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Exemplary business leaders from across the state, including several from local companies, will be honored at the 2014 Wisconsin Business Hall of Fame induction ceremony and benefit dinner today.

On Saturday, March 29, Associated Bank in collaboration with the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and in partnership with Metro Milwaukee Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Milwaukee Center for Independence hosted the second annual Bank Your Future: An Interview Meet-up, an educational event focused on helping more than 300 youth (14-19 years old) develop interviewing, financial literacy, and college readiness skills.

*Thursday, April 10, Biz Starts will open its BizForge Resource HUB in Schlitz Park with a grand opening celebration....

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John Walch, owner of Blaze PizzaCompany address: 17530 West Bluemound Rd., Brookfield, WI 53045Website: www.BlazePizza.comIndustry: RestaurantNumber of employees: 35Family:...

Lakeland College has appointed Jennifer Christensen director of its Milwaukee Center, located at 1135 S. 70th St. in West Allis.

Go Ape Ltd., a ropes course operator based in the United Kingdom with its U.S. headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., wants to create one of its “treetop adventure courses” in Milwaukee County's Whitnall Park, according to a memo from Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture Director John Dargle Jr. to Supervisor Gerry Broderick, who chairs the County Board's Parks, Energy and Environment Committee. The committee will review the proposal on April 15.

Common Ground's Fair Play Assembly, a group of more than 600 congregations, nonprofits, small businesses and schools dedicated to greatness in public spaces, voted yesterday to oppose a new Milwaukee arena unless $150 to $200 million is invested in public Milwaukee County facilities that benefit children.

Nannette “Nan” Gardetto will receive the 2014 BizTimes Woman Executive of the Year Award.

"We feel that we have a responsibility essentially to ensure our graduates are well-educated about mental illness and can...