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Cudahy-based Lucas-Milhaupt Inc., a subsidiary of Handy & Harman Ltd., announced it has acquired Inmet Metal Processing Plant Ltd. of Gliwice, Poland.

Palermo Villa Inc. and Voces de la Frontera, the activist group advocating for some of the company's employees, are both assessing National Labor Relations Board Milwaukee regional director Irving Gottschalk's initial verbal rulings on complaints that the firm violated labor laws.

Judie Taylor, president of Dueco Inc., announced the growing company is adding a second shift of production at its truck body manufacturing shop in Waukesha.

Rockwell Automation has been awarded a $21.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the operation of machinery control systems on its Navy and Coast Guard surface ships.

On the Friday before the Nov. 6 election, I spoke with two prominent members of the Wisconsin Republican Party who were downright giddy about the prospects for their nominee, Mitt Romney. One even offered to bet me a dinner that Romney would easily beat President Barack Obama.

Last year my husband and I enrolled in a philosophy course at St. Petersburg College. Though there was quite an age gap between our classmates and us. It was a captivating and most enjoyable experience.

The sheriff rode into town the other day to speak to a combined meeting of my three TEC groups.

In Aesop’s fable, a grasshopper enjoys a carefree summer, while an indefatigable ant stockpiles food for the cold months ahead. When winter arrives, the famished grasshopper asks for help, only to be rebuked by the ant for his past indolence.

The Wisconsin economy is expanding at a somewhat sluggish pace and has struggled to gather any sustained momentum given declining factory activity, according to the State Monitor report released by BMO Capital Markets Economics.

New Berlin-based Nassco Inc. has acquired of Messner Inc. of Madison.
Messner began in 1941as the Refrigeration Equipment Co.