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C.H. Coakley, based in Milwaukee, is encouraging area businesses to participate in the Hunger Task Force’s annual Food For Families Food Drive by offering its own food drive initiative, Dinner on the Mayflower.

BizTimes Media is accepting nominations for its annual Health Care Heroes Awards, which honor people in southeastern Wisconsin who are making a difference on the front lines of health care.

Milwaukee College Prep School is celebrating its 15th anniversary.

Consumer sentiment jumped again in this month to its highest level in five years, according to the latest gauge by the University of Michigan-Thomson Reuters.

Sharp Literacy, Inc. has appointed Lynda Kohler as its new executive director, according to an announcement the Milwaukee-based, education-driven organization made Wednesday.

It has been a remarkable 15 years since we founded Milwaukee College Prep. Working with Milwaukee Buck's forward Junior Bridgeman, we launched with 76 inaugural students in 1997 and serve some of the poorest, most troubled neighborhoods in Milwaukee.

Stress is everywhere in the workplace. We all know that sleep, nutrition, and exercise play a role in stress reduction. But what else helps? Certainly not watching replacement refs make calls at the end of a Packer game.

Nominations are being accepted for the 2013 Wisconsin Small Business Administration (SBA) Business Awards.

Foreclosure filings in Wisconsin were down 12 percent in the third quarter, according to a new report from Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac.

*Saturday, Oct. 13, comedian Jerry Seinfeld will perform a stand-up routine at the Riverside Theater, 116 W. Wisconsin Avenue...