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- Reckless Milwaukee drivers pushing conservatives out of traditional lane
- Wisconsin lax on predatory teachers who groom students, legislators told
- Claims of data center water use are laughably wrong
- Bill would use tax credit to lower cost barrier to new nuclear in Wisconsin
- Fixing regulatory rampage will require amendment, say observers
- Fight over Obamacare is fight worth having
- Post-Kirk assassination, Wisconsin needs to teach difference between words and bullets, says prof
- School-bus Wi-Fi finally gets reined in while pandemic-era home internet subsidies only now dribble out
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Years after we first reported on daily calls to police from MPS high schools, the Milwaukee Public Schools finally obeyed a judge’s order and placed cops back in the hallways this week.
Supporting new nuclear power in Wisconsin by supporting SJR7 / AJR6 will give energy developers an encouraging clarity.
Spent uranium isn’t the plant owners’ responsibility because Uncle Sam bigfooted his way into the matter in 1982, then accomplished nothing.
Wisconsin was one of the lowest-ranked states in a state-by-state index of teacher morale released by the news outlet Education Week in early March.
Lawmakers are seeking support for legislation that would prohibit Wisconsin’s 700,000 FoodShare recipients from buying candy and soda with program benefits.
Those who staff emergency medical services in Door County, WI can’t easily afford to live there… and there’s little sign that things are soon to get better.
Wisconsin residents report the increasing strain of trying to afford a home. These experiences are borne out by market data showing more Wisconsin residents priced out of homeownership.
Wisconsin’s governor talks of new 9.8% top tax rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.
First in a series on housing in the Badger State, Out of reach: Wisconsin’s housing crisis and hope for the…
Rep. David Steffen and Sen. Julian Bradley are circulating a joint resolution supporting expansion of nuclear energy production in Wisconsin.
Direct primary care bills being considered in Madison provide a solution that could make Wisconsin healthcare cheaper and more accessible.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has flatly stated that the most pressing challenge currently facing the state education system is teacher retention. Two different analyses conducted by the Badger Institute at a statewide level appear to contradict the DPI’s findings.
Badger Institute supports 2025 AB 1, because no matter how lousy our kids’ and schools’ test scores are, it’s both counterproductive and plain wrong to pretend otherwise.
Wisconsin’s public schools are losing students faster than districts are downsizing their staff, analysis of data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction shows.
Providing free breakfast and lunch for all Wisconsin schoolchildren will burden taxpayers with the cost of assisting households that likely do not need the benefits.
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.

