MADISON - The Department of Commerce welcomed Nell Merlino, the founder and CEO of Count Me In For Women’s Economic Independence, for the Wisconsin launch event of the Make Mine a Million $ Business RACE (M3 RACE) on February 16 in Madison. ...
Abraham Lincoln, the nation's 16th president and a leader whose 200th birthday we celebrate this month, suffered from depression during much of his life. His public persona, however, was that of the eternal optimist; someone who could inspire others to see beyond national despair and...
MADISON – A coalition assembled to improve Wisconsin's existing investor tax credits law applauded Gov. Jim Doyle's Feb. 11 announcement of plans to expand and refine the four-year-old program. Members of the Wisconsin Growth Capital Coalition have suggested specific improvements in Wisconsin's investor tax credits law...
WASHINGTON – Congress is expected to approve $19 billion toward health information technology, with $17 billion allotted to incentives and $2 billion to jump-start healthcare IT adoption, according to a Wednesday night draft of the stimulus package. The original House version of the bill designated $20...
WASHINGTON — To rally support for his administration’s economic recovery bill recently, President Obama invited about a dozen chief executives, seven of them from technology and energy companies, to the Oval Office. Some of their industries’ top lobbyists, meanwhile, gathered in another office where Jason Furman,...
Spending Wisconsin's share of the $800-million-plus economic stimulus package is shaping up to be heavy lifting. It appears the longer Congress debates how, where and how much to spend on blunting the recession, the less policymakers in individual states such as Wisconsin know exactly what to...
A local computer network products company is closing, putting 62 people out of work in April. Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing, 8310 Excelsior Drive, plans to start laying people off April 6 and continue through April 20. Read full article>>...
Forward Wisconsin, which uses public and private funds to promote the state for business expansions, is ending 25 years of selling Wisconsin to out-of-state executives. Forward will transfer its marketing functions to the state Department of Commerce, which can do it more efficiently, Commerce Secretary Richard...
John Senne is one of the lucky ones. He got the news that his team at Torex, a global point-of-sale systems provider based in Chicago, was being eliminated in mid-January. Senne, who supported the sales group by building demos of POS systems for potential new...
How effective will all the infrastructure stimulus money be without best practices in place? Is every government agency or corporate entity that’s getting government money conscientious about spending it? Will government spending give you – the individual taxpayer – the incentive to buy a new car...