CHICAGO – What enduring projects are we spending the stimulus money on and what skill sets are we trying to save? Every state and local legislature should be asking those questions as they look at spending this money. Unfortunately, many are taking a 1950s approach...
In part two of an exclusive interview with Philip Fasano, Senior Vice President and CIO for Kaiser Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Fasano discusses his strategy for outsourcing to IBM a $500 million data center operations management project, Kaiser's IT budget growth in...
MADISON – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced the release of $3.9 million to expand services offered at community health centers in Wisconsin. The money was made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and comes as more Americans...
“The reality of the devastation in the economy is just starting to be understood by those in municipal and county governments,” comments James Carlini. Many state and local agencies are just beginning to wake up to the fact that revenues are down as they work...
So, General Motors probably won't rethink closing its aged assembly plant in Janesville and AIG executives were paid bonuses with taxpayer bailout money. Was anyone surprised by either headline? It would have been news if GM's chairman had said, “We're basically off the hook in Janesville now,...
WTN Media has launched WTN TV, an internet - based news and commentary broadcast service. The premier episodes are produced by WTN Media in conjunction with DelphiTV.com. WTN Media has been publishing on the web for over six years and now attracts a...
Finance is not comedy, and when it becomes that, the last laugh is on you. When Comedy Central starts sounding more authoritative than CNBC in its sobering observations about how the market got messed up, it's time to change out some of the "talent" and...
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...
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...