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Madison – The installation of surveillance cameras at 32 critical Madison Water Utility sites will enhance the security of the community’s water supply, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and County Executive Kathleen Falk announced today.   “The safety of our drinking water is vitally important,” said Mayor Cieslewicz. “This new system will provide us with real-time surveillance of critical Water Utility facilities,...

Motor carriers can get audit services without paying professional consulting fee if they score all satisfactory ratings during audit   De Pere, Wisconsin – (March 19, 2008) – Optima Associates, Inc., an operations, risk and asset management consulting firm based in De Pere, Wis., has come up with a new way to assist motor carriers with DOT compliance. The company will...

Four additional businesses now open in Portage County Business Park   Stevens Point, WI – (March 19, 2008) – The Veranda, The Pink Boutique, Designers II and Stodola-Maas Construction are open for business in Oakwood Center in the Portage County Business Park.   The Veranda is a cafe and coffeehouse that offers sandwiches, soups, salads, a kids’ menu, local microbrew beers, Wisconsin wines,...

MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison students are invited to learn what it takes to stop counting pennies and start securing their futures at the annual Financial Independence Seminar, to be hosted Saturday, April 5, by the Wisconsin Student Alumni Board (WASB).The non-biased seminar will help students and soon-to-be graduates prepare for financial stability and independence after college. Co-hosted by...

Residents of Walworth, Jefferson and Rock Counties Can Expect Reliable Coverage, High-Speed Features MILWAUKEE, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless today announced its plans to expand coverage in southern Wisconsin. This expansion, which will be completed in the next three months, will bring the nation's most reliable network to approximately 59,000 residents in Walworth, Jefferson and Rock counties. The new...

MILWAUKEE, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE:MTG) ("MGIC") has announced that it intends, subject to market and other conditions, to initiate a public offering of approximately $350 million of its common shares, plus up to approximately $53 million of additional common shares that are subject to a 30-day option granted to the underwriters of the offering. Banc...

DUBLIN, Ohio, and WAUWATOSA, Wis., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardinal Health and GE Healthcare announced an agreement today to broaden the availability of GE Healthcare's Myoview(TM) (Tetrofosmin) cardiac imaging agent through Cardinal Health's leading network of specialized nuclear pharmacies. The agreement will give Cardinal Health's customers greater access to Myoview(TM), a leading myocardial perfusion imaging technetium agent used in the...

MILWAUKEE, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE:MTG) ("MGIC") has announced that it intends, subject to market and other conditions, to commence a private placement of $325 million of convertible junior subordinated debentures due 2063 (the "debentures") by means of a private placement to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended....

APPLETON, Wis., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The top environmental lawyer for Appleton Papers, said today that Monday's jury decision in Brown County to have insurance companies cover Appleton's share of the cost of the cleanup of PCB contamination in the Lower Fox River was a positive step for the company and community. But the dollars to pay for remediation...

MILWAUKEE, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Who: Allen Leverett - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Wisconsin Energy Corporation (NYSE:WEC) What: 2008 Mid-Cap Utility Conference ...

Public Encouraged to Provide Comments on Interim Report and Progress of Task Force MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle’s Task Force on Global Warming will hold a public input session on Wednesday, March 19, 2008. The session will be held simultaneously by videoconference in Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and La Crosse from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. The Task Force, comprised of a variety of...

MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle announced today that federal disaster funds have been made available for eight Wisconsin counties to supplement emergency response efforts to a major winter storm that hit the state in early February.  The eligible counties named in the snow emergency declaration are Dane, Dodge, Green, Jefferson, Milwaukee, Rock, Walworth, and Washington Counties.  The declaration covers...

CAMBRIA – Work continues daily on the construction of Wisconsin’s newest state-of-the-art ethanol production facility in Cambria. In an effort to gear up for upcoming operation, Didion announced the addition of several key staff members.   “We’ve assembled a great team to run our facility,” said John Didion, CEO of Didion Ethanol. “We’re excited about the talent we’ve put together and...

MADISON - A University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Maryland (UM) team has developed a new nanotechnology-driven chemical catalyst that paves the way for more efficient hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.Writing in this week's Advance Online Publication of Nature Materials, UW-Madison chemical and biological engineering Professor Manos Mavrikakis and UM chemistry and biochemistry Professor Bryan Eichhorn describe a new type of...