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Deficit looms for Wisconsin transportation budget, Bureau says
New projections show Wisconsin's transportation budget is spiraling toward a $63.5 million deficit by mid-2015, leaving lawmakers groping for how to pay for building and repairing roads across the state over the next two years.
Dems, GOP lawmakers sell budgets back home
Republicans and Democrats are selling their budget plans back home as models for how they would run Washington if they win the November elections.
House approves Republican deficit-cutting plan
Republicans pushed an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget through the House on Thursday that relies on biting spending cuts and a revamping of Medicare to curb massive federal deficits, drawing a sharp contrast with how President Barack Obama and Democrats would tackle the nation's fiscal problems.
TV stations are campaign’s big winners
By Matt Pommer The clear winners in this Wisconsin election year are television stations. Candidate and ghost organizations have poured money into TV spots in the races for the governor’s […]
Senate sends $1.1 trillion spending bill to Obama (8:13 a.m. 12/14/09)
By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, including […]
Federal budget deficit for November hits $120.3 billion (2:19 p.m. 12/10/09)
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal deficit for the first two months of the new budget year is piling up faster than last year’s record […]
Obama’s new jobs plans include highway, bridge projects
By Philip Elliott AP Writer Washington — President Barack Obama outlined major new government stimulus and jobs proposals on Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out […]
Obama wants domestic spending cuts in next budget (4:31 p.m. 11/13/09)
By ANDREW TAYLOR and TOM RAUM Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration, mindful of public anxiety over the government’s mushrooming debt, is shifting emphasis from big-spending policies […]
Obama eyes domestic spending freeze (1:34 p.m. 11/13/09)
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has alerted domestic agencies to plan for a freeze or even a 5 percent cut in their budgets, […]
Trade deficit widens more than expected in September (8:16 a.m. 11/13/09)
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit widened more than expected in September as foreign oil prices rose to the highest level in nearly […]
Federal deficit sets October record of $176.4 billion (1:47 p.m. 11/12/09)
By DANIEL WAGNER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal deficit hit a record for October as the new budget year began where the old one […]
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- $700M Brewers stadium overhaul proposal comes with new contracting language
- Wisconsin unions, businesses rally support for Line 5 relocation project
- Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps
- Wisconsin’s starting fixed fee for engineering services gets a bump
- BUILDING BLOCKS: Caroline Heights Apartments turns historic structures into living space
- Wauwatosa Common Council greenlights $400M Barrett Lo apartments at Mayfair Mall
- Kenosha Common Council unanimously passes contractor requirements for public bids
- Old church finds new purpose as St. John’s Lutheran Church converts to affordable housing
- Indoor farms are shutting down as their businesses struggle. So why are more being built?
- Low Mississippi River limits barge traffic
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids around the state
- Wisconsin contractors urge Kenosha council to delay vote over bidding ordinance
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)
