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Contact: Amalia Piehl Address: 13040 W. Lisbon Road Brookfield, WI 53005 Phone: (262) 781-4100 Fax: (262) 781-6300 E-mail: amalia.piehl@jpcullen.com Brookfield, Wis. — On December 1, 2011 at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, in Madison, WI, J. P. Cullen & Sons, Inc. (Cullen) along with the Watertown Unified School District and Eppstein Uhen Architects will receive the Build Wisconsin Award for the General...

Contact: Wendy Norem Marketing Director Shorewest, Realtors(r) (262) 827-4111, ext. 232 wnorem@shorewest.com Brookfield, Wisconsin. We're pleased to welcome Sandy Liermann to the Shorewest, Realtors(r) West Bend Office, located at 2419 W. Washington St. in West Bend. With her valuable real estate experience -- combined with the services and benefits of Shorewest, Realtors(r) -- she...

Contact: Jonathan Lipson, 608-890-3749, jlipson@wisc.edu MADISON - The University of Wisconsin Law School is launching the Wisconsin Business Law Initiative to better connect faculty and students with business lawyers in Wisconsin and beyond. Jonathan Lipson, the UW Law School Foley & Lardner Professor of Law and director of the Business Law Initiative effort, says the idea for the initiative came about...

Contact: Mike Ruzicka 414.778.4929 or 414.870.1876 Tommy Thompson Center – State Fair Park, West Allis November 15, 2011 -- The Greater Milwaukee Association of REALTORS® will host a Housing Summit on Thursday, November 17th featuring National Association of REALTORS® Chief Economist, Lawrence Yun. Dr. Yun will share his nationally recognized analysis on the state of the economy and the real...

MADISON, Wis. (Tuesday, November 15, 2011) — Staff of Madison Children’s Museum will accept a $10,000 gift from the Monsanto Fund at 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 16. The funds will support after-school science activities as part of the museum’s Building Big Ideas program. The museum is generating new science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs to engage children ages 8–12....

Sheboygan, WI - At its 2011 Annual Meeting, the Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation (SCEDC) presented its second annual “Sheboygan County Economic Driver of the Year” Award to Ben Salzmann, President and CEO of ACUITY, located in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch was on hand to help the SCEDC recognize and congratulate Mr. Salzmann, and convey...

From: Mike Counter, St. Norbert College, http://www.snc.edu, (920) 403-3089, mike.counter@snc.edu Aaron Popkey, Green Bay Packers, http://www.packers.com, (920) 569-7211, popkeya@packers.com De Pere, Wis.: Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig will be one of the featured speakers at the academic conference “A Mirror of Our Culture: Sport and Society in America.” This national conference will be hosted by St....

Radio Ad the Next Phase in Americans United for Change’s ‘Strike Out Beck’ Campaign, Which Has Garnered Over 11,000 Signatures from Baseball Fans and Concerned Americans Who Want MLB to Bench Beck Now Say It Ain’t So, MLB: According to the New York Times: “Beck is charg his fans a monthly subscription for his daily talk show online…To power...

Contact: Jessica Stauber, WestmorelandFlint on behalf of maurices, jessica(dot)stauber(at)westmorelandflint(dot)com, 218-727-1552 National women's fashion retailer maurices announces Christopher Straub from Lifetime's Project Runway as celebrity designer Sun., Nov. 20: online fashion showcase and live chat with Christopher Tues., Nov. 22: line launches on maurices.com Fri., Nov. 25: line launches in stores Duluth, Minn. –...

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By Andy Szal For WisBusiness.com Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson defended her agency's initiatives under the Obama administration before a UW-Madison audience today, chastising House Republicans for a series of votes she says undermine the nation's environmental regulations. "It would have been easy to tell EPA to just sit and wait," Jackson said of the economic downturn that accompanied the president...