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Prevailing-wage opponent launches GOP bid for US Senate
Republican state Sen. Leah Vukmir made it official Thursday that she's running for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, casting herself as the only true conservative in a primary contest that includes a former Democrat.
Highlights of $76 billion Wisconsin budget proposal
Here are some highlights from the two-year state budget that the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee was moving to pass on Wednesday:
Panel OKs motion to eliminate prevailing wage starting Sept. 1, 2018 (UPDATE)
The Legislature's budget-writing committee on Tuesday night approved a budget plan that would eliminate Wisconsin's prevailing-wage laws for state projects starting on Sept. 1, 2018.
Report: Wage repeal would cost taxpayers more than $300 million a year (UPDATE)
Repealing what remains of Wisconsin's prevailing-wage laws would cost taxpayers more than $300 million each year, according to a new study.
Local 139 ratifies contracts (UPDATE)
Talks have wrapped up in what the head of the state’s largest construction union calls the toughest negotiating sessions he can recall in his 26 years on staff at Local 139 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.
Report: More work going to out-of-state firms following prevailing-wage repeal
A union-aligned contractors group released a report Monday finding that amount of municipal contracts going to out-of-state companies increased by 53 percent in the first four months since Wisconsin rolled back its prevailing-laws this year.
Prevailing-wage repeal coasts through state Senate panel
A panel of state lawmakers on Tuesday gave the green light to a bill that would eliminate prevailing-wage requirements for state projects.
Prevailing-wage repeal to get vote Tuesday
A Wisconsin state Senate panel plans to vote Tuesday on a bill that would eliminate prevailing-wage requirements for state-commissioned projects.
Tradesmen, vets weigh in on elimination of prevailing-wage laws
Construction workers left their hardhats at home on Monday to testify in front of a group of state lawmakers on a bill that would eliminate Wisconsin's prevailing-wage laws.
Prevailing-wage repeal, right to work hang over industry negotiations
Although they are keeping their lips sealed in public, construction officials are settling in for plenty of chin wagging at the bargaining table as the expiration dates for some of the industry’s biggest contracts quickly approach this spring.
Lawmakers circulating prevailing-wage repeal
Just days after lawmakers took out of the state budget plans to repeal Wisconsin’s remaining prevailing-wage laws, two Republicans began circulating legislation that would do the same thing.
Veterans group launches web ad supporting prevailing-wage repeal
A Virginia-based veterans advocacy group on Tuesday released a targeted web advertisement highlighting the ways they say repealing Wisconsin’s prevailing-wage laws would help, not harm, veterans.
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- Cobalt Partners changes up its Third Ward moving plans
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- Manitowoc port development gets $20 million boost
- Mark Hammond, Wauwatosa development director, will leave for nonprofit job
Project Profiles
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- 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
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- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)