by Tech Council | Apr 25, 2024 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Dave Kettner, the president of Madison-based Virent Inc., doesn’t make a habit of hanging out with international celebrities, but he did so last fall on a transatlantic flight with billionaire Sir Richard Branson. It helped that Kettner’s...
by Tech Council | Apr 18, 2024 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM
By Tom Still MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Even a casual observer of the Wisconsin economy can name some nationally prominent sectors, such as manufacturing, agriculture and tourism. Others can go deeper and list medical and scientific instruments, health information software,...
by Tech Council | Apr 11, 2024 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – No one needs to convince Larry Kinsman, principal at ORIN Technologies in Verona, of the health threats associated with long-term exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly known by their PFAS and PFOS acronyms. With 4,700...
by Tech Council | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – A solar eclipse in 585 B.C. ended a long war between the Mediterranean kingdoms of Medes and Lydia when opposing armies took it as a bad omen and laid down their arms. That superstitious reaction, however beneficial to the combatants,...
by Tech Council | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The two-horse race for the presidency may not satisfy people who wished for different candidates atop the Republican and Democratic tickets, but it has at least focused the debate on how well the American economy is – or isn’t –...
by Tech Council | Mar 21, 2024 | Featured, Inside Wisconsin, NEWSROOM
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – It’s more than tempting for the average Wisconsin citizen to believe the state Capitol is a place where the daily agenda is limited to threats of recall elections, fights over gerrymandered political maps and other partisan divisiveness....