Wisconsin State Journal
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin
My district includes some of the most fertile and picturesque rural land in Wisconsin. Our farmers help make Wisconsin the #1 alfalfa producing state in the country as well as maintain our state’s reputation as America’s Dairyland. The district also includes Madison, the state capital, a city of more than 200,000 people. And thousands more constituents live in villages, towns, and cities across the counties that make up this Congressional district. ... Wisconsin State Parks and Recreation http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/ ... [Read More]
Medicare Reimbursement Summit, Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner
Medicare Reimbursement Summit: Seeking Equity in Medicare Payments and Spending , on April 29, 2002, at the Quality Inn South, 4916 East Broadway, in Madison. Representatives from several of Wisconsin's largest health care organizations will define the problem and explain its impact on Wisconsin providers, taxpayers, insurers and consumers. In addition, Tom Still , Associate Editor of the Wisconsin State Journal , will moderate an experienced panel of experts including Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Hospital Association President Steve Brenton, Wisconsin Blue Cross & Blue Shield CEO Tom Hefty, and Dr. Susan Turney from the Wisconsin Medical Society , through a discussion of recent activity in Washington and Wisconsin's future involvement. ... [Read More]
EERE State Activities and Partnerships: Proposal Would Require Ethanol in Gas Sold in Wisconsin
Under a proposal announced January 19 by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, gasoline sold to state motorists would have to be 9.2%–10% ethanol. The bill is patterned after a Minnesota law that has helped the Twin Cities area comply with federal clean air standards. Governor Jim Doyle announced support for alternative fuels in his State of the State speech. ... Webmaster | Security & Privacy | EERE State Activities & Partnerships Home | EERE Home ... [Read More]
Methamphetamine - Wisconsin Drug Threat Assessment
Wisconsin's large national forests and wilderness areas are ideal for clandestine methamphetamine laboratory operations. Wisconsin operates 42 parks, 4 recreation areas, 10 state forests, 13 state trails, as well as 6 million acres of hunting land. The parks range in size from Devil's Lake, with 8,864 acres, to the largest single state recreational facility, the Northern Highland Legion Forest, with 221,946 acres. State trails total 8,928 acres. Limited law enforcement presence makes these areas ideally suited for operating methamphetamine laboratories and disposing of the resulting toxic waste. Furthermore, Wisconsin's proximity to Canada gives local laboratory operators another advantage over law enforcement efforts. Precursors such as ephedrine, pseudo-ephedrine, and P2P (phenyl-2-propanone) are more readily available in Canada where prices are lower and regulations regarding these chemical precursors are less restrictive. ... [Read More]
Wisconsin Workers Compensation Advisory Council Meeting Schedule
Council meetings are held in accordance with Wisconsin open meeting laws. Dates, times and locations of meetings are published in the state's official newspaper, the Wisconsin State Journal, and through the Department of Workforce Development Meeting notification publication. ... [Read More]
Wisconsin Womens Council: Minimum Wage
June 1, 2005 -- AB-49 was passed by the Legislature signed into law by the Governor. State minimum wage law required to be construed as an enactment of statewide concern; living wage ordinance permitted but must conform to state minimum wage law ... Among the main arguments against raising the minimum wage are the potential negative effects of increased labor costs on the state's business climate and on the state's ability to attract new business, as well as potential job loss due to increased wage pressures on employers. ... [Read More]
Health Care Workforce Shortage
May, 2005, Courtesy of Madison Area Technical College A small group of nursing assistant students were the first class to graduate from a specialized program at Madison Area Technical College (MATC) that combines Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) training with English as a second language (ESL) instruction. Many of the students hope graduation from this program will allow them to return to the careers in health care they left behind when they immigrated to this country. Julieta Estrada, who has years of experience in the general medical emergency department and maternity unit hospital rotations, has not worked in nursing for more than a decade. When Estrada emigrated from Mexico to the United States 12 years ago, she knew her limited English-language skills would make it difficult for her to continue nursing. Instead, she found satisfying work in a local manufacturing plant. The ESL CNA curriculum provides the kind of support students like Estrada need. MATC ... [Read More]
Senator Herb Kohl (WI) : Section Title
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Office of Pipeline Safety Communications: Wisconsin
The role of the states in pipeline safety OPS is authorized to delegate to the states all or part of the responsibility for regulation of intrastate pipelines. The National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR) is an organization of state pipeline safety managers responsible for administration of their states' pipeline safety programs. Learn more. More... ... OPS and the state of Wisconsin share regulatory responsibilities through a cooperative agreement. Wisconsin regulatory fact sheet ... [Read More]
DWD History
Wisconsin Job Service launched the Job Service Resume System. The State became the first in the nation to link multiple states in a Professional Resume Service. As a result five other midwest states contracted with the Wisconsin Job Service to develop and launch this service. As technology improved more states participated and exists today through the internet as America's Job Bank. ... On July 18, 1984, President Reagan signed the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 into law. The law specifically charged all employers to start reporting quarterly wages for all employees. This law mandated that the reporting requirement would become effective on September 30, 1988. The State of Wisconsin and DILHR's Unemployment Compensation Division had 4 years to create a system to report these wages and train 120,000 employers in the State how to report wages using the technology available at the time. Wisconsin aggressively pursued this goal by having a pilot program in 1987, reported the wages in 1988 and then paid claims statewide in 1989 . The benefit of this system was to speed up claims processing because wage information no longer had to be requested of employers. In addition, the program allowed other State and Federal programs to participate in the wage information sharing. Child support, AFDC, Medicaid and the food stamp program also shared in the information that was now avai ... [Read More]
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