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- Why shut down schools that put kids more than a year ahead?
- Teaching economics, electing to ignore it
- Johnson uses new budget role to highlight out-of-control Medicaid spending and fraud
- It’s time for Welfare Reform 2.0 in Wisconsin
- Eau Claire teens find police are the opposite of oppressors
- Florida could teach Wisconsin how to demand a more open-minded academia
- Wisconsin still holds $800 million in people’s unclaimed cash despite a top ranking in returning funds
- More Wisconsin circuit courts use text reminders to move justice along: a ‘godsend’
Browsing: Culture/Politics
Is the left really coming for your gas stove? Wisconsin Republicans, who have introduced legislation ensuring you will be able to continue to run your appliances and your car and your home on fossil fuels, clearly think so. And there is considerable evidence they are correct.
Tucked away in Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget is nearly $3 million for a new cabinet-level chief equity officer and 18 new equity officers assigned throughout state government departments and agencies. The governor’s request comes at a time when diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs are under fire in higher education, business and in government for fundamental unfairness and divisiveness and a failure to achieve their intended goals.
What’s the big deal that Scott Walker didn’t campaign on curbing union power?
The good things in life in this democracy — opportunity, fulfillment, upward mobility, prosperity, the redounding energy and succor that comes from free association, love of relatives and friends
Dave Obey isn’t bone-tired after all. When the former House Appropriations chairman stunned the Beltway — and his district back…
Jimmy Gullberg has 129,200 followers on the social media platform TikTok, many of whom look to him for entertaining advice about his job as a physician assistant in Milwaukee.
Young conservatives fear and loathe cancel culture
Civil Rights Leader Bob Woodson from the Woodson Center joins the Badger Institute to discuss his alternative to Critical Race Theory. Originally live-streamed on July 22nd, 2021.
Elections commission is confident that ballot tracking and barcoding will mean smooth and secure voting
Madison protesters sacrifice symbol of abolition, equality and freedom for Black Lives Matter dogma
How people — and finely crafted furniture — leave an indelible imprint on our lives
Family’s universal belief is that competition and merit are best for America
For Margaret Farrow, longtime legislator and Wisconsin’s first female lieutenant governor, the public always comes first
Hordes of job-seeking Socialists descended on our office wanting the crumbs of victory,’ says famed poet, who served as Emil Seidel’s secretary
Election reforms that are designed to wrest control from the major parties and to fix political dysfunction are gaining support
Democrats on the far left embrace redistribution of income and other modern-day socialist ideals
The untold story — finally — of Milwaukee’s socialist icon and his appalling views toward blacks, immigrants and women
What we have seen happen in retail is mirrored throughout the economy
The increasing popularity of recreational marijuana is not reason to legalize it. In fact, the more we learn about the impact of recreational use, the more we should take caution.
Detours, obstacles and deals gone bad didn’t deter Mike Mooney, chairman of leading commercial real estate firm MLG Capital

