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The article looks at a factory in Wisconsin of the Taiwan-based firm Foxconn Technology Group, focusing on the efforts made by the Wisconsin state government and the U.S. government to provide incentives to encourage Foxconn to expand the plant so as to create a large number of manufacturing jobs.

The article focuses on the impact of the health care industry on the economy of Marshfield, Wisconsin. People in Marshfield gripe from time to time that "the doctors" run the town, but not too loudly during a recession like the last one. John Clanton, the fast-talking director of Greater Marshfield Inc., the town's economic development organization, has wads of statistics to show a net gain of 500 jobs during the recession, a significant number of them in health care. This year 200 more may be added.

The article reports on the prospect for rising postwar employment in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It states that the belief of the increasing provision of jobs in the said area has resulted from the move of United States Rubber Co.'s Gillette division to reconvert from artillery to tire production. It further cites the 50% increase in employment in the construction industry due to the 15,000 rise in population as predicted by conservative individuals.

The article reviews the history of the proposed boundary of Illinois that could have ceded 51 miles of the territory to Wisconsin in 1848. Topics covered include moving the Illinois border that has added farmland and lakefront through congressional delegate Nathaniel Pope and linkage of Illinois and Mississippi Rivers to the Great Lakes. Also mentioned are shifts in waterways due to glaciers that realigned the Mississipi River and the siesmic activity that lowered Cache River Valley elevation.