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Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway wants to spend $425,000 to design a system to filter PFAS chemicals out of a city well.
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Read More »Madison mayor wants to spend $425K on PFAS filtration system
State picks architects for $120M historical museum in Madison 
State officials have picked Milwaukee's Continuum Architects + Planners and the national architecture firm Smith Group to design a new $120 million museum for the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison.
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Read More »Mortenson closes on land purchase for nine-story hotel at Madison’s Judge Doyle Square
Mortenson announced Monday that it has completed financing and acquired the rights to build a 262-room hotel at Madison's Judge Doyle Square development.
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Read More »Wisconsin mayors urge Congress to pass spending plan for infrastructure
A group of Wisconsin mayors is calling on Congress to pass a spending plan they say could help prepare Madison for future flooding, stave off shoreline erosion in Sheboygan and fund local road repairs throughout the state — projects that will be too large to take on without federal help.
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Read More »Wisconsin Historical Society prepares to redevelop site across from state Capitol
The Wisconsin Historical Society expects to have a new museum by 2026 in its current location across from the Capitol square — rather than in a building at a state-owned site off East Washington Avenue.
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Read More »Workers reinstall Wisconsin statues downed in 2020 protest
Wisconsin workers reinstalled two statues Tuesday on the state Capitol grounds that protesters ripped down during a demonstration last year in the wake of George Floyd's death.
Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Madison
Read More »Legislative committee: UW System virus moves need our OK (UPDATE)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican-controlled legislative committee moved Tuesday to block the University of Wisconsin System from taking several steps to fight the spread of coronavirus without its approval. The Wisconsin State Journal reports the committee’s move comes as ...
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Read More »Lawsuit challenges Madison building ordinance meant to protect birds
A group of construction and development interests filed suit against the city of Madison on Thursday over an ordinance local officials adopted last summer to require that new high-rise buildings be designed in a way intended to prevent bird collisions.
Tagged with: building codes Madison Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty
Read More »Policy Forum: Wisconsin to receive nearly $20B in federal COVID-19 aid
Wisconsin municipalities are due to receive about $20 billion in federal aid in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a sum that's more than twice the amount of federal aid cities and counties got following the 2008 Great Recession.
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Read More »Painter’s union pickets sub’s work on Madison’s Judge Doyle Square (UPDATE)
The Painters and Allied Trades District Council No. 7 began picketing Madison's Judge Doyle Square construction site on Friday after the general contractor on the project hired a non-union painting firm.
Tagged with: International Union of Painters and Allied Trades J.P. Cullen Judge Doyle Square Madison North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters
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