Lawmakers held a public hearing Wednesday on a bill that would give Wisconsin municipalities a new means of tearing down blighted buildings that contain asbestos and other contaminants.

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COVID-19 has brought increased attention to indoor air quality and the effect that ventilation has on reducing disease transmission in indoor spaces.

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Voters rejected school building referendums at an unusually high rate in elections held throughout the state on Tuesday, including some ballot questions seeking permission for multi-million-dollar construction projects.

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Two CG Schmidt clients lost more than $1 million in total when a cyber criminal impersonating company employees intercepted invoices intended for the contractor in 2018.

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Property taxes levied by schools in Wisconsin will go up 3.3%, a smaller increase than in 2019 but still larger than any other year over the past decade, a report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum released on Thursday showed.

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Despite a pandemic, an economic downturn and a polarizing presidential election, a report released on Tuesday has found that Wisconsin voters approved school referendums at the second-highest rate in state history since 1993 on Nov. 3.

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Voters overwhelmingly approved a series of school referendums during Tuesday's election, giving the go-ahead to more than $700 million in construction projects to districts throughout the state.

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Wisconsin voters approved about $1.7 billion in construction-related school referendums last week despite a spring election muddled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Despite widespread concerns about Tuesday's election because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Wisconsin school districts are pressing ahead with plans to ask voters for permission for about $1.6 billion worth of construction-related spending in another big election cycle for K-12 building projects

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Despite widespread concerns about Tuesday's election because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Wisconsin school districts are pressing ahead with plans to ask voters for permission for about $1.6 billion worth of construction-related spending in another big election cycle for K-12 building projects

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