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Contact: Laurie Fischer Executive Director E-mail: lfischer@widba.com Phone: (920) 366-1880 Green Bay, Wisconsin --- The Dairy Business Association (DBA) has endorsed Sean Duffy to lead Wisconsin's Seventh Congressional District in Washington, D.C. "Dairy farm families are some of the hardest working people in Wisconsin. The products they provide and the revenue they generate are essential to Wisconsin's economy. Sean Duffy...

For more information, contact: Kelly Jackson, WisDOT Statewide Tribal Liaison (608) 266-3761, kelly.jackson@dot.wi.gov Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 9 a.m., Governor’s Conference Room, State Capitol Representatives from Wisconsin’s eleven federally recognized tribes, the Federal Highway Administration and Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi will sign a new WisDOT Tribal Partnership Agreement at the State Capitol Building in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday, October 26...

CONTACT: Carol Ryff, 608-262-1818, cryff@wisc.edu; Jennifer Morozink, morozink@wisc.edu MADISON - Psychological well-being is powerful enough to counteract the pull of socioeconomic status on the long-term health of the disadvantaged, according to a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lack of education is a powerful predictor of future poor health and a relatively early death. But among people whose formal...

CONTACT: F. Joshua Dein, 608-729-5919, fjdein@wisc.edu MADISON - Two new tools that enable the public to report sick or dead wild animals could also lead to the detection and containment of wildlife disease outbreaks that may pose a health risk to people. The Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER) is a new Web site at http://www.wher.org that enables anyone with...

Contact: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today broke ground on the Charter Street Biomass Heating Plant project. The $251 million project is one of the largest biomass projects in the nation and will create construction and clean energy jobs. The project follows Governor Doyle’s 2008 announcement that Wisconsin would stop burning...

Contact: Serena Sato SERRV 1.888.243.4423 serenas@serrv.org Madison, Wis (10/25/2010). - Designers from fair trade organizations in Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and India will come to Madison and Chicago for an intensive design experience at Design Camp 2010. To fight poverty through design by increasing their understanding of the U.S. marketplace, participants will attend product and market trend workshops from October 30th through November 7th. The School...

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL Mary Schmidt mkschmidt@centurytel.net 920-284-7165 UW-Madison project converts coal-burning plant to biomass Oct. 25, 2010, Madison, WI: The Boldt Company and its joint venture partner, AMEC, an international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a contract by the Wisconsin Department of Administration for the conversion of a coal-fired power plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from...

Contact: Jennifer Sereno, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (608) 770-8084 jsereno@warf.org Effort seeks to accelerate technology development and commercialization of promising products Designed to speed medical innovation, advance patient care and boost...

Menasha, Wis. (October 25, 2010) – Faith Technologies, a full-service electrical and technology solutions contractor earned the 18th spot on the 2010 Electrical Construction and Maintenance magazine (EC&M) Top 50 Electrical Contractor’s list. The EC&M annual listing ranks leading U.S. contractors according to their revenue from the previous year. Faith Technologies' revenues of $219 million in 2009 raised its ranking...

Madison Seminar Features Top Creative Minds MADISON, Wis. – (October 21, 2010) – Top U.S. businesses are increasingly exploring the value of mashing together creative and business methods to reinvent processes and to deliver better and more profitable products and services. Starbucks takes its product developers on creative “inspiration journeys” to view customers and trends. Boston Philharmonic conductor Benjamin Zander...

Contacts: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 Lori Getter, Wisconsin Emergency Management, 608-242-3239 FEMA Providing Federal Assistance for Buffalo, Clark, Jackson, Juneau, Marathon, Portage, Taylor, Trempealeau and Wood Counties MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced...

Contact: Marquita Hynes Phone: (262) 780-3271 WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Craig Fugate announced today that federal aid is available to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding during the period of September 22 to October 9, 2010. Federal funding is available to...