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By Rebecca Kontowicz For WisBusiness.com MILWAUKEE - While many teens can be found in front of a television mastering Guitar Hero on PlayStation after school, parents of students in St. Thomas More High School's engineering program beam with pride as their enthusiastic students head straight to their computers to work on Engineering Design homework. Each day, students...

&From WisBusiness.com ... -- Wisconsin foreclosure filings continue at escalated levels, according to newly released data compiled by ForeclosuresWI.com. Badger State foreclosures in February totalled 2,800 and were up 34 percent over the same month in 2007, the company said. They have increased 70 percent over the last three years, rising from 12,311 in 2005 to 20,995 in...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Wisconsin will soon have new travel brand, just not quite yet. Speaking Tuesday night at the state’s annual Tourism Conference in Lake Geneva, Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled the state’s "brand platform,” from which a new slogan will be distilled and used to attract everyone from tourists to investors. Doyle said the platform celebrates not only the...

By Rebecca Kontowicz WisBusiness.com MILWAUKEE - While many teens can be found in front of a television mastering Guitar Hero on PlayStation after school, parents of students in St. Thomas More High School's engineering program beam with pride as their enthusiastic students head straight to their computers to work on Engineering Design homework. Each day, students like 17-year-old...

WisBusiness.com Wisconsin’s unemployment rate moved up in January, with the unadjusted jobless figure increasing to 5.5 percent, a gain of 0.9 percent over December. The state unemployment rate was slightly above the federal figure of 5.4 percent. Last month, the Wisconsin unemployment rate trailed the national rate by 0.2 percent. Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman called the...

WisBusiness.com Wisconsin foreclosure filings continue at escalated levels, according to newly released data compiled by ForeclosuresWI.com. Badger State foreclosures in February totalled 2,800 and were up 34 percent over the same month in 2007, the company said. They have increased 70 percent over the last three years, rising from 12,311 in 2005 to 20,995...

MILWAUKEE, WI, March 5, 2008 (foreclosureswi.com) – Wisconsin foreclosure filings continue at escalated levels, according to newly released data compiled by ForeclosuresWI.com, a leading provider of Wisconsin foreclosure resources and statistics.   Wisconsin foreclosures spiked 70% over the last three years (from 12,311 in 2005 to 20,995 in 2007), with the first two months of 2008 showing no sign of...

Announcement Caps Governor’s Conference on Tourism in Lake Geneva   LAKE GENEVA – Governor Jim Doyle tonight unveiled the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s new brand platform, which celebrates the state’s culture of original thinkers.   “The new brand platform captures the people of Wisconsin and their legacy of originality, innovation, pride and passion,” Governor Doyle said. “Whether it’s Georgia O’Keeffe or Aldo...

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