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CHICAGO, June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has reached an agreement with Mercury Marine Division of Brunswick Corp. on alleged clean-air violations at the company's secondary aluminum production plant that makes boat motors at W6250 Pioneer Road, Fond du Lac, Wis. The agreement, which includes a $25,000 penalty, resolves EPA allegations that Mercury Marine violated a...

GREENWICH, Conn., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PASSUR Aerospace announced today that Milwaukee County's General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) has contracted for the Field Condition Report (FCR) module, part of the PASSUR(R) OPSnet(TM) system, which provides best-of-breed protocols for the efficient and smooth management of an airport during irregular events such as snow and ice, lightning, and construction -- as...

Combination to Accelerate Growth and Broaden Presence in Women's Health Market BEDFORD, Mass. and MADISON, Wisc., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLX) , of Bedford, Mass., announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Third Wave Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:TWTI) for a purchase price of $11.25 per share, or approximately $580 million in value, representing an...

MADISON - High schools across the country strive to prepare youth for adulthood, but there are additional challenges for youth with disabilities during this transition. Project Summer, an effort of the Community Inclusion Unit at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Center, is a three-year research project that focuses on identifying strategies to increase the participation of youth with disabilities...

MILWAUKEE – (June 9, 2008) – Zizzo Group Advertising and Public Relations; the region’s most fearless, results-driven, integrated marketing firm; has promoted Steve Scholler to the position of associate creative director.    Scholler now oversees Zizzo Group’s healthcare and financial clients as well as assumes a directorial role within the agency. He approaches his new position with a total of...

Community Members Demand DNR Upholds Law and Protects Lake Michigan   Oak Creek, Wis- Community members from across the state gathered today at a public hearing held in the Oak Creek Community Center to tell the DNR not to allow the use of an environmentally destructive water-intake cooling system at the Elm Road Generating Station coal plant.  If permitted, WE Energies’...

What could I have said to give someone the idea that I wanted to brew my own beer? Although not averse to a cold Spotted Cow or Honey Weiss once in a while, I don’t recollect ever mentioning that I yearned to master the precise multi-week process needed to turn boiling water, malted grain, and yeast into five...

Tommy Thompson is getting a second chance to do right by workers exposed to toxins during the cleanup from the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. An $11 million contract to monitor some of those workers recently was granted to Logistics Health Inc., a La Crosse company. Thompson, who was health secretary under the Bush Administration in 2001, now...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- The Wisconsin Entrepreneuers Conference kicks off this morning in Milwaukee and will run through tomorrow with a number of seminars for participants. Craig Culver, head of the Culver restaurants, will deliver the opening remarks at 9:30 a.m. today at the Hyatt Regency. At 6:45 p.m. today, the Governor’s Business Plan Contest awards will...

By Samantha Hernandez WisBusiness.com Madison is getting a saucy new research center. Yuzaburo Mogi, Chairman and CEO of Kikkoman Corporation, announced Friday that the corporation will be opening a research facility that will help create products for an evolving U.S. marketplace. In addition, he said the company is will give $100,000 to the University of Wisconsin for its Environmental...

Most panelists at a June 3 WisPolitics.com- WisBusiness.com forum on the state economy said despite the business slowdown and high gas prices, the state economy itself wasn't in recession. Department of Revenue economist John Koskinen pointed to the state's dipping unemployment rate, for example. And First Weber CEO James Imhoff said despite national housing woes, state real estate...