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- Wisconsin should choose the right side of the income tax divide
- Data centers often bring faster connections to world
- Facts to help you decide whether Wisconsin children should be eligible for donor-funded education scholarships
- Food co-op seen as viable, more likely option than government-funded grocery store in Milwaukee
- Public school leaders look forward to possible private donations for scholarships
- Restoring accountability in Wisconsin government
- Wisconsin eventually will opt in to donor bonanza for schools, business leader predicts
- Building on the Wisconsin higher-ed reform model
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The choice Wisconsin leaders make about income tax policy will have important implications for the state’s future competitiveness and prosperity.
Geography matters for what’s called “latency,” the small but often important amount of time it takes signals to travel from a user to whatever data center holds the information he’s using.
What Wisconsinites need to know about how the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program works.
The solution to problems left by grocery store closures in Milwaukee may include a civil-society option such as a food co-op, observers say.
Public school district leaders are thinking about what scholarships from private donations through a new federal tax credit program the will do for their students.
When girls at New Richmond High School complained that their privacy was being invaded, those authorities in essence told girls they were the problem.
“There’s never been a federal program that’s been as generous as this that the state didn’t opt in,” said Kooyenga.
A Wisconsin law requiring schools to inform parents when their students are struggling with reading is going unenforced in far too many districts.
Think of the failure of the $1.8 billion tax-and-spending deal between Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature as a second chance at better policy.
Millions of dollars have been spent on the aim to build 80 charging stations for electric vehicles at gas stations, hotels, and other venues across Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature.
The Wisconsin Legislature’s “Socialist Caucus” drafted a bill that would add a 17.7% top bracket for households earning $1 million.
The comparison to Milwaukee’s past Socialist mayors highlights how proposals by current Democratic Socialists are much more radical, even if they’re rhetorically similar.
Milwaukee Public Schools, amid a fiscal crisis, should close 25 underutilized school buildings to free up wasted resources, says City Forward Collective.
Students learn less and earn less when they have less incentive to actually study in order to get top grades.
Wisconsin and Ontario are both manufacturing centers with similar economic strengths and vulnerabilities. The Badger State should learn from Ontario’s mistakes.
Subjecting big development proposals to popular vote risks killing statewide economic growth, observers say in the wake of a successful effort by Port Washington data center opponents to give citizens the ability to nix the future use of a key financing tool.
In 1969, nearly nine out of 10 American children lived in households with two married parents. By 2023, that figure had fallen to roughly six in 10.
From 2011 to 2024, Wisconsin counties beat their Illinois counterparts 103 percent to 68 percent in private-sector economic output.
There is new evidence that some students hurt themselves economically by going to college — a fact Republicans are using to limit student loans.

