Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill that would assign inspector generals to more than a dozen state agencies, which could cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars and open the door to cronyism, according to critics.

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Even as state lawmakers listened to testimony Tuesday on a bill that would repeal the state's prevailing wage laws, one of the main supporters of the proposal was calling for a change that would keep the government-set compensation rates in place only for state projects.

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For the policy advisors entrusted with proposing changes to Wisconsin’s workers’ comp system, the past few weeks must have been like the seconds that immediately follow a person’s dropping a penny into a deep well.

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By Joe Lanane The resurrection of the state’s Transportation Projects Commission is reviving the debate between those who want money for road maintenance and the backers of new construction. State Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan, D-Janesville, who will help select TPC ...

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