Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

Diggings: Badgers persevere — and adapt

Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and others discuss the impact that the Badger Institute has had – and continues to have – in advancing free-market principles and policies.

The Badger moniker has deep, meaningful roots in Wisconsin.

The announcement of Foxconn’s $10 billion planned investment in Wisconsin with up to 13,000 new jobs was broadly hailed as “transformational.”

When Taiwan-based Foxconn, manufacturer of iPhones and iPads for Apple, announced it wanted to build a $10 billion LCD panel plant in Wisconsin by 2020, it seemed like the timing couldn’t be better.

The potential for the Foxconn deal to provide a boost to Wisconsin’s economy and the excitement provided by media coverage make it difficult to think objectively about the deal.

Much of the discussion thus far about Foxconn Technology Group bringing an LCD screen manufacturing plant to southeastern Wisconsin has focused on the deal itself and the money that could flow out of — and eventually into — our state Capitol. 

The denizens of southeastern Wisconsin are understandably excited about the announcement that Foxconn Technology Group plans to build and operate a $10 billion LCD manufacturing plant there.

In London, American swimmer Katie Ledecky won an Olympic gold medal at the age of 15.

There’s a reason our legislators can’t get it in gear when it comes to transportation funding. The few realistic short-term options are pretty much akin to sucking a little more exhaust out of a tailpipe.

“It would more or less put in-state wineries and breweries out of business,” one winery owner says

Interstate Tolling for Wisconsin: How & Why, a webinar presentation by Robert W. Poole Jr., director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.

Claiming to have a workforce strategy without a real strategy to attract and retain people makes little sense.
By Tom Hefty
June 28, 2017

UW students can’t launch Uber-like haircut business in Wisconsin without action from Legislature

We compiled a list of resources for state policy-makers on issues ranging from professional licensure to transportation funding to corrections reform. This handy brochure includes reports, commentaries and links to videos designed to inform public discourse on issues that will affect Wisconsin residents for years to come

Albert Walker, whose clients include many Packers players, has years of experience but can’t run his own shop

Ex-offender Albert Walker and Packer Mike Daniels discuss Walker’s new barber lounge in Green Bay. The shop is in jeopardy due to an onerous and unnecessary state licensing law.

Wisconsin needs to solve its highway funding shortfall, and toll-financed Interstate modernization is a powerful tool for doing so.

Wisconsin currently licenses hundreds of professions. Some of those are unobjectionable, but other licenses are problematic.