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Why do Wisconsin politicians want to close schools providing measurably great education for working-class kids?

Wisconsin’s own economics standards consistently teach the importance of prices, profits, competition, incentives and property rights, while one of the state’s leading candidates for governor campaigns without admitting or even seeming to understand their value.

Overall spending by the federal and state governments on Medicaid has never once been reduced since Congress approved the program in 1965.

One recent July morning in a riverside woods west of Eau Claire, 13 high-schoolers took turns firing practice versions of PepperBalls at an old steel drum and un-abolishing the police.

Florida’s politics, suggests Owens, which are more confidently conservative than in Wisconsin.

The share of Wisconsin adults who are currently married has fallen in recent years to its lowest level since the 1880 census.

“The days of white liberal guilt are coming to an end and thank God for it.”

A growing number of Wisconsin communities are choosing to act against considerable economic interest and sit out the data center revolution.

About 5.2 percent of Wisconsin’s population in 2023 was born outside of the United States, the highest share since 1960, data from the U.S. Census Bureau show.

Public school district leaders are thinking about what scholarships from private donations through a new federal tax credit program the will do for their students.

When girls at New Richmond High School complained that their privacy was being invaded, those authorities in essence told girls they were the problem.

The Wisconsin Legislature’s “Socialist Caucus” drafted a bill that would add a 17.7% top bracket for households earning $1 million.

The comparison to Milwaukee’s past Socialist mayors highlights how proposals by current Democratic Socialists are much more radical, even if they’re rhetorically similar.

The average GPA for undergraduate students at Wisconsin’s flagship university increased to 3.48 in the recently completed fall semester — up from 3.28 just 10 years ago.

All 13 four-year University of Wisconsin System schools impose an ethnic studies requirement in order to graduate.

ordan Stolz, born in West Bend and raised in Kewaskum, won gold and set Olympic records in both the 500- and 1,000-meter speed skating events at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, continuing a storied legacy of success for Dairyland natives. He also brought home a silver medal in the 1,500-meter event.

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The number of babies born in Wisconsin has declined to its lowest level since 1941, according to data from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

Widespread, intergenerational skepticism of government is not merely the result of America’s increasingly cutthroat politics.

Two-thirds of Americans under the age of 30 say they believe most people cannot be trusted, according to a recent nationwide Marquette University Law School poll.