The state legislative budget committee Friday assumed more oversight of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. following its failure to spur as much job creation as promised in return for millions of dollars in potential tax credits to businesses.

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Solar power installation companies have spent the past two years benefitting from Chinese manufacturers driving down the price of panels.

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Mayville Engineering Co. Inc., Mayville, will benefit from a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Commerce’s Community Development Block Grant–Economic Development program. Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday that Waushara County received the economic development grant. The county will led ...

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Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery in Pierce County has received $407,000 from the Community Development Block Grant-Economic Development Program administered by the Department of Commerce. The grant will enable the city to build a long box culvert as well as make street ...

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By James Briggs The state’s Department of Administration secretary faced sharp scrutiny Tuesday as he began more than a week of state budget testimony from state officials. Mike Huebsch was the first of 19 people, mostly Gov. Scott Walker’s cabinet ...

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By Marie Rohde When Door County’s $30 million Justice Center opened in 2005, civic officials were aglow with pride. Within five months, center inmates took on a glow of their own, this one with a green hue most prominent after ...

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Thomas Nardelli, a close ally of Gov. Scott Walker, has been appointed division manager for Safety and Buildings at the Department of Commerce under Secretary Paul Jadin. From August 2007 until Scott Walker was sworn in as governor, Nardelli served ...

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday that BRP US Inc. and DeltaHawk Engines Inc. have received $1.72 million in loans from the Department of Commerce to assist job-creating projects in Racine County. DeltaHawk Engines Inc., Racine, has received a $400,000 ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker has signed into law a measure that will replace public employees at the Department of Commerce with private workers in a dramatic reorganization of the agency. The new Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. will ...

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By Marie Rohde Wisconsin is on the verge of adopting the 2009 international building code, leaving some to wonder why the state took so long to embrace the construction standards. “It is way wrong that we have not adopted the ...

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