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From WisBusiness.com ... -- Within five years, Janesville should be able to recoup the 3,500-plus auto and auto-related jobs it has lost with the closure of the GM plant and numerous suppliers, John Beckord, president of Forward Janesville said Tuesday. Speaking to a board meeting of the Wisconsin Technology Council, Beckord said the loss of GM was a major...

By Greg Bump WisBusiness.com Gov. Jim Doyle told a conference of UAW officials at the Concourse Hotel in Madison that the American auto industry will, and must, make a comeback. "You simply can't have a country that doesn't make cars," Doyle said Monday. "We have a president who understands that. We have congressional leadership who understands that." With the Janesville GM...

By Tyler Stevenson For WisBusiness.com BAYSIDE - Got your ticket. But now what? Whether flying to Paris, riding the metro downtown, or hopping on the train to Boston, people use many modes of transportation daily. How to travel efficiently -- from origin to destination -- is the door-to-door philosophy of Scopia, a Bayside travel company that is launching an intermodal travel...

AmeriCorps program seeks sites for 2009-10 school year Contact: Lora Klenke 608-224-5119 Editors: If you would like to feature an AmeriCorps Farm to School project in your area (listed in paragraph 2), you can get contact information by calling or emailing Donna Gilson, 608-224-5130. MADISON – Here’s a chance to improve kids’ health, support local farmers, and nurture tomorrow’s community leaders...

Contact: Tom Still or Ryann Petit-Frere at 608-442-7557 MADISON – The Wisconsin Technology Council has recommended that state business leaders, educators and policy leaders embrace targeted efforts to advance science, technology, engineering and math education. A report released Tuesday, Educating a Tech-Savvy Workforce in Wisconsin, caps a series of town hall-style meetings produced by the Tech Council to gather citizen opinion...