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 *Thursday, Sept. 12, the South Milwaukee Downtown Market will feature food and products from more than 60 vendors along...

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Thomas Werner, chairman of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club, will deliver the keynote speech at Marquette University College of Business Administration’s annual Business Leaders Forum luncheon in Milwaukee on Monday, Sept. 30.

The Milwaukee Brewers announced on Wednesday that admission for Brewers On Deck will be free of charge for all attendees in 2014.

Historic Milwaukee, Inc. has appointed Stacy Swadish executive director, following the leave of former executive director Anna-Marie Opgenorth in August.

The goal sounds enticingly simple: let’s help alleviate poverty in Milwaukee County by requiring any business under contract with the county to pay a higher “living wage.” If a business wants to do business with the County, make sure they are paying good, family-supporting wages to their workers.

Public money should not be used to help companies with government contracts keep people in poverty.

Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. today reported a fiscal fourth quarter net loss of $177.3 million, or $3.41 per share, compared with a net profit of $11.7 million, or 40 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. announced today a new recruiting effort targeted to veterans.