INSIDE WISCONSIN
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InsideWis: Making life harder for hospitals not good for business
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin has 126 hospitals generally spread around the state, serving communities large and small and contributing close to $50 billion per year to the economy while treating patients of all ages and conditions – usually with few...
InsideWis: Psilocybin research makes for strange political bedfellows – but promise is there
By Tom Still FITCHBURG, Wis. – Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent 14 years in that chair before twice running for president and later becoming President Trump’s Department of Energy secretary. Never a fan of legalizing recreational drugs, Perry came out of...
InsideWis: To compel worker vaccinations or not: Businesses may be forced to choose
For many business owners and managers, the question of whether to require worker vaccinations against COVID-19 once seemed an easy choice: With so many people lined up for vaccine shots when they were first released, it appeared simple encouragement and maybe a few...
InsideWis: Exploring space is much more than joy rides for billionaires
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson has scraped the edge of space; former Amazon executive Jeff Bezos has returned from a 66.5-mile-high journey in a spacecraft built by his Blue Origin company; and Elon Musk’s Space X has a deal with the...
InsideWis: Wisconsin must step up to compete for federal R&D dollars
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The federal government is poised to make its biggest investment in research and development since the end of World War II, the dawn of the space age and the Cold War defense buildup, with hundreds of billions of dollars to improve U.S....
InsideWis: To keep COVID-19 economy booming, rural vaccinations key
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – It is “Roaring 20s, 2.0” in much of America. Stocks are booming, cash is looking for smart places to invest, businesses are clamoring for workers, and materials and products of all types are slowly returning to the supply chain. Let’s not...