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The Society for Financial Service Professionals (SFSP), Milwaukee Chapter, is seeking nominations for the Wisconsin Business Ethics Award (WBEA) until Friday, Oct. 19. In its second year, the award praises companies for their ethical business practices, quality in their product and service offerings, and their community support and outreach initiatives.

Doors Open Milwaukee 2, presented by Historic Milwaukee Inc., will open some of the city’s most historic buildings and architectural masterpieces to the public Saturday, Sept. 22, and Sunday, Sept. 23, with both self-guided walking tours and in-depth walking tours led by experts.

Friday, Sept. 21, the Milwaukee Art Museum will host MAM After Dark: Live! from 5 p.m. to midnight at...

Skylight Music Theatre held a special reception on Thursday, Sept. 6, to welcome incoming artistic director Viswa Subbaraman.

Friday, Sept. 21, Southside Business Council will hold its monthly meeting from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at Culver’s,...

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Craig J. Davidson, principal and founder of Davidson Marketing Group, LLCCompany address: 890 Elm Grove Road, Suite 4, Elm...

I’m sorry, but if you repeat a lie often enough, it still doesn’t make it the truth. That hasn’t stopped Wall Street apologists from continuing the stale assault that the Transaction Account Guarantee program is a taxpayer-supported government bailout. The latest potshots come from The Wall Street Journal, which has again concluded that because the government should reduce its support for the banking system, somehow TAG should be the first to go.

The number of home sales in Wisconsin was up 20.3 percent in August compared to August of 2011, according to the Wisconsin Realtors Association.

Mary Miller, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, recently provided an update about the status of federal banking reforms at the American Banker Regulatory Symposium in Arlington, Va.