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Priorities should include tax reform, corrections, professional licensure and tolling

There’s a reason our legislators can’t get it in gear when it comes to transportation funding. The few realistic short-term options are pretty much akin to sucking a little more exhaust out of a tailpipe.

Interstate Tolling for Wisconsin: How & Why, a webinar presentation by Robert W. Poole Jr., director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.

Wisconsin needs to solve its highway funding shortfall, and toll-financed Interstate modernization is a powerful tool for doing so.

The predicament in which the city finds itself is the result of letting the prospect of “free” federal money determine local policy.

About one-third of all state spending today originates in Washington, D.C., dramatically increasing the influence of the federal government on state spending priorities.

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.

Business, it is said, clamors to zip by train between Milwaukee and Madison. Business, we’re told, needs high-speed rail and…

Spring backward April, as T.S. Eliot reminded us, is the cruelest month, and this year it was especially cruel to…

Consider the plump budget, the slow high-speed train and class-conscious Legos. As John Keats would have appreciated, autumn in Wisconsin…

Commuter train boosters pull a fast one on the public. By Deb Jordahl Never give up; three simple words that…

Report recommends the Legislature and the governor repeal the minimum markup law as applied to motor fuel.

Why you’ll pay more at the pump

Over the next several years, there may be no more important issue in Wisconsin than the rebuilding of the Marquette Interchange

A myth that continues to exist in the minds of the public and many a government regulator is the notion…

Is light rail the answer to metropolitan Milwaukee’s traffic problems?

By Richard Cebula According to a new set of projections, many industries in the state of Wisconsin are likely to benefit significantly over time from the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In the aggregate, over the next five years, as many as 3,300 jobs could be created in Wisconsin as a