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Earlier today the State Building Commission approved a $624 million capital budget. “While I appreciate the Governor’s desire to have no new borrowing due to our financial situation in Wisconsin, I do have serious concerns that by not making adequate investments in our buildings and infrastructure, we’ll end up having to pay significantly more for projects in the future.”

MADISON, WI – March 17, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — This Wisconsin Department of Revenue has online applications and information to help you file your income...

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has announced that his office has obtained a judgment ordering the seller of attic insulation to Wisconsin homeowners to pay a total of $215,560.85 for violations of state consumer protection laws. The lawsuit, filed in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court in 2013, alleged that Mark Stitt, currently a resident of Panama City, Florida, through his business ES Technology, used fraudulent representations to sell an attic insulation product called ProGuard AB to Wisconsin homeowners, a number of whom were elderly

On May 9, 2013, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) introduced H.R. 1944, the Private Property Rights Protection Act, which would prevent the federal government or any authority of the federal government from using economic development as a justification for exercising its power of eminent domain. This bill would also discourage states and localities from abusing their eminent domain power by denying states or localities that commit such abuse all federal economic development funds for a period of two years. Today, it passed in the House of Representatives 353-65

Ocwen Financial Corporation of Atlanta, Georgia, and its subsidiary, Ocwen Loan Servicing, have agreed to a $2.1 billion joint, state-federal settlement with Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, 48 additional states and the District of Columbia, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Wisconsin consumers are projected to receive more than $13 million in reductions on mortgage principal and direct cash payments from Ocwen.

Following the State Senate’s approval of Special Session Senate Bill 1, legislation that would provide a total of $100 million in property tax relief, Senator Joe Leibham (R-Sheboygan) offered the following statement:

Today, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4) joined her Wisconsin colleague Congressman Mark Pocan (WI-2) to introduce legislation supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) runaway and homeless youth.

Today, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4) joined her Democratic colleagues to stand up for American families by opposing H.R. 2767, the PATH (to Nowhere) Act. The bill passed the Financial Services Committee this morning on a party line vote.

The State of Wisconsin Building Commission today approved several key projects across the state including, but not limited to

The House Judiciary Committee today approved legislation by voice vote that prohibits state and local governments that receive federal economic development funds from using eminent domain to transfer private property from one private owner to another for the purpose of economic development, the Private Property Rights Protection Act (H.R. 1944). This legislation is in response to the 2005 Supreme Court decision in the case of Kelo v. City of New London, which gives local governments broad authority to seize private property under the guise of economic development just to generate tax revenue. The Private Property Rights Protection Act passed the House of Representatives in the 109th and 112th Congresses