Mark Eppli is founder of the ACRE program at Marquette University, which stands for Associates in Commercial Real Estate. It’s a training program for minorities in commercial real estate. Eppli is Bell Chair of Real Estate at Marquette. Barry Mandel, president of Milwaukee’s Mandel Group, is funding the ACRE program for the next three years with a one-hundred-five thousand dollar grant.
John Palmer Smith is executive director of the Helen Bader Nonprofit Management Institute at UW-Milwaukee. Joi Jackson is director of administration for Family House in Milwaukee. Their organizations are among about 25 charter members of the new Wisconsin Nonprofits organization.
Milwaukee native and jazz pianist David Hazeltine plays for Bonnie North in a practice room at the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield. He lives in New York City. WUWM’s Tom May engineered the field recording.
Mark Savage is automotive columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and editor of American Snowmobiler magazine, published by Kalmbach in Waukesha. He joins Dan Harmon monthly with news of the automotive world.
Jim Gleeson of Madison is winner of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which rewards the worst first line of a hypothetical novel. He talks with Mitch Teich in an interview that first aired on Lake Effect in August.