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Will Allen, CEO of Milwaukee-based urban farming nonprofit Growing Power, was a guest on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report on June 12.

The Real Estate Spotlight column in the latest edition of the BizTimes Milwaukee magazine takes a look at positive signs for the residential housing market in the metro Milwaukee area.

Many businesses would love to get involved and raise money for a favorite charity. They just don’t have a clue about how to go about it.

Business is good for Wisconsin. Wisconsin is good for business. That’s the message Wisconsin’s economic development partners are conveying to businesses in the state and the nation through an advertising campaign targeting business leaders. We want to let the business world know that we are ready with bold ideas, leadership and resources to support business and job creation.

Pewaukee financial advisory firm Ellenbecker Investment Group has launched a Money Sense Smartphone app, making it one of the first financial planning and consulting firms to do so.

Dozens of plant workers at Milwaukee-based Palermo's Pizza are on strike and say the company has engaged in union-busting tactics as employees tried to form a union, according to Voces De La Frontera, an immigrant rights group and low wage worker center that is working with the Palermo's employees. The workers walked off the job 10 days ago.

Four train sets have been manufactured and are being readied for service at Talgo Inc. in Milwaukee. Two will be sent to Oregon, but the other two trains could be mothballed.

"She loved her cubicle." On long bike rides, I often ride by rural cemeteries. To this day, I haven't seen...

The Milwaukee Center for Independence has proposed a $3.1 million renovation to its Bay View Campus located at 3333 S. Howell Ave.

The 16 Inch Society, a group of former Chicago-natives now living in Milwaukee that regularly get together for an annual 16-inch softball game, will take the field on Sunday June 10 starting at 1 p.m. in LaFollette Park.