Browsing: Economy and Infastructure

Elizabeth Coggs, the new Democratic state representative for the 10th Assembly District in Milwaukee, is against the Voter ID proposal because, she told me today, many poorer residents of her central city district don’t have IDs and would be disenfranchised if one is now required to cast a ballot.

Peter Barca, a usually levelheaded Democrat, articulated what has been wrong with state government.

By Stephen F. Hayes On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama won 59 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. He won Wisconsin by…

The voters exact vengeance upon the disdainful Democrats. Before the vote on Nov. 2, humorist P.J. O’Rourke quipped that it…

Republicans, not long ago left for dead and scarcely lamented in both Madison and Washington, now find themselves exhumed. Voters…

Dear Gov.-elect Walker (Scott): Welcome back to Madison. While you were busy convincing us to elect you, most Wisconsinites were…

The left’s response to the Tea Party was wrong from the start By RICHARD ESENBERG I am not now —…

Editor’s note: Christian Schneider, a WPRI senior fellow, spent nearly a decade running campaigns in Wisconsin. This story was written…

You will have to forgive me, you see I’m in the ideas business and, as such, I have a fair amount of disdain for politics.

Here at WPRI, we seem to be writing about Paul Ryan a lot. People are probably starting to wonder if our acronym…

Recently, a liberal friend suggested that I read President Obama’s “nuanced and thoughtful defense of government” at the University of…

Business, it is said, clamors to zip by train between Milwaukee and Madison. Business, we’re told, needs high-speed rail and…

Spring backward April, as T.S. Eliot reminded us, is the cruelest month, and this year it was especially cruel to…

While it makes sense that Paul Ryan would be the conservative pin-up guy in 2010, the story was much different…

The economy dominates every political and policy conversation these days. Some people know what they’re talking about, most do not.…

By Mike Nichols Peggy Sullivan was given a government-issued debit card to buy groceries in Wisconsin at the same time…

Paul Ryan, unlike the president, acts like a grownup in facing the entitlement tsunami By RICHARD ESENBERG In his State…

The takeover takedown Even in a year of notable failures-from the stimulus to health care reform-the collapse of efforts to…

Conservatives know that American genius flows from the bottom up rather than the top down By Richard Esenberg Reaction to…

Consider the plump budget, the slow high-speed train and class-conscious Legos. As John Keats would have appreciated, autumn in Wisconsin…