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- Plans, zoning and annexation form front lines for Wisconsin cities looking to build more housing
- We increasingly live in a world of unsolved crime
- State should cut funding to public media
- Kewaunee power possibility adds to Wisconsin nuclear trend
- Taxpayers spared nearly $8.5 million in Wisconsin alone due to Trump administration order cutting aid to public broadcasting
- Local government regulations push price of a Wisconsin roof skyward
- Subject by subject, Wisconsin districts face higher rates of teacher turnover
- Milwaukee rents in national spotlight; rent caps not the solution
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Alumni also express concerns about debt and the value of their degrees
Sometime during the 2023 session, the Wisconsin Legislature is expected to approve a resolution proposing that voters consider amending the state constitution to restore long-lost legislative oversight of major federal spending initiatives in the state.
There is never one cure-all for complex societal problems like poverty or morally, economically and emotionally untethered children. The first thing is to recognize the problem for what it is. The numbers make that easy.
As the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States in 2020, Congress began shotgunning money out over the country in unprecedented ways.
In Burlington, as elsewhere, families wake up to a revolution being inflicted on children.
Climate change alarmism has become a science of its own.
One of the following two things happened this month. Guess which one didn’t:
Of all the wasteful impulses many politicians have, one of the worst is giving big tax breaks to dying industries.
Scaring taxpayers about school choice income limits is arrogant.
Wisconsin voters could make 2023 a watershed year for oversight of currently unchecked spending of billions of dollars of federal funding flowing into the state.
The polling shows more and more parents want that opportunity for their kids – and more and more other Wisconsinites believe the right thing to do is to give it to them now.
Governor’s veto lays bare the doubletalk of the CRT crowd.
Unless kids are killed or maimed, gun battles at school are just police blotter items.
Pulling cops out of public schools was a crazy idea.
At the height of the initial COVID-19 outbreak, correctional and other public safety agencies in Wisconsin bought at least 55 disinfection robots at a cost of more than $2.2 million.
Pretrial risk assessment should be expanded, not scrapped, advocates say
If you’ve recently filled out a school admission form, read a story in the local paper, or listened to a white politician talk about Latinos, then you may have heard the term Latinx.
Studies find correlation between good oral health and lower risk of severe COVID infection
Research indicates a correlation between proper dental hygiene, including regular dental visits, and a lower risk of serious COVID infection and complications, according to a recent study out of Cairo University.
It’s an understatement to say that Wisconsin businesses are struggling to find workers.
The fury of parents aimed at local school boards across the country was stoked this week by a government whistleblower who says the FBI set up a system to begin tracking those angry exchanges at the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland