WisBusiness

CONTACT: Erik Andrejko, andrejko@themeseekr.com MADISON - One success of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Reaccreditation Project gave rise to an even bigger challenge: Namely, what to make of tens of thousands of open-ended observations about the university's future? One clever software solution, developed by UW-Madison math graduate student Erik Andrejko, may end up finding a useful home with any organization in the...

Contact: Carla Vigue, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 Announces $125 Million in Cuts to State Spending MADISON—Governor Jim Doyle today unveiled legislation that will reduce the state’s current budget gap by $700 million. The Legislation includes $125 million in cuts to state spending, secures new federal revenues through an assessment on hospital revenues, invests in growing the state’s economy by...

Contact: Linda Abbott, ph. 608-826-6215; abbott@chorus.net Company Will Raise Operational Efficiencies and Effectiveness to Support Aggressive Future Growth WAUKESHA, Wis. – Neil Karolek, president of TLX Technologies, LLC, today announced he has engaged the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP) to execute an Enterprise Business Transformation project for the company at its corporate headquarters in Waukesha. Consisting of three phases, the project will...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- The Democrat-controlled state Senate -- on a party-line vote -- has OK'd an increase in the state minimum wage from $6.50 an hour to $7.60 per hour. The new rate would be implemented in June if passed by the Assembly and signed by the governor. The bill also would index future minimum wage increases...