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MADISON (March 18, 2024) – The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index decreased in February to 89.4, marking the 26th consecutive month below the 50-year average of 98. Twenty-three percent of small business owners reported that inflation was their single most important business problem in operating their business, up three points from last month and replacing labor quality...

MILWAUKEE, WIS. - This weekend, Stone House Collective, a Milwaukee-based, full-service interior design firm specializing in designing elevated family homes and boutique commercial space, opened its first brick-and-mortar retail location in Shorewood.  The retail store, located on Oakland Avenue in the growing specialty shopping corridor, has transformed a former restaurant space to offer the community...

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) today announced that the Wisconsin Senate confirmed the reappointment of Board Chair Ranell Washington and Treasurer Jeffrey Skrenes and approved the first-time appointment of Jasmine Mercado, Spring Bank's VP of Commercial Lending.   Washington, senior partnership development advisor for American Family Insurance, joined the WHEDA Board...

MILWAUKEE – Andy Bochman, senior grid strategist for Idaho National Laboratory's National and Homeland Security directorate, will be the featured guest at a luncheon on Tuesday, March 26 hosted jointly by the Milwaukee Press Club, and the Rotary Club of Milwaukee. This event will begin 11:45 a.m., with a program start at 12:15 p.m., at the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center,...

APPLETON, WI — A-mazing Events, a leading full-service event management business established in 2005, is thrilled to announce its relocation to a larger facility at 740 Ford St., Suite B, in Kimberly. The move comes as a strategic step to accommodate the company's continued growth and enhance collaboration among team members. The new 5,200-square-foot...

-- UW-Madison has launched a new hub to coordinate sustainability efforts, aimed at driving a “significant expansion” in related research.  The university on Friday announced the launch of the Sustainability Research Hub, one element of its environmental sustainability initiative outlined in Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s Board of Regents address last month.  Involving both the university’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Office...

UW-Madison has launched a new hub to coordinate sustainability efforts, aimed at driving a “significant expansion” in related research.  The university on Friday announced the launch of the Sustainability Research Hub, one element of its environmental sustainability initiative outlined in Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s Board of Regents address last month.  Involving both...

MILWAUKEE – 2024 started on a slow note as only 10 of 22 available local economic  indicators pointed upward in January, according to a monthly report by the Metropolitan  Milwaukee Association of Commerce. January’s total marks the sixth consecutive month in  which less than half of all indicators registered positive, but is a modest increase from the...

Madison, Wis. (March 15, 2024) – Edgewood College joins the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa, family, friends, and colleagues in remembering and mourning President Emerita Dr. Mary Ellen Gevelinger, O.P., who died Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in the loving presence of her closest Dominican Sisters. Dr. Gevelinger, O.P. took on the role of President on...

In early February 2024, University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin announced a new cross-campus initiative focused on environmental sustainability, centered around five goals. Now, in keeping with those goals, the university has launched the Sustainability Research Hub, a new service to campus that will make the university a preeminent destination for sustainability research...

Green Bay, WI — UW-Green Bay is offering a new certificate program designed to optimize talent and performance, ensuring employees make the most of their abilities and maximize performance. The Training and Development Certificate courses will take place live online 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. beginning in August of 2024 and are taught by regional experts with extensive...

WASHINGTON, DC (March 15, 2024) – KL Engineering, of Madison, Wisc., has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 57th annual Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) for the WIS 26 Interchange Project in Janesville. WIS 26 and I-39/90 are vital lifelines that connect communities, enable commerce,...