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- Building costs heading upward in first impact of bureaucrats being unleashed
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- Financially illiterate high schoolers about to be taught a lesson
- Economics: The Rodney Dangerfield of modern politics
- A win for Wisconsin families: Childcare in the 2025-2027 biennial state budget
- Port Washington data center on track to by far be state’s largest electricity user
- ‘We still need to pave our roads’
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The Trump Administration’s focus on federal grants is part of a fundamental dispute over whether Americans should adhere to the Tenth Amendment.
Wisconsin voters will on the same day this April choose a new state Supreme Court justice and also decide whether the state’s voter ID law will become part of the state Constitution.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he will lead an effort to produce a balanced budget and restore the value of the dollar.
In 2023, the drug most often identified in samples sent by law enforcement to the State Crime Lab was meth, which accounted for 1,378 of the 4,805 samples tested — more than cocaine or heroin or fentanyl or even THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
The winner of Wisconsin’s race for school superintendent will have far-reaching powers to advance changes and improvements in education.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has renewed his proposal that legislators allow themselves to be cut out of the process of making state law and permit bills to be passed or statutes to be repealed by petition and referendum, an idea that the Legislature’s leaders dismissed as dead on arrival.
Port Washington’s announcement of another billion-dollar data center project in southeastern Wisconsin is focusing attention on the challenge of meeting the voracious energy needs of this new economic opportunity.
Wisconsin’s biggest metropolis enjoys the third-highest concentration of manufacturing jobs in the country. The EPA’s redesignation, dropped with little warning in early December, could kill that.
Wisconsinites are increasingly interracial, challenging a deeply embedded and divisive system that relies on racial categories to apportion billions of dollars in government programs and subsidies in the name of equity.
What do Wisconsinites want in 2025? Just the chance to buy a modest house and heat it affordably. A safe place away from gunshots and a job that pays the bills. And a really good school where kids feel safe and hopeful.
In the 12 years leading up to Act 10, school levies across Wisconsin rose 72%, compared to 31% in the dozen years after that up to and including 2024.
A reversal by the State Historic Preservation Review Board on the significance of the 35-year-old “postmodern” 100 East building in downtown Milwaukee could mean tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks if the building is fully renovated.
Wisconsin’s economy is thriving under free market reforms, many aided by Badger Institute research and advocacy.
By the best estimate, the Act 10 reforms saved Wisconsin taxpayers between $18 billion and $31 billion since 2012.
Populist trade policy at the national level is especially dangerous for Wisconsin workers.
Wisconsin ought to show mercy to families struggling with childcare costs by re-examining which cost-escalating regulations actually matter for kids.
Results from the nation’s most comprehensive experiment in offering people a guaranteed basic income offer a warning: Unconditional cash payments did nothing to permanently lift participants out of poverty and dependency.
While Milwaukee continues to struggle putting sworn officers on the streets, the police departments in Wisconsin’s other largest cities are at or fast approaching full staffing.
Cheeseheads have a new bleating heart When it comes to dairy cow production, Wisconsin was long, well, the GOAT. For…
The median time it takes to close out felony criminal cases is down 5% from 2022 to 2023, and the median misdemeanor criminal case is reaching a conclusion 2% faster, according to figures from the Wisconsin Court System.