Commentary

The next state budget and the ensuing legislative session will be a watershed for Wisconsin. The building blocks have been put in place to move the Wisconsin economy in the right direction; we cannot afford to stop now....

A paper we recently reviewed published on the MIT Workplace Center website titled suggests that personal lives continue to take a pounding at the hands of ever more demanding careers and jobs. The problem is global and getting worse....

For their part, consumers love music and the artists who create it. The vast majority will buy and trade music to discover new talent, and when they find a band they like, they're usually willing to support the artist. If only the system really worked...

A generation ago, then-Gov. Lee Dreyfus made a few waves when he suggested that Wisconsin and other Great Lakes states should become "the blue-eyed Arabs of the Upper Midwest" by selling fresh water to the nation's fast-growing Sunbelt. Well, the issue of water as an...

In last week's article, I mentioned that the medical device market probably broke the $200 billion sales revenue mark last year. In fact, the market research firm Health Research International reports that 2005 medical device sales topped $220 billion and included 4 market segments....

Last week, hard drive stalwart Seagate made a flurry of announcements. The company revealed 10 new disk-based products, including a 750GB hard disk for digital voice recorders (DVR) and an 8GB pocket drive. ...