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I just copied that headline verbatim from jsonline…well except for the exclamation point…that’s mine. From the short article: The state agency (Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development), which administers taxpayer-funded job retraining funds, said it expects to award a contract to develop an online database and job matchmaking service to Boston-based Burning Glass Technologies. The [...] This is cute… Vice President Joe Biden wrote back to a 7-year-old Wisconsin boy to thank him for his idea on how to make the country a safer place. The boy’s plan: chocolate bullets. The second-grader wrote Biden suggesting that if guns fired chocolate bullets, no one would get hurt. Presumably because nobody would want [...] This is absolutely ridiculous. The first trial since Capitol Police launched a crackdown on protesters at the state Capitol ended Tuesday with a guilty verdict and a $50 fine for a man who was ticketed for drawing with chalk on a sidewalk on Capitol property. Jason Huberty, 37, a frequent participant in the daily noon-time [...] From the email box: The Problem with Merit Pay In the brave new world of Act 10, many school districts are contemplating “merit pay” or “pay for performance” systems. The following is a WEAC Research Brief summarizing the evidence on merit pay programs for educators. The actual evidence shows: Merit pay for educators [...] Looks like 90 more jobs are leaving Wisconsin. C&D Technologies will eliminate 90 jobs at its factory in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood between late June and the end of the year, as the company completes the shift of a battery production line to Mexico. The cuts were first announced in late 2011 and detailed more fully [...] This just cracks me up… This week the state’s flagship jobs agency brought on its third chief financial officer in two years – only to see him resign within 24 hours to take a promotion at his former company. The news comes as the still relatively new Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. is seeking to shift [...] |
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