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Old 06-23-2011, 03:50 PM
 
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Good to see that not just income earners are "voting with their feet", but wealth producing businesses are taking their jobs outside of the economic black hole of madison and the 37 politburo ruled dane county.

For non government workers and business owners--don't be the last one left there trying to pay their spending bills.

Hey, aren't these the "high tech" jobs that everyone wants?

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NorthStar will serve nuclear medicine market

A highly-specialized company serving the needs of the nuclear medicine market plans to locate its $194 million, 82,000-square foot production facility in Beloit.
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“NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes is pleased to have chosen Beloit, Wis., as the site to locate our new production facility,” Messina said."
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NorthStar’s move to Beloit was made possible through the Greater Beloit Economic Development Corporation, which offered the company an incentive package (see sidebar). Additionally, the state of Wisconsin has participated in incentivizing the development and Alliant Energy has been a key supporter enabling the facility to be located adjacent to the new substation being constructed near the property.
Beloit Daily News - your source for news, entertainment, sports, opinion, events, community, shopping and more > Archives > News > Top News > High-tech firm picks Beloit for $194 million development
Let madison/dane county be, well, madison/dane county.

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Old 06-23-2011, 09:24 PM
 
Location: madison, wi
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yawn... another agenda-driven post by Hotbug... isn't there a political forum that you could join that would be better suited to your venting?
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:20 AM
 
Location: Verona, WI
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I'm sure Alliant Energy is pretty excited to have that facility in Beloit. It could help make their electricity-generating power plants in the area profitable. Northstar will be a large customer for Alliant.
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Old 06-24-2011, 05:51 PM
 
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The state and Beloit did a pay for jobs deal to get some jobs in depressed Beloit. Madison will be fine with the jobs/companies it is already growing.
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Old 06-24-2011, 07:55 PM
 
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Not politics....well, sort of as we live not in a capitalistic market, rather a political one. This means that there are great political influences in the economy. Sort of like this thread--people thinking of moving there should know that most of the economy/workers there are government employees (directly or indirectly).

So common sense spending cuts by adult legislators will impact that area, especially when the isolated people in madison/dane county think theirs reality is indeed real, so they keep on spending like drunken sailors on leave.

Someone's going to have to pay those bills and the working people of the rest of wisconsin are tired of sending so much of their money to madison.
"Buyer Beware".


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Northstar will be a large customer for Alliant.
It will, but it will also generate increased revenue for the government down there due to the increase in property values. Then toss in the ancillary jobs that will be created by "doing business" with the construction workers (selling them material/food/drink/lodging/etc.

I thought it was neat that their "corporate" headquarters stayed in madison, yet their production facility not only left madison, but dane county. I think kipp and weir are the only two "manufacturers" left that have been there a while. And manufacturing has the highest job multipliers of every vocation.

Stoughton Trailers needs to move out of dane county also. Just south of them is Rock county, definitely lower tax and less dogma.

I'm not a fan of Rock County, by one of my relatives lives there and they like it. She said they chose it for lower taxes and now that both are retired, they are really liking it all the more.
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Old 06-24-2011, 08:02 PM
 
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Madison will be fine with the jobs/companies it is already growing.
It would be interesting to see which companies are growing....and by how much.
Did you know that wisconsin taxpayers pay for almost half (40%) of in state tuition for the UW students?
Why? Funding like that is throwing money down a black hole and the working families of Wisconsin deserve far better as they get nothing out of it but smaller and smaller paychecks....and of course, scorn and derision that emminates from madison to the rest of WI.

DC has been in a growing boom for the last few years and the political class there think the economy is doing wonderful. They just need to look around them. 1 of 37 dane county governors kathy falk even stated how madison/dane county proved liberalism works also.

That mindset is what people will be moving into if they choose to reside in that area. It's their choice....they should just make an informed one
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Old 06-26-2011, 11:59 AM
 
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I believe the idea of public higher education is the state helps pay the cost. In return it gets a better educated workforce that is needed more than ever. UW Madison generates a large multiple of economic activity for the shrinking money it invests in the UW. Back in the recent past the state paid about two-thirds of the cost for instate students with the students paying one-third. That was the formula for many years. The instate students will be paying 2/3 very soon. Most working families do not degrudge their kids getting a worldclass education at UW Madison. It's a way out of the manufacturing drudgery that they know too well. And that will disappear from the state more and more and it won't be just moving to the Southern USA but Vietnam and China.

Did you know that state taxpayers pay 100% of K-12 education?
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Old 06-26-2011, 03:20 PM
 
Location: madison, wi
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It would be interesting to see which companies are growing....and by how much.
the company i work for weathered the dot.com bust around the turn of the century and has since grown to become the largest internet retailer within our market. we've been growing at a 25% year over year rate for sometime now. later this summer we're moving to new office space (again) to relieve our cramped quarters. interestingly, our CEO and CFO decided early on in the relocation discussion that they wanted to retain a madison mailing address (not verona, not middleton, not fitchburg, not anywhere else).
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Old 06-28-2011, 10:17 AM
 
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One little company named Epic alone. Started by UW alum in Madison. Now in a suburb.

Epic Systems: An Epic timeline - Isthmus | The Daily Page
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Old 06-28-2011, 03:52 PM
 
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One little company named Epic alone. Started by UW alum in Madison. Now in a suburb.
[oh BARF! The flaming liberal/progressive Isthmus is your 'source'?
Sorry. I used to read and believe that too. ]

Here ya go, something close to the reality of normal people, from their website:

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Epic makes software for mid-size and large medical groups, hospitals and integrated healthcare organizations – working with customers that include community hospitals, academic facilities, children's organizations, safety net providers and multi-hospital systems.
Epic: About
There. Sounds like another "rich corporation" that started out sucking at the teat of government and growing on taxpayer monies until they grew enough to branch out into government regulated/controlled health care systems.

Like everyone knows, madison is all about getting other people's (taxpayers) monies and using it to get rich/wealthy there.

Predictable. The movement of money is pretty predictable.
So are the attitudes around it--but often far more amusing.
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