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Contacts: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661 Project will Create up to 127 Jobs MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced $600,000 in assistance for Engineered Propulsion Systems to create up to 127 jobs through its development of an...

CONTACT: Jan Koepsell 920-668-8251 jank@expeditionloghomes.com http://www.expeditionloghomes.com WASHINGTON, DC - Southeast Wisconsin based log home manufacturer, Expedition Log Homes, LLC received a national home building accolade, capturing the Excellence in Home Design – Log Home 2001-3000 sq. ft. in the 2011 LHC Excellence in Home Design and Marketing Awards program. The honor was awarded by the Log Homes Council (LHC) and Building Systems Councils...

More Information: Charlie Higley (608) 251-3322 x. 14 Statement of Charlie Higley, Executive Director The Citizens Utility Board calls on the commissioners of the Public Service Commission to make sure that consumers don’t pay for millions of...

Contact: Jennifer R. Rupkey Director, Client Development Direct Dial: 414.225.8262 E-Mail: jrrupkey@michaelbest.com Seven Attorneys Recognized as Rising Stars Milwaukee, WI (November 16, 2010) – Twenty-seven attorneys from the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP were recently named “Super Lawyers” by Super Lawyers Magazine, a Law & Politics publication. In addition, seven attorneys were recognized as Wisconsin Rising Stars by the...

Sheboygan, WI - “The Promise of Sheboygan County,” a documentary designed to promote Sheboygan County as a World Class business destination, premiered at the Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday evening. The 15-minute video produced by the Jake’s Café Creative Community was the keynote event at the annual meeting of the Sheboygan County Economic Development...

Contacts: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661 Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON—Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Becher Terrace Housing, LLC will receive a $200,000 Blight Elimination and Brownfield Redevelopment (BEBR) grant from the Department of Commerce (Commerce) for remediation of a...

Contacts: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661 Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON—Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Compass Properties, LLC, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, has received a $6 million Recovery Zone Facility Bond allocation from the Department of Commerce to renovate commercial property...

Contact: Dawn Crim, 608-263-5510, dbcrim@chancellor.wisc.edu; Pat McGowan, 608-310-5950, pmcgowan@uwbookstore.com; Rachel Taber, 202-822-5200 x 510110, taberrachel@gmail.com MADISON - Just in time for the holiday shopping season, members of the campus community, parents and alumni have a brand new way to support the University of Wisconsin-Madison while also making a major difference in the lives of apparel workers in the Dominican...

It's a coming of age for the Computing and New Media Technologies (CNMT) program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point as it has been named to host an international conference that most recently was held in Istanbul and London. The Fourth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, which will attract participants from across the globe,...

For More Information Contact: Rich Merkel Junior Achievement of WI, Inc. 414-352-5350 rmerkel@jawis.org Funding will increase work readiness program implementation for high school students. – Junior Achievement of Wisconsin announced today that it received a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to fund implementation of the 2010-11 High School Work Readiness Outreach. The grant was issued through Wal-Mart’s State Giving Program,...

Contact: Ann Johns (608) 243-4483 Is your business aware of all the opportunities that government procurement has to offer? Madison Area Technical College is hosting a seminar that will help area businesses learn how to effectively compete for contracts to sell your products and services to the federal government at a training seminar to be held on Wednesday, December 1st...

Madison, WI, November 16, 2010: Web Courseworks, a Madison-based eLearning company, has been designated by the International Academy of the Visual Arts as a Silver Winner in the 2010 Davey Awards for their “CoachTrue” online education toolkit. The program was created by Web Courseworks for the World Anti-Doping Agency and has been released worldwide and is available...

Contacts: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661 Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON—Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Xolve, Inc., Platteville, Grant County, has received the Qualified New Business Venture certification from the Department of Commerce (Commerce). The company’s certification by Commerce makes investors...