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By Tom Still JANESVILLE, Wis. -- In a windswept industrial park on Janesville’s south side, the future of fusion energy is rolling out in ways that seemed unlikely even a decade ago. However, the grandest fusion debut of them all -- clean, commercial-scale energy --...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – In a nationwide poll conducted earlier this year, about half of the respondents said they believed COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Others who were polled thought the virus likely occurred naturally – or they simply...

By Tom Still OSHKOSH, Wis. -- 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. Saying he wanted to confront the “new reality” of an...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – We need no further reminders of divisions in society today, which range from how members of the public reacted to a former president’s third criminal indictment to sharp disagreements on abortion, gun control, crime, immigration and the...

By Tom Still SUPERIOR, Wis. – They are twin cities in many ways, but it’s much more fraternal than identical. Superior, Wis., and Duluth, Minn., are both port towns on the western shore of Lake Superior. Separated only by a bay and connected by two bridges, they share...