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Milwaukee Public School referendum eases fiscal challenges, but long-term maintenance issues remain
A $51 million revenue infusion, made possible by voter approval of a 2024 referendum, has substantially brightened the short-term fiscal outlook for Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). The proposal for the district’s next budget largely avoids staffing cuts and makes new investments in areas including lead paint stabilization and other facilities maintenance.
Clean water projects coming to a community near you
Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee approved $732M in bonding to boost funding for clean water and wastewater infrastructure across the state.
Beware of bias at bat: when AI benches the wrong players | Opinion
In mid-May a federal judge cleared the way for a nationwide class action against Workday, finding that its AI-driven hiring tools may have unfairly screened out applicants older than 40.
‘I am an electrician. Nothing shocks me anymore’
Electrical safety at your workplace is ultimately left up to you.
Union apprenticeship programs are building the infrastructure generation
Apprenticeships are critical training operations that don’t get the attention they deserve for boosting the American economy, wrote Emily Pritzkow of WBTC.
Merit is the majority of Wisconsin’s construction workforce
Merit shops operate with the conviction that workers should be rewarded on the merits of their work, writes ABC-WI chapter president Kelly Tourdot.
Budget plan could pour sand back into licensing agency gears
The Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS), the agency responsible for licensing about 200 credentials, including in the trades, would face a 31% staff cut starting Oct. 1 under the budget Republicans advanced in committee last week.
An optimistic future: LIHTC developments in 2025
In Wisconsin alone, we’ve seen more than 1,300 projects benefit from LIHTC over the last four decades, helping both urban and rural communities.
Tax Reform and Construction: How the “Big Beautiful Bill” Could Impact the Industry
There are many provisions that taxpayers must consider that are set to sunset at the end of the year associated with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017.
Understanding contractual remedies and principles in uncertain times
Since the Oval Office transition in January – and the rapid shifts in law, policy, and economic uncertainty that followed – my colleagues and I frequently field a variation of the same question: Is this a force majeure under my contract?
Bricks and bots: AI technologies’ growing impact on construction
Seemingly everywhere you look, there are stories about how the increased adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is changing the way industries operate.
DataWatch: Trump’s tariffs and Wisconsin’s economy
Trump's shifting tariff policies are creating economic uncertainty in Wisconsin, hitting construction materials, farmers and consumers with rising costs.
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- Kraus-Anderson will deliver first phase of $175M Big Bend sports complex
- Long-delayed Milwaukee boutique hotel plans show signs of life
- I-794 bridge improvements starting in Milwaukee
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of May 4, 2026
- Construction worker killed in lumber pile collapse in West Bend
- Milwaukee to Madison train line to cost $200M with state help
- I-794 removal could see $500M in development, but more crashes
- Cobalt Partners changes up its Third Ward moving plans
- State program releases $135M for local roads
- Eau Claire approves $270M biomanufacturing facility deal
- Manitowoc port development gets $20 million boost
- Mark Hammond, Wauwatosa development director, will leave for nonprofit job
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)