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🔒 Breaking with tradition: What happens when the next generation doesn’t want the family business?
When Kim Nichols was just a toddler, she would help her mom out at their family business. Nichols, the...
Public, charter, private: What’s the difference?
With a publicly funded school voucher program dating back to 1990, Milwaukee is considered the birthplace of the modern...
Leaders of high-performing Milwaukee schools say funding is biggest impediment to adding seats
In a city where roughly 30,000 students attend low-performing schools, nonprofit and business leaders have rallied around a goal...
🔒 Making sense of ESG investing
When Quinn Schwellinger, 31, and his wife decided to start building an extra retirement fund to supplement their 401(k)s,...
All-In Milwaukee takes aim at Milwaukee’s college completion crisis
For the past four years, All-In Milwaukee has been working to address what it calls “the completion crisis”: Too...
Weekly Debrief: Sports betting in Milwaukee, Strauss selling in Franklin and RNC news
Lauren Anderson, Arthur Thomas and Andrew Weiland of BizTimes Media get together to discuss the news of the...
Potawatomi gets state approval to add sports betting at its casinos
The Forest County Potawatomi Community has reached a deal with the state allowing the tribe’s casinos, including Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee, and affiliate locations to offer event wagering on sports and non-sports events.
Strauss Brands drops plans for new slaughterhouse in Franklin
Strauss Brands is dropping plans to build a 152,000-square-foot slaughterhouse along Loomis Road in Franklin and will instead look to sell the 30-acre property where it planned to build the meat processing facility.
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Employ Milwaukee program will provide free training, guaranteed interview at Advocate Aurora
Employ Milwaukee has created a new workforce initiative that will provide training at no cost and result in a guaranteed job interview at Advocate Aurora Health.
🔒 Parterre at Emerald Row apartments in Oak Creek nearly fully leased
The 300-unit Parterre at Emerald Row apartment complex at the Drexel Town Square development in Oak Creek reached 95% occupancy in December.
Salvation Army of Milwaukee County exceeds Red Kettle campaign goal
The Salvation Army of Milwaukee County’s signature campaign brought in $500,000 more than the organization’s goal, thanks to an anonymous donor.
🔒 Kalmbach Media acquires Video Wisconsin
Waukesha-based Kalmbach Media has acquired Brookfield-based Video Wisconsin in a deal that officially closed Feb. 15.