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Madison, Wis. – After nearly 10 years of serving as the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Council of Religious and Independent Schools (WCRIS) and several other faithful years of public service and education advocacy, Sharon L. Schmeling has announced her retirement, set for Sept. 12, 2024.  Schmeling earned her bachelor of arts degree in...

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...