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Website Offers One-Stop Assistance for Community Waterfront Revitalization Projects   MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today launched the Wisconsin Waterfront Initiative Website, providing comprehensive information and assistance for communities interested in improving their waterfronts. The website for the Wisconsin Waterfront Initiative is located at http://commerce.wi.gov/wisconsinwaterfront.   “Wisconsin’s rivers, lakes and streams are among our greatest assets.  Revitalizing our waterfronts helps build strong local...

Draft Interim Report to be Reviewed MADISON – On Tuesday, February 19th members of Governor Jim Doyle’s Task Force on Global Warming will meet in Sun Prairie to continue their efforts to address global warming. The Task Force, comprised of a variety of environmental, industry and utility leaders as well as representatives from the DNR and PSC and other stakeholders, has undertaken Governor...

MADISON – Two Wisconsin high school seniors have been named “Young Entrepreneurs of the Year” by the Department of Commerce and the Department of Public Instruction. The pair, Hannah Iverson of Plum City High School and Natasha Holmes of Madison West High School, will be recognized during National Entrepreneurship Week USA, February 24-March 1.   “I am delighted to announce the...

MADISON - In a January ceremony held at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, and attended by Turkish dignitaries, including the president, president of the parliament, prime minister, cabinet ministers, university presidents, and others, University of Wisconsin-Madison Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Tuncer Edil received the Special Science Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Bestowed...

Company Anticipates Annualized Cost Savings of Between $11 and $12 Million MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merge Technologies Incorporated, d.b.a. Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ:MRGE)(TSX:MRG), a medical imaging software and services company, today announced a rightsizing initiative and the planned timing of the issuance of its third quarter 2007 financial results and business operations and strategy conference call. The details of...

OSHKOSH, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK) announced that its access equipment subsidiary, JLG Industries, Inc., the world's leading producer of access equipment, was awarded a delivery order valued at USD $24.7 million for 197 JLG® Millennia Military Vehicle (MMV) telescopic material handlers for the U.S. Navy. The order was awarded by the Defense Supply Center of Philadelphia. “Oshkosh Corporation continues...

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Badger Meter, Inc. (AMEX:BMI) Board of Directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.09 per share to shareholders of record February 29, 2008, payable March 14, 2008. This is the same amount paid in the previous quarter. The company also announced that Gregory M. Gomez has been elected vice president – engineering, and Raymond G. Serdynski...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Wisconsin housing sales fell last year, but prices rose, leaving the state's real estate market in much better shape than many parts of the Midwest and the nation, according to the year-end analysis of existing home sales conducted by the Wisconsin Realtors Association. Badger State home sales declined in 2007 by 10.8 percent compared to...

WisBusiness.com Madison – Wisconsin housing sales fell, but prices rose last year, leaving Wisconsin’s real estate market in much better shape than many parts of the Midwest and the nation, according to the year-end analysis of existing home sales conducted by the Wisconsin REALTORS® Association (WRA). Wisconsin home sales declined in 2007 by 10.8 percent compared to 2006, but median prices actually rose...