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- Justice Gorsuch, we have an update for you
- Cannabis citation rates differ widely in small sample of Wisconsin communities
- MPS stiff-arms cops in schools as allegations of robbery and assault mount
- DPI fabricates testing miracle — but doesn’t help Wisconsin kids read
- Jagler: MPS could pay a price for cop recalcitrance
- The dawn of viable small modular nuclear reactors — and why Wisconsin should care
- Wisconsin should listen to its people: Link FoodShare to work
- Work requirement waivers increased FoodShare caseloads and costs in Wisconsin
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In his new book, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch laments the vast expansion of the federal government into matters once left to the states, and he cites Badger Institute’s “Federal Grant$tanding” book, published in 2018.
While Wisconsin rarely prosecutes possession or sale of larger amounts of marijuana, some municipalities are much more likely than others to prosecute less serious violations.
In the 2023-24 school year, MPS schools called police 1,245 times for help with allegations of everything from armed robbery to sexual assault to felony theft.
When Wisconsin’s high school graduates find out the rest of life hasn’t lowered the bar for “proficiency,” when they find out they’ve been misled, it will be a cruel slap of reality.
MPS may regret its ongoing resistance to the state’s resource officer requirement the next time it comes to the Legislature looking for tax money.
Small nuclear modular reactors are a big deal for Wisconsin, given our developing AI economy and Gov. Evers’ Clean Energy Plan.
It’s time for Wisconsin to listen to voters and re-establish a work requirement for able-bodied FoodShare recipients.
Waiving the work requirement led to an increase of 780 adults receiving FoodShare on average per county per month from 2012-2023 in Wisconsin.
Facing a $5 million bill to run the free streetcar known as The Hop next year, Alderman Scott Spiker wondered if a huge increase in handing out parking tickets is the funding answer.
Government overregulation is imperiling the start of a $1 billion plan to expand broadband service to the hardest-to-reach places in Wisconsin.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ new housing down payment assistance proposal, which would give $25,000 to qualifying first-time home buyers, would dramatically increase housing prices, particularly in Midwestern metro areas such as Milwaukee, according to a new study by scholars at the American Enterprise Institute.
“There are communities that have decided they just don’t want to grow,” said Chad Lawler, who heads the Madison Area Builders Association.
Wisconsin accounted for 53% of the nation’s total mink pelt production in 2023, down 10 percent from the previous year.
Wisconsin’s largest school district, whose voters narrowly approved a quarter-billion dollar increase in funding last spring, is breaking the news to those voters that it may have to close some schools. But the process isn’t moving quickly.
‘It’s tough enough to run a small business in Minnesota,’ but rates and regulations grew harsher under Walz, starting with…
How does Wisconsin’s spending compare to other states? It depends which ones you’re looking at and what sort of spending counts.
A federal report this month is touting two Wisconsin nuclear power plant sites — one operating, one shut down — as attractive locations for installing new nuclear electric generating plants.
Homes have become less affordable in Wisconsin, but some relief might be coming with “by-right development” legislation granting simpler approval for projects that fit zoning codes.
How do other states without an income tax fund essential services? Under what circumstances would this be feasible in Wisconsin?
America’s energy grids are strained, and Michigan is reconsidering nuclear’s role in meeting consumer demand. Wisconsin, too, should take note.