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A Trip to Any U.S. Sporting Event is On the Line through 'Calling All SuperFans' Promotion MILWAUKEE, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Professional sports teams typically create bobble heads to honor top athletes who can crush 500-foot homeruns, perform rim-rattling slam dunks or throw a football 80 yards. But thanks to Icehouse, now even a former softball team bench-warmer-turned-accountant can...

Plans to Increase National Presence to 1,400 stores by 2012 Company Celebrates Largest Grand Opening in Its History with 95-Store Expansion MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Kohl’s Corporation (NYSE:KSS) announced its five-year strategic growth plan for 2008 through 2012, highlighting financial objectives and plans for a national presence of 1,400 stores. At...

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Journal Sentinel Inc. announced today that it has begun a voluntary employee separation program to better align the size of its business with the changing dynamics of the newspaper industry. Journal Sentinel Inc. is a Journal Communications’ (NYSE:JRN) company. Effective immediately, full-time employees of Journal Sentinel Inc. with ten years of service or more as of October 26,...

Groundbreaking Web Site Features Unprecedented Functionality, Privacy, and Ease of Use for Consumers; Enables Community Banks, Thrifts, and Credit Unions to Compete Directly with Mortgage Rate Portals and Loan Aggregators for New Online Loan Business MEQUON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Home buyers are shopping for mortgage loans, and lenders want their business. How best...

Through a Patent-Pending Service at HealthLat, Individuals Who Have Undergone Medical Treatments Are Able to Share Experiences with Others Seeking First-Hand Personalized Information and Make Significant Earnings MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Healthcare costs for patients can be reduced. HealthLat (www.healthlat.com) has introduced a novel service where individuals can offset their healthcare costs by...

MANITOWOC, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tower Tech Holdings Inc. (TWRT) has closed the previously announced acquisition of RBA, Inc., a Manitowoc, Wisconsin-based fabricator of components for energy-related industries. Tower Tech purchased all of the outstanding stock of RBA for $5 million. Tower Tech expects that the acquisition will expand its product portfolio for the wind turbine industry and increase its energy-related fabrication...

MADISON -Garrett R. Oetzel, a food animal production medicine veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2007 AABP Alpharma Award of Excellence during the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on September 22, 2007.The award, established in 1989, recognizes a veterinarian in academia, industry or public practice...

International campaign aims to clean up banks’ dirty energy investments SAN FRANCISCO – Rainforest Action Network (RAN) unveiled research today detailing Citi (NYSE:C) and Bank of America’s (NYSE:BAC) extensive investments in the coal industry and announced a new campaign to shift the financial sector’s multi-billion dollar investments away from dirty energy and toward clean energy solutions. Authors, activists, coal-affected-community...

Madison – Mayor Dave Cieslewicz introduced his 2008 executive operating budget today, proposing fiscally-responsible investments in public safety, quality of life and economic development. The $224 million budget now goes to the Common Council for review and approval.   The Mayor unveiled his budget proposal at Operation Fresh Start, a non-profit organization that provides comprehensive employment and training services to...

By Tom Burzinzki In 1962, a former IBM salesman, H. Ross Perot, spent his nights driving around Dallas, Texas searching for computers to process data for the customers of his new company, Electronic Data Systems (EDS). He knew that it was not uncommon for even Fortune 500 companies to power down their computers at night; there just was not...

By Jennifer Sereno There’s something to be said for the power of positive thinking, and it appears that residents of northeastern Wisconsin are more willing than most of us to look on the bright side in the face of unexpected challenges.   Perhaps it’s a sense of optimism about the Green Bay Packers and their early season prospects -- undefeated as of...

By Brian E. Clark RISING Janesville This Rock County city breathed a big sigh last week when 2,600 GM hourly employees (6 percent of the city’s workforce) went back to work at the end of a two-day strike by the United Auto Workers union. Tentative contract deals include a commitment by GM to build SUVs at the plant beyond 2012. That news was greeted...