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MADISON, WI (November 5, 2007) — DeWitt Ross & Stevens is pleased to announce the addition of Derek R. Kritzer to its Madison, Wisconsin, office.   Mr. Kritzer’s practice is focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations, real estate, securities and intellectual property law. He has handled a number of transactions involving the acquisition of hotel properties, dental practices...

Highlights include celebration of nomination of Taliesin and Taliesin West for World Heritage Site status, reunion gala, and symposium featuring international panel deliberating future of architectural education SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 300 people, including 50 former apprentices to Frank Lloyd Wright and many graduates of the architecture school that bears his name, will celebrate the...

MADISON, Wis., Nov. 2 /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...

BELOIT, Wisc., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Henry W. Knueppel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Regal Beloit Corporation (NYSE:RBC) , announced that the Board of Directors, at their regular quarterly meeting, declared a dividend of $.15 per share payable on January 16, 2008, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 28, 2007. The dividend represents...

BELOIT, Wis., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Regal Beloit Corporation (NYSE:RBC) today announced that the Company has acquired Alstom's motors and fans business in India. The business is located in Kolkata, India and manufactures and markets a full range of low and medium voltage industrial motors and fans for the industrial and process markets in India. Alstom is noted for...

MILWAUKEE, WI, November 6, 2007 (foreclosureswi.com) - Wisconsin foreclosurefilings reached record highs in October according to newly released datacompiled by ForeclosuresWI.com, a leading provider of Wisconsin foreclosureresources and statistics.   After rising 34% in 2006, another 17,013 Wisconsin homes entered theforeclosure process in the first ten months of 2007, which on averageequates to 88 foreclosures filed every business day....

Sustainable has been a word you’ve heard used by community planners in Western Wisconsin and around the state and country for quite some time now. Eleven municipalities around the state, including La Crosse city and county in the western region, have declared themselves “eco-municipalities.” Groups like the Wisconsin chapter of the American Planners Association, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin...

If you notice yourself double-checking account balances more frequently at the end of each month before that next paycheck arrives, you’re probably not alone. In a 2003 statewide survey of Wisconsin adults, just over half (52 percent) of the respondents said they believed they had less money left over at the end of each month than they had 12...

MADISON – The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) will hold public hearings on Monday, November 12 in Madison, Eau Claire and La Crosse on Xcel Energy’s request to increase its electric and natural gas rates.   Xcel Energy has requested to increase their electric rates by 14.32 percent and natural gas rates by 3.34 percent.   When a utility requests a change...