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Twelve Brown Deer residents are all it takes to slam the brakes on a $2.3 million streetscape project on five village roads.

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An eight-year fight between the state and a former Milwaukee storage yard owner over a sunken barge is going back to the courthouse where it all began.

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A developer who sued the state to get more money for property taken through eminent domain now must return some of the original payment.

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By ?SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled state Assembly passed Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget early Thursday over objections from Democrats who derided it as an assault on the middle class that will hurt public education, ...

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — School vouchers would not be expanded to Green Bay, transit workers would retain their collective bargaining rights, and a rural broadband program would be unchanged under a series of changes to ...

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By David Ziemer The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a Milwaukee property owner assessed the costs of removing a sunken barge from the Menomonee River. At issue is the doctrine of “judicial estoppel,” which provides ...

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By James Briggs State Sen. Fred Risser might have more firsthand knowledge of eminent domain than any other member of the Wisconsin Legislature. Dane County in 2002 forced the Madison Democrat to sell his law office, at South Hamilton and ...

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Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from ...

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By Keith Barber The practice of eminent domain makes me cringe, but in light of safety issues involving a particular intersection in the town of Walworth, it seems appropriate. For the sake of safety improvements and a much-needed road upgrade, ...

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