It’s no secret that in recent years, the political divide between the left and the right has been growing. In today’s highly politicized environment, legislation and policy is often bogged down by political theater or diluted (or inflated) to get just enough votes for approval. The result can make for bad policy in some cases, and no policy in others.

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Josh Jeffers and his company, J. Jeffers & Co., are probably best known for their historic-rehabilitation projects. Right at the top of their resume are the Mackie and Mitchell buildings, two ornate European-looking structures, both dating to the 19th Century and standing on a block of East Michigan Street between Water Street and Broadway.

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A Milwaukee developer is crediting Wisconsin's historic-tax-credit program for paving the way for his proposal to preserve a 150-year-old church by turning it into an event space.

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Gov. Scott Walker has signed into law a measure boosting tax credits available for historic rehabilitation projects in Wisconsin from $500,000 to $3.5 million.

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At least one developer is warning that the new $500,000 cap placed on historic tax credits will dissuade him and others from undertaking large and costly renovation projects. Michael Frantz, chief executive officer of Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Frantz Community Investors, ...

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Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Republicans who control the Legislature are clashing over key parts of his $76 billion state budget that runs from July 1 through the end of June 2019.

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Historic preservationists are preparing for another fight with Gov. Scott Walker over a wildly popular tax credit program used to restore and maintain historic properties.

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No limit would be set on the amount of historic rehabilitation tax credits that the state could issue in a given year under a motion put forward by Republican lawmakers on Thursday.

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With the state's budget committee expected to soon consider a possible cap on historic renovation tax credits, one Milwaukee developer is stressing how instrumental that incentive was in making his latest project a reality.

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A pair of Wisconsin lawmakers are pushing the state to offer up to $5 million worth of historic-preservation tax credits for every qualified project, rather than following the governor's recommendation to place a cap on the total amount of credits that can be awarded in a given year.

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