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“The days of white liberal guilt are coming to an end and thank God for it.”

A growing number of Wisconsin communities are choosing to act against considerable economic interest and sit out the data center revolution.

Economic freedom is a fundamental animating idea of the republic that people should be free to work, build, hire, save, invest, trade and make their own economic choices without unnecessary interference from government.

At a time when Medicaid fraud is making national news, Wisconsin ought to impose greater discipline on a program that now costs taxpayers $36.4 billion over the 2025-27 budget cycle.

While state law prohibits drivers from driving with a suspended license, it’s not a crime unless alcohol is involved.

The choice Wisconsin leaders make about income tax policy will have important implications for the state’s future competitiveness and prosperity.

Geography matters for what’s called “latency,” the small but often important amount of time it takes signals to travel from a user to whatever data center holds the information he’s using.

What Wisconsinites need to know about how the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program works.

The solution to problems left by grocery store closures in Milwaukee may include a civil-society option such as a food co-op, observers say.

Public school district leaders are thinking about what scholarships from private donations through a new federal tax credit program the will do for their students.

Wisconsin’ recent failures of accountability share a common feature: Power has increasingly shifted away from the Legislature and toward governors, agencies, courts and other institutions that operate further from direct democratic control.

“There’s never been a federal program that’s been as generous as this that the state didn’t opt in,” said Kooyenga.

Wisconsin can pursue practical, targeted reforms that improve accountability, strengthen academic standards and better align universities with the needs of students and taxpayers without dismantling the university system itself.

A Wisconsin law requiring schools to inform parents when their students are struggling with reading is going unenforced in far too many districts.

Think of the failure of the $1.8 billion tax-and-spending deal between Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature as a second chance at better policy.

Millions of dollars have been spent on the aim to build 80 charging stations for electric vehicles at gas stations, hotels, and other venues across Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature.

The Wisconsin Legislature’s “Socialist Caucus” drafted a bill that would add a 17.7% top bracket for households earning $1 million.

The comparison to Milwaukee’s past Socialist mayors highlights how proposals by current Democratic Socialists are much more radical, even if they’re rhetorically similar.

Milwaukee Public Schools, amid a fiscal crisis, should close 25 underutilized school buildings to free up wasted resources, says City Forward Collective.