by Andrew Beckett | Jul 2, 2015
The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has approved an overhaul of transportation funding in the state budget. The package approved Thursday at the Capitol includes cuts to road projects and other DOT programs, as part of an effort to reduce the $1.3 billion in...
by Andrew Beckett | Jun 29, 2015
It’s been a month since members of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee met to take action on Wisconsin’s biennial budget. They have spent much of the past month in closed-door meetings, trying to hash out deals on transportation funding, the prevailing wage, and...
by Bob Hague | Jun 18, 2015
Republican leaders in the Wisconsin legislature have a public disagreement over paying for roads. Joint Finance committee co-chair Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) told WisPolitics on Wednesday that the Assembly GOP wants to delay construction on...
by Jackie Johnson | Jun 5, 2015
Governor Scott Walker has proposed $1.3 billion in new bonding for the state’s transportation needs, but Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday said he’s contemplating a transportation budget with no borrowing at all. Walker now says he’s open to a...
by Andrew Beckett | May 29, 2015
Lawmakers on the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee could face some lengthy and heated discussions today, as the panel is poised to wrap up its work on Wisconsin’s biennial budget plan. Friday’s agenda includes such hotly disputed topics as...
by Bob Hague | May 26, 2015
Uncertainty remains over transportation funding in Wisconsin, as the clock runs down on state budget deliberations. Governor Scott Walker’s proposed two-year state budget includes borrowing about $1.3 billion to fund road and infrastructure projects, but...
by Jackie Johnson | Mar 4, 2015
The legislature’s budget writing committee grills the head of the Department of Transportation on the third day of agency budget briefings. Governor Scott Walker wants to borrow $1.3 billion to fund road projects in the state. Department of Transportation...
by Andrew Beckett | Dec 9, 2014
Wisconsin’s top business lobbying group is urging lawmakers to drop the state’s highest personal income tax rate, raise gas taxes, and pass a right-to-work bill. Kurt Bauer, CEO of Wisconsin Manufacturers-and-Commerce, outlined the group’s...
by WRN Contributor | Mar 15, 2013
Governor Scott Walker’s proposed state budget would borrow over $1 billion, with almost all of that money directed at state transportation projects. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau says about $400 million would go to improve major highways, $300 million...
by Bob Hague | Feb 20, 2013
Wisconsin voters will get a chance to amend the state constitution next year. An amendment passed Wednesday by the state Senate would bar lawmakers from raiding the state transportation fund. Some Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Chris Larson of Milwaukee,...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 16, 2013
Wisconsin would spend $6.4 billion on transportation over the next two years, under the state budget Governor Scott Walker plans to present to lawmakers next Wednesday. The governor unveiled the plan Friday, which includes $824 million in new state funding. Walker...
by Bob Hague | Jan 24, 2013
Recommendations on how to address Wisconsin’s looming transportation funding shortfall include a gas tax increase, and a new vehicle registration fee based on miles driven. Both of those proposals already appear to face a tough road in the legislature. The...
by Bob Hague | May 3, 2011
Wisconsin’s local transit systems face uncertainty as a result of provisions contained in Governor Scott Walker’s proposed biennial budget. With the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee to consider transportation issues this week, Craig Thompson with the...
by Jackie Johnson | Jan 19, 2011
Governor Scott Walker reveals part two of a fact sheet aiming to get businesses in Illinois to “Escape to Wisconsin.” The Republican governor compares taxes in both states for things like food, sales, medication, electricity, natural gas and the estate...
by Bob Hague | Mar 9, 2010
Tom Barrett is firing back at Republican criticisms of high speed rail. The Democratic candidate for governor say it’s a good thing Mark Neumann and Scott Walker weren’t around when President Eisenhower proposed an earlier transportation project....
