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Bailouts do not create customers, but they do guarantee the status quo for business (and government) organizations that should be making drastic changes, observes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he chides cable television's financial experts and expounds on the holiday sales...

By Steve Lohr Joseph Calderaro, 67, is one of health care's quiet success stories. Over the last four years, he has carefully managed his diabetes by lowering his blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol with diet, exercise and medication. To keep on track, Mr. Calderaro visits his...

In its latest bid to force TomoTherapy to consider strategic alternatives, Avalon Portfolio, LLC has nominated four new directors to serve on TomoTherapy's board. Avalon, which owns four percent of TomoTherapy stock, has demanded a change in business strategy for the struggling Madison company and...

By Kathleen Gallagher At first blush, southeastern Wisconsin is coming out strong this year for the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan contest. Organizers of the annual contest say they already have 25 entries, nine of which came from businesses or individuals in the corridor running from Sheboygan to...

The Wisconsin Legislature will face many big decisions in 2009, and one of the most important will be whether to expand the state's investment tax credit program. The program, which is credited with raising the level of angel investments in early-stage technology businesses, will be...

We've just witnessed the sad spectacle of our federal government protecting mediocre Industrial Age auto jobs that aren't even producing world-class products, after doing nothing to protect cutting-edge information technology and telecommunications jobs, laments columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he agrees...

Columnist Tom Still takes this holiday opportunity to play Santa Claus, and he delivers a few practical gifts to Wisconsin public officials. In this Christmas edition of Inside Wisconsin, he pleads for patience for expectant Governor Barbara Lawton, hopes for fund-raising miracles for UW-Madison...