Dept. of Commerce: Minority Business Award winners and runners-up announced
Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661
MADISON— Winners of the Marketplace 2009 special business awards were announced at the 28th annual Marketplace Trade Fair, held Sept. 16 at the Country Springs Hotel and Conference Center, Pewaukee. The event is sponsored by the Department of Commerce (Commerce).
“Commerce is firmly committed to the development of a broad base...
Dept. of Commerce: Notice of availability for public comment
The Department of Commerce has developed an Amendment to the State of Wisconsin Disaster Recovery Action Plan. The Department is providing the opportunity for citizens to comment on the draft Amendment to the Plan, which will be submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on or before September 30, 2009. The Amendment will set forth...
RACVB: Rockford gets a behind-the-scenes look at Discovery Channel’s MythBusters
Kari Byron and Grant Imahara from the hit show visit Rockford Oct. 3
ROCKFORD, IL —Can someone really slip and fall on a single banana peel? Is it possible to “curve” a bullet with a flick of the wrist? Do goats really faint? The Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters” put questions like these to the test each week using modern-day science, and...
WisBusiness/ WisPolitics forum: A balancing act as climate change legislation is formulated
Having addressed a reliability crisis in the 1990s, Wisconsin's energy policymakers are now turning their focus to global warming legislation and regulation.
As they struggle to find the right way to limit carbon emissions without hurting recession-wracked businesses, they're torn between enacting strong policies and keeping costs down for ratepayers.
Todd Stuart, executive director of the Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, told...
WisBusiness: State unemployment rate drops for third straight month
Wisconsin's unemployment rate has dropped for the third consecutive month, according to the state Department of Workforce Development.
"We continue to see signs elsewhere of an economic turnaround,” DWD Secretary Roberta Gassman said in a prepared statement. “At the same time, we know many people are out of work. We are committed to doing all that we can to keep...
DWD: August unemployment rates announced
CONTACT: Chris Marschman, Communications Specialist, 608-261-6705
On the web: http://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/newsreleases/2009/unemployment/0809_state_lmi.pdf
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MADISON – Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Roberta Gassman announced today that Wisconsin’s unemployment rate for August was 8.4 percent, down 0.4 percentage points from July's 8.8 percent and down 0.8 percentage points from June's 9.2 percent. The August rate was 3.8 percentage points higher than the rate of...
