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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2011 Contact: Darren Marsh, Parks Director 608-224-3766 The Friends of Indian Lake will be holding their second annual fund-raising Fun Run event at Indian Lake County Park on Saturday, October 15, 2011 from 8 a.m. to noon. Monies raised from last year’s event are being used to restore trails and native vegetation at the Park. Indian Lake County Park,...

NEWS ADVISORY (10-10-11) Contact: Amy Millman, President, Springboard Enterprises springboard@springboardenterprises.org, 202-242-6282 or Tom Still at 608-442-7557 For additional background: www.springboardenterprises.org or www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com or MADISON – Milwaukee native Kay Koplovitz, the co-founder of the most successful national group that fosters investments in high-growth companies led by women entrepreneurs, will speak 2 p.m. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 at a Capitol news conference on the state of venture...

MILWAUKEE (Oct. 10, 2011) –Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is proud to announce that Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Jon E. Anderson as the “Madison Employment Law - Management Lawyer of the Year” and Howard A. Pollack as the “Milwaukee Bet-the-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year” for 2012. Jon Anderson...

MADISON- The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) was recognized as a 2011 WaterSense Partner of Excellence by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The PSC received the award for its efforts to increase awareness of the WaterSense program by working with Wisconsin water utilities, plumbers, and other organizations to promote water efficiency and for its participation...

October 10, 2011 – Staying with the trend set in July, home sales rose in September by 28.2% over the same time in 2010. The increase in sales represents 1,195 sales compared to 932 a year ago, in the 4-county metropolitan area. Reasons for the increase in sales are twofold: 1) The pace of sales fell...

MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Stephen S. Roach, Ph.D, one of Wall Street's most influential economists, will visit campus this week to address the topic of "Pitfalls in a Post-Crisis World: Moment of Truth for Global Rebalancing." Roach will speak on Thursday, Oct. 13, from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. in Room 6210 of the Sewell Social Science Building, 1180...

Manufacturing First Expo Offers Wisconsin Manufacturers Collaboration Opportunities APPLETON, WI, October 10, 2011 – One out of four Northeast Wisconsin residents is employed by a manufacturer, so it's not surprising that more than 400 Wisconsin manufacturers have already committed to attend the Manufacturing First Expo and Conference. First Business, along with the NEW Manufacturing Alliance and Insight Publications have teamed up...

Celebrate "Wisconsin Alumni Association Day" on Oct. 14 MADISON - If you live in Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee - or anywhere in Wisconsin - Friday is a perfect day to thank a Badger. As the Wisconsin Alumni Association celebrates its 150th anniversary with the Red Tie Gala on Friday, Oct. 14 during Homecoming at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, these four cities...

By Patricia Simms For WisBusiness.com Wisconsin has been a good place to start an innovative biofuels business, but competition from other states for the chance to build the first plants could draw away the industry, Virent Energy Systems CEO Lee Edwards says. But he says Virent isn't leaving. Virent, which partners with mega companies like Shell and Cargill, uses biomass — developed from...

By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com MADISON -- The internal combustion engine has powered the automotive industry since its inception in the late 1880s. And while that greenhouse-gas-emitting motor is evolving, the future belongs to hybrid and electric cars, experts said Thursday at a conference on “Reinventing the Industrial Heartland” and the new automotive industry at UW-Madison. Car assembly plants once employed...