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- How to strengthen the climb from the safety net
- The silence breaks: Accountability at last for those who make Milwaukee life unlivable
- Data centers could be a godsend — if communities let them
- Economic freedom is worth defending — even when political parties forget it
- Wisconsin is missing its Medicaid accountability moment
- Lawmakers agree suspended drivers on Wisconsin roads remain a problem
- Wisconsin should choose the right side of the income tax divide
- Data centers often bring faster connections to world
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A growing number of Wisconsin communities are choosing to act against considerable economic interest and sit out the data center revolution.
While state law prohibits drivers from driving with a suspended license, it’s not a crime unless alcohol is involved.
Geography matters for what’s called “latency,” the small but often important amount of time it takes signals to travel from a user to whatever data center holds the information he’s using.
What Wisconsinites need to know about how the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program works.
The solution to problems left by grocery store closures in Milwaukee may include a civil-society option such as a food co-op, observers say.
Public school district leaders are thinking about what scholarships from private donations through a new federal tax credit program the will do for their students.
“There’s never been a federal program that’s been as generous as this that the state didn’t opt in,” said Kooyenga.
A Wisconsin law requiring schools to inform parents when their students are struggling with reading is going unenforced in far too many districts.
Think of the failure of the $1.8 billion tax-and-spending deal between Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature as a second chance at better policy.
Millions of dollars have been spent on the aim to build 80 charging stations for electric vehicles at gas stations, hotels, and other venues across Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature.
The comparison to Milwaukee’s past Socialist mayors highlights how proposals by current Democratic Socialists are much more radical, even if they’re rhetorically similar.
Milwaukee Public Schools, amid a fiscal crisis, should close 25 underutilized school buildings to free up wasted resources, says City Forward Collective.
Students learn less and earn less when they have less incentive to actually study in order to get top grades.
Subjecting big development proposals to popular vote risks killing statewide economic growth, observers say in the wake of a successful effort by Port Washington data center opponents to give citizens the ability to nix the future use of a key financing tool.
There is new evidence that some students hurt themselves economically by going to college — a fact Republicans are using to limit student loans.
Gov. Evers has signed a crucial housing bill pushed by Republicans who say it will increase supply and bring down cost while still allowing municipalities to control whether they want to grow.
Momentum is growing to end vehicle emissions testing programs in several states, including Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin System this month opened the door for its campuses to begin offering faster, cheaper three-year degrees.
The most recent Marquette Law School poll shows public opinion turning against data centers.

