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Rather than being portrayed as the enemy of low-income blacks, police should be seen instead as the community’s strongest allies against recurring violence.
The fight over right-to-work has lots of subplots – but a big one involves the role some unions play in training workers.
Even Democrats favor a right-to-work law that would end compulsory union dues from unwilling workers Back in the 1990s, Tiffany…
The system is performing so poorly that major changes, not just tweaks, are needed.
In January, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. warned the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee of the increasing federalization of local police departments.
In a January article comparing the economic status of the black community in 52 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, policy expert Joel Kotkin ranked Atlanta and Washington, D.C., among cities with the most prosperous black populations and ranked Milwaukee dead last.
Tax-exempt institutions pay utility fees for their use of electricity and water. Shouldn’t a tax for their ownership of property be viewed in the same light?
Generational gaps in behavior are nothing new.
Like many families from the city, every summer while I was growing up, my family would pack up the car and take a trip to the hinterlands of Wisconsin.
In the past, climate change has been a wedge issue between conservatives and liberals, but that tide appears to be turning.
According to a WPRI poll, 62% of Wisconsinites somewhat or completely support a special needs voucher proposal, while 27% are somewhat or completely opposed.
Seventy-five parts per billion is a huge number when it comes to ground-level ozone pollution, says the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
One of the benefits of having 50 states, our so-called laboratories of democracy, is that we can examine different states’ policies and learn from them.
BY MIKE NICHOLS | Dec. 15, 2014 Many years ago, after taking a job as a young reporter at the old…
In 2012, Democratic candidates successfully sold the narrative that Republicans were waging a war against American women. Consequently, exit polls found a significant gender gap.
Wisconsinites need to get used to the idea of electronic tolls on our freeways. It’s a free-market solution to an overwhelming problem: lack of cash to pay for modestly modern highways.
The headline in late October was a shocker: “Wisconsin business taxes rank 43rd” — seventh worst in the country.
I’m not wealthy, but I’m working on it.
By now, there’s enough mythology surrounding the patterns and trends exhibited by the millennial generation to overwhelm any researcher.
It’s amazing, the things we get worked up about — and the things we don’t.