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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.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 83 points today to 13,658, its highest point in five years, with the news that the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September, dropping below 8 percent for the first time since January of 2009.

Marlene Doerr Kreilkamp, Executive Director of Milwaukee-based SHARP Literacy, Inc., has been recognized with the 2012 Social Innovation Prize in Wisconsin for her creative efforts in improving students’ reading skills throughout Milwaukee schools.

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.

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.

Southeastern Wisconsin business executives can become more enlightened leaders and learn about practical solutions to bridge the region's skills gap by attending the fourth annual BizTimes Get Smarter Conference.

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