Waukesha tries to tap $100 million for water projects

Feds back away from street sign regulation

Published: December 1, 2010
Tags: Obama, Ray LaHood, Sensenbrenner, Transportation Department
Comments: 4

By  JOAN LOWY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Who would have thought that something so humble as a street sign could ignite such passion? The Obama administration sought to distance itself Tuesday from an obscure transportation regulation that requires local governments to replace street signs with more reflective signs that use upper and lower case [...]

Congressmen: Use high-speed rail money to cut deficit

Published: November 16, 2010
Tags: federal deficit, high-speed rail, Pat Goss, Paul Ryan, Rail, Ray LaHood, Republican, Sensenbrenner, Tom Petri, Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association, WTBA
Comments: 12

By Joe Lanane Three Republican congressmen from Wisconsin say the state should be allowed to return the $810 million in stimulus money designated for high-speed rail to the federal government to help reduce the nation‘s deficit. U.S. Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner of Brookfield, Paul Ryan of Janesville and Tom Petri of Fond du Lac introduced legislation [...]

Wisconsin’s Sensenbrenner re-elected to House

Published: November 2, 2010
Tags: 5th Congressional District, Kolosso, Robert Raymond, Sensenbrenner, vote

MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner has won re-election to another two-year term in Congress. The conservative Republican represents the 5th Congressional District, which covers much of the Milwaukee suburbs. Sensenbrenner defeated Democrat Todd Kolosso, a 39-year-old owner of a commercial real estate business in Menomonee Falls, and Independent Robert Raymond. With 4 percent [...]

Campaigns pledge to cut construction money

Published: October 28, 2010
Tags: Army Corps, Army Corps of Engineers, high-speed rail, National Environmental Policy Act, Pollster.com, Rail, Sensenbrenner, Simone Kolb, stimulus, TBA, TDA, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin, Walzak, Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association

By James Briggs In his zeal to stop a proposed high-speed rail line between Madison and Milwaukee, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker made a pitch to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Walker asked for public hearings on an area of Jefferson County wetlands that would be affected by rail construction. Walker joined U.S. Rep. [...]

Madison’s Central Park stuck at crossroads (UPDATE)

By Paul Snyder Madison’s only Central Park development plan hinges on the state letting the city open a pedestrian crossing over the railroad at Few Street. At the same time, Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co., which operates the railroad, is citing safety concerns for its request that the state close three nearby vehicle crossings. “I [...]