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The following quiz about the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act was created by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent, non-partisan nonprofit health care research organization.

Last month, Apple introduced the first notebook computer to feature the company's much heralded Retina display technology. While it's easy to assume this product should mean something only to technophiles, the reality is that it should mean something to most companies that have a website.

Barrett Visionary Development, which is the developer for the 30-story Moderne residential high rise under construction downtown, plans to build a 44-story building with 179 apartments, a 180-room hotel and retail and restaurant space at the site of the Milwaukee County Downtown Transit Center at East Michigan Street and Lincoln Memorial Drive on the lakefront. Barrett was one of four developers that responded to a request for information (RFI) seeking development proposals for the Transit Center site.

Most individuals follow a traditional investment approach. Their portfolios often have most of their assets—and the majority of their portfolio's risk—concentrated in equities in anticipation of generating higher longer-term performance. This approach is flawed since there is a significant risk of poor returns, which can threaten the ability to meet future obligations, such as retirement funding.

The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced the recipients of 80 “Our Town” grants. The Milwaukee Ballet received a $100,000 grant for the Harmony Initiative and was the only recipient in Wisconsin to receive a grant.

Many people grew up heeding the old childhood axiom, "follow the leader." From forming single file lines early on...

New figures from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue show excise taxes collected from beer retailers and wholesalers amounted to $9.3 million in 2011, a 3-percent decline from 2010 and the lowest amount in at least five years, as the sales of beer continue to fall.