Gulbrandsen: Stimulus seen as boost for UW-Madison research
By WisBusiness Staff
Carl E. Gulbrandsen, WARF managing director, told a recent WisBusiness.com luncheon that the new federal stimulus package is good news for UW-Madison research.
“The university is in the sweet spot of the stimulus package,” Gulbrandsen said, singling out projects like the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery being built on campus, and the medical research, bio-energy and green energy sectors....
(WisBusiness) FRI News Summary — 10 Apr. 2009
-- GE Healthcare filed notice with the state about permanent layoffs affecting 179 employees at its GE Healthcare Monitoring Solutions plant in Milwaukee. The layoffs will begin on or about June 9 and continue through Dec. 31.
See the state filing: http://www.wisbusiness.com/1008/090409GEhealthcare.pdf
-- State employment will fall by 3.7 percent in 2009 and 0.1 percent in 2010 as the...
Report on Journal Communications campaign
A message from John Torinus, Doug Armstrong and Paul Kritzer:
Several months ago you asked to be kept apprised of our campaign to be elected to the board of directors of Journal Communications. Since John, Doug and I announced our campaign last December, we were amazed at the strong support we heard from so many Journal retirees and employees. We...
Dept. of Revenue: Wisconsin quarterly economic outlook released
Dept. of Revenue: Wisconsin quarterly economic outlook released; recession continues, ARRA provides $5.2 billion in Wisconsin
Contact: Carrie Templeton, 608-266-6466
MADISON – The national and state economies have further contracted since December as the recession enters its sixteenth month, according to the quarterly Wisconsin Economic Outlook released today by the Department of Revenue. The freezing of the credit market and the...
