Banking Deal: North Shore Bank is buying PyraMax Bank owner 1895 Bancorp of Wisconsin for about $95 million, a consolidation move in the Milwaukee-area financial sector. Local Planning & Data Centers: Developers revised a Milwaukee plan for a former Walmart site, stressing the proposed “computational research space” would be very small with lower noise, energy and water use than hyperscale data centers. Education Costs: A Wisconsin Policy Forum report finds public school enrollment down 9% since 2011 while staffing is up 7%, putting pressure on budgets and raising the odds of school closures or program cuts. Dairy Economics: A plain-English explainer breaks down how Wisconsin’s monthly “mailbox price” for milk is calculated under federal pricing rules and component adjustments. Agriculture & Food: Dairy producers and processors get a spotlight—from a century of canning at Blue Earth’s Seneca plant to a Wisconsin entrepreneur’s customer-service-first approach in grain equipment. Environment & Economy: The Wisconsin Invasive Species Council named 2026 award winners for efforts like removing European frog-bit in Marinette County. Sports Business: Brewers’ Jake Bauers’ All-Star form story and the latest Milwaukee-to-elsewhere pitching turbulence (Freddy Peralta’s rough Mets outing) keep the local sports economy conversation going.