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1 month ago | wclo.com | Tim Seeman

| By Tim Seeman, Big Radio News Staff |As the Federal Aviation Administration is swept into the Trump administration’s efforts to scale down the federal government, the director of the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport has her eyes on the horizon. Director Aimee Scrima says county and state aviation officials are taking a wait-and-see approach amid the daily churn of headlines coming out of Washington.

2 months ago | wclo.com | Tim Seeman

| By Tim Seeman, Big Radio News Staff |Janesville’s SHINE Technologies receives federal funding to address one of the country’s most vexing problems. Ross Radel, SHINE’s chief technology officer, says it will receive $4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to aid in the development of technology to address the country’s 90,000-ton stockpile of spent nuclear fuel left behind by nuclear power reactors.

2 months ago | wclo.com | Tim Seeman

| By Tim Seeman, Big Radio News Staff |A UW-Madison expert lends her perspective on President Donald Trump’s proposed freeze of federal grant dollars. Mary Beth Collins, the executive director of UW’s Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, says the order caught the nonprofit sector off guard because of its unprecedented scope. “A big theme of this is that the executive order did something novel in freezing existing committed funding,” she said.

Jan 23, 2025 | wclo.com | Tim Seeman

| By Tim Seeman, Big Radio News Staff |The owner of a Jefferson County information technology disposition company got more than he bargained for after winning a pair of online auctions for surplus computers from the federal government. Matt, whose business refurbishes and resells used computers, says he came into possession of unsecured government hard drives that could have contained sensitive information after he bought batches of used machines from federal offices.