The African American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Milwaukee is planning to ask state officials to reconsider their interpreting the state’s new bidding law in a way that threatens to gut bidding preferences for businesses owned by minorities and disabled veterans.

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The Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee has chosen its 2014 officers.

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It looked like a boost for workforce diversity when a minority-owned company won a $6 million contract for a downtown Milwaukee construction project.

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On its website, the International City/County Management Association states, “Each time we turn on the tap in our kitchens, set the trash out for pickup the next day, or cruise through our neighborhoods on newly paved roads, we access our local governments. Providing essential community services that ensure the quality of our lives is what local government is all about.”

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Wisconsin — having recently selected President Barack Obama and Gov. Scott Walker — is an interesting study in contrasts.

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Government, especially in recent times, has been pegged as slow and all but useless – much like a sloth.

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Years after graduating as an engineer, I still occasionally miss the mental rigors of calculus and differential equations.

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Unbridled greed — that which lacks any moral compass, that tramples on the dignity and lives of others — is neither healthy nor helpful in a civil society.

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The difficulties faced by the American automotive industry during the past several years are well-trod territory.

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One week before Father’s Day, as I spent time with my wife, our son and his family, I couldn’t help but reflect on the fact that my father would have been 100 this year.

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