Author: Cecil Larson

The Midwest Gaming Classic, a gamer's paradise for a weekend, is set to return to the Wisconsin Center from March 31st to April 2nd. This annual event takes up all three floors of the downtown convention center, giving visitors the chance to play thousands of pinball, arcade, console and tabletop games, enjoy live entertainment and meet pop culture personalities. This year's event continues to grow, with more than 200,000 square feet of fun to explore. The idea for the Midwest Gaming Classic began in Milwaukee 20 years ago in the basement of a Boy Scout office by Dan Loosen and…

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Workers from Helm Group, which is among the Midwest specialty contractors to be listed in September, work on a roof at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Photo courtesy of The Helm Group Fifty specialty contractors from across the Midwest have applied to participate in the 2023 ENR Midwest Top Specialty Contractors Survey. These companies do significant business in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. As they have continued to thrive, they have overcome several challenges, including rising prices and supply chain issues. Here's the list of specialty contractors in alphabetical order for 2022.…

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On Sunday, the New York Times wrote that “the next affordable city is already too expensive.” The article provided some important cautionary tales about housing supply constraints and tensions between old-timers and newcomers due to housing shortages. Spokane, Washington, “the next affordable city” has seen its home prices increase by 60% in the past two years, where the median home value is now $411K. With home values ​​more than doubling since 2014, the percentage of residents who could afford to buy a home has fallen from 70% then to 15% today. In markets across the West, many believe home ownership…

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TORRANCE, Calif., – SEA Electric and Midwest Transit Equipment (MTE) are partnering to retrofit 10,000 school buses with battery electric systems, the largest deal of its kind to date, paving the way for a zero-emission future of transporting children in North America. MTE, one of the largest school bus dealers in the country, will be able to provide customers with a nearly new 100% electric bus at a fraction of the cost of a new electric school bus. The deal will cover both Type A and Type C school buses, with deliveries scheduled over the next five years. These buses…

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In the Green Market Report At the Midwest Women's Cannabis Business Summit in Chicago on November 2nd, we recognized some of the top players in the industry with the GMR Midwest Women in Cannabis Awards. The winner of the Woman-Founded Brand category was Weiwei Fellman, the founder of North Dakota Kota Botanicswhich was released just four years ago this December. Weiwei (Vivian) Fellman, Kota Botanics “I never imagined myself living in the cannabis industry,” said Fellman, a Chinese immigrant and trained fitness instructor. Green Market Report. Before getting into the cannabis business, Fellman taught cycling lessons at her home in…

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For decades, the Midwest held its status as the nation's industrial heart, serving as the crucible where the machinery and tools that fueled the US economy were forged. However, since the 1980s, a sweeping wave of deindustrialization has swept the region, forcing Midwestern cities to face the challenges of revitalization in an age dominated by technology. To assess the strides made in this transformation, commercial real estate website Commercial Café ranked the 20 most promising Midwestern metro areas for tech growth. The assessment was based on nine key metrics, including data on the concentration of technology firms, technology employment in…

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Lawrence University | Appleton Post-CrescentAs campus traditions go, the 50-hour sleep-deprived, brain-teasing adrenaline rush that is the Great Midwest Trivia Contest is hard to beat.Those who don't play may never understand.So players, pick your descriptor. Addictive. Obsessive. Strangely soothing.Lawrence University's annual deep dive into dark, trivial, overwhelming trivia is upon us. The 54th edition of the Great Midwest Trivia Contest begins January 25 at 10:00:37 p.m. and closes at midnight on January 27th.We know that. The annual competition, organized and performed each year by a group of student students, is woven into Lawrence's rich history, a quirky Friday-to-Sunday blitz that…

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CASSELTON, ND — Here in the nation's largest soybean-producing county, a snowy winter has left North Dakota farmers like Robert Runck with time on their hands before spring planting — time they've spent stewing over how much they'll lose if President Trump starts a trade war with China.”If he doesn't understand what he's doing to the nation by doing what he's doing, he's going to be a one-term president, plain and simple,” said Mr. Rank, a fourth-generation farmer who voted for Mr. Trump. . Pausing outside the post office in this town of 2,300, Mr. Runck said the implications could…

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CASPER, Wyo. — Midwest School serves students from preschool through 12th grade and operates on a four-day school week schedule. “Midwest School has been operating an approved alternative program for four years,” says the Natrona County School District. “Every two years a school must apply to the Wyoming Department of Education with approval from the State Board of Education to operate an alternative program of fewer than 175 school days and/or fewer than 185 teacher contract days in a school year.” For the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years, Midwest students will be required to attend 147 school days on the…

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSaveNearly 150 million people are under a heat alert Tuesday and into the middle of the week as the Midwest's most significant heat wave in years nears its peak and the South continues to bake through much of summer.Extreme heat warnings are in effect for parts of 16 states from Minnesota to Louisiana. Cities under warning include Minneapolis, Omaha, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Little Rock, St. Louis and Chicago, among many others. Heat indexes — the sense of temperature when air temperature is combined with relative humidity — in those areas are expected…

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