Articles tagged with funding
Thu, May 24, 2012
U.S. Senate passes bipartisan FDA funding bill
By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday showed near-unanimous support for a bill that helps fund the U.S. Food ...
Thu, May 24, 2012
Emergency ECB borrowing jumps as mainstream funding cut
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Banks took almost 4 billion euros of overnight ECB loans on Thursday, the highest since a Greek debt restructuring-fuelled jump in mid-March ...
Wed, May 23, 2012
Spain to inject $11.3 billion funding gap at Bankia
By Jesús Aguado and Sarah White
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain said on Wednesday its rescue of problem lender Bankia would cost at least 9 billion ...
Sun, May 20, 2012
DNR lacks funding to operate, maintain its 17 fish hatcheries
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says it lacks the funding to operate and maintain all 17 of its fish hatcheries ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
U.S. eyes funding boost for Israel's "Iron Dome" shield
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon will seek to provide Israel with an additional $70 million in the coming months for its short-range rocket shield, known ...
Thu, May 17, 2012
Pinterest financing values company at $1.5 billion
By A. Ananthalakshmi
(Reuters) - Silicon Valley startup Pinterest raised $100 million from a group led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc, valuing the company ...
Fri, May 11, 2012
Viddy gets $30 million funding, aims to stand out from competition
By Gerry Shih
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Viddy, the popular mobile video start-up, announced on Friday it has raised a hefty $30 million from institutional ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
Messy Facebook debut marks weak day on Wall Street
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Friday after a sloppy debut by Facebook Inc
Wed, May 09, 2012
Dem lawmakers worried over losing federal funding for Family Care
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Six Democratic state lawmakers say Wisconsin could lose its federal share of funding for the Family Care program, but the state ...
Fri, May 04, 2012
Arizona bans funding to Planned Parenthood in abortion fight
By David Schwartz
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving ...
Sun, April 29, 2012
Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas campaign for arts funding
Actor Omar Epps joined the couple as they visited Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to increase spending for the arts in schools across the ...
Sat, April 28, 2012
Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas campaign for arts funding
Actor Omar Epps joined the couple as they visited Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to increase spending for the arts in schools across the ...
Fri, April 27, 2012
Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas campaign for arts funding
Actor Omar Epps joined the couple as they visited Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to increase spending for the arts in schools across the ...
Wed, April 25, 2012
OECD'S Gurria: funding measures are enough to contain Europe crisis
TOKYO (Reuters) - The doubling of the International Monetary Fund's firepower, an increase in Europe's bailout fund and liquidity injections should be enough ...
Mon, April 23, 2012
China Internet firms face venture capital funding squeeze
By Melanie Lee and Stephen Aldred
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's hot Internet sector is facing a problem it is unaccustomed to: a ...
Thu, April 19, 2012
Europe pressed for action to end debt crisis
By Gernot Heller and Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global finance chiefs pressed Europe in weekend talks to quickly put in place the economic reforms ...
Wed, April 18, 2012
IMF chief says has around $316 billion in funding pledges
By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday member countries had committed $316 billion toward new IMF ...
Wed, April 18, 2012
Baldwin lobbies for arts funding
The 30 Rock star delivered a lecture on arts policy to highlight the need for affordable public access to dance, theatre and live music ...
Tue, April 17, 2012
Baldwin lobbies for arts funding
The 30 Rock star delivered a lecture on arts policy to highlight the need for affordable public access to dance, theatre and live music ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
Nebraska governor rejects prenatal care funding for illegal immigrants
(Reuters) - Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman vetoed a proposal to restore Medicaid-funded prenatal care for illegal immigrants on Friday, but the initiative could still survive ...
Wed, April 11, 2012
Faults seen in cancer study funding
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It's well-known that clinical trials of cancer treatments often can't cover their costs. But a ...
Mon, April 09, 2012
More voters said 'yes' to Election Day school funding questions
UNDATED (WSAU) State education officials are at a loss to explain why over two-thirds of local school referendums were approved last week – when the ...
Wed, March 28, 2012
Congress passes stopgap transport funding bill
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress averted a weekend shutdown of thousands of transportation construction projects on Thursday by passing a stopgap funding ...
Thu, March 22, 2012
Funding cuts put 3.4 million TB patients at risk: NGOs
By Julie Mollins
LONDON (Reuters) - A $1.7 billion funding shortfall to fight tuberculosis (TB) over the next five years means 3.4 million ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
Gov. Walker fine with JFC rejection of funding for Milwaukee train maintenance base
MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - Governor Scott Walker says he’s fine with the Joint Finance Committee’s decision last week to scrap funding for a new ...
Mon, March 05, 2012
Judge denies public vote on 49ers stadium funding
By Philipp Gollner
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A judge on Monday handed a victory to the San Francisco 49ers pro football team and backers ...
Wed, February 29, 2012
Proposal to restore BadgerCare funding
MADISON (WSAU) Wisconsin Democrats introduced a bill yesterday to preserve Badger Care’s funding and eligibility requirements by closing a corporate tax loophole. The ...
Sun, February 26, 2012
Egypt court adjourns trial over foreign NGO funding
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Sunday adjourned the trial of pro-democracy activists accused of illegally receiving funds from abroad, a decision lawyers said ...
Tue, February 14, 2012
New budget deficit could cost funding for business start-ups
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - The newly-discovered state budget deficit might have killed one of the Republicans' top priorities for this year -- state funding for start-up ...
Mon, February 13, 2012
Obama asks for hike in industry funding for FDA
By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama asked on Monday for a 17 percent hike in the Food and Drug Administration's budget ...
Wed, February 08, 2012
Insight: Komen charity under microscope for funding, science
By Sharon Begley and Janet Roberts
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity defines its mission as finding a cure ...
Sun, February 05, 2012
NGO worker cases sent to Egypt court in funding row
By Edmund Blair and Marwa Awad
CAIRO (Reuters) - The cases of 40 foreign and Egyptian activists, including 19 Americans subject to travel bans over ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
Funding for transit in peril-groups, Democrats
By Lisa Lambert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican-sponsored transportation legislation that would radically change funding for public transit advanced in the House of Representatives on Friday ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
Planned Parenthood welcomes Komen funding change
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood Federation of America welcomed on Friday the decision by breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure to resume ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
Susan G. Komen reverses course on Planned Parenthood funding
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - The Susan G. Komen charity reversed itself Friday morning, and said it would not cut-off breast cancer screening grants to Planned ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
Greece launches long-awaited debt offer
By George Georgiopoulos
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece formally launched a bond swap offer to private holders of its bonds on Friday, setting in motion the ...
Fri, February 03, 2012
Wisconsin Planned Parenthood not impacted by loss of Komen funding
UNDATED (WSAU) Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin says it's not affected by a loss of funding to its national group. The Susan G. Komen ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
Komen reverses move to cut Planned Parenthood funding
By David Morgan and Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation backed down from its decision to cut funding ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
Breast cancer charity ends Planned Parenthood funding
(Reuters) - Planned Parenthood said on Tuesday that the leading U.S. breast-cancer charity would no longer provide new funding to the group, which performs ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
Funding bill may address drug shortages-aides
By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation aimed at relieving shortages of crucial drugs used to treat cancer and other illnesses may get momentum next ...
Fri, January 27, 2012
Romney, in comeback, has narrow Maine caucus win
By Ros Krasny
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow ...
Wed, January 25, 2012
Global Fund chief quits after funding cuts
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the Global Fund, the largest backer of the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, will step down in March ...
Tue, January 24, 2012
Wisconsin third in country with college spending cuts
UNDATED (WSAU) – Wisconsin's public universities made some of the nation’s deepest budget cuts in the current school year.
The annual Grapevine study ...
Tue, January 24, 2012
Time Warner leads funding for second social TV company
By Yinka Adegoke
(Reuters) - Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc is leading a $12 million round of funding into a start-up company that analyzes tweets ...
Tue, January 24, 2012
Time Warner leads funding for second social TV company
By Yinka Adegoke
(Reuters) - Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc is leading a $12 million round of funding into a start-up company that analyzes tweets ...
Thu, January 19, 2012
"Rift" maker Trion raises $85 million in new funding
By Liana B. Baker
(Reuters) - Video game publisher Trion Worlds has raised $85 million in a new round of funding as the privately held ...
Thu, January 19, 2012
Wisconsin turns down federal funding for health insurance exchanges
MADISON (WSAU) Wisconsin will give back $38-million in federal money that would have let the state implement the federal health care reform law in ...
Sun, January 08, 2012
Greece should quit euro unless "massive" funding given: Czech
(Reuters) - Greece should leave the euro zone and devalue its new currency unless Europe is willing to provide "massive" funding for the indebted country ...
Fri, January 06, 2012
Stimulus funding helps weatherize over 30K Wisconsin homes
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Over 30,000 homes were weatherized in Wisconsin since the start of 2009.
According to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu ...
Tue, January 03, 2012
Funding concerns for California high-speed rail
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's effort to build a massive high-speed rail network suffered another setback on Tuesday when a peer review group charged ...
Tue, January 03, 2012
Wis. Medicaid funding projected to be half of what was predicted
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - The deficit in Wisconsin's health programs for the poor is less than half of what officials originally projected. The state ...
Thu, December 22, 2011
IMF urges members to boost funding under 2010 plan
(Reuters) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday urged member countries to quickly sign off on an agreement last year to double IMF resources and ...
Wed, December 21, 2011
Ohio bans abortion funding in insurance exchanges
(Reuters) - Republican Governor John Kasich on Wednesday signed into law a measure that prohibits abortion coverage under the insurance exchange Ohio must create to ...
Wed, December 21, 2011
Ohio law bans funding abortions in insurance exchanges
(Reuters) - Ohio Governor John Kasich on Wednesday signed a law that would prohibit abortion coverage from the state insurance exchange Ohio must create under ...
Tue, December 20, 2011
China's Xiaomi raises $90 million in B-round funding: report
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese low-end smartphone maker Xiaomi has received $90 million in B-round venture capital funding from investors such as IDG Capital, Temasek Holdings ...
Tue, December 13, 2011
Deaths from malaria fall but funding woes loom: WHO
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Deaths from malaria have fallen dramatically in the past decade thanks to increased aid giving more people access to ...
Mon, December 12, 2011
Fed stimulus pledge buoys stocks, Greece talks eyed
By Richard Hubbard
LONDON (Reuters) - The euro held firm against the dollar, while European shares and gold moved higher on Thursday, after the U ...
Mon, December 12, 2011
OECD warns of government funding pinch next year
PARIS (Reuters) - OECD countries face a growing risk of a refinancing pinch next year as they battle to secure investor confidence while rolling over ...
Thu, December 08, 2011
Analysis: Venture capital funding doubles for online retail
By Sarah McBride
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Consumers spent a record $1.25 billion on Cyber Monday, according to comScore, highlighting how much people love ...
Wed, December 07, 2011
Taxes could fill AIDS funding crunch: U.N.
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The fight against AIDS risks being set back years by a global financial crisis, the head of the ...
Tue, December 06, 2011
Geithner doesn't see Fed funding IMF euro response
BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in Germany on Tuesday that the European Central Bank was playing a positive role in ...
Wed, November 30, 2011
Clearwire seen reaching Sprint funding deal
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp
Wed, November 30, 2011
Funding crunch puts progress on AIDS at risk
By Kate Kelland
(Reuters) - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding crisis ...
Wed, November 30, 2011
S&P downgrades hit bank funding, counterparty cost
By Douwe Miedema
LONDON (Reuters) - Banks face a double hit to costs and revenues from a spate of credit rating downgrades, another burden for ...
Wed, November 30, 2011
Funding crunch imperils progress on AIDS
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding ...
Fri, November 25, 2011
S&P downgrades Belgium to AA on funding pressures
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's downgraded Belgium's credit rating to AA from AA-plus on Friday, saying funding and market risk pressures are raising the chances the country's financial sector will need more support.
S&P said difficulties in the country's banking system and the government's inability to respond to economic pressures contributed to the downgrade.
Belgium's government debt position has worsened in recent months, particularly after it bought the Belgian arm of failing French-Belgian bank Dexia
Borrowing costs have increased sharply in recent days. The country's benchmark 10-year yield rose one percentage point to 5.832 percent on Friday from 4.817 percent at the beginning of the week.
"We think the Belgian government's capacity to prevent an increase in general government debt, which we consider to be already at high levels, is being constrained by rapid private sector deleveraging both in Belgium and among many of Belgium's key trading partners," S&P said in a statement.
(Reporting by David Gaffen; Editing by Padraic Cassidy)
Fri, November 25, 2011
Euro crisis puts company funding in tight spot
By Josie Cox and Alex Chambers
LONDON, Nov 25 (IFR) - European companies are in for a tough time next year. The euro zone debt ...
Fri, November 25, 2011
Dow and S&P 500 post best week since Christmas
By Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks posted their best week since Christmas, even with a mixed finish on Friday after strong earnings from ...
Thu, November 24, 2011
Analysis: Asia funding markets feel pain, worse to come
By Wayne Cole and Vidya Ranganathan
SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - For weeks, Asian banks and businesses have seen their borrowing costs climb as cash-strapped European ...
Tue, November 22, 2011
ECB funding demand surges as bank strains build
By Marc Jones and Steve Slater
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone banks' demand for central funding surged to a two-year high on Tuesday, and ...
Fri, November 18, 2011
Bank funding strangled by govt debt fears
By Philipp Halstrick and Marius Zaharia
FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - Fear over European banks' exposure to risky government debt stalked markets and harried bank executives ...
Thu, November 17, 2011
Obama signs stopgap funding bill: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill to fund the government until December 16, the White House said, after it was ...
Mon, November 14, 2011
Stocks fall on fears of spiraling euro crisis
By Emelia Sithole-Matarise
LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks fell on Friday, extending an overnight slide, with renewed pressure on Spanish bonds reflecting fears the euro ...
Tue, October 11, 2011
Great Lakes Commission pushing for continued federal funding
ANN ARBOR, MI (WTAQ) - The Great Lakes Commission says the federal money needs to keep coming if efforts to restore the lakes are to ...
Tue, October 11, 2011
Microsoft competitor Box lands $81 million funding
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business-software company Box has won $81 million in funding to expand its business, illustrating investors' continued appreciation for start-up companies that ...
Fri, October 07, 2011
New highway funding plan to be hashed out for Wisconsin
MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - A new state commission will start meeting on October 25th to determine the best way to plan for new highway construction ...
Thu, October 06, 2011
EU exec pushes for joint bank funding boost
By John O'Donnell and Huw Jones
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union executive flagged plans for a coordinated injection of funds into the ...
Tue, October 04, 2011
Congress settles funding fight, for now
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that puts the government on stable financial footing for six ...
Mon, October 03, 2011
Woman in Somali militant funding trial held in contempt
By David Bailey
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - One of two Minnesota women facing charges of raising money for the al Qaeda-affiliated Somali group al-Shabaab was cited ...
Fri, September 30, 2011
House seeks to cut certain education funding
(Reuters) - The House of Representatives has proposed a cut in certain federal student aid funding in fiscal 2012, potentially hurting for-profit colleges.
The House ...
Thu, September 29, 2011
Banks get more funding for small business loans
UNDATED (WSAU) Five Wisconsin lenders will share almost $32-million in federal loans which are meant to provide more loans to small businesses. The final ...
Wed, September 28, 2011
Republicans eye level funding of transport programs
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are willing to try and find more money for highway and bridge ...
Wed, September 28, 2011
House seeks to cut certain education funding
(Reuters) - The House of Representatives has proposed a cut in certain federal student aid funding in fiscal 2012, potentially hurting for-profit colleges.
The House ...
Mon, September 26, 2011
House expected to pass funding bill Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives is expected to pass on Thursday a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown, a top Republican ...
Mon, September 19, 2011
Federal court reviewing Arkansas desegregation funding case
By Suzi Parker
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A federal appeals court began reviewing a lower court order on Monday that would end state payments ...
Mon, September 19, 2011
Scientists appeal on embryonic stem cell funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two scientists on Monday appealed a ruling that permitted federal funding of human embryonic stem research to go forward, an effort by ...
Thu, September 15, 2011
Senate approves FAA, highway funding extensions
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate approved legislation on Thursday to temporarily renew funding for airport and highway improvement projects, averting threatened shutdowns of ...
Thu, September 15, 2011
Putin helped to source funding for Sokurov's Faust
The Russian project, based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil, won over the ...
Fri, September 09, 2011
IMF staff see increased funding needs from crisis
By Lesley Wroughton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund resources could prove to be sorely lacking if global financial conditions worsen and more countries turn ...
Tue, September 06, 2011
Illinois governor warns of funding shortfall
By Karen Pierog
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's administration warned on Tuesday that some state agencies will run out of money in ...
Thu, September 01, 2011
South Dakota high court upholds school funding system
CHICAGO (Reuters) - South Dakota's Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state's school funding system even though a lawsuit raised "serious questions ...
Tue, August 30, 2011
Lawmaker links U.N. funding to Palestinian issue
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican lawmaker announced on Tuesday she was seeking to cut off U.S. funds to any United ...
Fri, August 26, 2011
Jackson & Walsh committed to keep funding murder investigation
The filmmaker and his partner Fran Walsh have been quietly funding the West Memphis Three investigation for years after they joined celebrities like Eddie ...
Thu, August 25, 2011
Jackson & Walsh committed to keep funding murder investigation
The filmmaker and his partner Fran Walsh have been quietly funding the West Memphis Three investigation for years after they joined celebrities like Eddie ...
Fri, August 19, 2011
European banks' dollar funding woes feeds worries
By Sarah White and Marius Zaharia
LONDON (Reuters) - Soaring costs for borrowing dollars to fund the daily business of Europe's banks is hitting ...
Tue, August 16, 2011
Cloud firm Box.net seeks $35 million in new funding
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cloud-storage and file-sharing company Box.net is raising $35 million in new funding, underscoring again the appeal of one of Silicon ...
Mon, August 15, 2011
Bank funding stress threatens Europe credit crunch
LONDON (Reuters) - The risk of a credit crunch in southern Europe is rising as banks face stress in their medium- to long-term funding, forcing ...
Thu, August 11, 2011
Texas woman accused of stealing funding for abused kids
By Elliott Blackburn
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted a former Texas children's advocacy executive on charges of stealing more ...
Thu, August 11, 2011
Europe short-selling ban reveals divisions
By James Regan and Ian Simpson
PARIS/MILAN (Reuters) - A piecemeal ban on short-selling of financial stocks in Europe sparked a rush of alternative ...
Wed, August 10, 2011
Analysis: Funding freeze fears return to haunt Europe's banks
By Steve Slater
LONDON (Reuters) - Four years to the week since global financial markets totally seized up, European bank funding is again in short ...
Thu, August 04, 2011
IRS will not go after airline fare hikes
By John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government does not plan to go after more than $400 million in airline revenue from fare increases that ...
Fri, July 29, 2011
State lawmakers consider budget cuts if federal funding dries up
MADISON (WSAU) Some Wisconsin Assembly Republicans want to make state agencies plan for possible cut-offs in federal funding when they make their budget requests ...
Wed, July 27, 2011
Saab unable to pay wages, blames delayed funding
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Struggling Swedish car maker Saab
Tue, July 26, 2011
Downgrade seen adding $100 billion to U.S. funding costs
By Steven C. Johnson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A downgrade of the United States' AAA credit rating is a bigger risk than a default and ...
Mon, July 25, 2011
Federal default could wreak havoc in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) – Failing to raise the federal debt ceiling could have a drastic impact on government services in Wisconsin, including student financial aid ...
Sat, July 23, 2011
FAA furloughs thousands amid congressional funding stalemate
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration, the arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation responsible for air passenger safety, furloughed about 4,000 ...
Wed, July 20, 2011
Memphis school start delayed over funding issue
MEMPHIS, Tenn (Reuters) - Memphis could see a late start to its school year after the school board, in a move that sent officials scrambling ...
Wed, July 20, 2011
Twitter working on $800 million funding deal: report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microblogging service Twitter is working on an $800 million funding deal that values the company at $8 billion, the website All ...
Wed, July 20, 2011
Memphis school start delayed over funding issue
MEMPHIS, Tenn (Reuters) - Memphis city council and school board members were scrambling Wednesday to come up with solutions after the board voted to indefinitely ...
Wed, July 13, 2011
Fitch downgrades Greece on lack of funding program
By Walter Brandimarte
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fitch Ratings on Wednesday downgraded Greece deeper into junk territory, citing the absence of a new and fully ...
Wed, July 13, 2011
Bank funding crunch overshadows Europe stress test
By Douwe Miedema
LONDON (Reuters) - A Europe-wide test of the safety of its banks risks becoming a sideshow as long as politicians struggle to ...
Mon, July 11, 2011
Cutting AIDS funding to China a big mistake: UNAIDS
By Sui-Lee Wee
BEIJING (Reuters) - It will be a "big mistake" for donors to cut funding to China in the fight against AIDS, the ...
Tue, July 05, 2011
Falcone's LightSquared raises $265 million in funding
NEW YORK (Reuters) - LightSquared, the telecom start-up backed by Philip Falcone's Harbinger Capital hedge fund, said on Tuesday that it has raised $265 ...
Tue, June 28, 2011
Malaria funding rise fills drug pipeline
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Annual funding for research and development (R&D) in the fight against malaria has quadrupled over 16 years, generating ...
Sat, June 25, 2011
Indiana can't end Planned Parenthood funds: judge
By Susan Guyett
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction preventing the state of Indiana from enforcing a law that eliminated ...
Thu, June 23, 2011
Experts warn U.S. to boost Alzheimer's funding
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alzheimer's experts urged U.S. lawmakers on Thursday to increase funding for research of the debilitating disease and ...
Tue, June 14, 2011
Seeking funds, Treasury says World Bank vital to U.S.
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. leadership on global economic issues could fade if Washington does not retain influence at the World Bank ...
Tue, June 14, 2011
Report finds funding threat to mental illness drugs
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - European neuroscientists said on Tuesday that the withdrawal by some big drugmakers from research into illnesses like depression, schizophrenia ...
Thu, June 02, 2011
It May Be Illegal For Indiana To Block Planned Parenthood Funding
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WIBQ) -- The Health and Human Services Department is warning other states, don’t be like Indiana. HHS said yesterday that it’s ...
Wed, June 01, 2011
State crime labs get funding, staff increases
MADISON -- The State Crime Labs will get six more people to analyze D-N-A evidence.
The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has approved Governor Scott ...
Sun, May 29, 2011
Tunisia needs $125 billion in funding over five years: report
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's government said it needs $125 billion in funding over the next five years to finance a massive economic program aimed ...
Fri, May 27, 2011
Republicans reach deal with Gov. on reduction of proposed school funding cuts
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Republican state legislators say they’ve reached an agreement with their party’s governor to reduce a proposed cut in state ...
Fri, May 27, 2011
Lawmakers wrestle over school, transportation funding
MADISON - The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee will try for a second day to reach an agreement on school aid and transportation funding in ...
Wed, May 25, 2011
SeniorCare funding preserved
MADISON (WRN) The Joint Finance Committee rejects Governor Scott Walker’s proposed changes to Wisconsin’s popular low-cost prescription drug program for the elderly ...
Fri, May 20, 2011
Conservation funding cut
MADISON (WSAU) Wisconsin would spend 30-percent less to preserve nature lands, under a budget plan endorsed yesterday by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee ...
Thu, May 19, 2011
State funding for abortion-service providers to be cut
MADISON (WRN) The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has signed-off on a budget proposal that bans state funding for organizations that provide or offer ...
Thu, May 19, 2011
JFC OK's bill slashing Planned Parenthood funding 10%
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Planned Parenthood would no longer get a million dollars in state and federal money for women’s health programs, under a ...
Mon, May 16, 2011
Funding questions for Milwaukee to Chicago rail line
UNDATED (WSAU) State officials say they’re working on a new plan to pay for needed improvements to Amtrak’s Hiawatha line from Milwaukee-to-Chicago ...
Fri, May 06, 2011
Arts funding cut
MADISON (WSAU) Wisconsin will spend 66-percent less on the arts over the next two years. The state Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted yesterday ...
Wed, May 04, 2011
House approves anti-abortion funding bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives approved a measure on Wednesday to broaden a ban on federal funding of abortion and deny tax breaks ...
Sat, April 30, 2011
Wisconsin Gets Stem Cell Research Funding
Madison, Wis. (Learfield) - The director of the University of Wisconsin Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center calls it the best news researchers could have ...
Sat, April 30, 2011
Court: Fed Funding for UW's Embryonic Stem Cell Research Continues
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - UW-Madison’s embryonic stem cell research won another temporary victory in a federal appeals court Friday.
An appellate court in Washington ...
Fri, April 29, 2011
Federal court OKS stem cell funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSAU) – U-W Madison’s embryonic stem cell research won another temporary victory in a federal appeals court this morning.
An appellate ...
Mon, April 25, 2011
Indiana Tobacco Presentation Trying To Regain Funding
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WIBQ) -- Supporters of an anti-tobacco program are working to restore its funding to the proposed state budget with just days left in ...
Tue, April 12, 2011
U.S. spending deal cuts U.N. funding by $377 million
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers are poised to cut spending on the United Nations by hundreds of millions of dollars, less than a week after U ...
Tue, April 12, 2011
Cincinnati streetcar state funding nixed by Ohio agency
By Joe Wessels
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Cincinnati's plan to build a streetcar line was dealt a setback Tuesday when a state agency pulled $51 ...
Mon, April 11, 2011
Gov's Budget Provision Would Cut Funding for Online Court Records
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - One of the state’s most popular programs could be jeopardized by the governor’s next budget.
Governor Scott Walker wants ...
Sun, April 10, 2011
Stewart steps up arts funding campaign
The X-Men star is horrified by proposed government budget cuts which he claims will have a detrimental effect on the country's cultural institutions ...
Fri, April 08, 2011
Spacey performs on the streets after arts funding hearing is cancelled
Spacey was supposed to testify before Congress on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts but the hearing was cancelled in favour of ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
Arizona restores organ transplant funding
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona has restored funding for some organ transplants that the state cut last year in a controversial move to help close a ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
U.N. counting on strong U.S. funding, Ban says
By Susan Cornwell and David Alexander
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Nations is counting on continued strong financial support from the United States, Secretary-General Ban ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
State changes to birth control funding put federal grant in jeopardy
UNDATED (WSAU) State health officials say they’ll find a way to preserve an $11-million federal grant that gives pre-natal care and other health ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
Bank repays TARP funding
UNDATED (WSAU) Two Wisconsin banks are in the news.
First, Associated Bank is announcing that they're repaid $264-million to the U.S. Treasury ...
Tue, April 05, 2011
Highway funding to increase
UNDATED (WSAU) Governor Scott Walker’s proposed state budget adds $317-million for new-and-improved highways over the next two years. And one of Walker’s ...
Fri, April 01, 2011
U.S. wants states to reveal more about pension funding
By Lisa Lambert
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal board will soon propose that U.S. states disclose more about their pension funding as worries ...
Wed, March 30, 2011
Federal funding needed for bridge repairs: study
By Lisa Lambert and John Crawley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of bridges in the United States need major repair or replacement, and maintenance ...
Wed, March 30, 2011
Facebook investor joins funding round for 360buy.com: report
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Russian Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies, an investor in social network company Facebook, has joined a group of investors funding hundreds ...
Mon, March 28, 2011
No state funding for police file-sharing program
MADISON (WSAU) Governor Walker's 2-year budget proposal does not include funding to continue a recently-started police file-sharing program. The Wisconsin Justice Information System ...
Sat, March 26, 2011
Japan corporate funding demand soars after disaster
By Taiga Uranaka
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies' demand for funding has soared since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, with the country's top ...
Fri, March 18, 2011
House votes to cut funding to public radio
By Wendell Marsh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to end federal funding for National Public Radio, following recent controversies that ...
Thu, March 17, 2011
White House praises passage of short-term funding bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate's approval of a short-term funding bill gives Congress time to find common ground on a spending plan that will ...
Thu, March 17, 2011
House votes to cut funding to public radio
By Wendell Marsh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted Thursday to end federal funding for National Public Radio, following recent controversies that entangled ...
Thu, March 10, 2011
Bank of Spain and Moody's differ on bank funding needs
By Elisabeth O'Leary and Sonya Dowsett
MADRID (Reuters) - Moody's downgraded Spain's sovereign debt rating on Thursday as it more than doubled ...
Thu, March 03, 2011
Gov's Budget Cuts Insurers Funding of Birth Control
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin health insurers would no longer have to pay for birth control under Governor Scott Walker’s proposed new state budget ...
Wed, March 02, 2011
British team face funding shortfall before London 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - British athletes are facing a funding shortfall which could affect their preparations for next year's Olympic Games in London, the British ...
Wed, February 23, 2011
Transit funding at risk in collective bargaining debate
UNDATED (WSAU) Opponents of Governor Walker's budget repair bill say some transit districts could lose federal funding. One of the federal rules is ...
Mon, February 21, 2011
Spotify eyes $100 million funding from DST: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Internet music service Spotify is in the process of closing at least $100 million financing led by venture firm DST, according to ...
Thu, February 17, 2011
FDA device chief: More review funding needed
By Lisa Richwine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs more funding to help discourage staff turnover and help speed reviews ...
Wed, February 16, 2011
Detroit to get RoboCop statue with fan funding
DETROIT (Reuters) - From sci-fi cult film, to Twitter phenomenon to Detroit landmark-in-the-making.
Plans for a statue honoring RoboCop, the half-man, half-machine crimefighter of the ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
U.S. to stop funding NATO missile defense program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday said it would stop funding a multibillion-dollar U.S.-European missile defense program known as MEADS after ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
Federal Funding To Help Clean Up Great Lakes
Sheboygan, Wis. (Learfield) - President Obama unveiled his 2012 federal budget this morning – and it includes 350-million-dollars for various clean-up projects along the Great Lakes ...
Tue, February 08, 2011
Minnesota scaps plans for high-speed rail without Wisconsin funding
MINNEAPOLIS (WSAU) Officials in Minnesota say plans for a high-speed train between the Twin Cities and Chicago have died, at least for the time ...
Fri, February 04, 2011
SEC enforcement chief cites funding woes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday defended the agency's record for bringing credit crisis cases ...
Thu, January 27, 2011
Defense chief warns of "crisis" over funding
By Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that Congress was causing a "crisis on my doorstep" by failing to approve Pentagon ...
Wed, January 26, 2011
House takes aim at public funding of elections
By John Whitesides
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to eliminate public financing of presidential campaigns, calling the ...
Tue, January 25, 2011
Republicans threaten to withhold U.N. funding
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans threatened on Tuesday to use their new power as the majority in the House of Representatives to withhold ...
Mon, January 24, 2011
Foursquare sees no funding needs this year
By Georgina Prodhan
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Startup website Foursquare has enough money to last it through to the end of the year and is ...
Thu, January 20, 2011
Spain readying fresh bank funding plan: government sources
By Paul Day
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain is finalizing plans to find fresh funds for its troubled savings banks, officials said, prompting speculation the government ...
Fri, January 14, 2011
Environmental Group Opposes Funding for Power Plant, New Jobs in WI at Stake
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Environmentalists are trying to kill U.S. funding for a massive power plant in South Africa that could bring new jobs ...
Wed, January 12, 2011
Clearwire shares rise on hopes of funding deal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp <CLWR.O> shares rose more than 1 percent after the wireless service provider said board member Ben Wolff is ...
Thu, January 06, 2011
Major Funding For State's Public Access Channels Gone
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Public access channels on Wisconsin’s cable TV systems are losing a major source of their funding this month. And ...
Tue, January 04, 2011
Funding uncertain for food safety overhaul
By Emily Stephenson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican opponents of new U.S. food safety legislation are promising a fight over its funding and announced their ...
Sun, December 12, 2010
Dollar emerges as the funding currency of choice: BIS
By Anirban Nag
LONDON (Reuters) - Expectations of low U.S. interest rates and one-way bets against the dollar saw it emerge as the new ...
Thu, December 09, 2010
Food-safety overhaul rides on funding bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest overhaul of the U.S. food safety system in decades took a major step toward becoming law on Wednesday when ...
Thu, December 09, 2010
Wisconsin's High-Speed Rail Funding Pulled
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - The U.S. Transportation Department stripped Wisconsin Thursday of the $810 million in federal money the state was given to ...
Thu, December 09, 2010
Stewart urges U.K. politicians to curb arts funding cuts
Many arts initiatives are facing cutbacks as budgets are tightened in a bid to curb the country's spiralling debts.
But the X-Men star ...
Wed, December 08, 2010
Food-safety overhaul rides on funding bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest overhaul of the U.S. food safety system in decades took a major step toward becoming law on Wednesday when ...
Mon, December 06, 2010
House eyes funding for Dodd-Frank
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives is likely to vote this week on a measure that could fund the new Dodd-Frank ...
Sun, December 05, 2010
Mideast funding of militants irks U.S.: WikiLeaks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. officials have grown frustrated over the resistance of allies in the Middle East to help shut the financial pipeline ...
Mon, November 29, 2010
Fed's James Bullard says funding of consumer bureau a worry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Monday funding for a consumer protection office established under regulatory reform laws is ...
Wed, November 17, 2010
Oil groups press Congress for Interior funding
By Ayesha Rascoe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oil industry groups on Wednesday urged U.S. lawmakers to allocate more money for the federal offshore drilling regulator ...
Mon, November 15, 2010
Wisconsin School Funding Proposal Released
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Ninety-three percent of Wisconsin’s public schools would get more state aid under a major funding plan announced Monday.
State superintendent ...
Mon, November 15, 2010
New school funding formula proposed
MADISON (WSAU) 93percent of Wisconsin’s public schools would get more state aid under a major funding plan being announced today. State superintendent Tony ...
Thu, November 04, 2010
Republicans to attack healthcare law funding
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Republicans will try to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law next year but their leader ...
Wed, November 03, 2010
Voters say 'no' to most school funding
UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsin’s largest school referendum was defeated yesterday. 54-percent of voters in the Muskego-Norway district said no to a $34-million package. Plans ...
Tue, November 02, 2010
U.S. accuses three with funding al Shabaab
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors announced charges on Wednesday against three men -- two in the United States and one in Africa -- for allegedly providing support ...
Tue, November 02, 2010
Kansas sued again over school funding
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of Kansas public school districts filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the state has again unconstitutionally short-changed students.
The lawsuit ...
Fri, October 29, 2010
Milwaukee-Chicago train gets federal funding
UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsin and Illinois are getting almost $4-million to improve Amtrak’s high-speed rail line from Milwaukee to Chicago. The federal money will ...
Thu, October 28, 2010
George Clooney finds funding for political drama
By Gregg Kilday
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - George Clooney has lined up independent funding for "The Ides of March," a political drama which he ...
Fri, October 22, 2010
New Jersey governor to re-examine tunnel funding
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will examine a report this weekend on an $8.7 billion rail tunnel after ...
Tue, October 19, 2010
Wisconsin Asks Court to Reverse Ban on Embryonic Funding
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - The state has asked a federal appeals court to reverse a ban on government funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Governor ...
Tue, October 12, 2010
Six U.S. states excel in education funding: group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six U.S. states, primarily along the East Coast, have the highest level of education funding per student and also excel in ...
Mon, October 04, 2010
Malaria funding short, but some get what they need
LONDON (Reuters) - Global funding for malaria is less than half the $4.9 billion needed in 2010 to prevent and treat the disease that ...
Tue, September 28, 2010
Appeals court agrees to allow stem cell funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday agreed to permit federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research to continue pending a ...
Tue, September 28, 2010
Congress funding fight may delay Wall Street reforms
By Andy Sullivan and Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration may have to wait several months to implement parts of the landmark Dodd-Frank ...
Mon, September 27, 2010
Obama administration fights for stem cell funding
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday pleaded with a U.S. appeals court to allow federal funding of human embryonic ...
Sun, September 26, 2010
Sanofi seeks more funding on Genzyme bid: report
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis is seeking to line up more funding to potentially raise its $18.5 billion bid for Genzyme Corp, The ...
Thu, September 23, 2010
Some teachers not rehired despite federal funding
UNDATED (WSAU) When Congress recently gave billions to public schools, it was supposed to bring back teachers who were laid off. But that’s ...
Mon, September 20, 2010
Judge Waiting for State Supreme Court to Decide Election Funding
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A federal judge says he’ll wait for the State Supreme Court to decide a lawsuit over the funding of elections ...
Wed, September 15, 2010
Man charged with unwittingly funding NY bomb plot
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani immigrant pleaded not guilty Wednesday to running an illegal money transfer business between Pakistan and the United States that ...
Tue, September 14, 2010
Vaccine drives face multibillion funding shortfalls
GENEVA (Reuters) - A push to protect millions of children against preventable diseases has hit financial trouble, with private donations for vaccines falling short, new ...
Wed, September 08, 2010
U.S. appeals court puts on hold stem cell funding ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court granted on Thursday an Obama administration request for a temporary stay that lifts a judge's ban ...
Fri, August 27, 2010
Fishburne funding daughter's legal defense?
Montana Fishburne recently moved out of the actor's Los Angeles home after taking an ""embarrassing"" step into the adult movie market and appearing ...
Mon, August 16, 2010
Demand for high-speed rail funding swells
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Monday it continues to see high demand for funds to build high-speed passenger rail ...
Sun, August 08, 2010
Feds Review WI's Request for Funding to Cut Unintended Pregnancies
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - The federal government is reviewing state requests for long-term funding to reduce unintended pregnancies.
Approval of Wisconsin's application would ...
Thu, August 05, 2010
Senate leaves without funding black farmers suit
By Jasmin Melvin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican senator blocked a measure on Thursday that would have compensated black farmers in one of the largest ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
State funding plan stalls in Senate
By Lisa Lambert and Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Monday killed a plan to send $26.1 billion dollars to states due ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
More funding for unmet legal needs
UNDATED (WRN) How to meet the unmet legal needs of low and moderate income state residents is the charge of the new Wisconsin Access ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
Wisconsin needs more medicaid funding; U.S. Senate votes today
UNDATED (WSAU) The U-S Senate will soon vote on more federal stimulus funding for state Medicaid and education programs. And the Wisconsin officials who ...
Wed, July 28, 2010
Wisconsin Schools Rejected For Stimulus Funding
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Governor Jim Doyle says the high quality of Wisconsin schools was not considered when the state was rejected again for education ...
Sat, July 24, 2010
Peace Groups Turning Up Heat on Cutting Afghan War Funding
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin peace groups are making another pitch to curtail funding for the war in Afghanistan.
Peace Action Wisconsin and other groups ...
Tue, July 13, 2010
China stops funding Green Dam web filter: report
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Developers of China's Green Dam Internet filter have not received government funding in the past year, a local newspaper reported ...
Tue, July 06, 2010
ICBC could raise $6.6 billion in China bank funding drive
By Doug Young and Kelvin Soh
HONG KONG (Reuters) - ICBC <1398.HK>, the world's most valuable lender, may raise up to $6.6 ...
Sun, July 04, 2010
Bank of China: New funding to suffice for 3 years
By Doug Young
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Bank of China <3988.HK> <601988.SS> said its bid to raise up to $8.9 billion should ...
Tue, June 29, 2010
What's Inside Evers School Funding Plan May Take Awhile
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - It will be awhile before you find out what the proposed changes in Wisconsin’s school funding system mean to you ...
Sun, June 27, 2010
Foursquare close to obtaining funding: report
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Startup website Foursquare, a location-based services company, is close to getting new funding that would allow it to expand, The Wall Street ...
Fri, June 25, 2010
Questions Remain in Plans to Change Public Education Funding
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - There are still big questions about a plan to change the way Wisconsin pays for its public education. State Superintendent Tony ...
Fri, June 25, 2010
School funding formula changes proposed
UNDATED (WRN) The head of the state Department Public Instruction is calling for a broad restructuring of the funding formula used to determine how ...
Thu, June 24, 2010
Funding Approved For Improving Internet Access For Schools, Libraries
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Federal stimulus dollars will improve broadband access for Wisconsin schools and libraries. The Legislature's budget committee has approved spending near ...
Wed, June 23, 2010
New funding for Madison arts center
MADISON (WRN) Good news for Madison Tuesday. The city was on the hook for $28 million, after a trust fund established to cover longterm ...
Tue, June 22, 2010
U.S. indirectly funding Afghan warlords: House report
By JoAnne Allen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars in protection money to Afghan warlords, and potentially ...
Sat, June 19, 2010
Bill Threatens SE WI Rail Funding
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Congress is considering a bill that could threaten financing for a commuter train line and a convention center in Milwaukee. The ...
Thu, June 03, 2010
Waukesha Co. Exec Wants Referendum on Road Funding
WAUKESHA, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Waukesha County executive wants voters to send a message to state politicians – keep your hands off the gas tax revenues ...
Thu, June 03, 2010
Proposal: increase sales tax by a penny for school funding
UNDATED (WSAU) Arizona and Kansas did it – and now, supporters want Wisconsin to raise its sales tax by a penny-on-the-dollar to help pay for ...
Thu, May 27, 2010
Obey pushing funding for teachers
UNDATED (WSAU) House Appropriations Chairman David Obey of Wausau is pushing a plan to save an estimated 300-thousand teaching jobs around the country. The ...
Thu, May 27, 2010
Senate approves funding for Afghan troop increase
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved funds Thursday to pay for President Barack Obama's Afghanistan troop increase but rejected a demand ...
Thu, May 27, 2010
AIDS funding squeeze puts lives at risk: report
LONDON (Reuters) - Backtracking by international donors in funding for HIV/AIDS may undermine years of progress and is already putting lives at risk, the ...
Fri, May 21, 2010
Park advocates in cash-poor states seek funding
By Edith Honan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As U.S. cities and states grapple with mounting deficits, parks are often the first on the chopping ...
Sat, May 15, 2010
Pakistan holds two over funding Times Square plot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have taken into custody at least two men who may have helped provide funding for a botched car-bombing in New ...
Mon, April 05, 2010
Funding squeeze to force patient-focused healthcare
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Pressure from global recession and relentlessly rising costs of chronic disease will force healthcare systems across the world to ...
Mon, April 05, 2010
State bar makes push for more prosecutor funding
MADISON (WRN) The State Bar of Wisconsin has renewed its call for adequate state funding and staffing of District Attorney offices. Mike Kernats, the ...
Fri, March 26, 2010
DNR Awards More Funding For Flood Ravaged Areas
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin communities are still trying to recover from the Floods of 2007 and ’08. This week, the state DNR awarded funding ...
Thu, March 18, 2010
Anti-malaria funding must be tripled: campaigners
By Sophie Hardach
PARIS (Reuters) - Funding to combat malaria must be more than tripled if the mosquito-borne disease which kills nearly a million people ...
Wed, March 17, 2010
Regulators to U.S. banks: tighten up on funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators jointly reminded financial institutions on Wednesday about the importance of managing their liquidity to avoid ...
Thu, March 11, 2010
Feingold Pushes To Return Unspent Transportation Funding
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is behind an effort to reclaim millions of dollars in unspent transportation funding. The Wisconsin ...
Thu, March 04, 2010
Race To The Top 1st Round Funding Rejected
WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin was rejected Thursday for federal stimulus cash to improve its public schools. The U.S. Education Department named 15 ...
Mon, March 01, 2010
Public Hearing On Bill Restoring State Funding Of College For Vets
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Legislative Fiscal Bureau says it would cost about $15 million over 6 years to restore state-funded college benefits for post ...
Mon, March 01, 2010
Lawmakers debate public access funding
MADISON (WRN) A state lawmaker says deregulation of the cable industry is threatening local public access channels. State Representative Gary Hebl (D-Sun Prairie) says ...
Mon, February 22, 2010
British homeopathy funding is "bad medicine": panel
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should end its state funding for homeopathic treatments because they are "scientifically implausible" and work no better than ...
Wed, February 17, 2010
Group to reveal laundering, terror funding blacklist
By Stanley Carvalho
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - An international body fighting money laundering and terrorist financing will publish a blacklist this week of countries which ...
Tue, February 16, 2010
High speed trian funding approved
MADISON (WSAU) Wisconsin lawmakers voted today to accept 822-million-dollars in federal stimulus cash to build the proposed high-speed passenger rail line from Milwaukee to ...
Wed, February 10, 2010
Governor Approves Airport Engineering Funding
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (WHBL) - Governor Jim Doyle has approved funding for design engineering at Sheboygan County’s Memorial Airport.
With the state providing $136 ...
Wed, February 10, 2010
Bullfrogs Seeking Funding for New "Pad" in 2011
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Green Bay Bullforgs are working to get the funding to ensure the first pitch of 2011 is at a ...
Mon, February 08, 2010
Japan bank lending slides as funding demand weak
By Rie Ishiguro and Tetsushi Kajimoto
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese bank lending logged its biggest annual fall in more than four years in January as ...
Thu, February 04, 2010
Environmentalists Cry Foul Over Great Lakes Funding Cuts
(Duluth, MN) -- Environmental advocates are openly disappointed that President Obama has scaled back federal dollars for fighting pollution on Lake Superior and the other ...
Thu, February 04, 2010
WI Competing For Fed Funding To Aid Farmers
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin may be eligible for federal funds to help farmers near the Mississippi River with conservation practices to improve the region ...
Thu, January 28, 2010
Part Of High-Speed Rail Funding To Explore Rest Of WI
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - The White House did not forget the rest of Wisconsin when it awarded funding for a new high-speed passenger rail line ...
Thu, January 28, 2010
Wisconsin wins high speed rail funding
UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsin will get 810-million dollars to build a high-speed rail line from Milwaukee-to-Madison, and to speed up the current trains from Milwaukee-to-Chicago ...
Wed, January 27, 2010
Congressmen call for federal funding on Asian carp
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSAU) - Members of Congress from the Midwest announced a new plan today for keeping the invasive Asian carp out of the ...
Sun, January 24, 2010
Japan PM plagued by funding scandal, U.S. base row
By Yoko Kubota and Chisa Fujioka
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese opposition parties vowed on Sunday to pursue a funding scandal that has ensnared a ruling ...
Wed, January 13, 2010
U.S. government ditches transportation funding limits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is broadening the standards for how the U.S. government funds public transportation projects in order to disburse money ...
Tue, January 12, 2010
U.S. medical research funding falls: analysis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public and private funding for U.S. biological and medical research has slowed and resources from one major federal source shrank when ...
Mon, January 11, 2010
Milwaukee Alderman Wants Funding Restored For Fire House
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - A Milwaukee alderman says he’ll try to restore funding for a firehouse in a neighborhood where a man died in ...
Fri, January 08, 2010
Pentagon funding seen boosted now, squeezed later
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to boost funding for the Pentagon in his fiscal 2011 budget but defense spending may ...
Mon, December 21, 2009
Aid groups adjust as funding crisis bites
By Katherine Baldwin
LONDON (Reuters) - Relief agencies have been hit by the global recession and falling donations, forcing them to cut jobs and to ...
Fri, December 11, 2009
Gates sees funding for new bomber in fiscal 2011
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - The Pentagon's fiscal 2011 budget and five-year defense plan will probably include funding for a new long-range bomber for the ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
WI Congressman Feingold Threatens Funding For Troop Increase
WASHINGTON D.C. (WRN) - Wisconsin Senate Democrat Russ Feingold is threatening to block funding for the 30,000 troops President Obama wants to send ...
Wed, December 02, 2009
Feingold may block funding for Arghanistan troop build-up
UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsin Senate Democrat Russ Feingold is threatening to block funding for the 30-thousand troops President Obama wants to send to Afghanistan. Feingold ...
Tue, December 01, 2009
Separate Afghan war funding bill needed: U.S. lawmaker
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress likely will need to pass a separate spending bill next year to pay for President Barack Obama's ...
Sat, November 28, 2009
Effort Underway to Restore Funding to Public, Education and Government TV Stations
MADISON, Wis. (WRN) - Wisconsin’s PEG channels say changes are needed in the cable industry to keep them alive. Legislation passed two years ago ...
Wed, November 18, 2009
State Officials Cut 36 Child Care Providers' Funding In October
MADISON (WRN) - State officials cut off funding to 36 child care providers last month, for allegedly defrauding the Wisconsin Shares program. The Department of ...
Fri, November 13, 2009
Winter Games organizer must find new funding source
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – The local convention and visitors bureau will no longer fund the Badger State Winter Games but a spokeswoman for the game ...
Wed, November 04, 2009
Election day: Most voters say "no" to additional school funding
UNDATED (WSAU) Three of Wisconsin’s four largest school referendums yesterday went down to defeat.
Whitefish Bay was the only district where voters agreed ...
Wed, November 04, 2009
More Federal Funding Going To Apostle Islands Lighthouses
BAYFIELD (WRN) - The Apostle Islands near Bayfield are getting another $2 million to help restore 8 lighthouses which date back to the 19th century ...
Tue, November 03, 2009
Governor supports public funding of Supreme Court campaigns
MADISON (WRN) As the Legislature gets set to consider legislation reforming Supreme Court races, the governor is offering his support for the measure.
Lawmakers ...
Tue, October 20, 2009
Deep funding cuts for schools in Michigan budget
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Michigan school districts face deep spending cuts in fiscal year 2010 as state revenue continues to sink due to the state's ...
Tue, October 13, 2009
UAE convicts U.S. man for "terror" funding: reports
DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen of Lebanese origin has been sentenced by a United Arab Emirates court to 18 months in prison on ...
Wed, October 07, 2009
Nobel prize shows need for funding: scientists
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ada Yonath, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, talked ...
Mon, October 05, 2009
Development bank must reform for funding: Geithner
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Obama administration wants to ensure multilateral development banks have adequate resources, but any capital increase must be tied to institutional reforms ...
Wed, September 30, 2009
U.S. Senate keeps alive funding for C-17 cargo planes
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday kept alive funding for 10 Boeing-made C-17 cargo planes that the Pentagon has said it ...
Tue, September 29, 2009
OnLive secures more funding, sees strong interest
By Gabriel Madway
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - OnLive, the "cloud-based" service that is aiming to change the way consumers play video games, announced on Tuesday ...
Tue, September 22, 2009
Twitter gets new round of funding, new backers
By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter received $100 million in funding on Friday, valuing the company at $1 billion, according to a person ...
Thu, September 17, 2009
Eight midwest states work together for high-speed rail funding
UNDATED (WSAU) Wisconsin is one of eight states joining forces to get federal funding to develop the Midwest corridor. Several officials met with U ...
Thu, September 17, 2009
New York MTA 5-year plan has $9.9 billion funding gap
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's troubled public transit system has a $9.9 billion funding gap in its 2010-2014 capital program which it ...
Wed, September 16, 2009
Twitter funding would value it at $1 billion: report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter is closing a round of funding that will value the company known for its 140-character, stream-of-consciousness blogs at $1 billion ...
Mon, September 14, 2009
AmEx launches CDs line to diversify funding
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Express Co <AXP.N> announced on Monday a new line of certificates of deposit as part of the largest U ...
Recent Comments