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It's early, and we don't want to jinx it. We've still got a long way to go. There certainly are variables that could intercede, and there surely will be speed bumps along the way.

I believe the attempt to radically change the makeup and selection of the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) District Board of Directors has nothing to do with education or job training and everything to do with politics and race.

With 20 percent of our state's employees working in manufacturing, Wisconsin boasts the highest concentration of manufacturing jobs in the country. We also have the most to win or lose if we don't collectively address the ongoing need for a robust, skilled workforce.

Nate Kogler has been promoted to group product manager at Bradley Corp. in Menomonee Falls.

Manufacturing activity in southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois continued to grow in February, according to the latest Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Milwaukee Marquette University Manufacturing Report on Business.

Gas prices will go up to $5. Because they CAN! Get used to it. At least until late summer, when Obama gets tough just before the elections.

Barack Obama and his Republican challengers don't agree about much, but they do agree manufacturing matters and resurrecting America's factories will be at the center of the fall presidential campaign.

Editor's note: The U.S. House of Representatives approved Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner's (R-Wis.) legislation, H.R. 1433, the Private Property Rights...

Did you hear it? It was almost audible, the sound of Milwaukee Brewers baseball fans breathing a collective sigh of relief last week as Brewers Leftfielder Ryan Braun won the first-ever appeal of a Major League Baseball drug test.

Commissioner Bud Selig has done so much for Major League Baseball that he ultimately may end up in Cooperstown.

Every once in a while, someone in Madison concocts a common sense idea and then persuades people on both sides of the aisle to support it.