INSIDE WISCONSIN

By Tom Still WASHINGTON, D.C. - It's tempting to believe that, in President Trump's Washington, most tenets of free trade and international business relations have been turned unceremoniously on their heads. A recent international conclave of companies and nations...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Little known outside farm country but important to people who live and work there are programs such as “RF-DASH,” an acronym that stands for Rural Firefighters Delivering Agricultural Safety and Health. It’s a nine-year-old effort to train...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – If you don’t think reducing the national debt is vital to America’s long-term economic health, consider the following: Servicing the roughly $36 trillion debt is a major reason why consumer costs keep rising, interest rates remain high,...

By Tom Still CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – Some economists would say there’s no such thing as a single “Wisconsin economy” but a set of interlocking regional economies defined by markets and industries within, often meshing with others within the state or across state...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Industries come and go, but Wisconsin is still very much a manufacturing state. Its companies produce everything from machinery to medical devices; from food to forest products; and from chemicals and clothing to computing components....