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Wisconsin texting champ urges drivers to put down phones
Austin Wierschke poses with a new Wisconsin advertisement. (Photo: Gannett Wisconsin Media)
Wisconsin teenager and two-time LG U.S. National Texting Champion Austin Wierschke is advocating for drivers to put their mobile phones away while behind the wheel, the Appleton Post-Crescent ... Read More...
“No highway expansion,” says Wisconsin lobby
Here’s a plea to stop building new highway lane miles in Wisconsin.
Hmm.
The new communications era (NCE) allows all sorts of people and groups to take their case directly to the public, sometimes in a clumsy, amateurish way, but often, as ... Read More...
Cat completes Bucyrus acquisition
Caterpillar Inc. has completed its acquisition of Bucyrus International Inc., the company publicly announced on July 11.
Caterpillar funded the acquisition, valued at about $8.8 billion (including net debt), using cash from its balance sheet and debt. The company did not ... Read More...
Dirty Job’s Mike Rowe launches AEM campaign
Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and Mike Rowe, creator and host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” joined forces today in Washington, D.C. for the launch of I Make America, a national grassroots campaign to promote U.S. manufacturing jobs through infrastructure ... Read More...
Missouri receives $31 million for high-speed rail projects
Missouri was awarded $31 million for high-speed rail projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a.k.a. "the stimulus."
“We are very pleased. This is the best news we could have hoped for given the extreme competition for rail funding,” ... Read More...
