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Brewers’ second baseman Rickie Weeks has donated $25,000 to the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee to help fund its Swim School, a program based at the Northside YMCA that teaches kids the importance of water safety.

In celebration of its 140th anniversary, Roundy's Supermarkets, headquartered in Milwaukee, will devote a week in October to community outreach efforts in gratitude to the customer base that has largely contributed to its development.

As Americans, we take pride in making things. We also have gotten pretty good at wallowing in things, as well. While there is no doubt the United States faces some significant challenges – many of our own making and some a result of external factors – we seem obsessed these days with proving we understand just how bad things are.

Thursday, Oct. 4, Target Free First Thursday will grant free admission to visitors at the Milwaukee Art Museum, 700...

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Tracey Schnick, Principal of AG Architecture Company address: 1414 Underwood Ave. #301, Wauwatosa, WI 53213Company website: www.agarch.com Industry: ArchitectureNumber...

"We very much are a marketing and sales driven organization, and our brand is very important to us. We...

American manufacturing has been transformed in the past 25 years. The public’s perception of manufacturing, unfortunately, has not kept pace with the advances in processes, equipment and training.

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The City of Milwaukee plans to invest $207,000 in the Mayor’s Manufacturing Partnership, an initiative Mayor Tom Barrett announced in February that invests in manufacturing job creation.