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Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity, Inc. plans to build 15 new homes in the Washington Park neighborhood beginning this spring.

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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If you reflect back on your career, you likely remember people who shared their knowledge and experience making a very real difference in decisions you’ve made both great and small.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has appointed Amanda Braun athletic director.

Wisconsin banks reported net income of $839 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, up dramatically from $488 million in fourth quarter 2011, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Quarterly Banking Profile.

Waterstone Mortgage Corp. is expanding into the greater Milwaukee area with a new office in West Allis.

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