INSIDE WISCONSIN

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Much of the news about the COVID-19 pandemic has been trending somewhere between bad and awful. Within the last week, the United States recorded daily death counts unseen since May, bringing the total to more than 150,000 people. About...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Vannevar Bush is a giant of American science and technology whose name you’ve likely never read or heard … but probably should. An engineer, inventor and science administrator, Bush ran the World War II Office of Scientific Research and...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Some people would be tempted to blame pointy-headed campus intellectuals for the abrupt demise of the Trump administration’s attempt to block most foreign students from entering the country. Not unless you think of the U.S. Chamber of...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – An enduring strength of the American education system is local control. While President Trump may fume about cutting off federal support for schools if they don’t open this fall, he cannot unilaterally deny such aid and it wouldn’t...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Missy Hughes, the secretary of Wisconsin’s leading economic development agency, doesn’t need much lecturing on the shortcomings of broadband penetration in rural Wisconsin. Her family’s home sits at the end of a rural road in southwest...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – He may be in the seat for only a year or so, but former Gov. Tommy Thompson brings a solid record of supporting academic research to the job of interim president of the University of Wisconsin System. The match of experience and need is...