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With a mounting list of road repairs, La Crosse County officials are taking the somewhat unusual step of asking local voters just what they should do.
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Walker proposes increases in funding for town roads (UPDATE)
Gov. Scott Walker is proposing to increase state spending on town roads, a pledge that comes amid re-election attacks from Democrats who say the governor hasn't done enough for Wisconsin roads.
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Read More »Developer’s eviction case against Postal Service delivered to federal court
A developer's lawsuit seeking to evict the U.S. Postal Service from its office in downtown Milwaukee has landed in federal court.
Read More »Business digest for the week of Oct. 12, 2018
Appleton-based Werner Electric Supply has hired Genevieve Faucher as its eCommerce manager.
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Read More »BUILDING BLOCKS: Lakeview Corporate Park industrial building
The new industrial building is going up in a region marked by rapid growth in recent years.
Tagged with: Amazon Building Blocks Haribo Hunzinger Construction Stephen Perry Smith Architects Uline Wangard Partners
Read More »With record referendum spending possible in 2018, regulatory fight brewing
With a prominent Wisconsin lawmaker irked that a record could be set for approvals of school projects this year, a lobbying group has emerged to block legislation that could upend the state's school-referendum system.
Tagged with: Duey Stroebel John Gard Miron Construction referendums schools Wisconsin Construction Group Wisconsin Ethics Commission
Read More »In wake of DOT policy change, officials take unusual step of ‘borrowing from future’ road money
With millions in federal road money missing from local coffers, a group of municipalities in Southeast Wisconsin took the unusual step on Friday of planning to pay for a list of projects with cash from future years.
Tagged with: Dan Fedderly roads SEWRPC Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission Wisconsin County Highway Association
Read More »Judge sides with contractor who fought union fund’s suit seeking employee records
A federal judge has sided with an electrical contractor who fought to block a union benefit fund from obtaining non-union employee records as part of a routine audit.
Tagged with: collective bargaining International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 494 Scott Flaugher unions Veterans Electric
Read More »BUILDING BLOCKS: West Riverside Energy Center
PROJECT NAME: West Riverside Energy Center ADDRESS: 1401 W B R Townline Road, Town of Beloit SIZE: 315-acre, 730-megawatt, natural-gas-fired generating station COST: $700 million START OF CONSTRUCTION: fall of 2016 ESTIMATED TIME OF COMPLETION: By end of 2019 OWNER: ...
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Read More »Voters could set record with school districts’ $1.4B worth of referendum requests (UPDATE)
Wisconsin voters are being asked their permission for more than $1 billion worth of spending on buildings and other priorities, putting them in a position to approve a record amount of school-related referendum requests this November.
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