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The current estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemptions are $5 million per taxpayer for the remainder of 2011 and 2012. The top tax rate for estate, gift and GST transfers is a mere 35 percent through 2012. Federal law also includes "portability," which means that a surviving spouse of any individual who dies in 2011 or 2012 may "use up" any amount of the deceased spouse's unused $5 million estate tax exemption by making larger lifetime gifts during this window.

Nate Kawlewski, project manager at Elkhorn-based Balestrieri Group, loves to fish and hopes to eventually become a full-time professional bass fisherman.

Most of the nonprofit organizations in southeastern Wisconsin are bouncing back from the Great Recession and believe the worst days are behind them, according to the Public Policy Forum's annual Report Card on Charitable Giving.

In her latest book, author and revenue coach Kristin Zhivago teaches business owners and managers a proven method for increasing their sales revenue. "Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy," can be thought of as a how-to book for revenue growth.

The share of photographs taken with a smartphone increased from 17 percent in 2010 to 27 percent in 2011, according to a new study by The NDP Group, a market research company.

The good ones make it look effortless and easy, don't they? I'm talking about dancers. The ones who move with a grace that can only come with hours and hours of practice when they repeatedly fall down and get back up again until they get to this point of ease.

As the New Year begins, one of the biggest issues facing legislators at the state Capitol in Madison is a bill designed to boost a proposed iron mine in far northwestern Wisconsin.