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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Scott Manley, (608) 258-3400 MADISON – A proposed amendment sponsored by the Sierra Club to the ethanol mandate legislation would deal a crippling blow to Wisconsin’s manufacturing base. The amendment to Assembly Bill 15 would statutorily require Wisconsin businesses to clean up air pollution created by burning ethanol. “This would be the first time in state history...

Madison, WI - January 26, 2006 -- Keith Hoffman, President of the Society for Technical Communication - Four Lakes Chapter, is pleased to announce the launch of his organization's new website (www.stc.ims.net) designed to help Communications Professionals in the Madison area improve their job skills and network with peers. "There is a growing community of Technical Communicators in the Madison...

Contacts:Sarina Gleason, Manager – Public Relations, TDS Metrocom517.381.6520 or 877.263.3806 – sarina.gleason@tdsmetro.comJohn Nee, Vice President of Marketing, Integra Telecom503.453.8084 – john.nee@integratelecom.com For Immediate ReleaseMutually beneficial agreement signed; customers in various Minnesota and North Dakota areas will have new provider, same service MINNEAPOLIS – January 26, 2006 – Competitive local phone service providers, TDS Metrocom and Integra Telecom, have announced...

Fond du Lac, Wis. — Marian College honored four businesses and one individual at the college’s 24th annual Business & Industry Awards Jan. 25. The guest speaker was Sr. Mary Jean Ryan, FSM, CEO of SSM Health Care of St. Louis. SSM is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the United States. It has 23,300 employees and...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, www.uwsp.edu/news January 26, 2006 William Lawlor, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has edited an encyclopedia of 20th century American literature, art, culture and history. The single-volume, illustrated encyclopedia, “Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact,” focuses on the writers of the Beat Generation, such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs...

Madison – Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Roberta Gassman today announced that nine of the state’s metropolitan statistical area’s (MSA) showed a slight increase in their unemployment rates in December over the prior month. However, the unemployment rates in three of the state’s MSAs decreased and one remained the same. In the state’s largest metropolitan...

Plexus Corp., a Neenah-based electronics maker, announced that revenues in its first fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2005 increased 14% to a record $328.3 million from $287.5 million in the comparable prior-year period, which ended January 1, 2005. Net income in the first fiscal quarter of 2006 was $12.6 million, or the equivalent of $0.28 per fully diluted share....

By Brian E. Clark WisBusness.com MADISON – The Wisconsin biotechnology and medical device industry, which already produces $7 billion in annual sales, is poised to grow in 2006. And by 2015, it could be a $10 billion industry in the state, top industry and government officials have predicted. “We have the critical mass to get serious about this sector of our economy,” Jim Leonhart, a biotech...