More than 3,000 rare maps now online, Wisconsin Historical Society says
Madison — Wisconsin Historical Society officials say they now have more than 3,000 digital versions of rare maps and atlases online. The online catalog was helped by the Caxambas Foundation, which started donating in 2009 for the cataloging, preservation ...

Path may ease for big water wells
MADISON — Wisconsin’s big water users would have an easier time getting permits to drill high-capacity wells under legislation Republicans have tucked into Gov. Scott Walker’s budget. The language would block anyone from challenging high ...

State egg production dips, but our hens are better than average
March 15, 2012 | Madison - Wisconsin's egg-laying chickens were a little less ... with which he was pretty familiar," wrote The Guardian's John Mullan in his obituary piece on Banks, who died Sunday at age 59. Banks was known for both his ...

Racine lawmaker: Kringle should be state pastry
MADISON — Wisconsin lawmakers are considering making kringle the official state pastry. State Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, proposed honoring the kringle — a large round flat pastry with a hole in the middle, and made predominantly in Racine ...

Baldwin: Put progress ahead of politics
MADISON — Wisconsin families and businesses are working as hard as ever. They deserve to get ahead. But many are barely getting by. And even as the national economy is rebounding, our Wisconsin economy is falling behind the rest of the country.

Mid-America Economic Development Council (MAEDC) Introduces Bob Ady Scholarship Program
For the last decade, he worked with his daughter Janet Ady, president/CEO of Ady Voltedge, a Madison, Wisconsin economic development consultancy, and also a member of the MAEDC. "My dad was a visionary. He had a good grasp of where things could go and he ...