By Keith Barber The Southeast Wisconsin Innovation Center is envisioned as a start-up business incubator for biomedical, life science and biotechnology fields. The center will be a joint venture between the Kenosha Area Business Alliance and the Pleasant Prairie Community ...

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By Keith Barber The Southeast Wisconsin Innovation Center is envisioned as a start-up business incubator for biomedical, life science and biotechnology fields. The center will be a joint venture between the Kenosha Area Business Alliance and the Pleasant Prairie Community ...

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OSHA reports • Greg Droessler, Cuba City, reached an informal settlement with OSHA on June 21 to reduce a $750 fall-protection citation to $300 and to dismiss a $750 fall-protection citation. The company was issued the citations June 4 during ...

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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Chrysler Group LLC has made official its plans to close an engine plant in Kenosha, eliminating about 575 jobs. The company told the state Friday the plant is slated to close around Oct. 8. The announcement ...

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OSHA reports • Nyhof Custom Gutter & Aluminum Inc., Oostburg, reached an informal settlement with OSHA on May 18 to reduce a $525 scaffolding citation to $367.50 and a $525 scaffolding-training citation to $367.50. The company was issued the citations ...

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

The very form of “entertainment” that killed Dairyland is now looking to inhabit its former land.

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By Sean Ryan Construction unions hungry for jobs a proposed Kenosha casino would create joined the call for a federal investigation into the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ denial of the project. The federal agency in January 2009 rejected the Menominee ...

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OSHA reports • Havenwood Homes Inc., Wind Lake, must pay a $600 fall-protection citation because the period to contest the violation has ended. The company was issued the citation April 13 during a nonresidential building job at S76 W17587 Janesville ...

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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kenosha County has been chosen to possibly get free wireless broadband as early as December 2011. County Executives of America chose Kenosha along with 11 others in the nation to receive the first round of free ...

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The steady decline of manufacturing in southeast Wisconsin has many city officials, developers and residents considering the benefits of reinvention.

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