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Years after we first reported on daily calls to police from MPS high schools, the Milwaukee Public Schools finally obeyed a judge’s order and placed cops back in the hallways this week.

Our vow for the year ahead is to remind the legislators who love government that they are there to serve a greater good and their hard-working neighbors — not themselves.

Shortly before our Oct. 1 annual dinner, we learned about a conversation Rich Lowry, editor of National Review and at…

Note: Badger Institute President Mike Nichols issued a new statement on Rich Lowry on Oct. 15, 2024. Our Annual Dinner…

The opponents of constitutional amendments that would give legislators say along with the governor on spending federal dollars are claiming…

If voters approve two constitutional amendment questions in August, Wisconsin would join 34 other states whose governors and legislators share authority over major federal funding allocations.

Passing the amendments would give Wisconsin’s 33 state Senators and 99 state Assembly members, elected by you, a say in where huge sums of federal money go. It doesn’t get much more democratic than that.

Here at the Badger Institute, we still believe in the American Dream, in America, and in Wisconsin. Your generosity makes it possible for the Badger Institute to uphold the principles of free enterprise, liberty and limited government.

Thanks to your generosity, we produced reams of research, championed many policy reforms, helped kill some bad policies, and were part of numerous legislative victories in Madison.

Among 85 Wisconsin school districts seeking tax hikes Tuesday, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is making far and away the biggest ask.

The children in MPS deserve better. The city deserves better. There is no realistic argument that more money is the solution. To the extent a big influx of cash allows further complacency, it is more likely to hurt.

According to the Milwaukee Public Schools’ own figures filed with the state, at least 20 of the district’s schools had enrollments last school year that were less than half the building’s capacity.

Many — if not most — kids counted as enrolled in the Milwaukee Public Schools miss at least three weeks of class throughout the year. In some schools, nearly all kids are chronically absent — that is, absent on more than 10% of possible attendance days.

“I used to live in California and saw what this type of supposedly “protectionist” policies do to housing and the culture, and how it typically favors upper middle and upper income folks and hurts everyone else, especially minorities and the young, who can’t even dream of owning a house.”

Thank you for caring about what goes on in the state of Wisconsin. We do, too. We’re the Badger Institute — and we’ve been advancing the cause of free markets, individual opportunity and prosperity here since 1987.

Badger Institute President Mike Nichols responds to questions raised regarding research projects into marijuana legalization.

More than 5,000 students with disabilities participate in one of four Wisconsin school choice programs. In 2022 alone, more than 150 schools in the state’s choice programs accepted 2,217 students with special needs scholarships.

The Badger Institute believes that energy solutions must include a pragmatic balancing of costs and benefits to the economy both now and long-term. The transition must be dictated by science and economics and include free-market principles.

According to a Marquette Law School poll last fall, 64% of registered Wisconsin voters, and 43% of Republicans, favor full legalization. Thirty percent of Wisconsinites and 50% of Republicans think it should remain illegal. Only 6% of registered voters say they just don’t know.

It’s telling that Gov. Evers, Sen. Larson and the rest keep using words like “the wealthy” and “rich” to talk about their targets. The Wisconsin income tax is levied not on wealth that people have saved but on income — what they earn. If you say “rich,” with its implications of inheritance or luck, you don’t have to grapple with how taxes take what someone is working for.