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MADISON, Wis., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quarterly dividends on preferred stock have been declared by the Board of Directors of Alliant Energy Corporation's (NYSE:LNT) utility subsidiaries. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020405/LNTLOGO) Wisconsin Power and Light Company Preferred Stock Dividends The Board of Directors of Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL) has declared dividends for its preferred stock shareowners of record...

UW Extension Outreach Specialist Greg Lawless will head sector-based work February 11, 2008 (Madison, WI) – Thrive, a not-for-profit entity serving the eight-county Madison Region*, is pleased to announce the appointment of Director of Agriculture Initiatives, Greg Lawless. Greg earned a BA in Political Science at the University of Illinois in 1989 and an MS in Land Resources at...

NOTE: The news summary sent earlier this morning inadvertently included content from the Tuesday edition. The summary below has today's content. From WisBusiness.com ... -- For a doctor, Craig Samitt has a rather bleak view of health care delivery in the United States. “The industry is broken … and needs to be transformed,” said Samitt, who has been CEO of the...

Speech for “Coping with Climate Change” conference There’s a calamity on the horizon. All the evidence points to it. There’s a growing consensus, and we all better get ready to do something about it. The future is bleak. Billions of dollars will be lost, lives will be affected. Do my words alarm you? They should, because I’m talking about a major threat...

Speech for “Coping with Climate Change” conference February 11, 2008 If I wasn’t an “energy wonk” before going to Congress, the fact is, I am now, and a gathering such as this, believe it or not, really is my idea of a good time! But, you know, this event, like the topic of climate change, itself, does have its skeptics. ...

An expert on using market approaches to spark environmental improvementwill speak in Madison next week. Terry Anderson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, will speak on"Water, Water Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Sell," at 4 p.m. on Tuesday,Feb. 19, at the Pyle Center on the UW-Madison campus, 702 Langdon St. Anderson said his lecture will focus on how water...

Can China and India keep up their explosive growth? And what does itmean if they do?An international trade expert from Cornell University will address thoseissues in a free, public lecture on Monday, Feb. 18, on the UW-Madisoncampus."Are China's and India's Growth Miracles Built to Last" will be thetopic by Eswar Prasad, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pyle Center, 702...

$50 Million Investment Will Retain Jobs and Increase Energy Efficiency GREEN BAY – Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Georgia-Pacific is investing $50 million to create a state-of-the-art recycling system that will retain high-paying, high-quality jobs in Wisconsin and greatly improve energy efficiency.   “Georgia-Pacific has been a national leader in recycling for more than 70 years, starting in the 1930s when...