(WisBusiness) TUES News Summary — 28 Apr. 2009

April 28, 2009

From WisBusiness.com …

— Experts in economics, education, and entrepreneurship joined key business leaders Monday to chart a course out of the current economic downturn.

“We believe that the way you get out of recessions and the economic doldrums is to grow your way out,” Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce President James Haney told the Wisconsin Way economic development conference.

“Once this economy returns to some normalcy, the biggest issue any of us will face is whether we find enough workers in numbers and the knowledge workers to do the jobs that will be built,” Haney said.

Educators such as Technical Colleges System President Dan Clancy and UW System Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Rebecca Martin said their institutions were at the front lines of preparing young people for the high tech and health care jobs opening up as baby boomers retire.

“We customize our instruction for business and industry and serve thousands of businesses though our customized training programs, and we work with the apprenticeship programs to provide the related structure for those programs,” serving up to 72,000 students each year, Clancy said. “ We are full to overflowing.”

Read more from the conference: http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=156815

— State agencies have surpassed the goal to purchase at least five percent of services and good from minority-owned businesses for the first time in the 25-year Minority Business Enterprise program, according to the governor’s office.

Close to $95 million in goods and services were purchased by state agencies from minority-owned businesses in fiscal year 2008, about 5.87 percent of all goods and services purchased by the state.

See the press release: http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=156786

— Bids for the first state road and bridge projects funded by the federal stimulus will be opened today.

Bids for the 26 state and 19 local projects are due by 9 a.m. to the Department of Transportation, and they will be opened at 9:30 a.m. at Hill Farms State Office Building in Madison.

“Opening these bids is a big step toward putting people to work here in Wisconsin,” Gov. Jim Doyle said in a statement.

*See a list of the projects up for bid: http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=16506.

*A list of the bids submitted will be posted at this site: http://roadwaystandards.dot.wi.gov/hcci/bid-letting/reports/index.shtm#All%20Bids%20Received

— WorkflowOne filed notice with the state that it will close its New Berlin facility by the end of August, affecting 34 workers. The workers have been encouraged to apply for any open position at WorkflowOne’s facility in Elgin, Illinois.

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WisBusiness.com Luncheon featuring Tim Cooley, Madison’s New Economic Development Director

MONDAY, MAY 4 at The Madison Club

The next WisBusiness.com Luncheon at the Madison Club, organized by the Madison Club, Madison Magazine, and WisBusiness.com, is slated for Monday May 4 at 11:45 a.m. The guest is Tim Cooley, Madison’s new economic development director.

Learn more about Cooley: http://www.cityofmadison.com/news/view.cfm?news_id=1252

The event is open to the public, and the price for lunch is $19. Call the Madison Club to register at (608) 255-4861. The luncheon starts at 11:45 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m.

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Press Releases
· Alliant Energy: New Glarus Brewing Co. recognized for energy-efficiency achievements
· Wisconsin Wireless Association: To hold education meeting
· UW-Madison: Students help build Dane County’s 150th Habitat for Humanity home
· UW Madison: Chazen groundbreaking ceremony planned for May 1
· UW Stevens Point: Distinguished professor of environmental education retires
· New North: Bemis named among most trustworthy companies
· U.S. FWS: Announces 78 projects in the Midwest region under president’s economic recovery plan
· UW-Eau Claire: Supports women veterans, survey finds
· AG Van Hollen: Commemorates 2009 national crime victims’ rights week with Wisconsin crime victims council and the office of crime victim services
· Innovative Learning Strategies
· Gov. Doyle: Announces state surpasses goal to do business with minority firms for first time
· Trigs: recieves award

For these and more releases visit http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Content=82

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