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I recall a conversation I had with a teacher five years ago.  At the time, she was teaching in a suburban Milwaukee school and she clearly missed what had been her passion, teaching in the Milwaukee central city.

By Mike NicholsApril 2013 (Volume 22, No. 1) Josh and Greg Clements grew up in Bloomer atop the seemingly bottomless…

Every two years, the Wisconsin Assembly issues an activity book for schoolchildren. The book includes a cartoon called “How a…

Smart can win In the wake of November’s election, national Republicans conducted an autopsylike review of their failures. As Wisconsin’s…

Report assesses a critical juncture in the future of Milwaukee as a city, namely, the fate of its sizable manufacturing sector within the city’s diversifying economy.

After Nov. 6, conservative ideas are even more critical for the country Writing on the National Review website the day after the…

In the summer of 1997, Wisconsin’s electrical generation system was in trouble. Two of the state’s nuclear generating plants were…

Following the 2012 presidential election, pundits of all stripes began appealing to retroactive prescience to explain what cost Mitt Romney…

The Badger paradox Winston Churchill once described Soviet Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Apparently,…

By Arthur C. Brooks Scott Walker’s victory over Wisconsin’s public sector unions and their political allies is a victory not…

Manitowoc — Kaye Schulz worked at the old Mirro Co. here, mostly as a lathe operator, for almost 35 years. When she…

By Stephen F. Hayes On Aug. 12, 2010, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker munched on a ham sandwich in the…

One of my favorite quotes is from the French economist Frederic Bastiat. In his essay “Ce qu’on voit et ce…

Before there was a Tea Party, there was a Teed-Off Party. “It was just something I dreamed up one day,…

By Ambassador Mark Green (Ret.) I remember an episode from my state legislative days when we were grappling with an…

Wisconsin historical Society Photo 3562 In the summer of 1897, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Robert M. La Follette hopped on to…

By Fred Siegel Why did the labor left insist the on the self-defeating campaign to recall Scott Walker? An able…

By Charles J. Sykes “A little Madness in the Spring,” observed Emily Dickinson, “is wholesome even for the King.” Wisconsin…

MVPs: Rodgers and Walker Except for an exceptionally mild winter, 2012 began inauspiciously.National League MVP Ryan Braun faced a 50-game…

This is the question pondered by prognosticators. And given the biggest political year in Wisconsin history, this is a question…