By Joe Yovino

Web editor

Meet the Pothole Killer -- it can fill a hole in 60 seconds with a much smaller crew.

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

This week's scorecard: Streetcar 1, common sense 0 (regional rail forfeited).

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

As one of apparently only eight people working Wednesday in Milwaukee, the trip into work on the morning of snowmaggedon (or the Ground Hog Day blizzard or snowpocalypse, or SnO-M-G or any other cool name a TV producer with too much time on his/her hands comes up with) was eerie.

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

Today marks one year since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake destroyed Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. The fact that bodies are still being pulled from the destruction shows how far the Caribbean nation has to go in its recovery.

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

I’ll admit when I think of Cambridge, Mass.-based MIT I see a bunch of eggheads with black-rimmed glasses walking around debating the future of the best way to split an atom or what you get when you combine an alligator with a crocodile. It turns out they’re also doing some good work for the construction industry.

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

The amount of letters being written to and from Scott Walker since he won the election for governor is rivaled only by children writing to Santa.

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

I’d like to take a break from our regularly scheduled coverage of the construction industry and Wisconsin’s high-speed fail for something that should be important every day, but is especially important today.

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

The next 12 to 18 months of construction market activity could be strong around the state, if Reed Construction Data is on its game.

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

The Grand Avenue Mall in downtown Milwaukee has fallen on tough times lately; anyone who walks hurriedly through the mall on the way to the food court can tell you that. It seems to be a common theme these days for those big, lumbering models of capitalism.

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

When the feds were handing out stimulus money last year for high-speed rail, Wisconsin was the only state to get everything it wanted. Be careful what you ask for.

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