The Minnesota Department of Transportation has announced plans for spending about $1 billion this construction season on more than 200 new and ongoing road and bridge projects statewide.
When Pro Trade Job Development held a graduation ceremony in December, the event marked not only a new chapter for students but for Pro Trade itself, potentially paving the way for more Milwaukee residents to pursue careers in the trades.
Michele Kelm-Helgen is resigning as chair of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, the public governing body responsible for construction and operation of the $1.1 billion Minnesota Vikings stadium.
State lawmakers did all Wisconsinites a favor in 2015 by repealing most of our state’s prevailing wage laws — government mandates that require private contractors to pay artificially high wages on public construction projects.
Madison-based Great Wolf Resorts Inc. has paid $39.1 million for the Water Park of America and a connected hotel near the Mall of America in Bloomington, according to a certificate of real estate value made public Wednesday.
What troubles me the most about certain far-right-leaning legislators’ recent efforts to further erode prevailing-wage laws is the false propaganda used in an effort to justify their mission. It’s time to be honest.
Minnesota OSHA investigators have found that Berwald Roofing had no adequate fall protection in place when one of its employees fell to his death in 2015 while working on the Vikings stadium project.