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Legislature will get Global Warming Task Force recommendations for upcoming session By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – The Governor’s Global Warming Task Force finished its work in July, producing a raft of recommendations to cut carbon dioxide (C02) emissions in Wisconsin 22 percent by 2022 and 75 percent by 2050. Soon, the heavy lifting will begin when the...

WISBUSINESS LUNCHEON: Georges Rioux, Canadian Consul General to ChicagoMonday, September 8, 11:45 am, The Madison ClubWisBusiness.com, The Madison Club and Madison Magazine present "The Madison Business Luncheon" on Monday, September 8, with featured guest Georges Rioux Canadian Consul General to Chicago.Learn more about the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago: http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/chicago/menu-en.asp This event is open to the public, and the price...

Contact: Carla Vigue, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced the appointment of Richard J. Leinenkugel as the Secretary of the Department of Commerce. Leinenkugel, currently the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, will begin serving on September 29, 2008. “Dick Leinenkugel comes from a family that...

By Matt Steingraber WisPolitics Staff Gov. Jim Doyle touted Wisconsin’s continued commitment to education, research and knowledge today at the opening of the $134 million Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research East Tower on the UW-Madison campus. Doyle congratulated university officials for their persistent pursuit of the project, even through times when it was unclear whether ratification would be possible. “Even when...