010
Tags: American Sewer Services, appeal, bid, Biondich, Department of Public Works, Korban, Maly, Milwaukee, MJ Construction, preference, repeal, United Sewer & Water
By Sean Ryan M.J. Construction Inc. fell $17 short of winning its seventh Milwaukee contract under the city‘s local preference law. The law requires Milwaukee give a 5 percent bid preference to city-based companies, and a sewer project bid by Milwaukee-based M.J. exceeded that amount by $17. That means the city will accept a $143,550 [...]
By Paul Snyder Predicting a drain on their construction budget, Outagamie County officials are adding their voices to the chorus of boos directed at the state’s new prevailing wage law. “We don’t have the authority to say we’re not going to abide by it,” said Jim Pleuss, chairman of the county’s Legislative/Audit and Human Resources [...]
Published: March 29, 2010
Tags: Bondar, Christopherson, development, east side, East Village Association, guidelines, Kovac, law, Milwaukee, repeal
By Sean Ryan A proposal to wipe out a five-year-old development law in a Milwaukee neighborhood is reigniting an argument over the best way to govern growth. The city in 2005 limited development in a lower east side neighborhood in which most of the buildings are old houses. The law was intended to discourage construction [...]
By Paul Snyder Political resistance and timing could spoil the construction industry’s chance to speak out on a bill that would repeal the state’s new prevailing wage law. “If we’re just looking at repealing all the work we did last year to get this into the budget, I don’t know that I’m going to hold [...]
Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com It still could take years for construction to get rolling if state lawmakers manage to lift Wisconsin’s moratorium on nuclear development. “Frankly, I don’t see it happening anytime soon,” said Todd Stuart, executive director of the Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group. “The utilities here are pretty small in comparison to some of the [...]
