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51% Would Avoid Doing Business With AirTran; 93% Believe Quality of Service Would Suffer MILWAUKEE, May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Midwest Airlines (AMEX:MEH) , a subsidiary of Midwest Air Group, today released results of a recent survey of Milwaukee and Kansas City-area corporate travel planners showing strong opposition to a takeover of Midwest by AirTran Holdings, parent of AirTran Airways. More...

MILWAUKEE, May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Merge Technologies Incorporated, d.b.a. Merge Healthcare (Nasdaq: MRGE; TSX: MRG), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030430/MRGELOGO ) First Quarter Results: For the first quarter ended March 31, 2007, net sales totaled $15.7 million compared to $16.2 million in the first quarter ended March 31,...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Harry Spiegelberg will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association tonight.  Spiegelberg (whose name means “looking-glass mountain” in German) earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from UW-Madison in 1959. He spent his entire career - mostly in R&D - with Kimberly-Clark. He retired in 1996 as vice president for technology transfer.  ...

By Gregg Hoffmann WisBusiness.com SPARTA – Vernon County Circuit Judge Michael Rosborough has voided City of Sparta approvals for a proposed ethanol plant, thus forcing a repeat of the approval process. Coulee Area Renewable Energy (CARE) LLC, which wants to build the ethanol plant, plans to go through the city approval process again. CARE officials did not say...

The Public Service Commission (PSC) today approved construction of Alliant Energy’s 41-turbine Cedar Ridge Wind Farm in Fond du Lac County. It should begin producing power in 2008. The total capacity of the project is approximately 98 megawatts – enough to supply power for approximately 30,000 residential customers. The wind farm will cost between $140 million and...

MADISON – Today, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) approved construction of Alliant Energy’s Cedar Ridge Wind Farm in Fond du Lac County.  Approval of this wind project takes Wisconsin another step closer to meeting the state’s goal of producing 25% of our energy from renewable energy sources by the year 2025.   “This project is consistent with the...

MILWAUKEE, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- QuadCreative, a marketing communications firm headquartered in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward, was presented on April 24 with the 2007 Bell Award from the Milwaukee Chapter of the Business Marketing Association in the category of "agency-produced Web sites under $50,000." The winning Web site, Blue-Soho.com, was created and launched last summer for New York City-based...