A recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board gives employers more flexibility to discipline workers for misconduct even when it’s linked with certain protected activities such as union organizing.  That’s according to an analysis by Milwaukee-based law firm Michael Best, which says employers have regained flexibility for dealing with

Wisconsin had a record-setting $2.13 billion in food, forestry and agriculture exports in the first half of this year, buoyed by rising exports to key markets in Canada and Mexico.  That’s according to the latest quarterly report from the International Agribusiness Center, which shows Wisconsin has climbed to No. 10

A data expert with Waukesha County urged local government leaders to ensure any processes they’re looking to automate with AI are well-defined, to avoid higher costs and other pitfalls.  Kevin Koenig, the county’s IT data and solutions engineering manager, yesterday addressed members of the Wisconsin Counties Association during the group’s

Looking closer at energy usage trends among utility customers could yield insights about affordability challenges in Wisconsin and elsewhere, panelists said at a recent Customers First Coalition event.  Destenie Nock, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, said assessing typical energy usage trends among households

Madison-based Recovery.com is deploying AI to more quickly connect its growing user base with treatment resources and conduct research on service providers.  Nick Myers, an entrepreneur and the director of AI innovation for the company, discussed various applications for the technology during yesterday’s meeting of the Madison Rotary Club. Since

WEDC has signed an agreement with a French economic development agency aimed at boosting collaboration on shared key sectors, including manufacturing, energy, health sciences, agriculture and food.  Gov. Tony Evers yesterday announced the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. has joined a memorandum of understanding with the Agence Économique Régionale of the

The Wisconsin Hospital Association is denouncing as “flawed” a new report from an advocacy group that found just 61% of the hospitals it assessed in Wisconsin are fully complying with federal price transparency rules.  The nonprofit PatientRightsAdvocate.org last week issued its eighth Hospital Price Transparency Compliance Report, which assessed 2,000

As Wisconsin lawmakers grapple with how to regulate the use of AI in healthcare, tools for both consumers and clinicians are quickly evolving to play a larger, more autonomous role in the medical field.  “There’s many tools out there now,” Frank Meyers of the Federation of State Medical Boards said

A new report from a UW-Madison think tank challenges the notion that Wisconsin struggles with “brain drain,” arguing a lack of educated people coming to the state is a greater challenge.  The Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy, or CROWE, yesterday issued a report arguing the issue of “brain

The latest State of Working Wisconsin report highlights “a fragile moment in the economy” as record-high wages are offset by rising inflation and faltering job growth.  The report, now in its 30th year, was created by the High Road Strategy Center, a UW-Madison think tank formerly named the Center on

A study from UW-Oshkosh found local zoning changes seem to be “a necessary but insufficient condition” for expanding workforce housing.  The report was issued earlier this summer by the university’s Whitburn Center for Governance and Policy Research. It makes the case that “zoning reform” as well as engaging with public-private