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Madison, WI – Swapna Deshpande has joined the law firm of Murphy Desmond S.C. as an associate attorney in the practice areas of bankruptcy, business law and civil litigation. Deshpande joined the firm initially as a law clerk in 2005. Prior to working at Murphy Desmond, Deshpande was a law clerk in the Office of Governor Jim Doyle. She also...

Milladore, Wis.– of Milladore, Wis., has released a white paper to help small businesses better and more quickly adapt to change. IMT is a training firm that offers change management assistance for small businesses and other organizations through kits and on-site facilitated sessions. According to Patrick Seaton, president of IMT, the white paper was created to help small businesses better...

ASHLAND - Determining how technology can help drive a community'seconomic future often begins with an honest assessment of what doesn'tmake sense.Unless a community or region has a major medical research institution inits backyard, it simply won't become the nation's next biotechnology "hotspot," even if free land and tax incentives are thrown on the table. With40-plus states, including Wisconsin, scrambling...

WEST ALLIS, WIS., July 19, 2006 – The Wisconsin Dental Foundation, which is largely supported by individual member dentists of the Wisconsin Dental Association (WDA), is awarding $8,000 in scholarships to 16 dental hygiene students enrolled in state technical colleges who have demonstrated academic achievement and financial need. Recipients of this year’s $500 scholarships and their hometowns include: Chippewa...

STAR Credit Union, located at the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, 2001 Taft Street, has received a $15,000 grant from the National Credit Union Foundation. The grant will be used to increase the STAR Credit Union members by an additional 40 at-risk children. Grant money will also be used to recruit 15 STAR Credit Union members to...

Dan Schwartzer of the Wisconsin Association of Health Underwriters says health care costs are ``becoming a crisis'' for many people and businesses.In a new WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com webcast, Schwartzer advocates more consumer involvement in the health care market. ``From our perspective, health care costs are high simply because we have removed the consumer from the equation,'' he says.   He offers some possible...

The U.S. Senate today passed H.R. 810, critical bipartisan legislation that would lift President Bush's ban on federal funding for research on new stem cell lines by a vote of 63-37.  Governor Doyle made the following statement. "I am pleased that the U.S. Senate has passed this legislation, sending a clear message that we as a nation are committed to...

With a showdown looming in the U.S. Senate over stem cell research, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and seven other Governors sent a letter to the U.S. Senate urging members to support H.R. 810, critical bipartisan legislation that would lift President Bush's ban on federal funding for research on new stem cell lines.  Governors from Oregon, Iowa, Illinois, New Jersey,...

For women, lower back pain during pregnancy can interfere with work, daily activities and sleep. More than one third of women suffer from lower back pain while pregnant and in 10-15% of those cases the pain develops into a chronic condition. A recent study in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing looked at 390 healthy pregnant women...