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For more information, contact: Tom Schroeder Director of PR and Communications tomschroeder@baymontinns.com Tel: (414) 905-1149 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Arkansas woman’s shopping trip nets her $5,000 Milwaukee, Wis. (July 1, 2004)—Tammy Harrison, her children and her sister set out several times each year to enjoy the variety a larger city has to offer. Harrison ventures 2 ½ hours from her northern-Arkansas home in the Ozarks...

By Gregg Hoffmann MONROE - Badger State Ethanol, one of two Wisconsin ethanol plants featured at a recent international conference in Madison, is developing yet another market from one of its byproducts – carbon dioxide gas (CO2). “We emit about 300-400 tons of CO2 gas daily,” said Gary Kramer, president and general manager of the BSE plant. “We will sell...

By Tom Still MADISON – Back in his math teacher days, Al Jacobs taught students about the power of doubling by talking about lily pads. Imagine a colony of lily pads on a pond and the pads doubled in area every day: How long would it take for an area of two square feet of lily pads to cover...

The time has come to reexamine the federal policy on stem cell research. Wisconsin finds itself at the center of this debate, because our state is the birthplace of human embryonic stem cell research. In 1998, Dr. Jamie Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that his team of researchers had, for the first time, successfully isolated...