WisBusiness

"Greenbacks & Brownfields" will be the theme of the fourth annual Small Business Times Commercial Real Estate & Development Conference. The breakfast conference, featuring a distinguished panel of experts, will take place on Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. This year's conference will focus on new strategies and incentives for redeveloping brownfield sites in southeastern Wisconsin. The U.S....

Governor Doyle will attend a groundbreaking ceremony at West Bend Mutual Insurance Company in West Bend tomorrow, Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 10:30 a.m.  West Bend Mutual will add more than 220,000 square feet to its existing facility, and is expected to create at least 100 jobs as a result of the expansion. West Bend Mutual was founded in...

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) experts will play prominent roles in a forum focusing on the people, resources and local economies in northern Wisconsin. Presented by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the “Preserving the Best, Growing Wisely: A Forum on Northern Wisconsin Rural Issues” forum will be held Friday, July 21, in Ashland. UWSP College of...

MADISON - Health economist Barbara Wolfe has succeeded the retiring Donald Nicholsas director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Robert M. La Follette School ofPublic Affairs.Wolfe, a professor of economics and population health sciences, takes overleadership of a highly regarded graduate program that offers domestic andinternational degrees in public policy and administration."Bobbi is a nationally known expert in the economics...

First Lady Jessica Doyle and Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman officially declared the 2007 safety calendar art contest underway Thursday during a visit and tour of the new Allied Family Center of the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County. The department’s Division of Worker’s Compensation distributes approximately 4,000 calendars to employers statewide to promote job safety....

HARTLAND - Governor Jim Doyle today announced that T-Lon Products, Inc. will receive Industrial Revenue Bond (IRB) allocations totaling $1.75 million to help the company expand and make new investments in Wisconsin.  Governor Doyle joined T-Lon owners Bob and Chris Olson for the announcement at the company's facility in Hartland. "Manufacturing is, and will continue to be, at the...

SLINGER, WI – The Wisconsin Corn Growers Association, one of the founding members of the Wisconsin Ethanol Coalition, is excited to be a co-sponsor of E85 Night Race on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at the Slinger Speedway.   Gates open for the general public at 4:45 p.m. The track is located in Washington County near Hwy. 41 at the intersection of...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com ELKHART LAKE – Richard Wittgreve’s sorghum crop pales beside that of the state’s corn and soybean farmers, who have a combined 150,000 acres in production. Still, his 20 acres of the cane-like grass – which he turns into a sweet, amber-colored syrup at his own mill -- makes him the largest sorghum grower in the Badger...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com With $750 million in annual research funding, UW-Madison is the 800-pound gorilla in the state when it comes to producing inventions and patents. But a recently completed catalog shows that faculty and staff in the 12-campus system outside of Madison are clever, too. The report – coordinated by Maliyakal John of the WiSys Technology Foundation – came...

By Gregg Hoffmann La Crosse – A Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge could cost $227 million to implement, but have financial and environmental returns for years to come. The plan, released Tuesday by the Fish and Wildlife Service, is similar to a draft presented to the public in December of 2005....