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- Without legislative change, dwindling ranks of young accountants will flee Wisconsin
- Courage on Medicaid in the past helps Wisconsin now
- At center of America’s essential debate, Johnson says resist spending frenzy
- Real answer to siting nuclear plants: ‘Yes, here.’
- Taxpayers need more simplicity and transparency — not misleading arguments meant to stoke fears of successful choice schools
- 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
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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.
The estimate by the Department of Public Instruction of potential added costs to property tax payers from opening Wisconsin’s school choice programs to families of all income levels is deeply flawed.
Governor’s veto lays bare the doubletalk of the CRT crowd.
Michael Jahr joined a panel of experts to discuss how expanding the dental therapy profession in Wisconsin would bridge the access gap for many individuals through use of free market principles.
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
Shortly after the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the CARES Act, a $2.2 trillion bill designed to alleviate the negative economic consequences of government-mandated shutdowns.
A proposal to enhance public credibility
Wisconsin’s unemployment situation has rebounded, but participation in government programs remains elevated. Angela K. Rachidi, PhD is the author of a Badger Institute report “Employment and the Safety Net During the Pandemic”
October 21, 2021
Progressives ignore past failures, and have no idea how to pay for a ‘greater society’