Commentary

• Where does your city stand in the broadband race?
  (2008-05-06) If commercial or residential buildings lack broadband connectivity, they might start seeing a lack of tenants, observes columnist James Carlini....
• Should VC-owned small businesses receive government grants?
  (2008-05-06) Whether or not proposed changes to the federal Small Business Innovation Research grant program would help Wisconsin is anyone's guess....
• Foreign biotech companies on U.S. buying spree
  (2008-05-05) The weak dollar has played a role in the sluggish U.S. economy, but it also has made American life-science companies...
• Data privacy fix broader than Social Security numbers
  (2008-05-03) In Wisconsin, the use of Social Security numbers was identified as the culprit of recent data breaches in state government...
• Socialized risk not confined to subprime mess; healthcare impacted
  (2008-04-30) Heads, I win. Tails, you lose. That sums up the subprime mess that has left taxpayers holding the bag, but...
• In a biotech state, computer guys get respect
  (2008-04-29) Wisconsin may be best known as a biotechnology state, but it's computing expertise is growing in reputation as well. Thanks...
• Globalization radically changing pharma, airlines, cars
  (2008-04-28) The impact of globalization on the American pharma, airline, and automobile industry has reached a radical stage, according to columnist...
• Will we butt up against the Web's limitations?
  (2008-04-24) The world's new trade routes are electronic, but the United States has failed to make the necessary investments in high-speed...
• Stem cell frontier on display at Promega
  (2008-04-22) As exciting as the stem cell science was at Promega Corp.'s third annual Stem Cell Symposium, there remain problems to...
• Food versus fuel and other biofuel fallacies
  (2008-04-22) The bloom is off the rose for biofuels, as higher food prices are linked to biofuel production, food riots have...