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Contact: Mike Ruzicka 414.870.1876 September 10, 2010 – As expected, sales in the Metropolitan Milwaukee market declined 36.9% in August compared to August 2009, according to housing statistics released today by Metro MLS, Inc. There were 946 sales in August compared to 1,500 a year ago. The GMAR expects home sales to follow the economy and employment into the fall,...

Contact: Sarah Young Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association 608-257-3665 sarah@wvma.org Statewide Launch Tomorrow The Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association (WVMA) and Invisible Fence® Brand (IFB) dealers are teaming up to ensure fire departments and first responders throughout the State are equipped with specially designed oxygen mask kits in an effort to save more pets from succumbing to fire/smoke inhalation. "By bringing local member veterinarians and local IFB dealers...

By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com UW-Madison researchers and other Wisconsin scientists may be so fed up with the controversy surrounding human embryonic stem cells that they switch to other, more stable research projects. So says Erik Forsberg, head of WiCell, a private, non-profit subsidiary of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation that creates, distributes and does research on stem cell lines. Forsberg worries...

By Kay Nolan For WisBusiness.com Wisconsin transportation officials have chosen a bright, white-and-red color scheme for the exterior of its new high-speed train sets, but the modern, cutting-edge passenger cars will be pulled, for the time being, by existing Amtrak locomotives. The new Series 8 passenger train sets being manufactured for Wisconsin’s Hiawatha Service by Talgo will feature...