Inside Wisconsin

There are issues to be worked out, but it’s not good business to hold hostage all that’s good about Wisconsin’s public universities.

Is Wisconsin a good place to start and grow a business? The answer likely depends on who’s asking the question, where that business is located within the state, and what factors are measured.

Change is rippling through Wisconsin health care administration and delivery at a pace not seen in years, but there are data-driven reasons to believe quality won’t suffer as a result.

Energy from nuclear fission need not compete with renewables, but it can augment them in a world that needs both climate remedies and reliable power.

Twenty years may be a long time to wait for fusion’s full power, but not when the goal is an infinite energy source.

No one denies there can be dangers with “gain of function” experiments, but it doesn’t make sense to adopt a ban that would halt important research or put Wisconsin scientists at a competitive disadvantage.

It doesn’t feel like a campus in crisis, nor is it one, but the UW-Oshkosh is an example of what lies in store for much of the UW System unless long-term financial fixes are found.

Today’s fractures are deep but not fatal if people relearn how to talk among themselves. It happened once 20 years ago; it could happen again.

Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota share a history tied to shipbuilding, railroads, iron ore, grain, timber, and many other cargo goods, but there are more differences than similarities when it comes to the cities’ respective economies.

The prospects for fusion energy breakthroughs in Wisconsin was the topic of a July 18 luncheon in Madison, where leaders of three emerging companies talked about what’s on the horizon — and not multiple decades away.