WisBusiness: Nilsestuen optimistic about dairying for 2008
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
MADISON – Rod Nilsestuen, 59, has been around the dairy industry for all of his life. But he can’t remember a...
WisBusiness: Laughter is the Best Medicine
Anyone who watched Saturday Night Live in the late 1970’s knew that Gilda Radner was someone who made you smile. So it was no...
WisBusiness: Heavy industry companies outperform in 07
By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Two of the three top-performing publicly traded Wisconsin companies for 2007 are in the heavy manufacturing sector, according to...
WisBusiness: Sonic Foundry banking on new university business
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
At roughly $25,000 a pop, it’s not cheap to wire a class with Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite technology. But many students –...
WisBusiness: ‘Tis The Season For Bells To Be Ringing
There seems to be one bell that rings outside nearly every grocery store, shopping center and pharmacy. That's the bell of the Salvation Army...
WisBusiness.com: Competitive Wisconsin says state needs to grow high-wage jobs
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
MADISON – Fifteen years ago, the average Wisconsin salary was higher than Minnesota’s. Since then, however, Minnesota’s economy has surged while...
WisBusiness: New Commerce secretary is bullish on international trade
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
During his more than two decades with the JP-Marathon and Interglobia development consulting firms, Wisconsin Commerce Secretary Jack L. Fischer frequently...
WisBusiness: What cable competition bill, poised for passage Tuesday, may mean for consumers
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
When the Chibardun Telephone Cooperative considered offering cable television services in Rice Lake six years ago, it backed off the plan...
WisBusiness: Finding the “true brand of Wisconsin” proves a tricky exercise
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
MADISON – For more than six years, Rep. Steve Wieckert has been pushing legislation to brand the state and...
WisBusiness.com: Former Austin mayor touts healthy downtowns
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
MADISON - The key to a vibrant downtown is making people believe it is the “living room” of a...
WisBusiness: Leaders say stem cell breakthrough could bring jobs to state
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
MADISON – State leaders reacted positively Tuesday to news of a breakthrough in stem cell technology by UW-Madison scientists...
New commerce secretary brings international experience
Jack L. Fischer, 54, a Fox Valley architect with 30 years of experience in construction and development – both in this country and abroad...
WisBusiness: WPS chief slams medical fund raid
By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com James Riordan, CEO of Wisconsin Physicians Service (WPS)Insurance Corp., told a WisBusiness.com luncheon today that raiding the Injured Families...
WisBusiness: Wisconsin building supply mogul expands into wind power
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
BELOIT – Ken Hendricks is not one to rest on his laurels.
Named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Inc. Magazine last...
WisBusiness.com: Explaining Wisconsin’s lagging jobless rate
MADISON -- After two decades of beating the national unemployment rate, the Badger State recently has run a different streak -- a year of...
