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By now, the health emergency has little to do with it

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May 25, 2022aStudent debt forgiveness schemes are both inefficient and unfair policies for helping low-income families.

Criminals are emboldened if they think they won’t get caught

Kids are reaping the consequences of school shutdowns

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