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Lt. Governor Will Address Importance of Local Arts Infrastructure   Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton will discuss the importance of a strong regional arts and culture sector for economic development at the Wisconsin Counties Association 2008 Legislative Exchange at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at the Concourse Hotel in Madison.    WHERE:         The Madison Concourse Hotel 1 West Dayton Street                         Madison   WHEN:           ...

MADISON – The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) will hold a public outreach meeting in Portage on Monday, February 11 regarding an application from Alliant Energy to build a new electric power plant. In early 2007, Alliant Energy filed an application with the PSC for permission to build a new 300 megawatt coal-fired electric generation facility. Alliant Energy has indentified two possible locations...

MADISON - A new statewide project will assess the potential consequences of climate change for Wisconsin's ecosystems, industries, farms and human health and will recommend adaptation strategies.The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) will organize teams of experts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, state agencies and other institutions to consider how local and regional shifts in temperature, precipitation...

By Brian E. Clark RISING Sargento Aided by more than $4 million in state tax credits and grants, Sargento Foods is in the midst of a $50 million expansion that officials said should add 500 jobs during the next five years to plants in Hilbert, Kiel and Plymouth. The growth will increase the number of Sargento employees by 45 percent. The figure now stands at 1,140...

-- The final report of the governor’s global warming task force won't be finished until May, five months later than it was initially scheduled to be released. But Roy Thilly, co-chair of the group, said an interim report should be issued by the end of this month. He said it will most likely emphasize relatively non-controversial conservation and increased...

By Sean Lewis WisBusiness.com MADISON -- Chemotherapy... The word is enough to put shivers down your spine. Everyone knows what chemotherapy means: cancer. And if cancer isn’t bad enough you get the side effects of chemotherapy: losing hair, exhaustion and nausea. What if there were a drug that would help cure cancer more effectively than current techniques, such as...

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith Investment Company (Pink Sheets: SMIC) announced today that it has made a proposal to restructure its holdings in A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE:AOS) . The proposed transaction would result in the shareholders of Smith Investment having direct ownership of the same number and type of A. O. Smith shares currently held by Smith...