About Janesville’s industrial resurgence
The Great Recession did our city and county no favors; in fact, it socked us harder than the average city and county across the country.
A chart in today’s Gazette, part of a two-day report by Jim Leute, is worth noting, however. It showed the change in available industrial space—absent the General Motors plant—from 2008-10 to 2010-12. Available space across the county dipped from more than 4 million square feet to about 2.35 million. In Janesville, available space declined from almost 2 million square feet to barely above 500,000.
Who deserves credit? We’ll share our perspectives in our editorial Tuesday.
Greg Peck can be reached at (608) 755-8278 or gpeck@gazettextra.com. Or follow him on Twitter or Facebook

Jan 30, 2013 at 2:46 a.m.
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Who deserves credit?
1. Engineers who actually know something about the processes they have authority over.
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2. Managers with enough backbone to demand that unskilled labor be paid an unskilled wage.
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3. Union leadership in step with the reality of thank you #2
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4. Managers creative enough to cross-utilize skilled workers and avoid overspecialization in the ranks of skilled workers..
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5. Workers willing to do what it takes to retrain themselves so that they have the skills to do the work that has become available.
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6. The Wisconsin Tech college system,(and those who support the institution) without whom #5 would not be possible.
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We will stop here... But thanks and unthanks are as usual, pleantiful......
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Please; Note the distinct lack of polital parties in the above numbered responses?
Jan 29, 2013 at 2:17 a.m.
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National industrial utilization and production capacity measures have essentially *nearly* caught up with pre-recession levels.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/gra...
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Given Wisconsin's high dependence on manufacturing (one of the top three states, depending on how you count), it's no surprise that our economy has tracked with the manufacturing recovery.
Jan 28, 2013 at 10:11 p.m.
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Governor Scott Walker deserves the credit - Thank You Governor Scott Walker for making Wisconsin 'open for business'.
Jan 28, 2013 at 6:15 p.m.
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The only recession is the one in your head that you keep trying to sell the public... shut up about will ya? You keep the paranoid people in their depression...YOU do.
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