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Former Republican Wisconsin governor and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said Republicans and Democrats have to work together to effectively combat COVID-19. 

The 2020 Milwaukee Air & Water Show has been canceled in response to the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis.

Tour of America's Dairyland has pushed back this year's summertime road biking competition until next summer, citing concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis.

With federal grant money apparently on the way, Milwaukee County officials say they plan to commence construction of the long-anticipated bus rapid-transit project next spring and have the service available to riders in 2022.

Health care software developer Otologic Technologies raised $275,000 in a privately held funding round organized by friends and family, the company recently announced.

Midwest Express Airlines has raised $1 million in a funding round led by three investors, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Our country currently has the highest number of unemployed Americans since the Great Depression. While many of the 33 million workers who have filed for unemployment since the coronavirus crisis began expect to be rehired, many jobs will not come back.

After trending higher in the first part of the decade, the city of West Allis saw population declines for five years in a row. Through 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city’s population was down by 1,001.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday on Twitter that he is committing $40.9 million to the East-West Bus Rapid Transit project in Milwaukee County.

It is hard to find much, if any, good news in the data on Wisconsin’s labor market since mid-March.