Transportation Projects Commission ready to get to work … on what?

SnO-M-G: State weathers snowmageddon

Published: February 2, 2011
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

As one of apparently only eight people working Wednesday in Milwaukee, the trip into work on the morning of snowmaggedon (or the Ground Hog Day blizzard or snowpocalypse, or SnO-M-G or any other cool name a TV producer with too much time on his/her hands comes up with) was eerie.

A year after quake, Haiti can’t shake debris

Published: January 12, 2011
Tags: blog, Haiti, Hot Topics, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

Today marks one year since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake destroyed Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. The fact that bodies are still being pulled from the destruction shows how far the Caribbean nation has to go in its recovery.

MIT’s life-cycle assessment testing is more exciting than it sounds

Published: December 16, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, life cycle, life-cycle assessment, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

I’ll admit when I think of Cambridge, Mass.-based MIT I see a bunch of eggheads with black-rimmed glasses walking around debating the future of the best way to split an atom or what you get when you combine an alligator with a crocodile. It turns out they’re also doing some good work for the construction industry.

An open letter to government officials: Stop with the letters already

Published: November 19, 2010
Tags: blog, Charter Street, high-speed rail, Hot Topics, letter, Rail, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

The amount of letters being written to and from Scott Walker since he won the election for governor is rivaled only by children writing to Santa.

Veterans Day — a time for remembrance and reverence

Published: November 11, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, Veterans Day, Yovino
Comments: 2

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

I’d like to take a break from our regularly scheduled coverage of the construction industry and Wisconsin’s high-speed fail for something that should be important every day, but is especially important today.

Could the state’s construction market be ‘red-y’ to finally expand?

Published: October 25, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, Reed Construction Data, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

The next 12 to 18 months of construction market activity could be strong around the state, if Reed Construction Data is on its game.

Once-crowded malls need to go shopping for a fix

Published: October 7, 2010
Tags: blog, General Growth Properties, Grand Avenue Mall, Hot Topics, malls, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

The Grand Avenue Mall in downtown Milwaukee has fallen on tough times lately; anyone who walks hurriedly through the mall on the way to the food court can tell you that. It seems to be a common theme these days for those big, lumbering models of capitalism.

It may be too late to ‘untrack’ high-speed rail

Published: September 23, 2010
Tags: blog, high-speed rail, Hot Topics, Rail, Scott Walker, stimulus, WisDOT, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

When the feds were handing out stimulus money last year for high-speed rail, Wisconsin was the only state to get everything it wanted. Be careful what you ask for.

Wisconsin (sort of) getting its piece of the stimulus pie

Published: September 17, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, I-94, Interstate 94, stimulus, Yovino

By Joe Yovino

Web editor

Wisconsin had a pair of projects land on what the government is calling “100 Recovery Act Projects That Are Changing America.”