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- Restoring accountability in Wisconsin government
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It’s campaign season, so the only numbers that seem to matter to the mainstream media are the ones in polls.
Reducing Milwaukeeans’ suffering from crime starts young, and research suggests a means. Between the time these words are written and your reading them, the odds are better than even that someone will be murdered in Milwaukee.
A Milwaukee mom’s take on why more parents need educational choice.
Students in Milwaukee’s public high schools who want a better life and know that school is their only way up are being battered, assaulted and exposed to gunfire or other reckless conduct on a daily basis.
The Milwaukee Police Department responded to 1,310 calls for service at 34 MPS-controlled high schools in the 2021-’22 school year,
Like all government programs, the criminal justice system must be evaluated on the basis of cost-effectiveness and outcomes. Wisconsin’s current…
Much to his credit, WTMJ’s Charles Benson broke a big – if potentially fleeting – story at the start of the Republican gubernatorial debate earlier this week.
Awash in federal bailout cash, some Wisconsin cities ask for a property tax hike
If schools want to impose belief systems on students, parents should have the right to choose their schools.
Turns out, as it always does when you look at where federal tax dollars end up in this country, Wisconsin is bringing up the tail end in the scramble for COVID cash.
January 13, 2022
Parents’ power to choose the best education for their children ought not be hindered when the default is failing them…
The century-old progressive income tax is no longer a viable model
Milwaukee’s school choice program shows that letting parents choose a moral ecology is how differing beliefs can coexist.
WEA Trust just announced it is terminating its health insurance business
In response to falling standards, former Mequon-Thiensville school board member launches charter school
Scarlett Johnson sat down with Badger Institute Policy Director Patrick McIlheran this week to explain what drove her to act on behalf of her local schools, and why more parents should do so.
As you fill up with gas that as of Thursday averages $4.84 a gallon in metro Milwaukee, remember that the progressive movement in Washington, D.C., long has wanted fuel to be priced as a luxury good.
Policymakers should advance reforms that prioritize GSP, personal income growth
By now, the health emergency has little to do with it
Who wins and who loses?
May 25, 2022aStudent debt forgiveness schemes are both inefficient and unfair policies for helping low-income families.

