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Wisconsin contributors doled out a record $1.53 million in 2009 to political special interest groups that create negative advertising, mailings and other outside electioneering activities, according to a new analysis by the nonpartisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

BizTimes Media LLC and WisPolitics.com have launched MKEpolitics, a new weekly e-newsletter devoted to providing news and insights about the Milwaukee political scene.

A panel of highly successful women will be featured at the Women in Business Forum & Luncheon to be held at the BizTech Conference & Expo on Wednesday, April 28.

Many middle-aged business owners did not pull the trigger on selling their companies at the peak of the market, when their firms held the maximum value in early 2008. They missed their chance to maximize their investments and cash in their chips.

Kay Plantes, an MIT-trained economist, business strategy consultant, columnist and author, will be the keynote speaker at this year's CEO Strategies Breakfast to be held at the BizTech Expo on Wednesday, April 28.

No doubt, most businesses throughout southeastern Wisconsin were eager to turn the calendar on 2009 and put the Great Recession to rest.

Considering that 2009 was a nightmare for most southeastern Wisconsin companies, you wouldn't know it by the performance of the stocks of the publicly traded corporations in the region.

Having served as an economist for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Michael Knetter knows a thing or...

The issues that dominated the headlines in 2009 also played out prominently in the course of debate among authors during the year in the BizTimes Milwaukee Biz Blog.

In a plant on Milwaukee’s northwest side, a workforce of about 15 employees brew large batches of a ubiquitous liquid known across the country and around the world.