Mar
19
AB 303, a bill that would have undermined the state’s Smart Growth law died with the legislature’s adjournment on Friday, March 16. The bill had passed the assembly on a near party-line vote last fall but failed to gain enough support in the senate in the last substantive legislative session of 2012. This means that …
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Mar
19
On March 14, the Senate passed MAP-21, its version of the federal surface transportation bill. The bill includes over half a dozen provisions that will give towns and cities across the country the opportunity to grow smarter. If you called or wrote your Senator in support of this bill over the past few weeks, THANK …
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Mar
13
Local leaders from the Fox Valley were practically begging state legislators for the right to hold a local referendum to raise $1.5 million to save the Fox Valley Transit system at a recent state senate hearing. It’s too bad they didn’t want a few hundred million dollars for a big highway project – that would …
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Mar
13
State Senators Mary Lazich (R-Waukesha), Joe Leibham (R-Manitowoc) and Lassee (R- DePere) killed legislation that would have allowed the Fox Valley cities to create a Regional Transit Authority and keep the Fox Valley Transit system operating at full strength. The vote came after more than 60 people, including Appleton Mayor Tim Hanna and area business …
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