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As a new legislative session is set to begin in a changed political landscape, sound evidence should guide Wisconsin’s next policy direction.

Manufactured housing accounts for about 1,400 homes built in Wisconsin per year, or roughly 2.5 percent.

Wisconsin’s newly elected are not there to serve special interests or serve donors. They are elected to serve the children and taxpayers, young parents and workers, retirees and twenty-year-olds alike.

Wisconsin students should should graduate with a clear understanding of communism’s history and the consequences of sacrificing individual liberty to unchecked government power.

Even as demand for electricity appears set to soar in coming years, utility and private-sector players are envisioning new versions of nuclear power.

Wisconsin has a new opportunity to help solve one of this country’s thorniest problems: the cost of healthcare for small businesses and employees without access to traditional group health insurance.

Wisconsin’s next Legislature and governor should work to ensure that more Wisconsin families can access the education they believe best serves their children.

Wisconsin labor and employment policy can, in some instances, tilt in the favor of insiders, impose costs on outsiders, and adversely affect the state’s economic performance.

How can there be one staff member for every seven students in Milwaukee Public Schools and yet classes as large as 34?

Wisconsin can strengthen its economic competitiveness by reducing unnecessary regulation, improving oversight of the regulatory process and making its legal environment more efficient and predictable for businesses

Madison is among the 50 costliest metros nationwide, yet most of Dane County remains open land that would seem to be an obvious place for single-family homes.

The Democratic Governors Association is falsely insinuating that the Badger Institute panned a “scheme” by gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany to eliminate Wisconsin’s income tax.

What works for Wisconsin housing is letting the market build: easing the zoning, lot size, and permitting rules that artificially constrain supply.

If Wisconsinites really do want our government to stop racially discriminating, we’ll need to put it in our constitution.

Wisconsin should replace its current graduated individual income tax with a single-rate structure and set that rate as low as fiscal conditions responsibly allow.

Total potential private giving through the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit could be six times higher than previously estimated.

Wisconsin’s northern counties’ budgets, economies are squeezed by how much land is undevelopable and off tax rolls.

Business and city leaders in Janesville are warning of the long-term economic damage of citizens taking direct control over major development in the city.

Rather than simply putting more resources into a system producing disappointing results, policymakers should focus on reforms that improve how public schools function.

Wisconsin transportation policy should begin with the people who use the system: where they want to go, how they want to get there and how those choices may change as new technologies become available.