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To: The Wisconsin State Legislature From: Wave Wind LLC RE: Open letter regarding Clean Energy Jobs Act At Wave Wind LLC, we develop, construct and maintain small to mid-sized wind farms. We are a Wisconsin based company that hires Wisconsin employees to develop our projects. Unfortunately, we recently had to lay off 12 of our valued employees as a...

Contact: Seth Boffeli (608) 266-1683 MADISON—State health officials today praised Governor Jim Doyle’s signing of Act 209 (Assembly Bill 659) as a long-overdue modernization of state law governing HIV testing. “This change will promote more routine HIV testing in health care settings, earlier identification of infection and more timely...

CONTACTS: Kelly Edwards, 715-340-1264 or kelly.edwards@wi.usda.gov CLYMAN, WI - FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010 - - - USDA Rural Development, in conjunction with the Village of Clyman, are holding a ground breaking event the village’s new wastewater treatment facility. The Village’s current facility is over forty years old and has exceeded its designed life expectancy. Currently, the existing system...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news Remodeled facilities and two renovated residential centers at Treehaven, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point education and conference facility located between Rhinelander and Tomahawk, will be dedicated on Thursday, April 29. The grand opening activities will begin with a private dedication at 10:30 a.m., followed by a light lunch at noon. The public is...

CONTACT: Lisa Ninmer, APR 414-319-5700 lisaninmer@zizzogroup.com MILWAUKEE – (April 21, 2010) – Zizzo Group Advertising and PR (ZGA+PR) -- the region’s most fearless, results-driven, integrated marketing firm -- has announced a new health care community outreach and communications program for Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta. Recognized as one of the top specialty-referral hospitals in the southeast, Saint Joseph’s is...

Contact Bill Esbeck: 608-469-7171 bill.esbeck@wsta.info Groups hail Assembly for leadership, urge final passage this week Madison, Wisconsin (April 21, 2010) – A coalition of technology and telecom providers Wednesday said the Assembly vote, 71-27, yesterday in favor of the telecom modernization bill was a major step toward encouraging more investment and job growth that will benefit Wisconsin...

Contact: Keith Reopelle, Senior Policy Director, 608.251.7020 ext. 11, 608.212.2935 (cell) Madison, Wis. – Wisconsin’s largest environmental advocacy organization is asking Wisconsin legislators not to kill the Clean Energy Jobs Act on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. “The Clean Energy Jobs Act is the most important clean energy bill we’ve seen in Wisconsin since the first...

By Kay Nolan For WisBusiness.com Perhaps someone will one day make a movie about it: How theater owners, from mom-and-pop operations to big cinema chains, were caught up in an exciting, yet hair-raising adventure when groundbreaking technology swept their industry during the worst recession in decades. In Wisconsin, theater owners say digital film and the 3-D phenomenon has them...

By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com If Gaylord Nelson, the father of Earth Day, were still alive, he would tell state Senate leaders that he is “ashamed” of them for not working to pass the Clean Energy Jobs Act. That harsh assessment comes from Nelson’s daughter, Tia, who served as co-chair of the Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming, the group that...