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MADISON - Already home to one of the world's most impressive collections of huge research instruments, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison (NMRFAM) is about to add another giant. Located deep within the biochemistry addition at UW-Madison, the facility houses a number of high-tech machines called NMR spectrometers, which use a magnet and radio waves...

MADISON – The Internal Revenue Service this week extended the deadline to August 29, 2008 for tax relief provisions. The extension is available to affected taxpayers in federally declared disaster areas for tax return and report filing, tax payment and other deadline-sensitive actions. The federal extension will also apply to the filing of certain Wisconsin individual income,...

Unadjusted Data MADISON – Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Roberta Gassman announced today that Wisconsin’s unemployment rate for June was 4.9 percent, up 0.7 percentage points from May, a seasonal phenomenon as the workforce surges due to students looking for summer jobs. The rate was one-tenth of a percentage point higher than the rate in June of 2007....

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Following a rash of negative publicity, Commerce Secretary Jack Fischer says he will resign Friday, writing in a letter to the governor that "it has become increasingly difficult to carry out the mission of the Department." Last week, Fischer was the subject of several stories raising questions about expenses that he charged on a recent...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Flambeau River BioFuels President Bob Byrne says his company could have its biorefinery in Park Falls up in running by the spring of 2011, now that the U.S. Department of Energy has said it will pitch in $30 million to fund the project. Byrne said the biorefinery, which will produce around 6 million gallons of...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Milwaukee-based Marshall & Ilsley Corp. is reporting a net loss $1.52 per share for the second quarter as it absorbs nearly $900 million in losses, primarily from the struggling construction and real estate development markets in west Florida and Arizona. That’s down from a profit of 68 cents a share for the same...

WisBusiness.com Beating out locales such as Atlanta, Dallas, Denver and Seattle, Milwaukee has been ranked as the ninth best city by Forbes.com in its "Best Cities For Young Professionals" list. Other Midwestern cities in the top 10 are Chicago, sixth place; and Minneapolis, fifth. Forbes ranked the country's 40 biggest metropolitan areas for economic opportunity for young...