WisBusiness: ‘Green Jobs’ report lauds energy efficiency
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Energy efficiency may be the fastest, cheapest way for states to address global warming, reduce energy costs for the poorest citizens and create...
WisBusiness: Circus Parade will return to Milwaukee
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After a six-year absence, the Great Circus Parade is due for a return to Milwaukee next summer.
City officials said bringing the parade...
WisBusiness: COWS Report Calls for Green Jobs
By Samantha Hernandez
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A report released today by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) at the Wisconsin Renewable Energy Summit in Milwaukee...
WisBusiness: Doyle launches ‘Clean Energy Wisconsin’ with renewable energy purchase pledge
By Brian E. Clark
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MADISON – Gov. Jim Doyle on Tuesday committed the state to buying
92,000 megawatt hours of electrical energy...
WisBusiness: Doyle says Madison will host World Stem Cell Summit
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In a major coup for the state, Gov. Jim Doyle announced today that Madison will host the World Stem Cell Summit on September...
WisBusiness: Doyle to launch energy plan Tuesday
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Gov. Jim Doyle's office says he will join business leaders, researchers and community members to launch his hew energy plan for Wisconsin tomorrow...
WisBusiness: Doyle unveils state’s new ‘brand platform’
By Brian E. Clark
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Wisconsin will soon have new travel brand, just not quite yet.
Speaking Tuesday night at the state’s annual Tourism Conference...
WisBusiness: Edgewood Business School Dean describes new program
By Brian E. Clark
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The nation may be headed toward a recession, but for many rural and inner city Wisconsin communities, it’s already...
WisBusiness: February unemployment rate up
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Wisconsin's unemployment rate climbed to 5.8 percent in February, up
three-tenths of a point from Januaray, state Department of Workforce
Development Secretary Roberta Gassman announced...
WisBusiness: Fischer appoints new Commerce minority business head
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Wisconsin Commerce Secretary Jack Fischer has appointed Aggo Akyea as director of the agency's bureau of minority business development.
From 2006-2008, Akyea was the...
WisBusiness: Group says ethanol holding down price of gas
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Lauding a Consumer Federation of America (CFA) report that contends ethanol is helping hold down the price of gasoline, the Wisconsin Bio Industry...
WisBusiness: Manitowoc’s Invincible Metal Furniture to close
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Invincible Metal Furniture Company in Manitowoc has told state and local officials that it plans to close its plant on May 12 and...
WisBusiness: Menard tops state’s wealthiest list with $7.3 billion
By Brian E. Clark
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The wealth of home improvement store magnate John Menard Jr., Wisconsin’s richest individual, rose to $7.3 billion in 2007...
WisBusiness: New building in the works for Madison’s University Research Park
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Mark Bugher, director of Madison's University Research Park, announced this morning that construction will start in May or June on a 67,000-square-foot “accelerator”...
WisBusiness: New program to train skilled workers
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
Wisconsin business leaders often bemoan the lack of skilled,
high-tech workers in the state.
To help relieve that shortage, Department...
WisBusiness: Patent Office Upholds More WARF Stem Cell Patents
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) officials are praising a United States Patent and Trademark Office decision announced today upholding WARF’s claims on the...
WisBusiness: Pollster says support for nuclear energy growing
By Brian E. Clark
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Support for nuclear energy by Americans as grown significantly in the past three decades, a speaker at a UW-Madison...
WisBusiness: Report says personal income growth to slow
By Brian E. Clark
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MADISON – As economic growth weakens, Wisconsin personal income growth
will slow to 3.8 percent this year and 4...
WisBusiness: Report says state income gap increasing
By Brian E. Clark
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A mixed-bag economic report issued today by Competitive Wisconsin Inc. (CWI) shows the state is falling further behind...
WisBusiness: St. Thomas More engineering program lauded by MIT chapter
By Rebecca Kontowicz
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MILWAUKEE - While many teens can be found in front of a television mastering Guitar Hero on PlayStation after school,...
WisBusiness: State foreclosure rate remains high
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Wisconsin foreclosure filings continue at escalated levels, according to newly released data compiled by ForeclosuresWI.com.
Badger State foreclosures...
WisBusiness: State Insurance Commissioner says overall industry is healthy
By Brian E. Clark
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MADISON – Wall Street is wobbly, credit markets are imploding and two
firms with deep Wisconsin ties have been...
WisBusiness: Supreme Court to hear two big cases
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has accepted two cases – one involving lead paint and the other asbestos - that will be closely watched...
WisBusiness: Survey shows hiring plans down
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The possibility of a looming recession is making many business owners to
rethink their hiring plans, according to a survey released today by the
Brookfield-based...
WisBusiness.com: State jobless rate moves up
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Wisconsin’s unemployment rate moved up in January, with the unadjusted jobless figure increasing to 5.5 percent, a gain of 0.9 percent over December....
