MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State legislators will get a chance this week to ask questions about last month’s anemic deer hunt. The Assembly Fish and Wildlife Committee and the Senate Transportation, Tourism, Forestry and Natural Resources Committee plan to hold a public hearing Thursday morning at the state Capitol on the deer hunt. Department of [...]
OSHA reports • Rojas Plastering, Waukesha, reached an informal settlement with OSHA on Sept. 1 to reduce a $2,000 scaffolding citation to $1,000, a $2,000 aerial-lifts citation to $1,000 and an $800 fall-protection-training citation to $400. The company was issued the citations Aug. 14 during a drywall and insulation job at 2315 N. 124th St., [...]
Published: September 25, 2009
Tags: contractors, elected, federal stimulus, road construction, Transportation
By David Winzelberg Dolan Media When Long Island was shortchanged by a lack of federal stimulus dollars for transportation projects, local roadway contractors and elected officials complained bitterly. And that’s no surprise, since cash from projects paid for with public money keeps both groups afloat. There’s a lot of money in roads. They’re expensive to [...]
Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com A state lawmaker is challenging a Wisconsin Department of Transportation rule that forces municipalities to hire outside engineers for local projects eligible for state money. “From my perspective, if a city is already employing an engineer, it makes more sense to use those services that are already being paid for,” said state [...]
Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Wisconsin’s transportation budget faces the latest in a long line of blows — a $49.1 million budget shortfall for 2009. The state’s Joint Committee on Finance on Thursday will discuss a Wisconsin Department of Transportation plan to help cope with the shortfall: lapsing $33.3 million in major highway development and state highway [...]
Published: July 30, 2009
Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, economic stimulus, energy spending bill, Essential Air Service, Highway Trust Fund, mass transit, Nevada, nuclear waste, power plants, Transportation, Washington Metro, Yucca Mountain
Adrian Sainz AP Real Estate Writer Miami — They’re lurking, holding bags of cash and eyeing distressed condo markets. Big-time cash investors are snapping up South Florida condo units in bulk. There have been at least seven purchases of 10 or more condos this year, including four since June, according to county records. Investors are [...]
Published: July 30, 2009
Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, economic stimulus, energy spending bill, Essential Air Service, Highway Trust Fund, mass transit, Nevada, nuclear waste, power plants, Transportation, Washington Metro, Yucca Mountain
Andrew Taylor AP Writer Washington — The U.S. Senate passed a $34.3 billion energy spending bill that backs up President Barack Obama’s promise to close the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada. The bill also covers hundreds of Army Corps of Engineers water projects. The Yucca Mountain project 90 miles from Las Vegas was [...]
Published: July 15, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Construction, highway stimulus money, Paula Hammond, Rep. Edolphus Towns, road projects, stimulus, Transportation, Utah, Washington
George Tibbits AP Writer Seattle — State transportation officials on Tuesday defended their handling of federal stimulus money for road projects against criticism they haven’t moved quickly enough to turn the money into jobs and pavement. Washington state Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond acknowledged at a news conference there’s been criticism of how fast states are [...]
Published: July 8, 2009
Tags: audit, economy, Edolphus Towns, Government Accountability Office, Obama, oversight, report, stimulus, Transportation, unemployment
Kimberly Hefling AP Writer Washington — Projects in some of the nation’s poorest areas don’t appear to be getting a fair shake in the spending of $787 billion in stimulus funds, the chairman of the House oversight committee said Wednesday. Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the panel, said he was particularly concerned that transportation [...]
Published: May 25, 2009
Tags: budget, Transportation, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin Inc.
Craig Thompson Will Rogers coined the saying, “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Wisconsin’s legislative leaders should heed this advice as they work to pass a budget in the middle of one of the worst fiscal crises Wisconsin has ever faced. The answers they come up with undoubtedly will be painful and [...]
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