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When newly named Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan attempted to make his first stump speech on the “soapbox” at the Iowa State Fair Monday, he was greeted by a small chorus of hooligans who shouted at him the entire speech.

Milwaukee-based travel agency Funjet Vacations has acquired Boston-based travel agency TNT Vacations.

Dear Wisconsin,

It's been too long. I should have written earlier. Things obviously have been tense between us for a while - we really haven't connected since 1994, when you sent that "feel better" card about the Green Bay Packers not playing at County Stadium anymore.

Milwaukee-based Telkonet Inc. today reported second quarter net income of $200,000, up from a $700,000 loss in the first quarter of 2012.

Sussex-based Quad/Graphics Inc. reported a second quarter net loss of $20.8 million, or 44 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $10.2 million, or 31 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Milwaukee-based Strattec Security Corp. reported fiscal fourth quarter net income of $3.2 million, or 97 cents per share, up from $2.7 million, or 81 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Menomonee Falls-based Magnetek Inc. reported second quarter net income of $3.2 million, or 99 cents per share, up from $1.2 million, or 37 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. announced it has agreed to purchase the assets of the medium voltage drives business of Harbin Jiuzhou Electric Co. Ltd. of China for $83 million.

The AFL-CIO has called for a nationwide boycott of Milwaukee-based Palermo Villa Inc., which is embroiled in a labor dispute.

Clock Shadow Creamery opened in June in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, officially becoming the first cheese factory ever within the city limits.