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Policy changes coming under new budget
By Matt Pommer The new budget gives Gov. Scott Walker‘s administration the power to make sweeping changes in Medicaid and BadgerCare policies with minimal public or legislative input. Up to […]
Tough budget choices loom for lawmakers
By Matt Pommer Republicans elected to the state Legislature for the first time this fall are getting an early view of the difficulty ahead in cutting government spending with the […]
Rail debate puts budget woes aside
By Matt Pommer Wisconsin School Superintendent Tony Evers’ proposals for changing the state’s education finance were dead on arrival, thanks to the $420 million price tag and a projected multibillion […]
State needs answers to health care costs
Matt Pommer The leading Republican gubernatorial candidates say they are opposed to the Health Care Reform Act recently passed by the Democratic Congress and signed by President Obama. That’s just […]
More Americans restart the job search
By Jeannine Aversa AP Economics Writer Washington (AP)- A Miami woman who exhausted her unemployment aid needs to pay bills. A Phoenix job-seeker wants a greater sense of purpose. The […]
State lags with vehicle insurance law
By Matt Pommer Are you angry about the future requirement that everyone have health insurance? How about the fact that Wisconsin is about to require residents to carry liability insurance […]
Health care costs won’t go away
By Matt Pommer An estimated 1.1 million Wisconsin residents now get their health needs met through Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor. Enrollment growth has averaged 9.7 percent annually […]
$75 billion added to stimulus price tag (12:17 p.m. 1/27/10)
By Andrew Taylor AP Writer Washington — Last year’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill is going to be even more expensive — $75 billion more. The new Congressional Budget Office […]
State lawmakers face budget outlooks
By Shannon McCaffrey AP Writer If you thought state budgets were in bad shape last year, just wait: This year promises to be brutal for lawmakers — many facing re-election […]
Nursing home market leaves little to build
Sean Ryan [email protected] The 1970s-era, brown-speckled floor tiles at the Park Manor nursing home do not need close inspection to see they are worn and need to be replaced, said […]
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- Wauwatosa shops for specialty grocer
- Wisconsin allocates nearly $50M in tax credits for housing projects
- Contractors eager to fill positions as open construction jobs tick up to 259,000
- Wisconsin awards $130,000 for construction and trade worker training
- Milwaukee manufacturer plans expansion with data center growth
- Megaprojects push Milwaukee construction costs above U.S. average
- Brown County drops data center moratorium proposal
- Cobalt Partners share North Shore Library development plans
- Zignego Co. scores $45M highway contract at start of construction season
- New Berlin residents cold on Rockwell Automations plan
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin | June 1
- WisDOT studying redesign of Walker’s Point interchange
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)