A Wisconsin Senate committee gave one of Gov. Tony Evers' most debated Cabinet picks unanimous bipartisan approval on Thursday, setting up a larger battle in the fall.

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Even as lawmakers inked a wide-ranging transportation plan and briefly considered prevailing wages and other divisive policies earlier this year, they found themselves being lobbied far less than in previous years by construction-industry groups.

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Perhaps more so than any other year in recent memory, 2018 was momentous for the construction industry in Wisconsin.

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Brian Fraley’s career in political communications grew from a simple necessity: He needed money.

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A bipartisan spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate this week would put $62 million toward Wisconsin road, rail and bridge projects.

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In the wake of President Donald Trump's call in his State of the Union address for spending $1.5 trillion on infrastructure, state officials will be off to the country's capital to press home their request for hundreds of millions of dollars to speed up road work connected to the Foxconn plant being built in southeast Wisconsin.

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In setting up a new lobbying group to encourage lawmakers to adopt a long-term means of paying for transportation projects, organizers made it a point to note they were drawing support from the manufacturing, agriculture and tourism industries.

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A representative of the transportation industry is asking why bother even spending money on preliminary work for an expansion of a east-west running of section of Interstate 94 if it's not clear the state will have money for the project anytime soon.

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If you want more money for roads projects, sometimes you just have to collect it yourself.

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Many local government and business officials agree that the state has been neglecting its transportation system for too long. Now they are now setting out to demonstrate grassroots support for raising money for repairs and expansions.

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