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Nearly 27 years ago, Kim Lobdell sat behind her desk at KL Engineering for the first time, alone in the office and the sole employee of the Fitchburg company she had just started.

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Nothing says Independence Day quite like crippling gridlock.

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An appeals court last week waived off a former developer's request to halt the sale of Green Bay's Hotel Northland, as work on the troubled redevelopment project nears completion.

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As Foxconn Technology Group officially marked the start on Thursday of work on its $10 billion factory in Mount Pleasant, fears swirled that local officials were moving to unleash a legal means of forcing homeowners to make way for the technology giant: eminent domain.

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Jim Parks knew when he started getting knots in his stomach on Sunday afternoons from just thinking about the coming workweek that being a lawyer was not for him.

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Although the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday shot down a challenge of taxes imposed on a contractor’s services, its decision could give both businesses and individuals more leeway in their dealings with state agencies.

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Largest winning bids in Wisconsin from the previous week, according to The Daily Reporter’s JobTrac bidding service.

Minority-owned contractors working in Milwaukee will be able to tap a new reservoir of money following the city's decision last week to set up a new revolving-loan fund.

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Green Bay became the latest place in Wisconsin to approve a road-funding mechanism that local governments across the state are increasingly leaning on as state and federal dollars grow scarcer: the wheel tax.

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With the receipt of an $80 million contract on Thursday, Michels Corp. came close to hitting the quarter-billion-dollar mark for work on Interstate 94 tied to the massive Foxconn project nearby.

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