Quoted: Ed Jesse, a professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Few reforms find a home in farm bill
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Author: jnweaver
Better late than never
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It took awhile, but the National Football League draft ultimately proved fruitful for players with state ties.
Four former Wisconsin Badgers were selected on the second day of the seven-round draft Sunday. Though the Badgers didn’t have a player picked in the first three rounds for the first time since 1996, only 11 teams in the country had more draft selections. In the Big Ten, only Michigan (six picks) fared better.
55 apply for UW-Madison post
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Of the 55 people who applied for the top spot at Wisconsin’s public flagship university, all but nine names remain secret.
Rumors swirl about internal applicants for the job, but the list of non-confidential candidates doesn’t name any insiders. One candidate, Albert L. Wiley Jr., comes closest to being a local – he was a UW-Madison professor for two decades.
High hopes dashed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Former Wisconsin cornerback Jack Ikegwuonu will learn his football fate over the weekend and it might not be pretty.
The prevailing sentiment among National Football League personnel people is that Ikegwuonu, who suffered a devastating injury to his right knee Jan. 22 during a workout in Florida, would be a late-round draft choice or none at all.
Taking it to the streets, on campus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jenny Cooper has Ford on the brain.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison junior throws Ford-sponsored sushi dinners in residence halls. She shows off new cars at fraternity houses. She wore her Ford sweat shirt to a Barack Obama rally.
Cooper is a brand representative for the automaker. She was hired last fall by the New York-based marketing firm RepNation, which specializes in peer network-based campaigns.
Green Bay gun dealer speaks at Virginia Tech
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wisconsin online weapons dealer who sold one of the guns used in the Virginia Tech shootings visited the campus Thursday, a decision the school’s spokesman called “terribly offensive.”
Phil Haslanger: Seeking truth in a culture of spin
Capital Times
“If we live in a culture of spin, there is a good deal of suspicion about claims of truthfulness, so this is also a culture of suspicion.”
The words are from Miroslav Volf, theologian from Yale University talking to a group of faculty and campus religious workers over lunch (last) Friday at Pres House just off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
He was talking about the “obligation to truthfulness” for academics (if not the expectation for politicians), for people seeking justice in a world where truth too often seems expendable for whatever cause one is pursuing. Volf didn’t use the word, but satirist Stephen Colbert’s use of the term “truthiness” — let’s just pretend what I am saying is true — has come to be seen as a pragmatic substitute for the struggle to be truthful.
UW to help jail’s power backup
Capital Times
Two UW-Madison engineers are working with industrial and government partners on the development of a microgrid power system at the fifth-largest incarceration facility in the country.
Thomas Jahns, the Grainger professor of power electronics, and Robert Lasseter, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, are involved in the $14 million project at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, California, to allow the jail to be powered almost immediately from its own backup energy sources in case of a utility grid disturbance in the utility grid.
Lasseter developed the microgrid concept, which could be used in other facilities to allow for seamless switching from the power grid to backup systems and back again.
Musician of the Year
Capital Times
By Jacob Stockinger
Because this is the last issue of Rhythm, this is my last classical musical column for Rhythm.
Although this is premature by my usual standards, I want to go out by naming my Musician of the Year, something I usually do at the end of the calendar year.
My Musician of the Year for 2008 is Christopher Taylor, the virtuosic pianist who has taught at the University of Wisconsin School of Music for the past seven years and this spring used a sabbatical from teaching to prepare and perform all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven in 10 concerts.
October hunt seen as solution
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Don Waller, an ecology professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Editorial: Culture shift needed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Perhaps the most significant thing about another study on drunken driving that puts Wisconsin at the top of a bad list is not the actual numbers involved but the reaction of researchers. “I’m not shocked; I’m not surprised,” said one. Nor was another: “I think that’s what weve seen historically,” he said.
That points to a need for better education, stiffer penalties for drunken driving and a change in the states notorious drinking culture. That wont be easy, but lives really do depend on making that change. [Also quotes: Paul Moberg, senior scientist in the Population Health Institute at UW-Madison and co-author of a 2007 study on Wisconsin’s alcohol and drug use patterns.]
Whitewater water crisis spurs India fundraiser
Capital Times
WHITEWATER — College students who went without heat and hot water in their dorms for about six days are getting the service back — and using the experience in a fundraiser to provide safe drinking water to those who need it in India.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater said temporary repairs to the steam system allowed hot water to be restored in some residence halls by 4 p.m. Tuesday, and others were getting it restored Tuesday night. Hot water and steam were to be restored to all campus buildings by noon today, officials said.
Climate ‘out of balance,’ prof says on Earth Day
Capital Times
Human beings have changed the composition of the air itself â?? the global atmosphere â?? and something has to be done about it, UW-Madison professor Jonathan Foley told the state Natural Resources Board Tuesday on Earth Day.
“Between 1950 and 2000, the world population more than doubled. The economy grew sevenfold. Food consumption almost tripled. Water use roughly tripled. Fossil fuel use increased fourfold,” Foley said. “The planet started to notice.”
A long-term rise of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide â?? mainly due to the burning of coal, oil and natural gas â?? warmed the Earth, he said.
Microsoft to partner with UW on database lab in Madison (AP)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Microsoft Corp. will open a laboratory in Madison this spring as part of a partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science department.
Retired UW-Madison computer scientist David DeWitt will direct the lab in downtown Madison, the company announced Wednesday. DeWitt is considered one of the world leaders in database research, and the lab will focus on developing database systems.
The lab is expected to open with six full-time employees, but Dewitt said he would like it to grow to 10 or 20 scientists in coming years.
UW’s dance program on course for excellence
Capital Times
The party is history.
The future calls.
Last year, as it marked its 80th birthday with concerts and gala events, the UW dance program’s resurgence was palpable.
Now, the nation’s oldest university dance school is intent on a course that faculty hope will keep lifting it to past heights.
The program has gone through a long period of transition. We are starting to get onto solid ground again,” said Professor Li Chiao-Ping. “I am excited about the sense of renewed vitality.”
Microsoft deal ‘a great win for UW’
Capital Times
Ask Guri Sohi why Microsoft, the world’s largest computer software company, is opening a lab on West Main Street, and the chair of the UW-Madison computer science department slowly shakes his head from side to side as a wry grin creases across his face.
To him, the answer is obvious.
“The high-tech companies don’t go where all the different incentives are,” Sohi states matter-of-factly. “They go where the talent and the brains are. And that’s why Microsoft is coming here.”
Microsoft to launch new lab in Madison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Aiming to tap into the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s database research talent, Microsoft Corp. will announce this morning it is opening an advanced development lab in downtown Madison.
The Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab will be run by David DeWitt, a world leader in database research and former chairman and recently retired professor in the university’s computer science department.
Zimmermann murder case informant back in prison
Capital Times
The state Department of Corrections is seeking to have a Madison man who is considered a material witness in the killing of University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann returned to prison for a year.
The move to pull him off the streets appears unrelated to the murder investigation.
David Kahl, 42, has been held in jail since his arrest the night of April 2, the day that Zimmermann was found dead in her West Doty Street apartment.
Kahl is considered a material witness because, after his arrest, he provided police with the names of two men who went door to door in the Doty Street area trying to raise money by scamming people or stealing from apartments.
YWCA honors women of distinction
Capital Times
They help young women get prenatal care, and they encourage struggling students to stay in school. One has a background in the military. Another is CEO of the largest woman-owned business in Wisconsin. Two are lawyers.
Social justice is high on their list of priorities, and they believe that all teens, including those from low-income families, should be allowed to pursue their dreams. So it’s not surprising that, individually, they work on various fundraisers for scholarships for children in need.
(Among the honorees is UW Law School adjunct professor and alumna Cheryl Rosen Weston)
UW-Whitewater chancellor finalists named
Capital Times
The University of Wisconsin System has announced the five finalists for the open chancellor position at UW-Whitewater.
A 22-member search and screen committee recommended the names to University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly on Monday.
The finalists are: Nancy Kleniewski, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts; Alfred J. Guillaume Jr., vice chancellor of academic affairs at Indiana University at South Bend; Kenneth W. Borland, interim president of East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania; Richard Telfer, interim chancellor of UW-Whitewater; and John W. Folkins, chief executive officer of Bowling Green State University Research Institute in Ohio.
Lubars among alumni award honorees
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=742001
Local philanthropists Sheldon and Marianne Lubar are among seven University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni to be honored next month with the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Awards, presented by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. [See Wisconsin news briefs]
UW-Whitewater trims field for chancellor
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One internal candidate and four outside applicants are finalists for the chancellor position at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, officials announced Monday.
UW sports roundup: Another whitewash for men’s tennis team
Capital Times
UW men’s tennis team claims No. 2 seed in Big Ten tourney with sweep of Michigan State.
After completing its best Big Ten Conference campaign in 26 years, the University of Wisconsin men’s tennis team cruises into this week’s league tournament as the No. 2 seed.
Pioneers digging into controls of stem cells
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Last week a crowd of 350 people at the third annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium heard Richard Young, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discuss work under way to understand the molecular controls that keep embryonic stem cells from developing into specific kinds of cells.
We all can do something to help Mother Earth
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Jonathan Patz, professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Population Health Sciences and The Nelson Institute, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.
Arms race still even
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
As expected, the University of Wisconsin coaches won’t be certain of the identity of the team’s No. 1 quarterback until sometime in August.
Wits over waste
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When Brittany Seabloom’s entry shared first place for creating the most value in the Wiscontrepreneur 100-Hour Challenge, her project’s value was immediately available.
Shortly after seeing the art student’s “Impregnated Wall Sconce,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley bought it with a personal check for $300.
“I thought it was gorgeous,” Wiley said.
Dozens of state workers have bigger paychecks than the governor
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The governor is the highest-paid state worker, right?
Not exactly.
It turns out that at least 119 state employees – including dozens of psychiatrists, physicians and state pension investors – grossed more last year than the states CEO.
Species struggles to take off again
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Stanley A. Temple, emeritus professor of wildlife ecology and conservation biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jeff McKinnon: For Earth Day, a Top 10 list to save our planet
Capital Times
A cynic once said that the main issue for our society when it comes to the environment is do we care about environmental problems a little or not at all?
For a long time this has been a fair question, but it looks like things are improving. For example, my students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater no longer look bored or doubtful when I start going on about climate change. Instead they want to talk about solutions.
(Jeff McKinnon is a professor of biological sciences at UW-Whitewater and serves as director of the university’s Undergraduate Research Program.)
UW volleyball: Badgers practice for beach tourney using warehouse with 270 tons of sand
Capital Times
Playing in the sand is nothing new for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team.
Doing so in April is a different story.
In preparation for the Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship in San Diego on Sunday, the Badgers filled a warehouse with 270 tons of sand and used it as a practice facility.
State technical college grad income on the rise
Capital Times
Incomes of graduates of Wisconsin technical colleges grew substantially over the past five years, according to a survey of those who graduated in the 2001-02 school year.
Annual median salaries of those responding to the survey grew by 48 percent over a five-year period, to nearly $40,000. The Consumer Price Index rose by 16 percent in the same period.
The study by the Wisconsin Technical College System also found that three-fourths of the graduates who responded were working in their fields of training.
County residents feel the earth move
Capital Times
If you felt a little shook up early this morning, you were not alone.
An earthquake, estimated at a magnitude of 5.2 and centered in southeastern Illinois, shook much of the Midwest just before 4:37 a.m. The tremors were felt in Madison, and as far away as Ontario, Canada.
Quoted: Clifford Thurber, UW-Madison professor of geophysics
Help for a cancer battler
Capital Times
SUN PRAIRIE — UW-Platteville student Bryan Heins’ testicular cancer treatments have been going well. And now that his cancer is in the monitoring phase, his family hopes to cover final medical costs and spread awareness at a Saturday benefit in Sun Prairie.
Sports memorabilia autographed by Packers legend Brett Favre will be among the items donated at a silent auction.
When Heins, 21, was diagnosed in October 2007 and forced to stop classes at Platteville, his parents knew medical costs would skyrocket. His mom, Crystal Gardner, was worried.
Crumbling state health labs flagged
Capital Times
The testing of some of the most potentially dangerous substances is being done in outdated and overcrowded state labs, the State Building Commission was told Wednesday.
In response, the commission approved $1.18 million to plan a $58 million facility that, starting in 2012, could house both the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection laboratories.
The state hygiene lab, built in 1953, has a heating and ventilation system that has never been upgraded and remains in imminent danger of failing, according to information supplied to the commission. Wide temperature swings result from the inadequate system, and affect the integrity of the samples in the lab tests.
Shuttle bus available to UW Varsity Band shows
Capital Times
Shuttle bus service is available for people heading to the Kohl Center for the UW-Madison Varsity Band spring concerts.
Madison Metro will start the shuttle bus service at 5:30 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday, with shuttles running every 10 to 15 minutes, two hours before and one hour after the concerts.
Chazen celebrates the circus
Capital Times
It’s spring, and the circus is coming to town — in the form of two new art shows that will open Saturday at the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave.
The shows are “Ringmaster: Judy Onofrio and the Art of the Circus” in the large Brittingham Galleries VI and VII and “Harry A. Atwell: Circus Photographer” in the smaller Mayer Gallery. Both exhibitions will be on view through June 29. Admission is free and open to the public.
The Chazen will also host a special weekend of circus celebrations, featuring performers, music and food, on May 9 and 10.
Butch’s NBA dreams may stall; some say he plays too small for his size
Capital Times
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Brian Butch has long dreamed of playing in the NBA. But what does it say for his chances when, as one of 64 college senior players in the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament last week, he wasn’t impressing a man like Thierry Chevrier?
Chevrier, director of the Cholet Basket team in France’s top pro league, spread the fingers on one hand and tilted it from side to side when asked what he thought of Butch, who recently concluded his collegiate career at the University of Wisconsin.
“He’s a very good 3-point shooter but he must play harder underneath,” Chevrier said in accented English while adjusting his black-rimmed glasses. “He runs well and he is big but he plays a little small.”
County public health awards given (yesterday)
Capital Times
Individuals and organizations advancing the cause of public health in Madison and Dane County are being honored today (April 16) by city and county leaders in ceremonies at Warner Park Community Recreation Center.
….Partnership awards were given to Sharon Younkin, community service program director of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, for her work in matching medical students with six community service programs, including programs for at-risk pregnant women, health promotion for residents in the Allied Drive neighborhood and a mentoring program for middle school students, and to Samuel Dennis, assistant professor in the UW-Madison Department of Landscape Architecture, for his work on the built environment and its connection to health and well-being, including projects that help youth in at-risk neighborhoods.
Memorial scholarship fund for Brittany Zimmermann
Capital Times
The family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann has established a scholarship in her name and is conducting a fund drive to raise money for the scholarship.
“Dollars for Brittany” is the fund drive, coordinated through the Marshfield Medical Center Credit Union.
Julie Foley, manager of the crime response program in the Dane County District Attorney’s Office, is spearheading efforts here for the fund drive in Zimmermann’s name.
“This scholarship will give the opportunity to a student who has as much drive as Brittany and who has the financial need,” Foley said today.
Authorities: Boiler Explodes On UW-Whitewater Campus
WISC-TV 3
WHITEWATER, Wis. — A boiler apparently exploded on Wednesday afternoon in the heating building on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus, according to a campus police employee. The explosion took place at about 12:15 p.m. in the building, which is located near North Prairie Street and Esker Dining Hall.
The force of the explosion blew out windows in the building. The explosion apparently shook buildings in the area.
There are no confirmed reports of injuries, according to the campus police employee.
(This is the full story as of 1:25 p.m.)
Va. Tech begins day of mourning a year after mass shooting
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A sea of people wearing orange and maroon flowed onto the main lawn at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, some clutching single roses, to remember the victims of worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
They gathered on the same field where a white candle lit at midnight began a day of mourning for the 32 people killed a year ago by a student gunman who killed himself as police closed in.
“We remain deeply and profoundly saddened by the events of that tragic day…,” Virginia Tech President Charles Steger told the crowd. “Indeed, all our lives were changed on that day.”
While this close-knit campus of 27,000 has worked hard to move on, the anniversary of the killings has left many struggling to cope. Some weren’t sure how best to honor the dead.
Black apprentice ranks grow
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Laura Dresser, a labor economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Badgers draw Virginia Tech in ACC/Big Ten Challenge
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will face Virginia Tech in the 10th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Monday, Dec. 1, in Blacksburg, Va.
Ethics analyses criticize Merck
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: Norman Fost, director of the bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a professor of pediatrics and bioethics.
Landlord only made tragedy much worse
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
It took a while, but the property manager finally got a clue that it’s a crummy thing to hold someone to a lease for an apartment where his fiancée was murdered.
This week, Wisconsin Management Co. located its heart and announced it will release Jordan Gonnering from the lease for the Madison apartment he shared with fellow University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann. The lease was to have run until August 2009.
Wis. governor calls for enhanced security
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle wants all state agencies to stop using Social Security numbers as soon as possible to improve the protection of private information.
Doyle also called for a new training program for state workers, appointment of privacy officers in every agency and annual risk assessments. He was responding Tuesday to a new analysis of the state’s privacy protection efforts done by Milwaukee-based Metavante, Inc.
UW student’s death in N.M. ruled suicide
Capital Times
Alexandra Clinton
Correspondent for The Capital Times â?? 4/15/2008 12:39 pm
The mystery surrounding the death of the University of Wisconsin-Madison student found fatally burned in southern New Mexico in November was solved recently in an autopsy report ruling the death a suicide.
The student, Michael J. Mowers, 22, was found burned Nov. 21 in a culvert near a canal in Las Cruces, N.M. The Office of the Medical Examiner in Albuquerque said Mowers committed suicide by setting himself on fire, according to stories in Monday’s and today’s edition of the Las Cruces Sun News.
Expert: Sustainability requires basic changes
Capital Times
A distinguished Swedish scientist considered to be one of the major figures in the international sustainability movement told a Madison audience today (April 14) that basic system changes are crucial for our long-term environmental health, and Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said the city has already made important strides, as he introduced Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert.
(Robert addressed the “Green Medicine: Healthy People, Healthy Planet” conference being sponsored by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health at the Monona Terrace Convention Center. He will speak on campus tonight as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.)
Badgers on the road — again — for Big Ten/ACC Challenge
Capital Times
….The Capital Times has learned that the Badgers will play the Challenge opener Dec. 1 against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. It will be the Badgers’ third Challenge road game over the past four seasons and their sixth overall, compared to just three home games and one neutral-site game.
No other Big Ten or ACC team has faced a more rigorous schedule in what will be the 10th year of the Challenge.
UW women’s basketball: Freitag to retire from coaching
Capital Times
University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Lisa Stone will head into a pivotal season without her top aide, good friend and confidante.
Donna Freitag, who has served as an assistant to Stone for the last eight years, has decided to retire from coaching when her contract ends in May, Stone announced in a statement Monday.
Freitag decides it’s time for something else
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Donna Freitag, an assistant coach on the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball staff since Lisa Stone took over the program in 2003, has decided to retire, UW officials announced Monday.
Freitag’s contract expires on May 31. She has coached basketball for more than two decades, including eight under Stone, her childhood friend from Oregon, Wis.
Shady lawn has special needs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Quoted: John Stier of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a turfgrass expert.
Caught in no man’s land
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When Tope Awes parents told her she needed to go to the Milwaukee office of Immigration Customs and Enforcement last month, she and her family expected a review of her status, and thought she might get a chance to petition for a student visa.
The 22-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison pharmacy student had been brought to the United States from Nigeria at the age of 3. She had grown up and gone to school in Milwaukee and was now one year from college graduation.
Boomers head into health care system that’s inadequate for seniors
Capital Times
WASHINGTON — Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn’t ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care.
“We face an impending crisis as the growing number of older patients, who are living longer with more complex health needs, increasingly outpaces the number of health care providers with the knowledge and skills to care for them capably,” said John W. Rowe, professor of health policy and management at Columbia University.
Rowe headed an Institute of Medicine committee that released a report today on the health care outlook for the 78 million baby boomers about to begin turning 65.
Quoted: Dr. Steven Barczi, program director for geriatrics at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and VA Hospital. and Renie Schapiro of the School of Medicine and Public Health
Peter Lundberg: Film Fest a feather in Madison’s cap
Capital Times
Dear Editor: A hearty congratulations to the UW Arts Institute, the Wisconsin Film Festival’s director Meg Hamel, the hundreds of volunteers and sponsors, and everyone else associated with the amazing event.
Police seek citizens’ help in murder probe
Capital Times
Madison police are looking for anyone who might have been approached by persons soliciting for money, or who gave money to strangers, on the day of or the day before Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her West Doty Street apartment April 2.
“This would include citizens who were approached on the street or in their homes by one or more individuals,” said Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain today.
Investigators are focusing their efforts on solicitations made on West Washington Avenue, West Main Street, West Wilson Street, South Bedford Street, South Bassett Street or West Doty Street.
Secure UW computers
Capital Times
After some troubling “computer security incidents” on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, it appears that a more serious effort is being made to protect the privacy of faculty, staff and students.
But that can’t be said for the whole of the UW System.
An audit of the state’s public universities says that more needs to be done to defend the great reserves of personal data stored on the computer networks of these schools.
Famous Footwear loss a wake-up call
Capital Times
The mayor got one thing right.
After learning of the Famous Footwear decision, he said, “Today’s news reminds us that if we want our economy to remain strong, we need to aggressively implement our new economic development plan and other initiatives.”
To do that, the city should stop relying on outside “consultants” who produce ridiculous reports like the vapid $75,000 “plan” prepared by Chicago-based Ticknor & Associates. The Ticknor report was packed with nuggets like “Good jobs matter” and “Economic development is competitive.”
The city needs to start working with the University of Wisconsin’s Center on Wisconsin Strategy, an internationally respected think tank that is on the cutting edge when it comes to innovative thinking about job growth.
Spending money on Chicago consultants who produce warmed-over pablum is one sign that Madison is not as serious as it must be when it comes to economic development.
‘Jeopardy!’ brings red out
Capital Times
‘”Jeopardy!” is a polished, crafted piece of Americana, from the men and women’s powdered faces to the set’s elaborate plaster trappings of academia to the crowd’s exuberant applause.
And this year’s filming of the “Jeopardy! College Championship” was no different. Over 120 “Jeopardy!” crew and tons of equipment traveled to Madison for two days of filming five shows that would decide the winner of intellectual bragging rights and a $100,000 prize.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s own Suchita Shah and Danielle Zsenak of Marquette University were competing Friday and today among a group of 15 peers. Media were asked not to divulge who did and did not advance in the five segments.