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Roger Qualman Dolan Media Newswires Portland, OR – If you own a home, it’s probably worth less today than it was two years ago. Home values have declined by as little as 5 percent in some areas and as much ...

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Joe Nathanson Dolan Media Newswires Baltimore, MD – Congress is wrestling with how and when to reauthorize the nation’s primary money mechanism for building and maintaining roads, bridges, and mass transit lines — the Surface Transportation Act of 2009. It ...

Tagged with: gas tax Highway Trust Fund infrastructure

Gov. Jim Doyle is hoping for major changes in teacher compensation, including merit pay.  That smacks of wishful thinking. President Barack Obama once floated similar ideas and they got the cold shoulder from teacher unions. The current labor contracts with ...

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Robert F. Judd Dolan Media Newswires Rochester, NY — Business owners and managers should not forget about 401(k) plans while dealing with the financial crisis. More and more employers are looking to save money by reducing or eliminating matching contributions ...

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Raymond Keating Dolan Media Newswires Long Island, NY — Too many elected officials either ignore economic reality when pursuing political desires or never had a clue about economics in the first place. Of course, politicians are not alone. It’s not ...

Tagged with: cap-and-trade economy global warming Obama

Matt Pommer The biggest political story of the just-completed state budget battle was the Legislature’s rejection of Gov. Jim Doyle’s call for a major change in liability law provisions. Both houses of the Legislature are controlled by Democrats. Liability law ...

To the editor: This is our second summer dealing with those who have an agenda to remove the Hoan Bridge, a bridge named for former Milwaukee Mayor Daniel Hoan who had the vision of connecting the north and south sides ...

Hundreds of legislative decisions, some big and many small, helped decide how Wisconsin state government will spend $62 billion in the next two years. The process was familiar. More than a half century ago, then Assemblyman Raymond Peabody of Polk ...

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