GreenBiz: MREA works to facilitate ‘green’ business practices
As the green business movement gains momentum, trained workers are needed, as is some sort of guide through the growing list of related agencies...
UpFront: Commerce secretary sees Wisconsin well-positioned for recovery
By WisBusiness Staff
Commerce Secretary Dick Leinenkugel predicts gradual job growth beginning in 2010 and says that with its diversified economy, the state is ready...
WisBusiness: Coalition rallies for high-speed rail along Mississippi River
By Gregg Hoffmann
For WisBusiness.com
A group of business people, community leaders and others have formed the Empire Builder High Speed Rail Coalition to lobby for...
WisBusiness: Cranberry co-op station adds to good harvest for Wisconsin
By Gregg Hoffmann
For WisBusiness.com
Cranberry producers are wrapping up their harvest season and all indications are that Wisconsin will top the country in cranberry...
WisBusiness: Declining sales mean rate increases for utilities
By Brian E. Clark
For WisBusiness
The cost of coal is flat, natural gas prices have dropped significantly and the demand for electricity in Wisconsin has...
WisBusiness: DOT plan calls for alternatives to fuel taxes
By Andy Szal
WisBusiness.com
Wisconsin lawmakers should focus on finding an alternative to fuel taxes for transportation funding -- but that alternative should not include tolls...
WisBusiness: Legislator looks to revise state’s cable franchising rules
By Andy Szal
WisBusiness.com
Rep. Gary Hebl, D-Sun Prairie, has introduced a bill to revise the 2007 Cable Competition Bill.
Hebl's Cable Consumer Repair Bill...
WisBusiness: Organic Valley expands Stonyfield pact
By WisBusiness Staff
The CROPP Cooperative, operators of Organic Valley organic products, announced that it is expanding its partnership with Stonyfield Farms Inc.
In a letter...
WisBusiness: PSC approves We Energies rate hike
By WisBusiness Staff
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission today granted We Energies a $90 million rate increase, which translates into an average 4 percent boost....
WisBusiness: PSC grants Alliant Energy 6.5 percent rate increase
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
In an oral decision Tuesday, the state Public Service Commission approved an average rate hike of roughly $60 million, or 6.4...
WisBusiness: Senate Dems roll out job creation package
By WisBusiness Staff
Senate Democrats have unveiled a package of initiatives geared toward job creation and economic development.
Among the provisions in the "Connecting Opportunity,...
WisBusiness: State ag department cracking down on sale of raw milk as lawmakers draft...
By WisBusiness.com Staff
As small dairy farmers struggle to stay in business, a controversy has arisen over a "cow share" program through which consumers...
WisBusiness: State AT&T president opposes changes in new cable law
By Brian E. Clark
For WisBusiness.com
MADISON -- Scott VanderSanden, president of AT&T in Wisconsin, says his company is “absolutely” opposed to legislation introduced in the...
WisBusiness: State forecast sees unemployment peaking early next year
By WisBusiness Staff
Wisconsin’s projected job loss from the recession has improved slightly since June.
But a new economic forecast from the Department of Revenue...
WisBusiness: State officials applaud Republic Airways plans for Milwaukee hub
By WisBusiness Staff
An announcement from Republic Airways that the company plans to establish a major airline hub in Milwaukee and create 800 jobs drew...
WisBusiness: Two emerging companies look to profit from pets
By Jessica Schaeffer
For WisBusiness.com
People will spend $45.4 billion on their pets this year alone, according to the American Pet Products Association, creating a...
WisBusiness: Wisconsin company has finger on the pulse of heart monitor technology
By Meghan Crain
For WisBusiness.com
While open-heart surgery has become a well-tuned machine in recent years, technologies used during surgery to monitor the heart haven’t advanced...
