Amid setbacks on prevailing wages and additional money for local roads, a prominent road-building group has managed to snatch a couple of victories as the state Legislature winds down business for its current session.

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Lawmakers are considering a proposal that would prevent local governments around the state from adopting new wheel taxes.

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An organization that represents engineering firms is joining an influential road builders group in coming out against a proposal meant to make local road projects cheaper by greatly decreasing their reliance on federal money.

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Republican legislators have created a bill that would shift federal road-building dollars from local work to state projects, a move that would exempt local projects from federal prevailing wage requirements.

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A large road-builder group is coming out against proposed legislation meant to lower the cost of local transportation projects by preventing them from falling under the additional regulations that come with the use of federal money.

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Even as a cut in state borrowing leads transportation officials to push back the completion dates of various highway projects, road contractors are seeing an even more direct sign that they will be getting less work in the coming year.

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As various officials had warned this summer, a reduction in the state’s authorized bonding for transportation projects is resulting in delays to large road projects around Wisconsin.

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When Republican state lawmakers pushed sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s prevailing wage laws back to Jan. 1, 2017, many in the construction industry were happy to know they would at least have a year and a half to adapt. But the timing does not work out perfectly.

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With construction well underway on the core of the Zoo Interchange west of Milwaukee, at least one prominent Republican lawmaker is arguing it would be “ridiculous” to delay the work as part of an attempt to reduce the state’s reliance on borrowing for transportation projects.

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A lobbying group for cities and villages is expressing concerns that bills aimed at repealing the state’s prevailing-wage law will blow apart a coalition formed to promote relying less on debt to pay for transportation projects.

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