Columnist James Carlini has been watching events in Washington D.C., and let's just say he's skeptical about the justifications for the financial rescue package that passed the Senate and and the House. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he uses Las Vegas as an example...
Given the nation's financial crisis, there now is little doubt the American economy is in recession, and entrepreneurs attending the Wisconsin Innovation Service Center's "Ideas to Profits Conference" have been feeling the pinch. The conference was tailored to innovation, but recent events convinced presenters to...
Two new members have been named to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Research Foundation Board of Directors. Jacquelyn Fredrick, president and CEO of the BloodCenter of Wisconsin, and Daniel Bader, president of the Helen Bader Foundation, have joined a board that is helping to link the...
Congress might be preoccupied with the nation's financial crisis, but that does not mean it's getting a pass on its foot-dragging on other issues. The AeA, for example, is blasting the House of Representatives for saying Monday it would adjourn without completing action on extending...
They say politicians make strange bedfellows, and Monday's defeat of the financial rescue bill united liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in unholy matrimony, causing the stock market to lose about $1 trillion in wealth. That was even more than the $700 billion rescue plan would...
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Before the defeat of a $700 billion economic rescue plan, the nation's financial crisis appeared to have injected a welcome dose of bipartisanship in Washington, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. The result of the current negotiations might take years to determine, but without...
Although Wisconsin's high-tech exports declined by 10 percent in 2007, the state still posted an impressive 86 percent increase in high-tech exports in the seven-year period from 2001 to 2007, according to a new report from AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association. The report indicated...
Gov. Jim Doyle has announced that the state will provide $7.3 million for research and development and commercialization of new clean energy technologies. The allocation is expected to leverage $44 million in additional investments with the goal of creating new jobs in agriculture, forestry, research,...
In an uncertain economy, the budget and hiring plans of IT decision makers also are uncertain, according to the bimonthly CDW IT Monitor. While expectations for growth have remained flat, the presidential election appears to have them optimistic that some type of change, and better...