The Department of Transportation now has the opportunity to study tolling as a path forward to fix our crumbling infrastructure

Department of Revenue’s guidelines on taxing ice cream cakes illustrate the absurd complexity of state’s sales tax system

Wisconsin’s law, which requires a judge to decide on expungement at the time of sentencing, is unlike any in the nation

Wisconsin should join neighbors Minnesota and Michigan, and several other states, in authorizing the creation of these licensed mid-level professionals

Wisconsin’s deal should be scrapped for reasons far beyond the possible switch from factory jobs to research jobs

Commission staff adds expensive requirement to solar farm project without considering the cost or whether…

New report doesn’t include comparisons with other states and policy recommendations

Bipartisan legislative support for a tolling study likely exists and is validated by two major reports

The fiscal calamity looming for our neighbor to the south could help lure businesses and workers to the Badger State

As with manufacturing property, valuations should be done by the state, with owners being able to appeal to a panel of tax experts rather than a local review board

Many taxpayers will no longer benefit from state and local tax deduction

An empowered treasurer could be an independent voice for fiscal sanity

Broad-based Wisconsin tax reform should be the goal

Numbers and nuggets from trends in Wisconsin — on everything from the state’s tax rankings to our workforce shortage to the growth in occupational licensing to corrections to the transportation funding dilemma to the decline of the mainstream media.