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By Brian E. Clark RISING Logistics Health The U.S. Government Accountability Office has dismissed a bid protest against La Crosse-based Logistics Health Inc. Passport Health and other competitors filed the protest in October, claiming LHI unfairly received a $790 million contract for services to the Defense Department because company executives had close ties to the Bush administration. LHI beat out to other bidders whose proposals ranged...

***************************************** WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com: "COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE" EVENT SET FOR FEB. 11 Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., and former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair James Hoecker will highlight a "Coping with Climate Change" conference on Monday, Feb. 11.  The half-day conference at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison will bring together energy experts with Wisconsin, Midwest and Washington, D.C. perspectives to discuss the ins and...

Minnesota and Ohio Attract Most Dollars  Cleveland, OH, January 21, 2008 – Midwest health care startups attracted a record $1.2 billion in new investments in 2007, according to the Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report released by BioEnterprise.  The total represents a 55 percent increase over 2006, a sharp rise that both outpaces national venture industry growth and even surpasses the...

You won’t hear complaints about the winter weather from at least some business people in Western Wisconsin. Businesses that depend on outdoor recreation are having their best season in years. Darcie Breidel, marketing director at Mount La Crosse ski hill, recently told the La Crosse Tribune, “It’s been one of our best in about eight years in terms of numbers,...