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WASHINGTON - Today, three U.S. Senators joined Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI)in sending a letter to the CEO of AirTran, Joseph Leonard, opposing hisairline's takeover attempt of Midwest Airlines. In their letter,Senators Kit Bond (R-MO), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Ben Nelson (D-NE) andKohl cite growing concerns that the merger will diminish service qualityand competition in their local airline markets. Kohl is...

MADISON, Wis., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- ACIDplanet.com(R), one of the Internet's premier sites for user-generated music and video content and computer-based recording and remixing tools, has launched a new remix contest with a reinvented, pop-indie rock band, The Ataris. Aspiring musicians and music video producers can now add their style and flavor to a song track off the Ataris'...

MILWAUKEE, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Johnson Controls, Inc. has unveiled a new, industry-defining business model for its global real estate and facilities management business. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030423/JCILOGO ) Johnson Controls' Global WorkPlace Solutions has been created to fulfill increasing demands from global businesses for a single supplier who can deliver end-to-end, integrated corporate workplace services, on-demand, wherever and whenever they want them...

MILWAUKEE – Readers of The Business Journal in Milwaukee overwhelmingly believe the federal government should approve the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin’s proposed Kenosha entertainment center and casino, according to a recent online poll by the newspaper.  Results of the Business Journal’s “Business Pulse Survey” ran strongly in favor of the casino proposal, with 62 percent of respondents answering...

MADISON  - By mimicking Nature's way of distinguishing one type of cell from another, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists now report they can more effectively seek out and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy ones.The new tumor targeting strategy, presented March 25 at the annual national meeting of the American Chemical Society, cleverly harnesses one of the body's natural antibodies...

MADISON - Gene therapy - the idea of using genetic instructions rather than drugs to treat disease - has tickled scientists' imaginations for decades, but is not yet a viable therapeutic method.  One sizeable hurdle is getting the right genes into the right place at the right time. Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are now developing a tool...

MADISON - Jim VandeHei, executive editor of the popular new Washington, D.C. Web site ThePolitico.com, and Charles Gasparino, on-air editor and business reporter for CNBC, will visit the UW-Madison campus in April as writers in residence.VandeHei recently left the Washington Post, where he had been national political reporter, to help run the much-anticipated Internet venture in national political news,...

EVANSVILLE - Governor Jim Doyle today broke ground on a new biodiesel refining facility in Evansville and announced $125,000 from the Department of Transportation and $125,000 from the Department of Commerce.   "With new technology, and a commitment to renewable fuels, Wisconsin can lead the way - reducing global warming and helping this nation kick its addiction to foreign oil," Governor...

Timothy Hoeksema, chairman and chief executive officer of Midwest Air Group Inc., will be the featured guest at the next Milwaukee Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon. The event will take place Wednesday, March 28, beginning at noon at the Newsroom Pub, 137 E. Wells St., in downtown Milwaukee Hoeksema will discuss how the Oak Creek-based parent company of Midwest Airlines...

WAUKESHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare became the world market share leader in the compact ultrasound industry in 2006, as cited in a recent industry report issued by Klein Biomedical Consultants, an internationally recognized source of ultrasound market and trends. GE was the market leader with a 43 percent share, according to the report. GE announced today the company’s global Compact...