By James Briggs Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget includes plenty of money for highways, but it pulls the rug out from under another form of paved passageway. The proposed 2011-13 budget would scrap $5 million allocated in the previous biennial ...

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By ?DAVID PORTER and ?MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Writers NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s governor wants to kill a $9 billion-plus train tunnel to New York City because of runaway costs. Six thousand miles away, Hawaii’s outgoing governor is ...

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Washington (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday lobbied for Republican support from Capitol Hill for a burst of spending on transportation projects, calling his proposal a jobs creator for the middle class and an overdue investment in the country’s ...

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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ?TOM RAUM Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama insisted Friday that the U.S. economy is digging itself out of the deepest recession in decades but conceded that “progress has been painfully slow” and ...

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By Julie Pace AP Writer Washington — President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series ...

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By Justin Kern Special to The Daily Reporter Supporting toll roads in the state could mean doom to an office seeker’s campaign. But advocates for tolls and other revenue sources say avoiding tolls altogether could mean worse for the roads ...

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LANCASTER, Wis. (AP) — Assessors say flash flooding has caused more than a half million dollars in damage in Grant County. Emergency management officials continued their work Sunday in assessing the damage in various townships caused by heavy rain overnight ...

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Work to repair a roughly 20-by-40-foot sinkhole at North Oakland and East North avenues in Milwaukee will continue for up to six weeks, according to the Milwaukee Department of Public Works. A 66-inch diameter combined city sewer main collapsed Thursday ...

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The Association of Equipment Manufacturers released details Monday of a non-partisan nationwide poll about voter attitudes on the economy, manufacturing and transportation infrastructure. When asked how much of the $800 billion economic stimulus package was used to create jobs by ...

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By Paul Snyder Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said Thursday during a press conference in Verona he wants to jump start more construction work in Wisconsin if elected governor. During a campaign stop at the Verona headquarters of Full Compass Systems ...

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