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From WisBusiness.com ... -- During an appearance on CNBC this morning, Gov. Jim Doyle hailed a fed stimulus plan from House Dems. Doyle, appearing with the Republican governors of Vermont and North Dakota, said the House plan helps states preserve education funding. "We really have to make sure we maintain good schools," Doyle said. "I think the plan from...

By WisBusiness.com Staff MADISON -- The president and CEO of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank on Thursday painted a gloomy economic picture for the next 18 months, saying Wisconsin, the Midwest and the nation will have "a lot to weather" especially on the manufacturing front. Charles Evans told a business audience that the forecasts and economic statistics were "sobering," comparing the...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – Economic figures aren't out yet for the fourth quarter of 2008. But William Strauss, a senior economist with Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, expects them to be ugly. "There will be steep declines," Strauss warned a Madison International Trade Association luncheon Wednesday. The first two quarters of 2009 won't be very good, either, though the economy...

Contact: Robert Weeks 262-898-0710 Racine, WI (Jan. 15, 2009) – Cyclotron Products, a producer of industrial coolant filtration systems has returned to Racine at 1509 Rapids Drive. The business, founded in Racine in 1978, was most recently a division of the Frank L. Wells Company in Kenosha. In December, local investors acquired the product line and incorporated as Cyclotron Products Inc. Robert...

CONTACT: Janet Kelly, 608-890-1491, jkelly@warf.org; Mats Lundwall, (+44) 791869747, (+46) 765250903, mats.lundwall@cellartis.com; Johan Hyllner, (+46) 317580902, johan.hyllner@cellartis.com MADISON - Cellartis AB, a premier provider of human embryonic stem cell (hES) derived products and technologies, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private, nonprofit patenting and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announced today (Jan. 15) that they...

CONTACT: Kumar Sridharan, 608-263-4789, kumar@engr.wisc.edu; Todd Allen, 608-265-4083, allen@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - In Kumar Sridharan's laboratory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering campus, just one ill-timed sneeze might have catapulted his next three years' worth of nuclear reactor materials research into oblivion. A distinguished research professor of engineering physics, Sridharan and colleagues Yong Yang, Lizhen Tan and Kjetil Hildal spent summer 2008...