(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) – Tennessee’s unemployment rate for May is 3.5%, the same as in April, state officials said. The rate a year ago was 3.2%, according to a report from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The national unemployment rate is 4.2%. Between April and May, 1,800 jobs were added. Top performing sectors […]

In a statement, Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette provided new details of the moments they were shot last weekend by a man charged with attempting to murder them and assassinating state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. The Hoffmans are continuing their recovery in the hospital and noted that John […]

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Thursday from requiring 20 mostly Democratic states to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation funding. Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a preliminary injunction that barred the administration from enforcing the new immigration rules for “the States and […]