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Should Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) sell some of its vacant buildings to charter or voucher schools?

“We live in a world where a child dies every 20 seconds from lack of fresh water. Part of...

The current policies of the Wisconsin state government are holding the state’s economy back, not sparking job growth, according to Milwaukee futurist Bob Chernow.

Jeannine Sherman has been named director of communications and marketing at Carroll University, effective Oct. 1.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will present a Talent Conference to explore how top companies are recruiting and retaining talented professionals.

Milwaukee fiber artist Timothy Westbrook, a former Pfister Hotel Artist-in-Residence and a former contestant on Lifetime's reality TV show “Project Runway,” will unveil his fall fashion show on Saturday, Sept. 21, in the dinosaur exhibit of the Milwaukee Public Museum.

On the day I met and interviewed Rebecca Blank, the newly appointed chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, one of the headlines of the day out of Madison was that a journalist had been arrested because he was reporting that people were being arrested for gathering and singing in the Capitol building without a permit.

*Friday, Sept. 6, Fish Fry & A Flick will bring a free outdoor screening of “Ted” to Discovery World,...

*Thursday, Sept. 5, through Sunday, Sept. 8, Yellow Phone Music Conference will offer aspiring musicians opportunities to sit in...