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Butterscotch and the Link

by Ashley Hardin It was a day in late May, the sun was shining, and a homeless cat lay bruised and bloody on the streets of Milwaukee. A group of children had decided that it would be a fun game to see who could run over him with a bike the most times. It is […]

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Soapies Laundromat

by Kevin Flaherty

Not many people would consider buying and operating a business open 15-plus hours a day, seven days a week, to be “retirement,” but Earnie Daniels and his wife Lue do. Earnie had worked 27 years at American Linen Supply on 10th and North, ran Aurora Health Care’s laundry facility for another 15 years, and wrapped up his career at Goodwill Industries.

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There’s Something Fishy Here

by Kevin Flaherty

Kim Wall had been an accountant, banker, real estate agent, public-relations manager, and spice maker all by her early 40s. So perhaps it shouldn’t have surprised those that knew her that she jumped in — if not the deep end of the pool, then certainly the cold waters of the North Atlantic — and bought a business she knew little about at the time: pickled herring.