Two state bills would revise a decades-old statute that lets municipalities force their neighbors to pay for demolitions.

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The Wisconsin Counties Association is urging state lawmakers to let governments reset the values of failing tax increment finance districts, but only if it means they will close sooner.

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In defending his $1.45 billion state construction budget announced this week, Gov. Scott Walker pointed out that it would borrow less than his Democratic predecessor’s last construction budget.

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State Democrats joined Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday in turning down two Republicans’ call to reduce borrowing for state construction projects by $28 million over the next two years.

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Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed project-delivery reform would give general contractors near total responsibility for a state project’s outcome while preventing them from choosing their subcontractors.

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A construction trade group is urging Gov. Scott Walker not to pursue project-delivery reform through the state budget without first soliciting opinions from the industry.

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Gov. Scott Walker wants his state to modernize the way it delivers its largest construction projects, but he’s not in a rush to achieve such a goal.

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To state officials and industry insiders, state Building Commission meetings can be interesting affairs; but for outsiders, I’m sure they can get a tad stale. Luckily we can always rely on Gordon Hintz to provide comic relief. A Democratic representative ...

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The University of Wisconsin System can use construction-manager-at-risk for its Memorial Union theater project, but the bid opening must be transparent.

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If Wisconsin Democrats really wanted to find a way to push through a high-speed rail line between Madison and Milwaukee – or any other lofty initiative – they should have found a way to associate it with the University of ...

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