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Housing has been a buyer's market since the market collapsed about five years ago.

On May 15, China announced a 100-day “crackdown” against foreigners who have entered the country illegally, overstayed their visas or who are working without a work permit.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction of a $53 million facility next to the Great Lake Research Facility at 600 E. Greenfield Ave., Milwaukee, for the School of Freshwater Sciences.

Now that the economic recovery is underway, a significant number of business owners who would normally have sold their companies but waited during the recession plan to step back into the marketplace.

Randy Will, sales account manager at Wauwatosa-based Briggs & Stratton Corp., has been singing his whole life. He grew up singing in his church choir and sang in the college chorus but took a bit of a hiatus while his kids were growing up.

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.