White House: Transportation Secretary LaHood announces funding for over 50 innovative, strategic transportation projects through landmark competitive TIGER program
Recovery Act-Funded Projects Will Create Jobs, Spur Lasting Economic Growth
KANSAS CITY, MO - One year to the day after President Obama signed the historic American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood will announce Recovery Act awards to states, tribal governments, cities, counties and transit agencies across the country to fund 51 innovative transportation...
SERRV: Fair trade catalog features Haiti front and center
Madison, Wis. – When the January earthquake hit Haiti, SERRV, a nonprofit organization that sells fairly traded handcrafts from 36 countries, was ready to print 350,000 catalogs and needed to make a decision. “Do we stay with or walk away from the design choice made last year to feature Haitian recycled metal art pieces on the front and back...
Dept. of Commerce: Governor Doyle, Mayor Barrett welcome Ingeteam wind manufacturing facility to Milwaukee
Contacts: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162
Steve Kwaterski, Office of Mayor Barrett, 414-286-8504
Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661
Project will Create 275 Jobs, State Providing $5 Million in Assistance
MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett today...
UW-Madison: Book by journalism professor traces birth of forensic science in jazz age New York
CONTACT: Deborah Blum, 608-263-3395, dblum@facstaff.wisc.edu
MADISON - Deborah Blum's husband is a little wary when she gets too close to his coffee cup.
Blum, a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes he thinks she's learned too much about poison and chemicals while writing "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York."
"There...
Forbes, Northwestern Mutual: Announce partnership bringing new section to Forbes.com
New York, NY – Forbes and Northwestern Mutual today announced they will present Fact & Comment with Steve Forbes, a new section on Forbes.com . This new section within the Opinions channel is an extension of Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes’ popular magazine column, Fact & Comment. The strong opinions and consistent voice of Steve Forbes will join forces...
U.S. Bancorp: U.S. Bank shines in 2009 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 16, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- U.S. Bank customers are increasingly loyal and satisfied, and they consider U.S. Bank's services to be of high quality and value according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) research conducted in the fourth quarter of 2009.
U.S. Bank surpassed industry averages and topped the four largest banks in the country in customer...
