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Wisconsin officials say unemployment across our state has reached nearly nine percent. That's up from 7.7% in January and nearly four percent higher than a year ago. In light of those alarming numbers, we sat down with Madison's new Economic Director Tim Cooley to get an...

Wisconsin Energy Corp. CEO Gale Klappa told CNBC’s Jim Cramer this afternoon that he believes it will be another 10 to 12 years before technology to capture carbon from old coal-fired power plants will be available on a widespread scale. Cramer invited Klappa on his "Mad...

As the US newspaper industry’s future is gripped by uncertainty with the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News publishing its final print edition on February 27th and the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer closing its print edition Monday, the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)...

Wisconsin companies are employing a small army of lobbyists to help them snag a piece of the massive economic stimulus package. Ministry Health Care, which operates clinics and hospitals throughout Wisconsin, hired a team of Washington lobbyists specializing in health care policy late last year as...

In a WTN news item earlier this month, John Rondy was kind enough to credit me with defining "geekonomics" as the discipline of managing innovation as if users actually matter; a willingness to recognize that "better" technology can still fail, utterly, if it's not what...

Speaking to a group of regional business and government leaders in the Northwoods, Wisconsin Department of Commerce secretary Dick Leinenkugel said said the federal economic stimulus plan includes provisions for five specific grant and loan programs designated for broadband development initiatives. "This is an...

On March 9, President Obama revoked the limits on funding research with embryonic stem cells, telling a White House audience that U.S. scientists can now apply for funding to investigate many types of embryonic stem (ES) cells, not just the few varieties permitted under the...

Entrepreneurs are known for gaining inspiration from unexpected sources. Some even get it from a lump of Play-Doh. The Entrepreneur for a Day program that Springfield Technical Community College in Massachusetts brings to local elementary schools is about hands-on experience at its most tactile--and juvenile. As...

In a companywide memo, M&I Bank officials are reminding employees that they should not use their office computers to listen to music on the Internet or watch non-business streaming video. The memo, which was obtained by the Journal Sentinel, came as the NCAA men's basketball tournament...

The number of workers that IBM employs in the U.S. declined by about 5% last year, but the company's overall head count is increasing because of overseas hiring. IBM finished 2008 with 115,000 U.S. employees, down from the 121,000 it reported at the end of 2007,...