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COLUMBUS – Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) – the combined state chamber and manufacturers’ association – continued its month long celebration of Wisconsin’s manufacturing industry with a tour of Columbus Chemical, Inc. (CCI) on Monday. The WMC executive team was accompanied by Wisconsin State Sen. Joan Ballweg on a tour of CCI.“Tours like these remind us about the...

Registration is now open for the annual UW–Madison Diversity Forum, Rising Above and Reshaping our World in the Image of Justice, which will be held on Nov. 2 and 3, 2021 as a hybrid in-person/virtual conference and will feature keynote addresses by Dr. Russell Jeung and Steven Canals. Both days of the 2021 Diversity...

MADISON, WI – Madison Area Mechanical & Sheet Metal Contractors Association (MSC) and Steamfitters Local 601 will host the 33rd Annual Heat’s On event on Saturday, October 23, 2021.  Over 40 area steamfitters will volunteer a day of labor to inspect and service heating systems in 40 qualified veterans’ homes throughout Dane County.  Trucks and equipment used for the day are donated by local...

(MILWAUKEE, WI) - Yesterday, in just one week of organizing, an estimated 4,000 immigrant and Latinx essential workers, more than 130 small businesses and over 200 students from across Wisconsin participated in a Day Without Latinxs and Immigrants statewide general strike and march in Milwaukee. It was a day of no work, no school, no shopping to...

MADISON, Wis. – Both COVID-19 infection and vaccination against the virus create immunity, but they are not necessarily equal, according to UW Health experts.              Even with vaccines widely available, many remain hesitant to get the shot, and some cite immunity created by previous infection as the reason they...

NEENAH, Wis. (Oct. 12, 2021) - McMahon, a full-service, professional engineering and architectural firm, announces Vic Lutz, current McMahon chief financial officer, as the company’s new chairman of the board effective September 2, 2021. Lutz has worked for McMahon since December of 1985 and has served on the board of directors since 2007. He has extensive...

CONTACT:Steve Jaglersteve@kanecommgroup.com414.405.8398 Safe & Sound salutes Kendrix’s visionary leadership as a champion for change MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Oct. 11, 2021) – African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin President and CEO Ossie Kendrix Jr. is the recipient of the 2021 Herb Kohl Champion Award bestowed by Safe & Sound.

MADISON – WMC Foundation – an affiliate of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) – announced the creation of Wisconsin Leads: Executive Fellowship on Monday. The new educational program for emerging executives is an exclusive opportunity for participants to learn from Wisconsin’s most prominent business and thought leaders. Wisconsin Leads will feature a series of...

MADISON — Stand on the ocean’s shore and take a big whiff of the salt spray and you’ll smell the unmistakably pungent scent of the sea. That ripe, almost rotting smell? That’s sulfur. Marine plankton breathe more than 20 million tons of sulfur into the air every year, mostly in the form of dimethyl...

Milwaukee - As we head into winter, We Energies is letting customers know that their heating bills will likely rise as the temperatures fall — it’s due to a nationwide spike in natural gas prices.The price of natural gas has more than doubled this year and currently sits at the highest level in a decade. This increase is mainly...

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is leaving the university at the end of the 2021-22 school year to become president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Blank has served as chancellor since July 2013. According to the university, she has the second-longest tenure for a chancellor behind Irving Shain, who served in the role from...