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Anyone for some cliff diving? I like Warren Buffet's idea to balance the budget, if we don't have a balanced budget you can't run for re-election. I think our elected officials would find a way to get something done if it meant they would lose their jobs.
Enjoy the last weekend of 2012!
Joe
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Development News for the Week of: 12/22/2012 -12/28/2012
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Around the State and Points Elsewhere
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BMW AT 20: PLANT EXCEEDS HOPES, TAX DEBATE ONGOING
Two decades ago, then-South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell stood at the Greenville-Spartanburg airport and announced that a BMW plant being built just up the road would be a benchmark in the history of the state. -Wisconsin State Journal TELEPRESENCE ROBOTS LET EMPLOYEES 'BEAM' INTO WORK Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley. -Wisconsin State Journal ORDINARY FOLKS LOSING FAITH IN STOCKS Andrew Neitlich is the last person you'd expect to be rattled by the stock market. He once worked as a financial analyst picking stocks for a mutual fund. He has huddled with dozens of CEOs in his current career as an executive coach. During the dot-com crash 12 years ago, he kept his wits and did not sell. -Wisconsin State JournalThe Milwaukee-area economy was flat this year, but should see "a return to slow and steady improvement" in 2013, a report issued Thursday by PNC Bank says. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel JOBS AGENCY LACKS BASIC SAFEGUARD Unlike nearly every other quasi-public authority at the state level, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. is not required by law to report yearly on its finances. -Milwaukee Journal SentinelENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF MINING RULES REMAINS IN QUESTION
The most divisive issue surrounding state mining legislation is whether a prospective iron mine developed under a new law would pose irreparable harm to the environment. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel NEW MAP SHOWS STRESSES ON GREAT LAKES The problems of the Great Lakes - from pollutants to development to invasive species - have been pixilated so the public can observe on a map the toll dozens of these "stressors" are taking on the world's largest freshwater -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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