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Making levels requires pinpoint accuracy. They are the tools professional carpenters, builders and electricians use to measure projects.

Mary Molloy believes in the power of living a balanced life.

The United Way of Greater Milwaukee's Executive Committee recently voted to make an immediate $25,000 grant to the American Red Cross in Southeastern Wisconsin, funding which will help the organization deploy volunteers to the East Coast to help in the Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.

Economic headwinds are dissipating. Households are deleveraging their debt. We're even slowly, finally emerging from the housing bubble. The stock market has reflected growth in the economy and corporate earnings. The S&P 500 Index rose by 15 percent through the first three quarters of 2012.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) recently began construction for the 93,000-square-foot, $75 million Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex.

As you sit across the table from your college graduate progeny, who has decided to grace their old room while the economy recovers, you may take some small comfort knowing that your pain is being shared by people on the other side of the globe.

Several years ago, community leaders in Indianapolis crafted a plan to use sports to revitalize their city. Major sports venues were built and for years the city has attracted major championship pro and college events, and the fans who come to attend those events have filled hotel rooms and patronized downtown Indy stores and restaurants.

For years, BMO Harris Bradley Center officials have said that the arena, built in 1988, is not able to generate enough revenue to keep an NBA franchise in Milwaukee for the long term.

Milwaukee-area commercial real estate professionals are becoming more confident about the marketplace, which continues a slow recovery from the Great Recession, according to the results of the annual Commercial Realtors Association of Wisconsin (CARW) member survey.

When the 508-room Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel & Conference Center goes out of business and closes its doors, most likely in late December, a highly visible property at Milwaukee's front door next to General Mitchell International Airport will go dark.

BizTimes Media announced the recipients of its 2012 Health Care Heroes Awards.