A powerful Republican lawmaker vowed Wednesday to block new state restrictions designed to protect farmers' neighbors from the stench of manure following a flurry of complaints from the Wisconsin agricultural industry.

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Wisconsin Republicans passed a state budget Wednesday after winning a key legislator's support with a provision to allow Tesla to open dealerships in the state — a goal long pursued by the lawmaker, who sells rebuilt Tesla vehicles and parts.

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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.

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Wisconsin Republicans scrapped Gov. Tony Evers’ transportation budget Thursday and replaced it with a plan that would pay for road work using a combination of title- and registration-fee increases, an infusion of general tax dollars and new borrowing. The proposal also would allow the design-build delivery system to be tested out and make various other far-reaching changes to transportation policy.

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A day after Assembly Republicans announced proposed changes to the state’s prevailing wage laws, their fellow party members were planning to meet behind closed doors to discuss possibly exempting local governments from the minimum-compensation requirements.

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Even as state Republicans continue to discuss plans to overhaul the state’s prevailing wage laws, at least one GOP senator has been shopping around an alternative that would exempt all local governments from the compensation requirements.

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Among the obstacles a proposed new Bucks arena will have to overcome in the state Legislature are prevailing wages and local hiring requirements.

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Even as a group of Wisconsin lawmakers prepare for a daylong hearing on a bill that would eliminate the state’s prevailing wage laws, others are considering less far-reaching changes ranging from increasing the dollar value for exempt projects to having the wage rates set by region instead of by county.

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A state Senator with the linchpin vote on a bill that would eliminate the state's prevailing-wage laws is saying he does not favor the proposal.

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As is happening in Wisconsin, pushes to repeal prevailing-wage laws in other states have eventually softened this year into campaigns for reform.

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