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- The new path for affordable and flexible healthcare for Wisconsin small businesses and their employees
- Parents increasingly want kids in independent charter and parental choice schools — but face obstacles
- The importance of keeping Act 10 and right-to-work, and how to create additional opportunity for workers
- Many new staff, same old class size
- Reducing regulatory burdens and improving Wisconsin’s business climate
- Why can’t metro Madison build enough houses for its high demand?
- What the Badger Institute has actually said about income taxes
- How Wisconsin can reverse its drift toward unaffordable homes
Browsing: Energy
Is the left really coming for your gas stove? Wisconsin Republicans, who have introduced legislation ensuring you will be able to continue to run your appliances and your car and your home on fossil fuels, clearly think so. And there is considerable evidence they are correct.
Climate change alarmism has become a science of its own.
One of the following two things happened this month. Guess which one didn’t:
Coalition letter to Wisconsin legislators regarding proposed propane tax
Protecting the environment should be a goal for individuals of every political and economic stripe
Climate change has been blamed over the years for the rise … and fall … and rise again of lake levels
Outdated Wisconsin law hampers electric automaker’s direct-sales business model
The unprecedented COVID crisis has devastated Wisconsin families, businesses and schools. The coming weeks will be deeply challenging as the state tries to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Now, more than ever, public policy matters.
A free-market coalition of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin, the Badger Institute, and MacIver Institute have pooled their resources to offer some solutions and policy recommendations to assist the state’s workers and businesses, provide more certainty during the crisis, and spur a quick and lasting recovery.
Commission staff adds expensive requirement to solar farm project without considering the cost or whether a bird-death problem even exists…
In the past, climate change has been a wedge issue between conservatives and liberals, but that tide appears to be turning.
Seventy-five parts per billion is a huge number when it comes to ground-level ozone pollution, says the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
By Mike NicholsApril 2013 (Volume 22, No. 1) Josh and Greg Clements grew up in Bloomer atop the seemingly bottomless…
In the summer of 1997, Wisconsin’s electrical generation system was in trouble. Two of the state’s nuclear generating plants were…
CHARLES J. SYKES Even for a normally frigid region like ours, this was still the season of our discontent. Abetted…
Critical Issues in the Regulation of Electric Utilities in Wisconsin
Twenty comprehensive answers to twenty basic questions
A myth that continues to exist in the minds of the public and many a government regulator is the notion…
A review of university course materials
What the textbooks teach

