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MILWAUKEE – September 17, 2025 – The Business Health Care Group (BHCG) is pleased to announce Janet Lucas Taylor as its new executive director, effective September 22, 2025. Lucas Taylor brings a distinguished background in leading health and benefits programs for Fortune 500 and 1000 companies. Her prior involvement with BHCG has been multifaceted, including service as a...

Hosted by Indigenous Business Group, the annual gathering at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino highlights Wisconsin’s Indigenous business community  Milwaukee, Wis. (Sept. 2025) – In its fourth year, Indigenous Biz Con celebrates the theme “Rising Tides: Building Economies, Empowering Generations”. The annual operator-ran business gathering hosted by Indigenous Business Group is set to take place on October 13-14 at Potawatomi...

MADISON- Today, Representative Andrew Hysell (D-Sun Prairie) and Senator Jamie Wall (D-Green Bay) introduced a bill that will require the require the Department of Employee Trust Funds to study the potential costs and savings of a new state group health insurance plan for public school teachers and employees. Pooling risk across the state could result in significant...

Madison, WI – The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) opened the application period for the Innovation Grant program on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. This initiative, created under 2023 Wisconsin Act 12 and modified by 2025 Wisconsin Act 15, is designed to support local governments and tribal nations in transferring certain services and duties to another eligible entity.

Awards to be presented include ATHENA Leadership Award®, Business Leader Hall of Fame, Gus A. Zuehlke Distinguished Service Award, and Joyce Bytof Exceptional Mentor Award  FOX CITIES, Wis. (September 17, 2025) – The nomination deadline has been extended to September 26 for the Fox Cities Chamber Lifetime Achievement Awards. These awards recognize individual professional excellence in...

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is reaffirming its century-long commitment to transforming university research into real-world solutions. In a recent op-ed titled Beyond the breakthrough: Transforming university inventions into everyday innovations, WARF’s Greg Keenan, Jeanine Burmania and Katie Rice highlight the persistent challenges facing academic commercialization and the bold steps WARF is taking to...

Projects Will Help Address Statewide Water Challenges MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 17, 2025 — The Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin has committed to investing more than $4.2 million in funding for the current biennium (FY26 and FY27) to support water education and water research programs that will bolster Wisconsin’s water workforce for years to come.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Waukesha, Wisconsin, September 17, 2025 — HRG has completed its semiannual update of its Fine Line Classification System for health, beauty, and wellness (HBW), home health care (HHC), and general merchandise (GM) products with notable adjustments to reflect industry changes. The September 2025 updates include additions to address wearable wellness devices and pharmacy services.

-- The Trump administration’s efforts to lower interest rates as tariffs drive higher prices undermine the Federal Reserve’s credibility, a UW-Madison economics professor says. Menzie Chinn, economics professor at UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, during yesterday’s WisPolitics-State Affairs and Wisconsin Tech Council luncheon argued the current administration’s goal of lower interest rates...

Economic experts say the Trump administration’s tariffs have led to unpredictability, uncertainty and will likely lead to increased costs in Wisconsin.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Scott Fitzgerald’s (WI-05) Bank Competition Modernization Act, legislation to modernize the outdated bank merger review standards, passed the House Financial Services Committee today. Specifically, the bill creates a $10 billion asset threshold, adjusted for growth in nominal GDP, under which federal banking regulators provide a safe harbor from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) competition analysis,...

The following statement regarding vaccine access can be attributed to Wisconsin Medical Society Past-President Cynthia Hart, MD, FAAFP: Madison, WI — “We appreciate Governor Evers’ proactive leadership in ensuring Wisconsin citizens have easier access to vaccines. With ongoing challenges at the federal level, this executive order provides timely reassurance for Wisconsin families. The...