Jim Spaeth, one of Serigraph’s accountants brought our quarterly report for unemployment insurance (UI) to my office Monday, and he showed me he had filed our first quarter report with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) on April 26, four days before the end-of-month deadline of April 30. More than 150,000 employers in Wisconsin ...
Daniel Isenberg, a professor at Babson College in Boston, known for its entrepreneurial offerings, told Milwaukee leaders this week that a benchmark for venture activity in a region is one startup per year for every 50,000 to 150,000 people. At about 1.5 million in population, Southeastern Wisconsin is deserving of a passing grade. The M7 ...
With recall politics now at a fever pitch in Wisconsin and the June 5 election coming up soon, it is important to note that Act 10 that clipped the wings of public union power will remain in place at least through 2012 and possibly a lot longer. The impact of the election on Act 10 ...
A deep and obvious fault line in Wisconsin governance has hit the state between the eyes as the recall process unfolds. The whole premise of the recall was that Republican Gov. Scott Walker over-reached with Act 10 when he emasculated the unions by stripping them of most collective bargaining rights, requiring annual recertification of union ...
To put it in Heartland terms, state Medicaid managers are like deer in the headlights. The costs keep escalating beyond any ideas they have about control and management of the fiscal disaster that the program represents. Take Wisconsin. Everything was cut in the current two-year budget – everything except Medicaid. Education was cut at all levels: ...
In the last decade, when Carlos Santiago was chancellor of UW-Milwaukee (UWM), he opined many times that a region needs to do at least $300 million in academic research and development to be considered a major R&D player. It seemed like a mission impossible. Well, we have arrived. In 2010, institutions in the M7 region of ...
