Allen takes top role at DFI with major agency changes on horizon
After 18 years at the state Department of Financial Institutions, including the last four as deputy director, Ray Allen hit the ground running in...
Bucks hope for ripple effect from new arena proposal
MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Bucks team officials said they hoped a proposed development centered around a $500 million arena for the team would have a...
DWD forecasts lower unemployment tax for employers next year
Employers would have a lower tax in 2016 to pay the unemployment insurance trust fund because of a projected balance of more than $300...
MaryBeth Matzek: GreenTier program honors Wisconsin businesses for environmental efforts
This is an excerpt from a column posted at BizOpinion.
Kermit the Frog may have sung, "it's not easy being green," but businesses and organizations...
MaryBeth Matzek: Manufacturing app powerful tool for workers, students
This is an excerpt from a column posted at BizOpinion
Jay Stulo, director of learning innovations at Fox Valley Technical College, simply calls GAMMA+ a...
MaryBeth Matzek: Oshkosh biodigesters put students to work
This is an excerpt from a column posted at BizOpinion
During one of his classes at the UW-Oshkosh, Kinan Pasley heard about the three biodigesters...
MaryBeth Matzek: St. Norbert rolling out MBA program this fall
This is an excerpt from a column posted at BizOpinion
When it comes to MBA programs, there's definitely not a shortage for Wisconsin students to...
Moody: Patients like hybrid health systems
In 1993, Mark Moody was thrilled to be offered a chance to live and work for two years in New Zealand, where the country...
Opponent: Prevailing wage has ‘no real benefit to the state’
A Republican legislator who's backing an effort to repeal the state’s prevailing wage law says he is not focused on trying to improve a...
Report from contractors outlines drawbacks of prevailing wage repeal
The Wisconsin Contractor Coalition is releasing a report contradicting what some have argued would be the benefits of a prevailing wage repeal.
The report...
State reps offer contrasting views on prevailing wage
State Reps. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee, and Rob Hutton, R-Brookfield, find little common ground in the debate over a proposed repeal of Wisconsin's prevailing wage...
State, local officials meeting to work out Bucks arena financing deal
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says state and local officials could quickly work out the framework for a deal to cover public financing to...
Walker optimistic on Bucks arena deal
Gov. Scott Walker is getting personally involved in discussions on public financing for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena, saying a deal could be worked...
WisBusiness: The Show – Brian Manthey of We Energies
Welcome to a new episode of "WisBusiness: The Show," a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues.
This episode of “WisBusiness.com: The...
WISC Partners looks to fill niche between venture capital and angel investing
David Guinther likes to say that WISC Partners is “smart money on steroids.”
“We’re not just coming in as experienced people with the ability to...
Wisconsin has high hopes for China’s potential as dairy market
The multi-billion-dollar Chinese dairy market is ripe for the picking.
So says Jen Pino-Gallagher, head of international trade development efforts at the state Department of...
