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A bill to create a new license allowing nurses to write prescriptions and treat patients without a doctor’s oversight cleared the state Legislature Thursday, but a spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says he will veto the bill. Current state rules require...

Three Milwaukee CDFIs are joining forces to deploy the Milwaukee Small Business Continuum of Capital project, known as MKE B.O.S.S. (Build Operate Scale and Sustain) on Friday, February 16th. Self-Help Federal Credit Union (SHFCU) is the lead grantee of the initiative...

Republican lawmakers recently circulated legislation that would create a tax credit aimed at attracting video game companies to Wisconsin. Rep. Clint Moses, R-Menomonie, and Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, sent a co-sponsorship memo to other lawmakers promoting...

Inflammation in the gut can trigger a doom loop of sorts. The condition messes with the sensitive relationships between food, digestive acids, microbes and the immune system in ways that can promote further inflammation and, sometimes, the eventual growth of tumors....

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge cooled further last month, the Associated Press reports, even as the economy kept growing briskly. Today’s government report showed that prices rose just 0.2% from November to December, a pace broadly consistent with...

Since winning the People’s Choice Award in the Elevator Pitch Olympics at the Early Stage Symposium in 2022, the VocaTone team has been hard at work developing the latest version of its vocal synthesizer technology. VocaTone Studio developed a novel piece of...

High school juniors in Milwaukee Public Schools will be able to apply to Milwaukee Area Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for no cost using a streamlined online application, officials with the institutions announced. Dubbed “Milwaukee Direct...

The University of Wisconsin Applied Computing program hosted a webinar focusing on careers in the field of computing. The panel featured four experts representing different areas of computing, including a graduate of the program and three of the program’s Advisory...

Through University of Wisconsin-Stout research and a state grant, the world is one step closer towards creating better, more efficient farms with technology. Research being done by professors at UW-Stout are looking into the implementation of a low-cost, wireless...

IWG recently announced 18 new flexible workspace centers across Wisconsin, complete with coworking spaces, private offices, meeting rooms and creative spaces.  The new locations are part of the drive to provide top-class facilities in a wide variety of locations as...

Xcel Energy and Gundersen Health System have signed an agreement to create one of the first 100% resilient and renewable energy health care campuses in the U.S. Through Xcel Energy’s Empower Resiliency, Gundersen will build an all-renewable energy microgrid on the...

StartingBlock is launching the Wisconsin HardTech Accelerator, a program specifically designed for startup founders in the agriculture, food and beverage, and manufacturing sectors, the organization announced recently. “We are thrilled to launch this accelerator...

Gov. Tony Evers focused largely on addressing the state’s generational workforce challenges during his 2024 State of the State address. Evers declared 2024 the Year of the Worker in Wisconsin and announced new efforts by the his administration to build a workforce...

Doubling down on efforts to attract more transfer students, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced Tuesday that it has reached broad transfer agreements with the region’s four technical colleges. Different than existing transfer arrangements, the new...

The participating tech colleges are: Milwaukee Area Technical College, Waukesha County Technical College, Moraine Park Technical College and Gateway Technical College. Their graduates with an associate degree and at least a 2.0 grade point average will be guaranteed...