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MILWAUKEE, May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wisconsin Energy (NYSE:WEC) announced today it has agreed to sell $500 million principal amount of 2007 Series A Junior Subordinated Notes due 2067. The junior subordinated notes will initially bear interest at 6.25%. Beginning May 15, 2017, the junior subordinated notes will bear interest at the rate of three-month LIBOR plus 211.25 basis points,...

MILWAUKEE, May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI) will release the results of the first-ever Energy Efficiency Indicator, a research report that examines how much North American businesses anticipate energy prices to increase and the actions they plan to take to combat those increases. Immediately following the research presentation, a panel of executives representing various organizations will describe their...

WAUWATOSA, Wis., and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A nationally-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon at The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, Husam H. Balkhy, M.D., was the first in the United States to use the C-Port(R) Flex A Anastomosis System, a fully-automated, flexible shaft device developed by Cardica, Inc., to attach a blood vessel graft during coronary artery bypass surgery. "By using...

MADISON—Governor Jim Doyle announced today that Berbee Information Networks Corporation, Fitchburg, Dane County, will receive $250,000 in Technology Zone tax credits   “My administration calls for investing in Wisconsin’s economy by fostering technology growth,” said Governor Doyle.  “I am pleased that Berbree Information Networks Corporation is developing an additional data center and creating family supporting jobs in Dane County.”   Berbee Information Networks...

Labor Secretary says Governor’s proposal is crucial to first-rate workforce MADISON – In an address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison today, Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Roberta Gassman said Governor Jim Doyle’s proposal for a 3rd year of math and science in high school is essential in preparing the workers of tomorrow for successful careers in a high-tech global...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com VIROQUA – When Mat Wagner told his friends in Taos that he was going to leave New Mexico to open a fly fishing shop and guide service in a place called the Driftless Area of southwest Wisconsin, they thought he'd lost his marbles. "They were ready to commit me," chuckled Wagner, who relocated with his...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Milwaukee-based We Energies is asking the Public Service Commission (PSC) for permission to raise electric rates for its customers by 7.5 percent in 2008 and another 7.5-percent increase in 2009. But an industrial organization is charging the increase request is actually four times that amount. Todd Stuart, executive director of the Wisconsin Industrial Energy...