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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....