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Contact: Rose Lynch (608) 266-6753 Settlement includes cash and stock options in excess of $2.5 million Madison - The Department of Workforce Development has reached agreement with Fleming Companies, Inc. to settle 650 wage claims for $2.5 million. The department has settled its wage claims against Fleming Companies, Inc., including affiliated companies previously doing business in Wisconsin. "I am...

By Gregg Hoffmann One hundred and fifty years ago, an entourage of about 1,200 of the most influential business and political people in the country took a "Grand Excursion" by train and paddlewheels of the Mississippi River to see what business opportunities the frontier offered. The flotilla was tied to the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island railroad line to...

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Network222, 222 West Washington Ave., Madison. Admission: $0, Members; $15 General Admission; $5 Students Join Accelerate Madison's board of directors, members and guests for a special networking event and celebration in honor of the organization's third birthday. The program will include the annual business meeting, unveiling of future strategies for Accelerate Madison, and a showcase celebration of information technology companies. Information and...

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By Joanne M. Haas WisBusiness.com MADISON -- The government's use of consumer utility fees originally targeted for energy efficiency efforts for other state budget needs is improper taxation against ratepayers and detrimental to conservation and renewable power initiatives, an energy advocate charged Tuesday. "This budget theft is decidedly unconstitutional," Tom Wilson of Northern Thunder, a Western Wisconsin group devoted to alternative energy...