Browsing: Government Transparency

The current system is vulnerable to politics and perverse incentives

Even failed and troubled ones like the Job Corps training centers are nearly impossible to shut down

Travaux, the authority’s nonprofit arm, has strong ties to Milwaukee city government

The Milwaukee Housing Authority competes with private developers with its luxury apartment project downtown

Last month, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue released data showing the state’s general fund tax collections for fiscal year (FY) 2019 were up nearly $1.2 billion, or 7.4 percent, from FY 2018, and nearly $703 million higher than anticipated when the state’s FY 2018-19 budget was adopted.

The use of historic designation nowadays often has nothing to do with preservation

Wisconsin’s deal should be scrapped for reasons far beyond the possible switch from factory jobs to research jobs

James Madison would be dismayed by his namesake capital’s role in relinquishing local control to get federal grants

Wisconsin newspapers fail to disclose left-wing funding sources for hundreds of stories they publish

New Badger Institute book finds federal grants deprive us of our money, liberty and trust.

How federal grants are depriving us of our money, liberty and trust in government – and what we can do about it. This book by the Badger Institute urges states to push back.

It would seem a simple question to ask of any public agency: How much money do you spend and on what?

‘I have to do a lot of paperwork and spend time testing my kids instead of teaching my kids’

Effort to scrap popular Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is a case study in how difficult it is to reduce spending

Private contractors help states grab more U.S. dollars at the expense of serving children and the poor

U.S. education secretary also plans to give them more say over federal school dollars

Following institute’s story, Gov. Scott Walker asks Department of Public Instruction to resubmit Wisconsin federal funding plan.

ESSA could offer opportunities for state to involve districts in decision-making

School officials make decisions they wouldn’t make otherwise to comply with funding requirements.
By Julie Grace and Dan Benson
September 12, 2017

Grants-in-aid represent more than 1,100 federal aid programs, each with its own rules and regulations.