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- Building on the Wisconsin higher-ed reform model
- Wisconsin students who struggle with reading are let down by unenforced literacy reforms, say advocates
- Failure of tax-and-schools deal offers chance to do better
- Big federal bucks so far produce a paltry 21 EV charging stations in Wisconsin
- Behind the curtain, Evers administration diverts taxpayer money to fund environmental bureaucracies
- Wisconsin socialists’ dreams outstrip Sweden in price
- Socialists’ Milwaukee golden age and the light it sheds now
- Milwaukee Public Schools, facing crises, should close 25 schools, report warns
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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
The Foxconn lesson: State should level the playing field, not offer firm-specific incentives
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 a bird-death problem even exists…
Overcoming a mountain of occupational regulation in Wisconsin requires more than baby steps
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.
Sunshine Week: Records request illustrates lack of transparency of federal school funding
It would seem a simple question to ask of any public agency: How much money do you spend and on what?
Gov. Walker says he’ll decide on Opportunity Zone designations by March 21 federal deadline Editor’s note: On March 21, Gov. Scott…
Special needs students are left behind because of inequitable allocation of federal resources, administrators say in survey
Residents in high-tax states like ours are stung harder by cap on state/local tax deduction
Wisconsin’s ‘arbitrary’ exam scores fencing out many young professionals
Wisconsin ranks 38th in the latest state highway systems report.
‘I have to do a lot of paperwork and spend time testing my kids instead of teaching my kids’
Federal requirements in special ed are especially burdensome, educators tell Badger Institute in survey

