What you want from Wisconsin in 2025
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What will it take to make Wisconsin among the best places in America to live, work and do business? The Badger Institute has pulled together some of the best minds in the state and the country to offer answers. The Mandate for Madison is a book full of ideas and solutions about public policy centered on how to improve Wisconsin, offering research and recommendations from a remarkable set of scholars who bring extraordinary insight into Wisconsin’s situation. These options offer a fast start to correct the problems holding back our state.
Badger Institute’s latest:

Post-Kirk assassination, Wisconsin needs to teach difference between words and bullets, says prof
Silence after attack on the soul of universities puts too much at risk [The views expressed here by Trevor Tomesh do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.] If we’re to go on having universities that are worth the name, Wisconsin needs to start teaching the difference between words and bullets, says a professor in River

School-bus Wi-Fi finally gets reined in while pandemic-era home internet subsidies only now dribble out
There’s more evidence in recent days that the federal government spends money in two ways — too quickly and too slowly.

Village’s hostility chases out restaurateur who bought derelict Door County resort
After a storm of controversy surrounding the old Egg Harbor property, the owner of the Alpine Resort no longer thinks it’s “worth it” to make his home among such neighbors.