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Topics to be highlighted Tax Incentives & Stimulus Money Blue Mounds, WI, January 6, 2010 – JG Development, Inc, a Madison-area based design-materials-build firm, is hosting a FREE, open-to-the-public seminar on Thursday, January 21, 2010 from 6 pm – 8 pm, at its facility located at 4070 East Brigham Road in Blue Mounds. The topic of the seminar is tax advantages...

Web site link: http://www.wfbf.com/media_center/market_basket.aspx Contact: 608-836-5575 Farm Bureau’s Market Basket survey shows fifth consecutive quarter with decline MADISON – Wisconsin’s largest farm organization tracks the retail price of 20-food items in 26 communities. The Market Basket survey found the average cost of those 20-items in the fourth quarter of 2009 was $51.49, 61-cents less than...

Media Contact: Steve Schultz (608) 458-3285 Alliant Energy offers safety tips during heating season MADISON, WI – January 6, 2010 – While the symptoms of headache, nausea and fatigue are usually associated with the flu, they’re also a warning sign of another serious health problem — carbon monoxide poisoning. Alliant Energy encourages customers to recognize the signs of carbon monoxide poisoning...

For more information, contact Jason Busch 608-441-1237 or jbusch@wisbank.com Tax credits, low interest rates will stimulate home sales in first half of 2010 (MADISON) – Demand for business loans is weak throughout Wisconsin and is expected to stay that way through the first six months of the New Year, according to the latest Wisconsin Bank CEO Economic Conditions Survey. On the bright...

Contact: Nan DiSalvo Executive Vice President R S + K (608) 827-0701 ndisalvo@rsandk.com R S + K, a marketing communications firm, Buttonwood Partners, a financial services firm, and Kjohnson, an engineering firm, all residents of 701 Deming Way, hosted a 30-day food drive that resulted in 383 lbs. of food for the Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin. The donated food and funds equaled...

CONTACT: Janet Kelly, 608-890-1491, jkelly@warf.org MADISON - The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Jan. 5 affirmed the 2006 decision of U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb's award to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) for licensing fees from Xenon Pharmaceuticals, a Canadian biotechnology company. The court denied Xenon's appeal and held that it had breached its exclusive license...

Chicago Regional Census Center Muriel Jackson, (312) 454-2779 E-mail: muriel.jackson@census.gov Statewide Testing for Locally-Based Census Takers Happening Now CHICAGO - The U.S. Census Bureau’s Chicago Regional Census Center recently announced some very positive employment news: about 48,000 people are now being recruited across the State of Wisconsin to work as census takers...

Contact: Paul Glander, 612-713-5134 Christie Deloria-Sheffield, 906-226-1240 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently awarded $1,000,000 to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to support the acquisition of 468 acres of coastal wetlands adjacent to Lake Michigan in Door County, Wisconsin. The federal funds are provided through the 2010 National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program, and will supplement $ 1,001,300...

Contact: Greg Friese, MS, NREMT-P Telephone: 715-204-9874 Email: gfriese@piosocialmediatraining.com Announcing Social Media Responder of 2009 Contest Winner PLOVER, WI -- PIOSocialMediaTraining.com is pleased to announce that the Charlotte Fire Department was voted the Social Media Responder of the Year contest. The contest recognized the efforts and accomplishments of emergency response agencies and public information officers to use social to achieve their mission and engage with...

Contact Persons: Kristine Bengtson, kbengtson@westsidefamilypet.com Dr. Ken Lambrecht, klambdvm@westsidefamilypet.com Westside Family Pet Clinic, 608-271-5277 Westside Family Pet Clinic (WFPC) will kickoff their 2nd annual “Pets Reducing for Rescues” Ideal Weight Contest at their Preventative Nutrition Open House which will be held on Jan. 16, 2010 from 12 to 2 PM. The open house will focus on the health...

Madison, WI – Platypus Technologies announces that it has been awarded a $2.2 Million federal contract with the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center in Maryland (http://www.ecbc.army.mil). This 1-year funded project expands on the work performed by the Company under a contract with Edgewood that was completed earlier this year. It will enable the Company...

BROOKFIELD, WI January 6, 2010 ⎯ At the November Annual Meeting of the Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce, Sally Piefer, Attorney at The Schroeder Group, S.C., Attorneys at Law was named Chairman of the Chamber’s Board of Directors. Piefer also chairs the board’s Executive Committee. Piefer succeeds Thomas Krumenacher as Chairman. Krumenacher of Quarles &...

Event Description: MITA’s January program features two economic experts who will give their views on the prospects for economic recovery in 2010. More than one year after the global economic crisis, there are conflicting projections and information about when we can expect the U.S. economy to recover and what the recovery will look like. William Strauss, a senior economist...