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Inland Construction and Catalyst Construction recently announced a partnership to form a new construction company, I | C Construction, which will focus exclusively on commercial construction projects in the areas of office, retail, industrial and hospitality. The company will have offices at 833 E. Michigan Street in downtown Milwaukee. Catalyst Construction will remain an independent company and will continue to be the market leader in the areas of private education, religious, healthcare and multi-family housing. All projects and team members of Inland Construction will now operate under I | C Construction. Brian Boecker, one of Catalyst Construction’s senior leaders,...

Diane Guerrero was recently announced as the guest keynote speaker for the The Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee’s (HPGM) 2018 Five Star Gala on May 12, at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. The Colombian-American actress, activist, and author is best known for her role in the award-winning Netflix series Orange is the New Black. The fifth annual HPGM Five Star Gala celebrates and recognizes the organization’s 17 years of leadership, while raising awareness for its scholarship and professional development programs. Since 2004, HPGM has awarded $400,000 to 97 students pursing both undergraduate and advanced degrees. “Diane’s story is...

Milwaukee-based American Signal Corporation (ASC) sees the January 13, 2018 false ballistic missile alert in Hawaii as a lesson on the importance of UI clarity and authentication in emergency alert systems. As details surrounding the incident become clear, Hawaii residents and emergency managers throughout the world are demanding accountability. Explanation of the distribution is employee negligence and miscommunication, with the live alert being pushed to more than 1 million people. The false alert remained unaddressed by emergency personnel for 38 minutes, creating widespread panic. American Signal Corporation (ASC) has planned for similar situations, implementing key authentication protocols in the...

The public program “Guns, Grief & Grace in America: Everyone’s Toolkit” will be held February 17 at the newly renovated Milwaukee Public Library Mitchell Street Branch. An academic and community-led coalition was formed to advance a public health framework to foster civil, non-polarized conversations about the prevention of suіcіdе, hоmіcіdе, dоmеstіc vіоlеncе, and accіdеntal and mаss shооtings. “The League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County supports this broader approach of involving our entire metro area in learning about and discussing sensible solutions to the many ways gun violence affects all of us,” said Anne Golden, president of the League...

Workers in fight for $15 from Milwaukee to join new “Poor People’s Campaign” in massive wave of nonviolent civil disobedience this spring, uniting two of nation’s most powerful social movements in fight for strong unions. On the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the historic Memphis sanitation strike, Milwaukee fast-food workers will rally as part of a wave of protests in cities across the country. Participants in the February 12 event have vowed to continue the fight for better wages and union rights that sanitation workers started half a decade ago. In Milwaukee, fast food workers will rally outside...

“The horrors that are due to race prejudice come home to the Jew more forcefully than to others of the white race, on account of the centuries of persecution that they have suffered and still suffer.” – Julius Rosenwald Between 1912 and 1932, nearly 5,000 Rosenwald schools for black children were established in the South. They were built in the eleven states of the Confederacy as well as Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland. They ranged in size from simple single-teacher schools to large high schools. Julius Rosenwald, Sears Company Head and Jewish Philanthropist They were called “Rosenwald schools,” because...