Author: Jon Styf | The Center Square

(The Center Square) – A series of challenges to permits and approvals for a new 41-mile section of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline will take place starting Aug. 12 and running through Oct. 3. Enbridge has proposed the 41-mile section to replace a 12-mile section of the pipeline through the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin.…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s steady increase of apprenticeships in the state over the past 10-plus years has grown to 77% higher than 2013, according to a new report. The total comes as many industries are seeing labor shortages and those are expected to expand in coming years as the state’s population shrinks. Wisconsin had…

(The Center Square) – Cities that host the NFL Draft have seen small increases in hotel revenue in recent years but those gains are far smaller than what is claimed by teams, the National Football League and the marketing and tourism departments in local government have claimed. The first three cities to host the draft…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s new budget is set to spend $114.2 billion, a 15% spending increase compared to last biennial budget, according to a report from Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The number is an increase from the $111.1 billion initial estimate as the Wisconsin Legislature is expected to take up the budget today. The…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin leaders reached a budget compromise agreement that includes $1.4 billion increase in funding for K-12 schools, $330 million for child care and a $256 million increase for the University of Wisconsin system, Gov. Tony Evers said in a Tuesday morning press release. The state’s Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s average gas price is $2.97 for regular unleaded heading into the Fourth of July holiday week. That’s lower than the $3.29 average a year ago as, nationally, gas price averages will be at their lowest point for the Fourth of July travel week since 2021. The national average is currently…

(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Senate approved an exception to the state’s tax incremental financing rules for a planned data center in Port Washington. The data center is expected to be constructed and could open before the end of the year.  The bill allows the data center to be part of a TIF, meaning…

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s top education official said Friday that the Joint Finance Committee’s budget changes fails Wisconsin students, educators and public schools. The committee voted late Thursday evening to approve a $229 million investment in special education targeting mental health and sparsity aid, which is additional state funding provided to small, rural school…

(The Center Square) – St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran School won an appeal to receive $30,000 in scholarships through Wisconsin’s Special Needs Scholarship Program. The Wisconsin Department of Instruction initially denied the school’s request for the school choice funding for three students but the scholarships were awarded after the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed…

(The Center Square) – In the day after the Wisconsin Energy Reform Act was introduced, several Republican lawmakers spoke out against the energy bill they believe is the failed right of first refusal legislation with a different name. The new bill would include bidding controls and restrictions for interstate and intrastate electrical transmission lines rather…