After months of worrying about the “fiscal cliff,” financial advisors are again focusing on risk assessment. Risk assessment involves a series of steps.

A team of developers led by Wispark LLC recently unveiled detailed architectural renderings for the Drexel Town Square project in Oak Creek. The proposed mixed-use development would be built at the former Delphi plant site, southwest of Drexel and Howell avenues. The project is an attempt to create a downtown for the city. As proposed, the project will include a 193,000-square-foot Meijer store, several restaurants, a new city hall and library, 500 to 600 apartments, a mixed-use Main Street and a two-acre town square park.

History is littered with the bodies of those who could not agree about what was said vs. what was meant.

When business partners Dave Sachse and Justin Webb head to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, March 8, they'll be following in the footsteps of some of the most successful startup companies to date – including social media platforms Foursquare and Twitter.

Several apartment developments have either been completed recently, are under construction or are in the planning stages in downtown Milwaukee, the East Side and the Historic Third Ward.

A lthough a high-speed rail line that was proposed for Wisconsin is instead being built across the state of Illinois just south of the border, some Wisconsin manufacturers ultimately may benefit from the expansion of high-speed rail across the nation anyway, according to a new report by the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC).

Michael Wiggins Jr., tribal chairman of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, says his tribe “will do whatever it takes” as a sovereign nation to stop a proposed iron mine near its reservation, including taking the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A new graduate degree program at Marquette University is preparing its students for a long-term career in health care information technology, an area of the health care industry seeing significant change as hospitals and providers work to improve outdated systems and embrace electronic medical records.

Many businesses in the U.S. are challenged with trying to figure out how to deal with, and how they will be affected by, federal health care reform.

As the Affordable Care Act is implemented, employers' vested stakes in the health and well-being of their employees will be greater than ever.

"Dear Joan:

Question:

“I’m part of a team that’s been challenged by management to pick up the pace. No one disputes the need for us to do a better job. We aren’t very cohesive. There are strained relationships and grudges that aren’t left behind. Our meetings don’t settle anything. A few people do all the talking. Being told to, ‘fix it,’ hasn’t really helped matters. We seem to be spinning our wheels, especially in the communication area. Can you offer some suggestions for getting us pointed in the right direction?”