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America’s big box stores ****** up corporate welfare and killed Main Street — now they’re ducking property tax

For a generation, big box stores have swept across America, using predatory pricing and other ***** tricks to **** the independent retail sector; they used their corporate lobbying muscle to tempt cities and towns into handing out massive corporate welfare checks to lure them to town, and now, with the help of hustling contingency lawyers, ...

Lies, **** lies, and HQ2

There are few things certain in our world except for the uplifting tendencies of technology. I’ve spent the past few years trying to prove this to myself, at least, by interviewing hundreds of thinkers on the topic. I’ve come to a singular conclusion: when tech moves into a city, be it an iOS dev shop ...

Lies, **** lies, and HQ2

There are few things certain in our world except for the uplifting tendencies of technology. I’ve spent the past few years trying to prove this to myself, at least, by interviewing hundreds of thinkers on the topic. I’ve come to a singular conclusion: when tech moves into a city, be it an iOS dev shop ...

Harley-Davidson bets its future on the LiveWire electric motorcycle

It’s been a four-year wait since Harley-Davidson first showed off a concept electric motorcycle. Now, the production-ready bike — called the Harley-Davidson LiveWire — is finally here. Well, almost. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company unveiled the production-ready electric motorcycle Tuesday at the EICMA motorcycle show in Italy. It won’t be available, though, until next year. Harley ...

Voting machines in Wisconsin and Kentucky are running FTP. Seriously.

FTP -- the "file transfer protocol" -- is a long-supplanted Unix tool for transferring files between computers, once standard but now considered to be too insecure to use; so it's alarming that it's running on the voting machines that will be used in elections in Wisconsin and Kentucky tomorrow.

The FBI has warned that "criminal actors" ...

As Wisconsin’s corporate welfare to Foxconn keeps rising, the number of jobs to be created keeps falling

When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker announced a $3 billion corporate welfare plan for a new Foxconn contract in his state, Foxconn watchers warned that the company had a long history of breaking its new factory promises after ******* up billions in taxpayer dollars.

Walker didn't believe the warnings: instead, he started bulldozing Wisconsonites' ...

Venture capital investment in US companies to hit $100B in 2018

So many new unicorns valued at $1 billion-plus, countless $100 million venture financings, an explosion of giant funds — it’s no surprise 2018 is shaping up to be a banner year for venture capital investment in U.S.-based companies. There are more than 2.5 months remaining in 2018 and already U.S. companies have raised $84.1 billion — more ...

New Opportunities For Wisconsin Hobbyists

08.16.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

More and more people are enjoying the extra benefits that their hobbies bring and I'm not talking about the countless hours they've enjoyed making their favorite products. I'm talking about the additional income they've been earning from participating in crafting shows and festivals in Wisconsin. ...