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Best Buddies Wisconsin has launched a campaign to “Spread the Word to End the Word” as a way to encourage students throughout Milwaukee to stop using the “R-word” in derogatory ways.

Twitter feeds throughout Milwaukee lit up with the hashtag #voteMKE this week as Mayor Tom Barrett turned to social media to garner support for the Fan Favorite Selection competition within the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge.

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! Inc.’s chief executive officer, caused quite a stir when she banned telecommuting from home. All Yahoo! employees must report to their offices starting in June, or find a new company to work for. In a memo sent to internal employees, Mayer says that speed and quality are often sacrificed when work is done from home and in order to have the best communication and collaboration, employees need to be working side-by-side.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker applauded the bipartisan passage of legislation to support workforce development in the state Tuesday.

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HY Connect, an independent marketing and communications firm with offices in Milwaukee and Chicago, has acquired lonelybrand, a digital marketing agency operating in Chicago.

Dan Blake, project manager for a California electronic medical records installation at Epic Systems, will leave his post and join the Wisconsin Technology Council as the director of its Wisconsin Angel Network in mid-March.

Canton, Ohio-based LEL Operating Company, the parent company of Superior Dairy Inc., has submitted a $5.5 million bid on the now-shuttered Golden Guernsey Dairy Plant in Waukesha, according to company trustee Charlie Stanziale Jr.

Milwaukee-based MGIC Investment Corp., the nation's largest private mortgage insurer, reported a fourth quarter net loss of $386.7 million, compared with a net loss of $135.3 million in the fourth quarter for fiscal 2011.

TruStone Financial Federal Credit Union of Plymouth, Minn. announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Ladish Community Credit Union (LCCU) of Cudahy.
The boards of directors of both organizations unanimously approved a merger of the two credit unions.