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Milwaukee Succeeds, the cradle-to-career educational partnership that aims to improve educational outcomes for all students in Milwaukee, has hired Mike Soika as its first executive director.

U.S. health care costs $2.5 trillion annually and accounts for about 18.2 percent of the national gross domestic product (GDP). As the nation's health care costs continue to rise, Wisconsin's cooperative health care environment can serve as an example of reducing costs while maintaining quality, according to Dr. John Toussaint, chief executive officer of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value in Appleton.

Economists at the National Restaurant Association predict the Wisconsin’s restaurant industry will hire 16,000 employees this summer, increasing their workforce by 9 percent between March and August to handle the busy summer season. This represents an increase of 1,400 summer jobs in Wisconsin’s foodservice industry over the summer of 2011.

Architecture fans can explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s transformative Prairie-Style designs at a new free gallery recently opened on S.C. Johnson & Sons Inc.’s historic Wright-designed campus in Racine.

Content. It's the most vital component of successful social media. And it's often the piece that brands really struggle with.

The project developer is The Marcus Corp. of Milwaukee. Fitchburg-based Tri-North Builders will be the general contractor. Baltimore-based...

Prioritized LLC, a new boutique advisory management firm in Milwaukee, has launched the first round of the Wisconsin Business Heartbeat, a statewide census survey that will capture ongoing information about how Wisconsin companies stack up in the national and global marketplace.