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WI County Becomes 2nd Place in the Country to Expand Housing Rights to Immigrants   MADISON – On Thursday night the Dane County Board voted 20-12 to support a series of fair housing ordinance amendments which will expand the county enforcement mechanism, increase fines to landlords who discriminate, and expand protected classes to include social security disclosure for undocumented immigrants, gender...

New owner wants to eliminate health care benefits, slash funeral leave and restrict time off used for family matters “Wal-Mart style” work rules not fit for The Pig MILWAUKEE, WI – United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1473 President John Eiden today expressed “shock and disgust” at a regressive contract proposal – the first offered by the new owner of the Piggly Wiggly grocery...

Budget Priorities Must Be the 500,000 Uninsured, Saving Schools Milwaukee - Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch should resist calls from the tobacco-financed, right-wing group Americans for Tax Reform to renege on plans in the state budget to ensure big tobacco pays its fair share, said One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross. "The Speaker has a simple choice to make - stand...

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Midwest Air Group, Inc. (AMEX:MEH) , parent company of Midwest Airlines, announced today that it has received a request for additional information, commonly referred to as a Second Request, from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act) with respect to the previously announced merger agreement...

PEWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Wisconsin Credit Union League, the trade association representing 260 member-owned financial institutions in the state, is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual(s) of the September 26 kidnapping of a Racine credit union employee and her son and a related robbery...

Partnership With New Developer Positions Company to Add Jobs to Milwaukee Milwaukee – Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett announced today that the city is working with a newly established development company and a long-term tenant, Derse, to build a light-manufacturing facility in the Menomonee Valley. HSI Development Partners LLC, a Milwaukee-based real estate development and construction management company, is negotiating...

MADISON - As state legislatures try to balance funding for higher education with the climbing costs of Medicaid and other services, public universities are compelled to seek alternative revenue sources. Four experts in higher education will address these ongoing issues on Thursday, Oct. 11 at a forum on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Using recent research, scholars will explore...

It’s been nearly a year since CDW Corp. of suburban Chicago bought Berbee Information Systems, one of the country’s largest independent IT solutions providers, for the tidy sum of $175 million in cash. Paul Shain, who was Berbee’s CEO, stayed on with the company to manage it within CDW. Jim Berbee, who founded the company in his garage 14...