Globalization

When the U.S. Navy formally decommissioned the USS Milwaukee in September, the juncture marked the end of an eight-year journey plagued by problems nearly from its start in Wisconsin. The Navy encountered numerous mechanical flaws with the USS Milwaukee and other vessels of its class known as littoral combat ships. The ships were designed to…

Michael Witgen’s deep research of Indigenous and early North American history is evident in his 2021 book “Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.” A finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in History, the book examines colonization of a region now known as the Midwest and was…

The leader of Port Milwaukee is optimistic for its future in tourism and exports, given a recent jump in the number of cruise passengers at the port and growth opportunities with a new $40 million shipping complex. In partnership with the DeLong Company, the Agricultural Maritime Export Facility opened last month, marking the largest one-time…

A new partnership aims to expand opportunities between Wisconsin and one of the state’s biggest foreign trade partners. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., or WEDC, and the Wisconsin Alumni Association in Korea signed an agreement last month to promote the state both as a good place to do business and as a welcoming destination for…

If you’re driving north along Highway 53 between Spooner and Trego, you’ll see a long line of railcars parked on tracks on your right. The string of railcars seems like it will never end. Some have graffiti and look weathered. Others appear new. Some railcars are round and others look like a box. Mary Kay…

When Sarah Scanlan met a woman she messaged on Facebook in her Appleton garden, she expected to give away camomile tea leaves. But then the two connected over composting, too, and Scanlan walked away with a gardening friend and a deeper sense of community. The two women met because of Appleton’s Buy Nothing Facebook group,…

Requiring pancake basters and coffee pots to pour wax, the Door County Candle Company and its volunteers have raised $700,000 for relief efforts in Ukraine — and the company’s owner is now aiming for $1 million. On Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show,” Christiana Gorchynsky Trapani said all profits from the company’s Ukraine candle sales…

Kohl’s Corp. shareholders voted Wednesday to leave the Menomonee Falls-based company’s board of directors intact, rejecting a bid from activist investors to take over the board as the company mulls the prospect of selling itself off to outside parties. In a press release Wednesday, the business said preliminary votes had indicated all 13 of its…

The owners of a rural hydroelectric plant in Jackson County have partnered with a New York-based company to start a cryptocurrency mining operation. Located on the popular tourist destination Lake Arbutus in west central Wisconsin, the dam and power plant in Hatfield has been in operation since 1908. At the end of March, Digital Power…

Wisconsin, along with the rest of the world, will face economic repercussions from the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a quartet of current and former U.S. ambassadors who have ties to Wisconsin. During an online forum Wednesday hosted by WisPolitics, the ambassadors say the conflict will realign global trade policies, which could also…