Gov. Scott Walker's top aides pressed for a taxpayer-funded $500,000 loan to a now-defunct Milwaukee construction company that was collapsing and created no jobs, according to a newspaper investigation.

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A former executive at Madison Gas & Electric is taking the helm at the state’s Department of Administration, while the top official at that agency is taking a new position as a utility regulator.

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State officials have enough building projects in their plans to keep them busy through Wisconsin’s next two budgets without having to add many, if any, new ones.

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A top official in Gov. Scott Walker’s Administration contended Monday that proposed changes to the state Building Commission’s operating procedures would prevent the board from voting twice on the same project.

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A top Walker administration official said Wednesday that the state has selected a team to rebuild the Hill Farms building on Madison’s west side.

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While acknowledging that he has received “mixed signals” from lawmakers about building UW System dormitories, the secretary of the state Department of Administration said Wednesday those signals are not why two projects have not progressed as quickly as some university officials want.

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The state is moving forward with hiring an architect for a delayed dorm project at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, state Rep. Andy Jorgensen, D-Milton, said Thursday.

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Two members of the state Building Commission sent a letter to a top state official Wednesday reminding him of his duty to provide appraised values for state property that could be up for sale.

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Department of Administration officials are conducting bonding assessments of construction companies independent of those performed by surety firms, according to a state lawmaker who has questioned a new state bidding law.

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The secretary of the state Department of Administration is questioning the motives behind the Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin’s persistent inquiries into the state’s new single-prime system of managing construction projects, according to an email attributed to Secretary Mike Huebsch and sent to a lawmaker last week.

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