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Sean Ryan and Paul Snyder sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com, paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com The regional transit authority plan that emerged from legislative debate last week ignores Dane County roadwork and threatens the $200 million rail project the proposal was designed to support, according to RTA supporters. ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Wisconsin builders expect more OSHA safety inspections, more citations and more expensive penalties as the agency shifts its enforcement philosophy. In the last eight years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration emphasized cooperative programs in which OSHA ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Rhinelander’s $34 million stimulus money request for sewer system projects is on the bubble. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is giving Wisconsin $105.9 million to parse out as grants to sewer and water-treatment projects. The state’s ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Southeast Wisconsin and Dane County would be able to raise taxes to pay for transit projects under a Friday morning vote by the state Joint Committee on Finance. But the committee rejected creating a Fox Valley Regional ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will rely on groups of three construction experts to settle disputes with contractors on large Interstate 94 projects. The program is designed to keep projects on track by avoiding drawn-out fights over ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Hoffman Construction Co. and Trierweiler Construction Inc. are teaming up to bid for Interstate 94 reconstruction contracts because they need more bonding to compete for the big jobs. The team, I-94 Contractors LLC, lost in its first ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Wisconsin beat its minority contracting goal in 2008 for the first time because a Minnesota contractor won the $29.5 million University of Wisconsin-Stout Jarvis Hall project. The contractor, Shaw-Lundquist Associates Inc., St. Paul, Minn., won the job ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com In the aftermath of its failed lawsuit, the Wisconsin Builders Association is debating whether to keep fighting state rules requiring fire sprinklers in apartment buildings. The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a WBA appeal in a lawsuit challenging ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District is proposing a 17-mile methane gas pipeline to minimize effects on waterways and decrease permitting requirements. The district wants to take methane gas generated at the Emerald Park Landfill in Muskego, pipe ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Jeff Kalman will have only seven days to fix the floors in the Milwaukee Fire Department’s Engine House 6 after firefighters clear out Monday. The department this month gave Kalman, owner of Injection Restoration Services LLC, Belgium, ...

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