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Marquette University senior Marissa Evans, founder and president of the university’s National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) chapter, has been selected as NABJ’s 2013 Student Journalist of the Year.

I often wonder if public officials give any consideration to the historical lens that will define their current level of enlightenment decades from now.

Workers at several fast food restaurants and other retail outlets in Milwaukee walked off the job in protest for a higher minimum wage this morning.

The Kenosha Area Business Alliance (KABA) announced the hiring of a new chief financial officer and a new executive director of Downtown Kenosha Inc. and its newly created Main Street program.

SABMiller plc and Molson Coors Brewing Company reported first quarter net income of $271.9 million for Chicago-based MillerCoors LLC, a decrease of 1.2 percent compared to the 2012 first quarter.

Quad/Graphics Inc. reported a first quarter net loss of $14.1 million, or 31 cents per share, compared with net earnings of$47.5 million, or $1.01 per share, in the same period a year ago.

The Wisconsin Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG Wisconsin) announced that Tom Walton, managing director at Hanley, Hammill, Thomas, has succeeded Steven Peterson, managing director at Brass Ring Capital Inc., as chapter president.

Platypus Advertising + Design announced that it is acquiring the assets and most employees at NOISE Inc.'s Milwaukee operation.

UW Credit Union has received an Excellence Award for Strategic Leadership from the CUNA Human Resources Training Development Council.

Jerry David, a wealth management advisor for Prescient Financial Solutions at Northwestern Mutual, has earned a Top of the Table membership in the Million Dollar Roundtable.