Legislature should fix the complex process that benefits developers and politicians at the expense of taxpayers

Firefighters almost never fight fires nowadays, turning fire departments into emergency medical services agencies. Is there a better way?

Funding mechanism has become a gravy train for developers and distorts the free market, critics say

Digging into the decline of marriage, fire department staffing, overused TIFs and driverless transit

Editor’s Note Digging into the decline of marriage, fire department staffing, overused TIFs and driverless transit.By Mike Nichols Read More……

The Sheboygan Fire Department recently marked its 10th year of providing emergency medical services (EMS) to the city’s residents. But not all of the parties associated with the decision are celebrating the milestone.

Editor’s Note WPRI has transformed itself into the Badger Institute — a name that reaches back to the industrious miners…

Meet Daniel Kelly, the most improbable candidate to land a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
A Colorado boy, Kelly did not grow up in Wisconsin. He didn’t attend either of the state’s two law schools, the legal factories that stamp out most of the top judges in Wisconsin. In the two decades that Kelly worked as a lawyer in the Badger State, it was largely out of the public spotlight on complex commercial litigation.
And when his name surfaced last year as one of three finalists to replace retiring Justice David Prosser, Kelly was excoriated as an extremist by lefties horrified at the high court’s rightward tilt. He was far from the odds-on favorite to earn the governor’s appointment.

10 years ago, shaken Republicans thought the future pointed to Hayek and Reagan, not to Bannon and Le Pen

Private contractors help states grab more U.S. dollars at the expense of serving children and the poor

Never Trumpers’ myopia keeps them from seeing the greater danger that a Clinton presidency would have created

Federal regulations force school districts to spend that money or face funding cuts

Contrarians must push back against nativist authoritarianism and return to conservative principles

Erecting cultural barriers ices out the melting pot

Wisconsin’s huge investment hinges on the ever-evolving world of display technology

The left’s complaints about cultural appropriation keep Americans separated rather than united

And how tax reform and transportation upgrades can help Wisconsin take full advantage

Diggings: Badgers persevere — and adapt