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WisBusiness.com Gov. Jim Doyle used his partial veto authority today to give state agencies greater authority over new statewide cable TV franchises, while also maintaining some consumer protections. "It is imperative that the state agencies responsible for implementing the state franchise and enforcing anti-discrimination provisions have the ability to interpret these statutes through administrative rule," Doyle wrote in his veto...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Civic and business leaders said Wisconsin will miss billionaire industrialist and philanthropist Ken Hendricks, who died early Friday morning after a fall at his rural Rock County home. Hendricks owned ABC Supply and more than a dozen other companies. Gov. Jim Doyle called Hendricks’ death a "great loss" for Wisconsin. “He was a good...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON - The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) on Thursday gave verbal approval to 3.4 percent electricity rate increases for We Energies in 2008 and 2009, less than half of what the utility requested. The new rate will mean around a $3.75 a month increase for a typical customer. In addition, the PSC approved a...