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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...

WisBusiness.com Walgreens has agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million to the Wisconsin Medicaid Program to settle allegations of improper billing, Attorney General Van Hollen announced today. The payment, part of a $35 million settlement with the United States, 42 states, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, resolves claims that Walgreens violated various state and federal statutes and regulations...