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  Mission DescriptionThe World Trade Center will lead a business mission to Central Europe in June 2007. The delegation will travel together from the U.S. to Vienna (Austria) and from there have the option to visit Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), and Prague (Czech Republic) with the possibility of continuing to Warsaw (Poland).The mission will include representatives from local companies interested...

Madison, WI: Tuesday morning at 8:00am, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials used a warrant for one local resident to detain that individual and two other workers who had no criminal record.   Without prior communication with local officials, ICE entered a local apartment on Madison area's south side and arrested three individuals, two of whom were detained without...

MADISON - Two vastly different Wisconsin lake districts - one in a dynamic agricultural and urban setting, the other in a forested and much less developed region of the state - are proving their value as sentinels of regional environmental change, according to a new report.Writing in the April issue of the journal BioScience, an interdisciplinary team of Wisconsin...

Community encouraged to attend and provide input> The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) will hold a series of> public information meetings to present alternatives on possible> improvements to the I-94 North-South Corridor, extending from the Mitchell> Interchange area in Milwaukee to the Illinois state line.  Meeting dates> and locations are as follows:> >     Racine area> Oak Creek...

CLEVELAND, April 24, 2007 – Midwest health care startups reported a staggering $324 million in total investments across 43 companies in the first quarter of 2007, according to the BioEnterprise’s Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report. The numbers more than double similar figures from the first quarter of 2006, a significant jump that reflects the Midwest’s growing popularity with...

Governor Jim Doyle will launch a new statewide manufacturing certification program, tomorrow, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee. The Governor will also announce a new Manufacturing Advisory Council.   Later in the day, at 1:00 p.m., the Governor will address the 10th Annual Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership Manufacturing Matters! conference.  Manufacturing Matters!...

MOSINEE, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wausau Paper (NYSE:WPP) today reported net earnings for the first quarter of $15.0 million, or $0.29 per share, compared with a net loss of $0.5 million, or $0.01 per share, in the previous year. Net sales rose 6 percent to a record first-quarter $299.4 million, and shipments increased 1 percent to a record 227,000 tons. Included in...

WHITEWATER ­ The student chapter of Pi Omega Pi will celebrate its 75thanniversary after years of service and helping students become the besteducators they can be.The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater¹s Psi Chapter began in 1932 and PaulA. Carlson was the first person to sign the membership book. The College ofBusiness and Economics building was named in honor of Carlson and...

GREEN BAY, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Associated Banc-Corp (NASDAQ:ASBC) Chairman and CEO Paul S. Beideman announced a 7 percent increase in the company’s regular quarterly cash dividend to 31 cents per share, from 29 cents, at today’s annual meeting of shareholders. Shareholders of record on May 7, 2007, will receive the dividend on May 15, 2007. This makes 2007 the 37th consecutive...

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Directors of The Marcus Corporation (NYSE:MCS) today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.085 per share of common stock. The dividend will be paid May 15, 2007 to shareholders of record on May 7, 2007. The Board of Directors also declared a dividend of $0.07727 per share on the Class B common stock. The dividend on the...

April 24, 2007 - Milwaukee, WI - CKME Entertainment, organizers of the Rock Culture Music Festival, announced today the headliners for its Madison tour stop which takes place April 27th-28th and May 4th- May 5th at the Annex located on the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus. Local Madison band, I Voted For Kodos, will headline April 28th in one...

MADISON – Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Roberta Gassman today announced March 2007 unemployment rates for the state’s metropolitan statistical areas (MSA).  In March, unemployment rates were lower in all but one of the state’s 12 MSAs compared to the previous month, with the Janesville MSA registering a 0.2 percentage point increase to 6.5 percent.  The number...

MADISON – Today the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin pointed to the need for change of the fuel rule process when it adjusted Madison Gas and Electric Company’s (MGE) rates for a refund for 2006 and for an interim increase going forward in 2007. "The process worked well when fuel prices were fairly stable, but today fuel prices are...

WisBusiness Staff Stoughton Trailers has notified state and local officials that it plans to lay off more than 1,100 workers by June 22 at plants in Stoughton, Evansville and Brodhead. The majority of the dismissals will take place in Stoughton, where 677 employees will lose their jobs. Next comes Brodhead, where 315 workers will be furloughed; and then Evansville, where...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com The federal government sent $338 billion in 2005 to the states to fund research, buy products and pay for services. Wisconsin got $3.3 billion of that money, up 40 percent from 2004. But the Badger State could do much better, the new head of the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium (WSRC) told a Wisconsin Innovation...