Lasry, Priebus talk about the importance RNC, DNC conventions have on the city

Hundreds of Milwaukeeans, and Milwaukeeans at heart, descended upon Washington D.C. Tuesday night to network with legislators, promote the contributions of the region and enjoy themselves.
 
The 33rd-annual Milwaukee Night in D.C., held at Union Station in the shadows of the nation’s capitol building, was attended by about 300.
 
MMAC President Tim Sheehy provided some insight into the event’s purpose and history.

According to Gallup, employees are four times as likely to be engaged in the workplace when they trust their leadership and 73 percent less likely to feel burned out when leadership communicates effectively.
 
Needless to say, building good leaders is essential for successful, sustainable businesses.

Sitting on the corner of North 20th Street and Fond du Lac Avenue, Columbia Savings & Loan has been a constant among Milwaukee’s African American community for nearly 100 years.
 
“Many of the churches that were built back in that day, and many of the mortgages for African American families were because of this bank,” said Will Martin, Executive Vice President of the institution. “We’re ensuring low- and moderate-income families have access to buying their piece of the American dream.”

The Milwaukee Academy of Science (MAS) got its start in 2000 with the intent of closing a significant gap in minority achievement in the health sciences.
 
It’s delivered.
 
2023 marked the ninth straight year the school achieved a perfect post-secondary school acceptance rate – boasting nearly $10 million in scholarships won by its students this year.
 
The state legislature helped the school, and others like it, close another significant gap last week – one that school CEO Anthony McHenry said will allow it to think “long-term.”

June 15, 2023 (MILWAUKEE) – Every two years, state budget negotiations take on immense importance in setting the priorities and charting a course for the state of Wisconsin.
 
Those negotiations took on an even greater importance in 2023. 
 
Issues the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) have spent many years and thousands of hours working on – the future of state-shared revenue, a new sales tax for the city of Milwaukee and an increase in the existing sales tax in Milwaukee County, and a closure in the funding gap between students throughout the state – were on the front burner during the biennial budget process.
 
Compromise and collaboration resulted in big wins for the state and its residents.

Madison, Wis. – WMEP Manufacturing Solutions is pleased to announce that its client Gamber-Johnson, a graduate of the company’s ExporTech export expansion program, has been awarded the US Department of Commerce President’s “E Star” Award for Export Achievements. Created by Executive Order of President Kennedy in 1961, “E” and “E Star” awards are the highest recognition a US manufacturer can receive for contributions to expanding US exports.

We thank Gov. Tony Evers, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu and their respective legislative bodies for advancing a compromise agenda that puts Wisconsin first. In 40 years of working with the Legislature, this compromise may rank as one of the most promising ever to position Wisconsin and Milwaukee to compete for jobs and capital investment.

Centerline Design & Fabrication, a company offering turn-key solutions for end-to-end manufacturing, has signed a lease to move their operations from Waukegan, IL to Rawson Avenue in South Milwaukee at the former Bucyrus campus. The company had outgrown their space in Illinois and reached out to Milwaukee 7 and the City of South Milwaukee for assistance. 

The new space will allow them to expand operations, attract new projects, and potentially add staff.

MMAC is pleased to welcome Roger Roundhouse, CEO and board member of CentroMotion, to the organization’s board of directors.

CentroMotion is large, privately held designer and producer of a broad range of products and systems – including critical motion,  actuation, control and brake solutions – sold primarily to large global original equipment manufacturers.
 
Prior to his time at CentroMotion, Roundhouse served as Executive Vice and Group President and an Executive Officer at Actuant (now Enerpac Tool Group) – a global manufacturer of high force industrial tools and highly engineered position and motion control systems.