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Assembly OKs budget with tweaks to protect quarry rules, give town roads more money (UPDATE)
Republicans in the state Assembly approved increasing spending on town roads and other last-minute changes to the state budget on Tuesday to appease skeptical conservatives, saying their proposals are fiscally responsible and should be signed into law by Gov. Tony Evers.
Road to compromise: Despite differences, Evers, GOP agree on many road priorities
Gov. Tony Evers and the state's GOP-led budget-writing committee largely agree that Wisconsin should pump a good deal more money into roads over the next two years.
Conservative budget foes put Wisconsin GOP in tough spot
Opposition from a pair of conservative Wisconsin state senators to the Republican-written state budget is putting GOP leaders in a tough spot as they try to round up enough votes to pass the two-year spending plan next week.
GOP senator vows to vote against state budget (UPDATE)
A Republican Wisconsin state senator says he will vote against the state budget proposal written by his fellow Republicans, leaving the GOP with only one vote to spare in the Senate.
GOP considering splitting budget into 2 bills
Republican legislative leaders are thinking about splitting the state budget into two bills.
Evers’ budget would restore eminent domain for bike trails
Gov. Tony Evers wants to restore local governments and state agencies' right to seize private property for biking and hiking trails, a step that would again pit private property owners against villages, towns and cities looking to make public improvements.
Republicans, Democrats disagree on Evers’ workforce plans
Gov. Tony Evers' proposed budget wouldn't do enough to attract workers to Wisconsin and his proposals, including increasing the minimum wage, would actually hurt businesses, Republican lawmakers on the Legislature's budget committee argued on Thursday.
Wisconsin GOP attacks Evers’ budget as deliberations begin
Republican legislators criticized Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' state budget Wednesday as "irresponsible" as they began their first day of public deliberations on revisions to the spending plan.
Evers could face $1.9b shortfall heading into second budget
A new analysis shows Democratic Gov. Tony Evers would face a nearly $2 billion shortfall heading into his second budget.
BUDGET ANALYSIS: Evers’ plan would prioritize rehab over southeast megaprojects
Wisconsin's state highway rehabilitation program would see a boost while spending on major highway projects in Southeast Wisconsin would suffer, under Gov. Tony Evers' executive budget proposal.
At DOT, Thompson sets priority on Zoo Interchange, I-43 north of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Department of Transportation officials want to pick up where the state's transportation policies were left off — four years ago.
Highlights of Gov. Evers’ state budget proposal
The main points of the two-year Wisconsin budget proposal coming Thursday from Gov. Tony Evers:
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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)