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- Failure of tax-and-schools deal offers chance to do better
- Big federal bucks so far produce a paltry 21 EV charging stations in Wisconsin
- Behind the curtain, Evers administration diverts taxpayer money to fund environmental bureaucracies
- Wisconsin socialists’ dreams outstrip Sweden in price
- Socialists’ Milwaukee golden age and the light it sheds now
- Milwaukee Public Schools, facing crises, should close 25 schools, report warns
- Easy graders make real life harder
- For glimpse of a dismal Wisconsin future, just look at our Great Lakes neighbor
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“Democrats put themselves in the situation we’re in, and it’s non-winnable,” says Rachidi, a researcher who has written extensively about FoodShare and SNAP.
Technical college graduates and small business owners will be big winners in the massive Vantage Data Centers development soon expected to become the largest employer in Port Washington.
Sen. Cory Tomczyk expects to take criticism from his own party for helping author a bill that would allow Milwaukee police to use cameras to ticket drivers going at least 15 mph over the speed limit or blowing through red lights.
The biggest data centers planned for Wisconsin are not a threat to local water systems or to Lake Michigan — a fact opponents either can’t believe or won’t admit.
New nuclear measure in Wisconsin includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on.’
But reforms via statute might help Wisconsin avoid a still more onerous environment Fixing the damage wreaked by the Wisconsin…
Wisconsin taxpayers ought to be rooting hard for conservatives to hold the line during this current federal government shutdown and let the pandemic-era super-subsidies for the Affordable Care Act run out at the end of the year.
Lawmakers advanced a bill this week to buy time for Wisconsin construction projects blindsided by a state agency’s abrupt implementation of a new commercial building code.
There’s more evidence in recent days that the federal government spends money in two ways — too quickly and too slowly.
Mike Nichols, president of the Badger Institute, testifies concerning AB 453, a bill which would bring clarity and transparency to the housing development process by requiring municipalities to align zoning ordinances with publicly determined comprehensive plans.
After a storm of controversy surrounding the old Egg Harbor property, the owner of the Alpine Resort no longer thinks it’s “worth it” to make his home among such neighbors.
A family’s huge bet on bettering the lives of thousands of Milwaukee children is moving a step closer to launch as St. Augustine Preparatory School starts taking names for its $104 million north campus in Glendale.
State agencies have begun their rush through a regulatory back door that will almost certainly cost owners of businesses large and small in Wisconsin tens of millions of dollars.
Gov. Tony Evers’ refusal to let Wisconsinites donate to public and private schools by using a federal tax credit is baffling.
State Rep. Joy Goeben and state Sen. Steve Nass have introduced a bill that would prohibit local governments from enacting a “rights of nature” ordinance.
Business leaders and educators are concerned about the future of the workforce in the Badger State — and debating whether many young Wisconsinites are just lazy.
A new requirement to hire a “special inspector” to be on hand during construction will add an estimated $20,000 to any store, school, office, factory or apartment building in the Wisconsin.
Beer production in Wisconsin, a state that prides itself on its brewing heritagen is down more than 15 percent in just the last four years, a victim of a confluence of local and national drinking trends.
Overwhelmingly popular new mandate spurs action from nonprofits Editor’s note: Fourteen years ago, the Badger Institute (then known as WPRI)…
The School District of Beloit annually lost almost a quarter of its teachers on average during or right after the 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years — far higher than the loss rates for those years for both the adjacent School District of Beloit Turner and the state as a whole.

