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PITTSBURGH — Feedback done well can stitch an organization together. Yet few companies do it well.

Fifteen years ago, American self-confidence shattered amid the death and debris of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, a field in Pennsylvania and four hijacked aircraft.

University Heights house dating back to the 1800s was listed in a New York Times feature comparing the home to similar price listings in two other American cities.

Lori Marshall Ford is exploring new fields in business — new fields of flowers. Texas wildflowers were a mainstay in creating her Wildflowyr Jewelry line, and now she is exploring using Wisconsin wildflowers. Last February, she and her three younger…

Wisconsin’s Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund made 17 payments in 16 cases from fiscal 2012 to fiscal 2016, which ended June 30. The fund will offer compensation only after payment from a health care provider reaches $1 million, meaning…

A $1.2 billion state-run fund for large medical malpractice awards has seen a significant drop in payments to injured patients in recent years, contributing to a $813 million surplus that is more than twice what regulators recommend, a State Journal…

The mysterious Tufa are back. The reclusive mountain dwellers of East Tennessee, a creation of the mind of Mount Horeb author Alex Bledsoe, return with theatrical flair in the fourth book in Bledsoe’s Tufa series, “Chapel of Ease.”

September is Falls Prevention Month, and Safe Communities Madison-Dane County is hosting a prevention seminar to help people ages 60 and older prevent life-threatening falls.

I have astonishment fatigue.

The middle and high school open under five domes on the village's west side.

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

PHILADELPHIA — At 26, Thomas Smyth and Daniel Petkevich are millennials whose startup speaks to what they say is a truth about their age group:

We take our neighborhoods for granted, as if they’ve always been there. But someone set out to form each one of them, drawing a line around a coherent space — typically defined by natural or man-made boundaries — and recruiting…

Sometimes it can seem like the only thing Madison's more than 125 neighborhoods have in common is how different they are from each other.

The fact that 15 years after one of the most violent days in American history most of us our more concerned about football, shows that the terrorists didn't win.

Exempting the pot smokers from having to pay for traffic control for their march up State Street might seem like the cool thing to do.

MINNEAPOLIS — Jim Johnson worked decades for Northwestern National Life Insurance, followed by a few years at Allianz Life North America.

OUR VIEW: Every public institution in Wisconsin should plan far ahead — even if the politicians can’t see past their next election

A German photographer set off across Europe in 2005 on a one-year project to capture the facades of historic cathedrals, churches, and cloisters in minute detail. Eleven years later, Markus Brunetti’s project has become an open-ended journey.

The buildings that remain intact are few and far between, but have unique histories that make them worth protecting.