The only way to stop the coronavirus pandemic from getting even worse in Wisconsin is to "triple down," individually and collectively, on public health measures, the state's business leaders learned in a bleak update on Wednesday.

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Three business groups filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Gov. Tony Evers' administration from releasing the names of more than 1,000 businesses with employees who have tested positive for COVID-19, saying the release would blacklist those operations as the disease surges across the state.

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The president of Wisconsin's chamber of commerce on Wednesday repeated his call for the state Department of Health Services not to publish the names of businesses traced to two or more positive cases of COVID-19.

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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is retreating from its original plans to name businesses and other places where there have been at least two confirmed cases of the coronavirus after businesses groups and Republican lawmakers came out as opposed to the idea.

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Wisconsin's chamber of commerce on Friday called for opening businesses starting May 4, three weeks sooner than will occur under Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

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New limits were placed on Wisconsin child care centers Wednesday as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state topped 100, and policymakers scrambled to find emergency help for displaced workers and struggling businesses.

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Wisconsin regulators signed off Thursday on a plan calling for the construction in Jefferson County of a solar farm whose cost could exceed $100 million and that could produce energy for utility Dairyland Power Cooperative.

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Wisconsin's largest business association has launched a television ad attacking a Democratic state Senate candidate for proposing a gas tax increase even though the group has supported raising the tax for months.

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Shoreline property owners would have more leeway to dredge and build structures on bodies of water under legislation the Wisconsin Assembly advanced Tuesday despite concerns from minority Democrats that the proposals would harm the state's waters.

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Wisconsin's most powerful business lobbying group is calling on the Legislature to pass a right-to-work law, something Republican Gov. Scott Walker has repeatedly said distracts from his agenda.

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