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- Madison is a perfect example of why cities should stay out of grocery business
- Much of America figuring out how to build more homes
- Wisconsin DPI mired in one scandal after another
- Republican candidates join nationwide scrutiny of tenure
- Most UW System schools’ enrollments are stagnant as tech colleges flourish
- Money now more important than Milton or Macbeth at UW schools
- UW students turning away from gender and ethnic studies degrees
- Rights of nature and the wrongs inflicted on Wisconsinites
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The good things in life in this democracy — opportunity, fulfillment, upward mobility, prosperity, the redounding energy and succor that comes from free association, love of relatives and friends
As we move through 2022, the national economy is in what might best be described as a strange state.
Some people earn a lot of money. Some earn a little.
Wisconsin’s politicians prohibit over 1 million citizens from working unless they have government permission.
It’s campaign season, so the only numbers that seem to matter to the mainstream media are the ones in polls.
As a way for funding an important public good — highways — Wisconsin’s gas tax was pretty good
Reducing Milwaukeeans’ suffering from crime starts young, and research suggests a means. Between the time these words are written and your reading them, the odds are better than even that someone will be murdered in Milwaukee.
Wisconsin, like most states, allows individuals who have been convicted of a one-time, low-level offense to ask a judge to have the record of that conviction expunged once they’ve served their sentence and demonstrated they pose no risk to public safety
Elita Williams is grateful for the opportunity to select the best schools for her kids.
A Milwaukee mom’s take on why more parents need educational choice.
Recent and rigorous academic evaluations suggest that such policies aren’t effective at increasing employment among the formerly incarcerated.
August 11, 2022
Students in Milwaukee’s public high schools who want a better life and know that school is their only way up are being battered, assaulted and exposed to gunfire or other reckless conduct on a daily basis.
The Milwaukee Police Department responded to 1,310 calls for service at 34 MPS-controlled high schools in the 2021-’22 school year,
Like all government programs, the criminal justice system must be evaluated on the basis of cost-effectiveness and outcomes. Wisconsin’s current…
Even before the pandemic, U.S. entitlement spending was on an unsustainable path, the growth in means-tested safety net programs far outstripping inflation.
Awash in federal bailout cash, some Wisconsin cities ask for a property tax hike
If schools want to impose belief systems on students, parents should have the right to choose their schools.
Parents’ power to choose the best education for their children ought not be hindered when the default is failing them…
A new report from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute offers five comprehensive tax reform options to enhance Wisconsin’s tax competitiveness by reducing harmful taxes on labor and investment.
Wisconsin could help lead the nation in empowering patient-consumers to seek care in a functioning market with upfront transparent pricing.

