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Contact: Anna Schryver, Interim Communications Director 608.441.3946 or schryver@visitmadison.com Madison, WI-As one of the greenest cities in the United States, Madison’s landscapes and gorgeous environment attract over 2.5 million visitors annually. The Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) introduces the Official Green Guide for Visitors. The first of its kind, the Green Guide encourages visitors...

For More Information: Charlie Higley, (608) 251-3322 ext. 14 MADISON - The Citizens Utility Board is deeply disappointed by today's decision by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to deregulate the prices charged by SBC Wisconsin for local phone service. "Today's decision by the PSC will lead to higher rates for phone service for many SBC customers," said Charlie Higley, CUB executive...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Wisconsin’s equipment manufacturing sector is performing well – as indicated by third quarter earnings reports - and should lead Wisconsin’s economy in 2006, economists said recently. “It’s not so much sales to consumers as it is sales of equipment to other businesses that is driving this – and Wisconsin’s economy is disproportionately based on the machinery...

More information Michael Vickerman Executive Director 608.255.4044 mvickerman@renewwisconsin.org Madison – RENEW Wisconsin announced today its support for an increase in the amount of ethanol in gasoline, as proposed in a bill pending in the state Assembly. Michael Vickerman, executive director of RENEW Wisconsin, a statewide non-profit...

CONTACT: Gary Brown, (608) 263-3023, gbrown@fpm.wisc.edu MADISON - A master plan that will guide development of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for the next 20 years will be detailed by university officials in a public meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 2. More than a year in the making, the plan lays out ways to make the campus more livable, workable and sustainable by examining...

Madison, WI - Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and Senator Herbert Kohl have successfully led the effort to secure $1.2 million in the Agriculture Appropriations Bill to support an initiative by the Sand County Foundation of Madison, Wisconsin to improve water quality in the Midwest and elsewhere. “This funding will provide essential support to deploy and test precision conservation incentives....