When Dave Jones started his plumbing business in his garage in Mt. Horeb in 1977, he never envisioned it becoming a company with heating, fire-protection and electrical divisions.

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Although design-build projects are becoming more and more common for the private HVAC jobs Tom Starich works on for a living, he’s not sure the system is right for public projects in Wisconsin.

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State lawmakers nearly two years ago passed legislation lifting a roughly $75 million-a-year tax burden from construction equipment and other so-called personal property.

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As the top official at Employ Milwaukee, Willie Wade has come to see that fighting the Milwaukee area's protracted labor shortage has as much to do with changing employers' attitudes as it does employees'.

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There was no guarantee Michael Golden would get a job the second time he decided he wanted to work for the family business.

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Ron Romero’s life changed in 1984 on a highway between Milwaukee and Grafton. He was traveling with his band to play a gig. Romero was in the passenger seat, and the car was pulling a trailer full of band equipment. ...

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On its surface, the company Sandi Armstrong is running has little to do with her professional experiences.

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Josh Jeffers and his company, J. Jeffers & Co., are probably best known for their historic-rehabilitation projects. Right at the top of their resume are the Mackie and Mitchell buildings, two ornate European-looking structures, both dating to the 19th Century and standing on a block of East Michigan Street between Water Street and Broadway.

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Stephanie Bloomingdale is taking over at the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO after a series of years in which, by all accounts, unions had taken a serious beating.

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Since Uber introduced its ride-hailing service in 2009, the world has seen a myriad of companies trying to hitch themselves to that company’s success by claiming to be the Uber of “X.”

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