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WisBusiness.com Gov. Jim Doyle has not yet taken a position on the state branding bill passed by a voice vote in the Assembly yesterday. Doyle spokeswoman Carla Vigue said the governor “needs to take a closer look at the proposal and see how it interacts with what we are trying to do at the Tourism Department.” At Tourism, Secretary Kelli...

WisBusiness.com Wisconsin has received a $1.8 million National Emergency Grant to assist workers displaced by the closure of the Electrical and Safety and Powertrain divisions of Delphi Corporation located in Oak Creek, Gov. Jim Doyle announced today. The grant, awarded to the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), will be used to provide assessment, counseling, retraining, and job placement services...

MADISON - In the four short months since its launch in October 2007, the University of Wisconsin-Madison-based ACTION Campaign to combat substance abuse has already met its initial goal to enlist 500 agencies nationwide."Our original projections were to recruit 500 agencies over an 18-month period," says Campaign Director Kim Johnson. "With this early success, we are optimistic that we...

MADISON - While the average U.S. high school may not offer classes in Turkish or Indonesian, an international competition will soon be bringing them to Madison's high school students.On Feb. 5, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies and Edgewood High School will host the 2008 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad Open competition, which is open...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., and WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Data Management group of Pearson and Renaissance Learning, Inc., today announced a marketing relationship that will result in the launch of the Engage(TM) Response System, an innovative new tool for increasing class participation, assessing student progress and improving overall achievement. Designed with both the student and teacher in...

MADISON, Wis., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE:LNT) has scheduled its fourth quarter and annual 2007 earnings release for Wednesday, February 6, before the stock market opens. A conference call to review the fourth quarter results is scheduled for the same day at 9:00 a.m. CT. Alliant Energy will webcast the event live at http://www.alliantenergy.com/investors. The call is...

MADISON, Wis., Jan. 24, 2008 – The following is a statement by Jim Leonhart, executive vice president of the Wisconsin Biotechnology & Medical Device Association, regarding Gov. Doyle’s State of the State Address. "Wisconsin’s bioscience industry applauds Gov. Doyle’s efforts to grow the state’s innovation economy by fostering increased research and development, and supporting new and emerging businesses through...