With no deal in sight on how to pay for transportation projects, Republican senators on Wednesday proposed tapping $133 million in budget reserves to pay for repairs to county and town roads.

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If you want more money for roads projects, sometimes you just have to collect it yourself.

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A proposed law could make it costly for local government officials who neglect to check a person’s credentials before issuing a residential building permit.

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A lobbying group for cities and villages is expressing concerns that bills aimed at repealing the state’s prevailing-wage law will blow apart a coalition formed to promote relying less on debt to pay for transportation projects.

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Wisconsin cities, towns and counties joined together Wednesday to encourage that everything, from a new personal property tax on vehicles to regional cooperatives that would share resources, should be considered to help pay for local roads' needs.

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Lawmakers’ approval of an additional $27.37 million to help counties cover increased maintenance costs associated with the recent winter has left city, town and village representatives wondering where the help is for them.

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The adoption of Wisconsin’s uniform commercial-building code has sparked a campaign to make the most of the state’s willingness to grandfather certain exceptions.

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A former executive at the Wisconsin Builders Association has been named executive director of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities.

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A bill that would expand the uses of tax-increment financing in towns, an economics professor says, would offer a predictable conclusion to a long-evident withering of government restraint.

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A bill moving quickly through the Legislature would complicate the accounting for a Milwaukee policy that increases residents’ chances of working on local public works projects, a city official said.

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