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Contact: Kathy Epping, 608-333-4406 For interviews with First Business executives, contact Jodie Johnson at 608-358-6289. Northeast shows a slight edge over Dane, Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties (MADISON, WI) – January 13, 2011 – Wisconsin businesses appear cautiously optimistic for 2011 with at least 49 percent of businesses in all three geographic regions predicting increased revenue, profitability, and wages for 2011. Despite...

Press Contact: Sharon McCarter Phone: (202) 691-4016 sharon.mccarter@wilsoncenter.org WASHINGTON—The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution will present the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service to Mary and Ted Kellner and the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship to Sheldon Lubar and Family at a dinner to be held on May 17, 2011 at the Milwaukee Art Museum in...

For more information, contact: Emily Flock (414) 225-7508 MILWAUKEE — Davis & Kuelthau, s.c. today announced that Marilyn M. Carroll, Alec Dobson and Jennifer J. Kopp have joined the firm’s Litigation Group and will be located in its Brookfield office. Carroll joins the firm as a shareholder with a primary focus on health care litigation. For more than twenty years Carroll has...

Voluntary Registration Open on Website Contact: Jane Larson, 608-224-5005 Ashley Huibregtse, 608-224-5002 MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is inviting growers and pesticide applicators to participate in Driftwatch, a voluntary online registry to help protect sensitive crops from pesticide drift. Pesticide drift occurs when air currents cause pesticide to be deposited outside a target application site. “The goal...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661 MADISON — Governor Scott Walker announced today that the Town of Mercer, Iron County, will receive a $ $435,000 grant from the Community Development Block Grant–Public Facilities (CDBG-PF) program of the Department of Commerce (Commerce) to fund downtown enhancement and storm water improvements in the community. “It is essential for Wisconsin communities to...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661 MADISON-- Governor Scott Walker today announced that Skana Aluminum Company, Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, will receive a $650,000 Blight Elimination and Brownfield Redevelopment (BEBR) grant from the Department of Commerce (Commerce) to help redevelop the former Koenig & Vits manufacturing site. “Brownfield grants are an...

Contact: Bill Rubin/Jacki Bradham, St. Croix EDC, 715-381-4383 February 17th Banquet Will Honor Winners Tom Schumacher, president of St. Croix Economic Development Corporation, announced the EDC’s selection of the following companies as recipients of the 2010 business of the year awards in St. Croix County, Wisconsin: Engineered Propulsion Systems (New Richmond) as 2010 Emerging Business of the Year (based in St. Croix...

Contact: Bill McCoshen Executive Director Competitive Wisconsin, Inc. (608) 258-8411 Illinois tax hikes could attract businesses to Wisconsin (MADISON) - Wisconsin business leaders say recently approved Illinois income tax increases are in sharp contrast to Governor Walker's steps to support existing and future Wisconsin businesses. The approved Illinois tax increase will raise personal income taxes there by 67 percent and corporate income taxes by 46 percent....

Contact: Joshua Morby 414.791.9120 Move benefits ethanol, bio power facilities in Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance (WBIA) on Thursday applauded the US Environmental Protection Agency for deferring the greenhouse gas permitting requirements for biogenic emissions – emissions created by the combustion or decomposition of biomass. The EPA will conduct further analysis over the next three years to determine...

Contact: Susan E. Steberl Client Development Manager Direct Dial: 414.270.2703 E-Mail: sesteberl@michaelbest.com (January 13, 2011) Milwaukee, WI – The law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has announced that their Annual Labor and Employment Relations Law Seminar will be held on Thursday, May 12, 2011, at the Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee. Now in its 23rd year, this seminar...

Contact: Noel Favia, 608-224-5140 Ashley Huibregtse, 608-224-5002 MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced today that three corn growers were elected to the Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board. Thomas Gillis of Roberts, District 2, and Ken Rosenow of Oconomowoc, District 7, were re-elected. Randall Woodruff of Chippewa Falls, District 1, was newly elected to the board as a...

Contact: Jeremy Artz Marketing Specialist 414.371.8261 Milwaukee, WI January 13, 2011 – Bank Mutual is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Musha to the newly created position of Vice President of Commercial Banking. Mr. Musha is responsible for generating and managing mid-market commercial banking relationships and is based at Bank Mutual’s Commercial Banking Center: 2600 N. Mayfair Road, Wauwatosa, WI. Mr. Musha...

Contact: Todd Asmuth, AquaMost CEO todd@aquamostlabs.com (608) 695-8260 Jennifer Sereno, WARF jsereno@warf.org (608) 770-8084 Financing will enable WARF licensee to hire engineers, produce units for commercial sale and continue research MADISON, Wis. — AquaMost, developer of an innovative water purification system with a wide range of applications, has secured a total of $1 million from investors including the Golden Angels Network of Milwaukee and Wisconsin Investment...

Prepared text of remarks to the annual Wisconsin Economic Forecast Luncheon by Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Introduction Thank you very much for that generous introduction, and thanks to the Wisconsin Bankers Association for the invitation to join you here today. I’ve visited Madison several times, and I’ve always enjoyed the experience. I’ve always felt...