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Media Contact: Eric Hatling, MOSES 715-778-5775, eric@mosesorganic.org Young Organic Stewards Contact: Lindsay Rebhan, Renewing the Countryside YoungOrganicStewards@gmail.com What: Young Organic Stewards program, 23rd annual MOSES Organic Farming Conference When: February 23 – 25, 2012 Where: La Crosse, Wisconsin The Young Organic Stewards (YOS) program aims to connect, educate, inspire and empower young farmers to thrive in a sustainable, organic system of farming. Workshops and social activities...

MILWAUKEE, December 16, 2011 – Baird Venture Partners (“BVP”), the U.S.-based venture capital fund of Baird Private Equity, announced today that Donald W. Layden, Jr. and Frederick A. Robertson, MD have joined as Operating Partners. Layden and Robertson will work with BVP’s sector-focused teams in sourcing, evaluating and overseeing portfolio company investments, further strengthening its operationally oriented approach to...

Media Contact: Mary Fanning-Penny (608) 458-6250 Special Olympics Wisconsin and YMCA of Dane County each to receive $2,500 grant MADISON, Wisconsin – December 16, 2011 – As part of Alliant Energy’s Power Your Health Wellness Program, over 1,000 employees participated in a six-week “Charitable Challenge” tracking the number of minutes they spent performing physical activities, such as: biking, walking, running and...

Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303 Twenty-five million dollar relocation brings 150 jobs to Wisconsin Madison—Governor Scott Walker today attended a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the new 600,000 square foot warehouse for Uline Shipping Supply Specialists. The family company is moving its operation across the border from its Eagan, MN distribution center to a 63 acre lot on the south...

Contact: Mike Counter, mike.counter@snc.edu, (920) 403-3089, De Pere, Wis. - Kevin G. Quinn, associate academic dean and professor of economics at St. Norbert College, has published “The Economics of the National Football League: The State of the Art (Sports Economics, Management and Policy)” (Springer December-2011). Divided into parts, the book lays down a marker as to the state of economists’...

By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com The overall economy may be struggling, but it’s a good time to be graduating with a software or information technology degree. That’s the word from Tammy Jackson, the new executive director of Accelerate Madison – which bills itself as the “the premier networking organization that promotes and highlights the Madison digital technology community.” Jackson replaced Jan Moen,...