Wisconsin RealEstateRama

January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu hosted a conference call today with Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) to announce that Wisconsin has surpassed its aggressive energy efficiency goal established with the U.S. Department of Energy for funding under the 2009 stimulus law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Through the weatherization program, the state has helped a total of more than 30,500 Wisconsin families improve the energy efficiency of their homes over the last three years, saving the average household more than $400 a year on its energy utility bills.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - December 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Wisconsin today filed a federal lawsuit charging that Wisconsin's voter ID law is unconstitutional and will deprive citizens of their basic right to vote. The lawsuit is the only active federal challenge against a photo ID law, the most common type of legislation that is part of a nationwide attack on the right to vote.

SUAMICO, WI - June 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Brown County resident Kent Davis has been ordered to restore wetland areas on commercial property in the Village of Suamico, and to pay $50,000 in forfeitures, assessments, fees and costs for violating state wetland protection and storm water management laws for construction sites.

April 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- For too long, middle-class taxpayers have been stuck with the costs of paying for more and more government. In 2000, the average property tax on a median value home in Wisconsin was $2,110. By 2006 it had risen to $2,729. Today it’s $2,963. Without the property tax reforms in our budget, these middle-class tax bills would rise to $3,425 by 2013.

MADISON, WI - March 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen today filed a lawsuit against First American Funding Company, LLC of N4365 State Highway 73, Columbus, WI for violations of the state's No-Call and Direct Marketing laws. Michael S. Eisenga is listed in the complaint as the mortgage company's owner and operator

Madison, WI - March 24, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Spring is here and stormy weather is right around the corner. It's time to update your home inventory so that you have an accurate list of your possessions if you need to file an insurance claim. So do what you always do this time of year . . . get out your iPhone® or iPad

RHINELANDER, WI - December 14, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen today announced that his office has obtained a judgment of nearly $158,000 in penalties, costs and attorney fees in a civil environmental prosecution filed in Oneida County against the developers of a large lakeshore condominium project known as the Clearwater Lake Club Condominium Association. The case had been pending before Circuit Judge Mark A. Mangerson who issued the penalty decision on Friday, December 10, 2010.

MADISON, WI - November 24, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Amy B. Strait was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to three months in federal prison in a prosecution stemming from a federal investigation of bank fraud and tax fraud. The prison sentence will be followed by a two-year term of supervised release

MADISON, WI - November 17, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Becher Terrace Housing, LLC will receive a $200,000 Blight Elimination and Brownfield Redevelopment (BEBR) grant from the Department of Commerce (Commerce) for remediation of a residential care apartment complex in Milwaukee.

MADISON, WI - November 17, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Compass Properties, LLC, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, has received a $6 million Recovery Zone Facility Bond allocation from the Department of Commerce to renovate commercial property in the City of Milwaukee