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- MPS stiff-arms cops in schools as allegations of robbery and assault mount
- DPI fabricates testing miracle — but doesn’t help Wisconsin kids read
- Jagler: MPS could pay a price for cop recalcitrance
- The dawn of viable small modular nuclear reactors — and why Wisconsin should care
- Wisconsin should listen to its people: Link FoodShare to work
- Work requirement waivers increased FoodShare caseloads and costs in Wisconsin
- “Free” Milwaukee streetcar costing over $5 million annually
- Government overregulation stymies broadband buildout in rural Wisconsin
Browsing: Economy and Infastructure
By now, there’s enough mythology surrounding the patterns and trends exhibited by the millennial generation to overwhelm any researcher.
Raising the minimum wage would boost the wages of some workers, but it also would result in fewer jobs.
Can we please stop using the word “outsourcing”?
The American Dream The left’s response to Paul Ryan’s attempt to change the national dialogue about poverty was, perhaps, predictable.…
Here we are again In a few weeks, Wisconsin voters will again get to decide whether to continue the conservative…
WPRI launches digital newsletter
Who’s really listening to all the talk about jobs in Wisconsin?
Milwaukee and some of its unheralded community groups and violence-fighting programs hold “the key to changing this country,” according to Robert Woodson Sr., one of America’s most influential and outspoken voices on welfare myths and finding new ways to combat poverty.
Wisconsin news media are focused on the “sluggish” statewide, private-sector job growth numbers that are a little more than half…
Excerpts of a speech by Woodson Center President and founder Robert L. Woodson Sr. at the Wisconsin Center.
Excerpts of a speech by Woodson Center President and founder Robert L. Woodson Sr. at the Wisconsin Center.
It’s hard to find anyone in Kenosha or Racine counties these days who doesn’t support the construction of an $808 million Hard Rock casino on the site of the now-defunct Dairyland Greyhound Park
Will Mary Burke be the Democrats’ next Patrick Lucey?
Howatt replaces James Klauser
Heartland conservatism If there were any winners in the government shutdown, it may have been GOP governors, including Wisconsin’s Scott…
I’m not sure who is driving Gov. Scott Walker around nowadays.
Like many of my fellow Americans, I just finished watching President Obama speak to the nation about Syria. These presidential addresses are historic for they link us to our parents’ generation and beyond.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has approved a proposal by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin to build a casino in Kenosha County. But all that is required to stop the creation of the proposed casino is for Gov. Scott Walker, to say “No”.
The singular leadership of George Lightbourn The term “public servant” has been used too generically to retain much of its…
You just never know … Tucked away in the very last motion passed by the Joint Finance Committee was an item in which the Legislature evicted the Center for Investigative Journalism from University buildings.

