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- Do Madison’s schools underperform Milwaukee’s? Let’s talk about it.
- Milwaukee-Racine-Kenosha rail idea back on radar, despite costs, existing options
- Three policy avenues to help public schools flourish
- Data center boom means good times for old-line manufacturing, 50 or 500 hires at a time
- Strong foundations, untapped potential: Wisconsin’s economy
- Want to help families, Wisconsin? Stop raising childcare costs
- Wisconsin’s childcare subsidies, regulations fail for families
- How a development tool can increase property taxes
Browsing: Economy and Infastructure
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.
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…

