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Contact:  Timothy Le Monds or Teresa Smith, (608) 266-9600 MADISON – In an oral decision today, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) approved Wisconsin Electric Power Company’s (WEPCO) request to construct a new wind electric generation facility in Columbia County, capable of producing up to 207 megawatts (MW) at a cost between $335 million and $435 million. In 2008, WEPCO...

Contact: Donna Gilson 608-224-5130 Editors note: Wisconsin Act 90, the law regulating dog breeders and shelters, is available online at http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act90.pdf. MADISON -- Groups that work with dogs can now nominate members to an advisory committee that will recommend rules to carry out a new law regulating dog breeders and animal shelters in Wisconsin. The Department of Agriculture, Trade...

CONTACT: Judith Kimble, jekimble@wisc.edu, 608-262-6188 MADISON - While much of the promise of stem cells springs from their ability to develop into any cell type in the body, the biological workings that control that maturation process are still largely unknown. Writing in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week (Jan. 11), scientists from the...

CONTACT: Ruth Litovsky, 608-262-5045, litovsky@waisman.wisc.edu MADISON - Cochlear implants are electronic devices that stimulate auditory nerves directly, bypassing damage in the inner ear, and thus restoring some hearing. Although cochlear implants have revolutionized the treatment of deafness, many users have trouble understanding speech, particularly in crowds. That prevents implants from fulfilling their primary task: breaking the isolation that can accompany...

CONTACT: Susan Bach, Director of Communications PHONE: 414- 847- 6085 FAX: 414-302- 0355 E-MAIL: sbach@wisconsin.bbb.org Free trial offers and scams that take advantage of tough...

More than 500 Business and Legislative Leaders Attending For more information or a media pass, contact Eric Skrum 608-441-1216 or eskrum@wisbank.com MADISON—Wisconsinites want to know if they will either have or can find a job in 2010. Wisconsin businesses want to know if they will have customers and can get a loan in the New Year. Both questions will be the topic...

For more information, contact: Drew Fellon President and CEO Fellon-McCord 502/214-9418 dfellon@fellonmccord.com Devin Mathews Managing Partner Baird Venture Partners 312/609-4489 dmathews@rwbaird.com LOUISVILLE, KY – January 11, 2010 – It was announced today that Chicago-based Baird Venture Partners, the U.S. venture capital fund of Baird Private Equity, has acquired a significant minority interest in Louisville, KY-based Fellon-McCord, an energy consulting and management company. Fellon-McCord’s founders, Andrew (Drew) Fellon and John McCord,...

Specialty arts and crafts retailer manages over 37,000 SKUs across three distribution facilities using RedPrairie solutions MILWAUKEE, Wis. – RedPrairie Holding Inc., a productivity solutions provider, has announced Michaels Stores, Inc. has gone live with RedPrairie’s Warehouse Management and Workforce Management solutions in three of its distribution facilities. The largest specialty arts and crafts retailer in North America, Michaels...

Bill would create thousands of jobs, including up to 1.4 million hours installing Orion’s direct renewable solar light pipes MANITOWOC, Wis. — Jan. 8, 2010 — Orion Energy Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OESX) of Manitowoc, Wis., applauds Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposed climate change legislation introduced Thursday in Madison. The proposed bill, dubbed the Clean Energy Jobs Act, will improve the state’s economy...

Contact: Ben Olson, Chair, 608-381-6572, chair@lpwi.org Jim Maas, Vice Chair, 715-212-7007, vicechair@lpwi.org Gov. Jim Doyle’s “clean energy plan” for Wisconsin is Good News/ Bad News for many in Wisconsin. The good news, say Libertarians, is that it doesn’t increase the...

Three veterans of the Milwaukee-area start-up economy will discuss their ideas for accelerating the region’s development in 2010 at the Thursday, Jan. 14 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network in Brookfield. The meeting will take place at a new location, the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel, 375 S. Moorland Rd., Brookfield. The hotel is located a half-mile north of the...

National leader PRS assumed management of Middleton Glen, an Independent Living retirement community, on December 1, 2009 (Medford, Oregon) January 11, 2010 – Pacific Retirement Services, Inc. (PRS), the owner and manager of Capitol Lakes® in Madison, Wisconsin (http://www.retirement.org), announced today that it is now the new manager of Middleton Glen, an Independent Living retirement community located in the Middleton...

MADISON, Wisconsin. January 12, 2010 – Centrose LLC, a biotechnology company focused on making better drugs has elected Dr. Troy Wilson to the Executive Board of Members. Dr. Wilson is a serial biotechnology entrepreneur and brings significant experience in founding and leading biotechnology companies. He currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer ...

Contact: Kathy Eckhardt, Executive Director 262-691-8851 Email: eckhardt@pewaukeechamber.org For the 29th consecutive year, the Pewaukee Chamber of Commerce will recognize an individual who has demonstrated leadership in community or business activities in Pewaukee. This individual will be presented with the James J. Murphy Award at a special ceremony on January 27 at the Western Lakes Country...