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For more information please contact: Stephanie VanHaag, Bukacek Construction Email: stephanie@bukacek.com Mobile: 262.613.6247 RACINE, WI – December 20, 2011 - Jim Rooney has joined Bukacek Construction as a Senior Superintendent. Rooney has over 25 years of experience in the construction industry and has managed some of Southeastern Wisconsin’s largest projects, including Uline Headquarters in Pleasant Praire, WI; Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare...

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Erica@gialamas.com December 20, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin - 1 Erdman Place, owned and managed by The Gialamas Company, Inc. has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) prestigious ENERGY STAR, the national symbol for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection, for the fourth consecutive year.  1 Erdman Place achieved the Leadership in...

Contact: WI Sustainable Business Council Tom Eggert Executive Director sustain@bus.wisc.edu 608-267-2761 Contact: InPro Evan Bane Public Relations Manager ebane@inprocorp.com 262-682-5318 InPro is one of a select group of companies to earn the designation of “Green Master,” the highest tier in the Green Masters Program established by the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council. As a Green Master, InPro has performed actions...

CONTACT: Frederick Elder, (608) 263-9328, elder@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - Under the right circumstances, the undergraduate student teams that won a University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering design competition can either help protect a family from the elements or a hockey team from a scoring play. In the EMA/ME Design Competition, held Dec. 14 on the UW-Madison engineering campus, students Austin Gilbertson, Austin Lemens,...

The Wisconsin Law Journal has named its 2012 Leaders in the Law. The attorneys and judges selected have demonstrated their outstanding leadership, vision and legal expertise in Wisconsin’s law community. Honorees were chosen based on a wide variety of achievement criteria, including outstanding leadership, vision and legal expertise. The honorees will be recognized at an awards ceremony and dinner Feb....

Contact: Karie Zellner karie.zellner@schencksc.com 920-996-1261 WISCONSIN – Schenck will be hosting Sales & Use Tax Updates throughout Wisconsin in January and February. Accounting managers, accounting personnel, purchasing agents and small business owners will benefit from attending. Sales and use tax (SAUT) rules are complex, and it can be difficult to know how to apply general rules to unique situations. Unfortunately, errors can...

Contact: Tina Widmyer Tel: 608/852-8791 Email: twidmyer@sarainvest.com December 15, 2011 (West Milwaukee, WI) – Madison-based Sara Investment Real Estate acquires its third foreclosed property in the greater Milwaukee market. Sara paid $5.65 million for three parcels along Miller Park Way which includes a 19,000 square foot retail center, 18,000 square foot Office Max and a Sonic which is a 23,000 square...

Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343 Leading health care providers will be Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations Thirty-two leading health care organizations from across the country will participate in a new Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) initiative made possible by the Affordable Care Act, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today. The Pioneer ACO initiative will encourage primary care doctors, specialists, hospitals and...

CONTACT: Susan Bach, Director of Communications PHONE: 414- 847- 6085 FAX: 414-302- 0355 E-MAIL: sbach@wisconsin.bbb.org Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 19, 2011 – The continuing battle over taxes and...

CONTACT: David Beebe, 608-262-2260, djbeebe@wisc.edu MADISON - A biomedical engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive a $2.5 million Point-of-Care Diagnostics Grant through Grand Challenges in Global Health. Created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the initiative seeks to engage creative minds across scientific disciplines-including those who have not traditionally taken part in health research-to work on...