Commentary

Chasing more smokestack industries is a fool's errand. Instead, efforts are underway to develop a new breed of companies based on the technological inventions coming out of Wisconsin's institutes of higher education and private industries....

What happens in your community when power stands still? Do things stall? Do fingers wag? Or do young professionals take matters into their own hands?...

Terry Hicks, president of the AFL-CIO in western Wisconsin, doesn’t expect to see many of his railroad brethren hanging around the union hall these days. They’re all working overtime handling the tremendous volume of freight traveling the nation’s rails....

The trademark war continues over Google Inc.'s popular and profitable AdWords program. AdWords allows advertisers to purchase "sponsored links" that appear as a result of Google searches that use specific words, which can be trademarks of third parties....