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The Milwaukee Bucks and MillerCoors, one of the team’s long-tenured corporate partners, have unveiled a limited-edition 2013-14 Commemorative Bucks Coors Light can that will be available throughout the region this season.

Kenosha-based Jockey International Inc. on Wednesday announced the launch of its new marketing campaign, "Redefining Comfort," for the Jockey collection as preferred by Rachel Zoe.

The Graffito restaurant in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward has officially closed.

Milwaukee could be the birthplace of a handful of new startup companies this November when the second annual Startup Weekend Milwaukee takes over UW-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health.

Editor's note: The following letter was written Tuesday by Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel, and C.J. Szafir, associate counsel and education policy director, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Inc., Milwaukee, wrote a letter to the Milwaukee Common Council and its president, Alderman Willie Hines, regarding the proposed sale of the former Malcolm X School in Milwaukee.

Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel, and C.J. Szafir, associate counsel and education policy director, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Inc., Milwaukee, wrote a letter to the Milwaukee Common Council and its president, Alderman Willie Hines, regarding the proposed sale of the former Malcolm X School in Milwaukee.

Former State Rep. Mark Honadel has accepted a position as the manager of business development for the Talent Bridge division of Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin.

With the specter of a government shutdown and default of the national debt providing strong head winds, business confidence in future growth prospects turned downward for the fourth quarter, according to the latest Business Outlook Survey conducted by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC).

If Congress fails to raise the federal debt ceiling and defaults on the nation's debt, the U.S. economy would be at risk of recession and the stock market would be at risk of a severe downturn, according to most of the economic forecasters surveyed by BizTimes last week.

Sussex-based QuadMed LLC has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Novia CareClinics LLC of Indianapolis in a merger of two innovators in employer-sponsored health care management solutions and on-site primary care.