Wisconsin Center District: Task Force to Boost Corporate and Association Bookings
High-Level Panel Will Identify Strategies
to Build Meeting Business at the Wisconsin Center District
Milwaukee ... The Wisconsin Center District, the owner and operator of the Midwest Airlines Center, the U.S. Cellular Arena, and the Milwaukee Theater, is launching a new task force aimed at increasing the use of convention center facilities by corporations and associations. The task force...
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation: Food Prices Increase 5.7 percent in 2004
Higher meat and dairy prices push up food costs. Farm prices finally hit strong levels.
DECEMBER 28, 2004-Retail food prices in Wisconsin jumped 5.7 percent in 2004 because of sharply higher prices for beef, pork and dairy products, according to the year-end Market Basket survey released by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation. According to the Farm Bureau, the average...
Tom Still: Ten resolutions that could produce a happy new (tech) year
By Tom Still
MADISON - Wisconsin's "real-time" economy kept pace with a globally
paced clock in 2004 as the state became better known as a place where
innovation, intellectual property and investment are welcome.
Don't pop the champagne corks just yet: Wisconsin still has a long way
to go before its economy is creating as many high-wage jobs as the state
lost in...
Horstman: Drug-buying coalition looks to spread low prices
By Brian E. Clark
WisBusiness.com
A little more than a year ago, backers launched the drug purchasing coalition WisconsinRX with considerable fanfare.
The effort was the
brainchild of Al Jacobs, executive director of the WEA Trust. The trust
is the state’s largest not-for-profit health insurance company and
provides coverage for about half the state’s teachers.
WisconsinRX signed up
the Fond du Lac Area...
