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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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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.
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.
A county-by-county analysis shows that while some Wisconsinites residents are seeing real growth in their wages, others are falling behind the rise in prices.
People are leaving Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa and, according to a new study by the Tax Foundation, the loss of state revenue and the population migration are closely tied to punitive tax structures in those states.
“The only reason you’re free is because of checks and balances. Period. And one of the central checks is the Electoral College.”
Adult-use legalization could increase the incidence of disorders associated with cannabis use, including psychosis and schizophrenia, cannabis use disorder, depression and hyperemesis, and numerous other conditions.
Housing market and financing shouldn’t be its concern Key members of the Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission seem to think their…
There will be no police officers in Milwaukee Public Schools when classes begin this Tuesday, violating a requirement that is part of the current state budget.

