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Governor Doyle also asks for review of safety data on all state bridges The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) announced today it istaking steps to inspect 16 deck truss bridges in the state that are similarin design to the I-35 West bridge in Minnesota that collapsed on Wednesday."Right now, there is nothing to indicate the deck truss design played...

MADISON - If efforts now under way by a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers pan out, the age of the nanomechanical computer may be at hand.Instead of relying on solid-state transistors and other electronic components to compute ones and zeroes, such a machine would depend purely on moving parts - gates and pillars and levers and pistons -...

John Pollock to Retire at Year End SUN PRAIRIE, Wis., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- QBE the Americas announced earlier today that President and CEO John Pollock will retire at year-end after 29 years of service to the company. John will continue as chairman of the General Casualty and Unigard board of directors. Peter Christen, the current President and CEO...

John Pollock to Retire at Year End SUN PRAIRIE, Wis., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- QBE the Americas announced earlier today that President and CEO John Pollock will retire at year-end after 29 years of service to the company. John will continue as chairman of the General Casualty and Unigard board of directors. Peter Christen, the current President and CEO...

MADISON, Wis., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announces today the relocation of the Disaster Loan Outreach Center in Grant County. SBA is relocating the Center to make it more convenient for the disaster victims. SBA encourages victims of the severe storms and flooding that occurred on July 18, 2007 to visit the Center and...

CLEVELAND, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Resilience Capital Partners (www.resiliencecapital.com), a Cleveland-based private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of Penda Corporation of Portage, Wisconsin. Penda Automotive is a leading manufacturer of original equipment and aftermarket drop-in bedliners and thermoformed tonneau covers. The Penda Water Management business unit serves a growing range of customers through its innovative SmartDitch(TM) thermoformed channel/ditch-lining system....

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- With summer soon coming to an end, allergy sufferers may begin to feel relief from the diminishing tree and grass pollen. Unfortunately, the end of summer also means the start of ragweed season, which unofficially begins in mid-August. For the nearly 36 million Americans who are affected by seasonal allergic rhinitis, or "hay fever," this...

SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bucyrus International, Inc. (NASDAQ:BUCY) , one of the world's leading manufacturers of large-scale excavation equipment used in surface mining, and a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of high technology system solutions for underground coal mining as a result of its recent acquisition of DBT GmbH ("DBT"), announced today its summary unaudited results...

By Patrick Fitzgerald WisBusiness.com AirTran Holdings CEO Joe Leonard, the featured guest at Wednesday’s Milwaukee Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon, said he believes his company is in a unique position to make an imminent buyout of Midwest Airlines. “We have demonstrated by keeping our costs low that we have a business model that can go against...

By Brian Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – As expected, the American Transmission Co. (ATC) today announced that a route following the Beltline was one of its two choices for a new 345-kilovolt power line running across Dane County. The second one follows a southerly path running through mostly rural land. A third, central course through the Town of...