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RACINE, Wis., May 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a new tool available that will help keep more Great Lakes beaches open for swimming. The Great Lakes Beach Sanitary Survey Tool is designed help beach managers identify sources of bacterial contamination at their beaches so they can address them. It was developed and piloted at beaches...

MILWAUKEE, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank (M&I Bank) has announced the promotion of Walt A. Buckhanan to senior vice president. Buckhanan serves as M&I's director of corporate diversity and has been with the Corporation since 1986. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080530/AQF029) Buckhanan earned a bachelor's degree from Saint Paul's College. Active in the community, Buckhanan serves on the boards of...

Scope of devastation and employee response result in $1.4 million in support MILWAUKEE, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As the scope of the devastation in China has become known, Johnson Controls has increased its original donation to the Red Cross Society of China from $500,000 to $1 million for disaster relief efforts. In addition, Johnson Controls' employees located in China...

Bailet, president of Aurora Medical Group, one of only 11 members nationwide MILWAUKEE, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Jeffrey W. Bailet, MD, of Lake Geneva, has been appointed to the American Medical Association's Advisory Committee on Group Practice Physicians. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080530/AQF042) Dr. Bailet, an otolaryngologist, is a senior vice president at Aurora Health Care and president of Aurora Medical Group, which has...

MANITOWOC, Wis., May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE:MTW) today announced that it will participate in the J. P. Morgan Basics & Industrials Conference, which will be held at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in New York City from June 2 - 4, 2008. Glen E. Tellock, president and chief executive officer, and Carl J. Laurino, senior...

BELOIT, Wis., May 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Regal Beloit Corporation (NYSE:RBC) will be attending the KeyBanc Capital Markets 7th Annual Industrial Automotive & Transportation Investment Conference on June 4, 2008. The Company representatives will be hosting meetings in the Brandeis Room at the Boston Park Plaza located at 50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116. Regal Beloit Corporation is...

MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today signed thirteen bills into law to ratify State of Wisconsin employee contracts.    “I want to thank state employees for making these contracts possible,” Governor Doyle said.  “In the face of hard economic times, state employees are making real sacrifices.”   Serious fiscal times in Wisconsin and nationally, called for a change in the initial...

Madison – Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will lead tomorrow's official kickoff of MadiSUN program, an initiative to double Madison’s use of solar energy by 2010. The City of Madison has developed this two-year program in conjunction with Focus on Energy and UW Extension, with $200,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Solar America Cities” program. The mayor will be joined at the...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com In an earlier phase of his career, Terry Whipple was a fixer, flying off to California, Arizona or New York to help turn around distressed companies for wealthy, dissatisfied investors. But around seven years ago, he tired of spending so much time away from his family and began looking for a job where he didn’t...

You would expect a group of Cistercian monks to set good examples, but not necessarily as businessmen. Yet, the monks at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank near Sparta are setting a great example for doing business by providing reasonably-priced products in a caring, ethical way. Their venture is called LaserMonks.com. The business had $4.5 million in...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Wisconsin Department of Revenue Department Economist John Koskinen says the Badger State economy is doing better than most of its neighbors and should post a growth rate of up to 1.5 percent this year. Speaking on WISC TV’s “For the Record” program Sunday, Koskinen said that rate should increase to 3 percent as economic...