Mayor Paul Soglin said he has asked Gov. Scott Walker for state funding for a public market to help drive economic development in the wake of the impending closure of Oscar Mayer's Madison headquarters.

The state Senate won't take up a bill making fraud against the state's job-creation agency a felony, the chamber's top Republican said after the Assembly passed the measure on a voice vote with little discussion.

Crowdfunding has been increasingly used to fund a large-scale real estate renovation project such as the restoration of the Historic Wally Schmidt Tavern in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee.

Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services, Inc. refinanced bonds previously issued by WHEFA in 2011. This process enables Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services, Inc. to operate more effectively by financing its capital expenses at a lower interest rate.

In these nascent stages of the ARISE plan, which aims to overhaul Janesville's downtown into more of an attraction.

More often than not, success is a good thing. In the case of the popularity of the HTC program in Wisconsin, state officials saw an overwhelming interest in the program as a problem. The 20 percent HTC was uncapped and by mid 2014, the state had awarded nearly $21 million.

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