(WisBusiness) FRI News Summary — 14 Nov. 2008
From WisBusiness.com ...
-- A new statewide poll from the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute finds jobs and the economy are top concerns for Wisconsin residents.
WPRI's press release says state views of the problem of jobs is the highest number seen in all the group's published polling going back to Jan. 1988.
Approximately 48 percent of Wisconsin residents...
WisBusiness: Road-building projects still on tap, DOT official tells transpo conference
By Tracy Will and Andy Szal
For WisBusiness.com
MADISON -- Despite a projected $5 billion state budget deficit, lower gas tax revenues and rising costs for labor and materials, a Wisconsin DOT official said today the agency plans to continue major capital improvement projects.
“We are part of the solution for a stimulus to the economy -- not only in...
WisBusiness: Trane cuts La Crosse jobs
By Gregg Hoffmann
For WIsBusiness.com
Trane cut 20 salaried jobs at its La Crosse operations Wednesday and could eliminate 75 more jobs in upcoming months.
Citing the slowdown in the economy, Trane announced it will make centrifugal compressors for chillers at a plant in Taicang, China, rather than in La Crosse..
Compressors will continue to be made in La Crosse for the EarthWise...
