Lawmakers have aired out a handful of bills that could shake up how the Wisconsin Department of Transportation awards bids and delivers projects, as part of a multi-pronged effort to reform the department following a funding increase.

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Many construction jobs ground to a halt in Wisconsin, a plane carrying 129 people skidded Saturday from a slick Chicago runway and a plow driver was killed when his truck rolled over outside Kansas City following a winter storm that covered many parts of the Midwest with snow and ice.

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The road builder Hoffman Construction has joined forces with a competitor to reel in a nearly $127 million highway project in the state’s December letting.

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Jim Hoffman sometimes wonders what his grandfather would think of their family run road construction business today.

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Foxconn Technology Group plans to award three more big contracts in 2018, including projects calling for the construction of utilities and roadways, materials procurement and a building expected to get underway this summer. Next up for work at the Foxconn site is the ...

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A minority-owned contractor banned from state road projects was booted Friday from its spot among 28 companies working on the first phase of construction for Foxconn Technology Group's $10 billion factory in Racine County.

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Hoffman Construction and Gestra Engineering are the big winners in the first round of bidding for the $10 billion plant Foxconn Technology Group is building in Racine County.

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There is a lot of work that still needs to be done to turn President Trump’s State of the Union call for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure investment into reality, but his leadership gives rise to an important opportunity and great optimism for our country’s future on a critically important topic that has big ramifications for Wisconsin.

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Even as the Wisconsin Department of Transportation begins seeking bidders for more Foxconn-related highway improvements in and near Mount Pleasant, road builders are pointing to evidence that the massive manufacturing project is making a difference for completely unrelated work in other parts of the state.

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A prominent roadbuilder contends he isn’t being inconsistent by pursuing work related to the Foxconn project in southeastern Wisconsin several years after a slew of Republican-backed policies had him threatening to move much of his business to Minnesota.

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