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Contact: Bill Rubin/Jacki Bradham St. Croix EDC 715-381-4383 St. Croix EDC is accepting nominations for its 2010 Business of the Year awards program. Categories include Emerging Business of the Year (a start-up business that has operated in St. Croix County for five or fewer years); Small Business of the Year (29 or fewer employees); and Business of the Year (30 or more employees). Nomination guidelines...

Contact: Jennifer R. Rupkey Director, Client Development Direct Dial: 414.225.8262 E-Mail: jrrupkey@michaelbest.com (November 2, 2010) Milwaukee, WI – Michael Best & Friedrich LLP welcomes Alan Ciochon as the firm’s new Chief Information Officer. Ciochon will be responsible for managing the operation and security of all of the firm’s information technology. Ciochon previously served for more than eight years as the...

MILWAUKEE – After the record-setting rainfall that caused widespread damage to homes in July, Milwaukee residents reaped tangible benefits from the use of geographic information systems (GIS). Initially denied for federal aid in the wake of the storms, city officials used GIS to create a series of maps showing that the most rain-damaged areas are where Milwaukee’s most financially distressed...

Contact: Emily Miota, Sierra Club, 608.257.4994 Sam Weis, Clean Wisconsin, 608.251.7020 x 22 Hearing gives residents opportunity to voice support for cleaning up plant MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee residents will have an important opportunity to voice their support for cleaning up We Energies’ Valley Power Plant this Thursday, Nov. 4, when the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will hold a public hearing about...

Contact: Ben Sayre, bgsayre@wisc.edu; Alex Hanna, ahanna@ssc.wisc.edu MADISON - This year's midterm elections haven't even been decided yet and already there's a way to analyze them. A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students, working with professor of mass communication and political science Dhavan Shah, have collected "tweets" from Twitter by more than 500 candidates for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate...

Contact: Martha S. Olson Marketing Coordinator DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C. 608-252-92346 mso@dewittross.com MADISON, WI (November 1, 2010)—The national magazine Super Lawyers has selected Brian L. Anderson and Stephen A. DiTullio for inclusion in the November issue of Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, for Brian’s work in Employee Benefits and Stephen’s work in Labor and Employment. Only five percent of the lawyers in...

Contact: Jen Pino-Gallagher Tel: 608-224-5125 Email: jen.pinogallagher@wi.gov MADISON - The Madison International Trade Association (MITA) in conjunction with UPS will hold a full-day action-oriented workshop on November 9th for exporters looking to expand their knowledge of international business. The program features a dual-track experience approach for new-to-export companies and seasoned exporters. For more information, visit http://mitaweb.org. The program highlights a wide-range...

MILWAUKEE – Best Lawyers named Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. shareholders Peter C. Blain, Bruce T. Block and Michael D. Jankowski "Lawyers of the Year" for 2010. Blain was honored as Milwaukee Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Lawyer of the Year, Block as Milwaukee Land Use & Zoning Lawyer of the Year and Jankowski as Milwaukee Banking Lawyer of the Year....

From: Batzner Pest Management 16948 West Victor Road New Berlin, WI 53151 Contact: Jerry Batzner or Chris Venuti, ...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Wisconsin's economy needs a shot -- or two -- in the arm. The time is ripe for new ideas, economists say, and numerous groups have responded with plans to boost the state's lagging economy. Wisconsin lost more than 180,000 jobs from 2007 to 2009, the economy continues to struggle and state government is facing a $2.7 billion structural...