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MADISON, Wis., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite a recent law signed by President Bush, patient safety remains in jeopardy. Necessary information about treatments and procedures is still unavailable to average citizens. Now patients can buy a collaborative experience report from HealthLat (www.healthlat.com) to make truly informed medical decisions. Current health care systems cannot effectively monitor patient safety. Lacking incentives, shareholders...

Brewer Takes Home Eight Medals at Annual Brewing Competition MILWAUKEE, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Miller Brewing Company, America's oldest major brewer, added eight medals to its trophy case this weekend at the Brewers Association's annual Great American Beer Festival. Since 1996, Miller now has won an industry-leading 113 awards between both the Great American Beer Festival and the bi-annual...

MADISON-- Governor Jim Doyle announced today that the City of Waterloo, Jefferson County, will receive a $118,500 grant from the Community Development Block Grant-Public Facilities and Economic Development (CDBG-PFED) program of the Department of Commerce (Commerce) to provide the infrastructure necessary to support a business expansion   “My administration is committed to helping communities with the infrastructure necessary to support new...

Milwaukee (October 15, 2007).The law firm of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is pleased to announce that Timothy F. Nixon has been named to the American Bankruptcy Law Journal's 2008 Editorial Advisory Board. Nixon was selected by the  National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Board of Governors from a national pool of candidates, and he will fill one of two practicing...

MADISON/MILWAUKEE (October 15, 2007) The prestigious national publication The Best Lawyers in America® has named one-third of the lawyers at DeWitt Ross & Stevens—30—to its Best Lawyers list for 2008.   DeWitt Ross & Stevens is Madison’s largest full-service law firm with offices in Madison and Metro Milwaukee.   Selected by peers, the 30 Best Lawyers at DeWitt Ross & Stevens...

By Brian Clark WisBusiness.com Roy Thilly, co-chair of the Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming, doesn’t think Wisconsin will be building any nuclear power plants in the next decade. “I don’t,” said Thilly, who is president of Sun Prairie-based Wisconsin Public Power Inc., a regional utility that serves 49 customer-owned electric utilities. Legislation to break the state's building moratorium has been introduced in the...

By Brian E. Clark RISING Milwaukee Philanthropist Joe Zilber is fulfilling the final piece of his multi-million dollar pledge to improve Milwaukee with a $1.5 million donation to the United Way of Greater Milwaukee. The gift completes the 90-year-old Brew City native’s promise to give $50 million to Milwaukee organizations, nonprofits and institutions to improve his home town.  Zilber, a real estate baron, is redeveloping the...

VantageScore's retail industry popularity continues to grow COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Experian(R), a global information services provider, today announced that Kohl's, one of the nation's premiere department store retailers, will utilize VantageScore(SM) from Experian for scoring both its retail credit card application approval process and its portfolio and account review process. VantageScore, a credit score jointly developed...

248th consecutive quarter of common stock dividend payouts MADISON, Wis., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE:LNT) announced today quarterly dividends on common stock were declared by the Board of Directors. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020405/LNTLOGO) The common stock dividend is $0.3175 per share payable November 15, 2007, to shareowners of record on close of business, October 31, 2007. Dividends on common stock have...