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As the worker strike at Palermo Villa Inc. enters its third month, workers urged customers at Costco Wholesale Corp. grocery stores to boycott the Palermo’s Pizza products manufactured at the company.

When the economy is good, banks are flush with money and are willing lenders. Competitors make less than prudent short term decisions and bankers feel they must follow suit in the lemming- like pursuit of profits.

The Milwaukee Art Museum will host its first Target Free First Thursday on August 2 next week. Admission and access to the entire Museum, is free for indivduals.

The Wellness Council of Wisconsin will hold its 22nd annual Worksite Wellness Conference “Making Interventions Matter” on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at the Frontier Airlines Center. David Hunnicutt, president of the Wellness Council of America will kick off the event.

Home sales in June were up 19.3 percent in Wisconsin, compared to June of 2011, and home sales in the state were up 20.6 percent in the first half of the year, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Realtors Association.

The Internet as we know it today could not have been built without the vision of Bill Gates, the culture of innovation he nurtured at Microsoft Corp. and his personal rivalry with the late Steve Jobs at Apple.

Milwaukee County will receive $3.24 million from the federal government for buses and bus infrastructure, Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin, announced.
The state of Wisconsin is getting a total of $11.78 million in federal funds for buses, including the money for Milwaukee County, Kohl said.

Artaflex Inc. of Ontario, Canada, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Menomonee Falls-based MTI International Inc.

Erik Buell Racing LLC of East Troy will receive $20 million in new investments that will help the company expand production of EBR brand sport motorcycles and create about 200 new jobs.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reports in its latest “Beige Book” that the economic conditions in the Seventh District, which includes Wisconsin and most of the upper Midwest, continue to improve, although the pace of growth has slowed.