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:
Florida could teach Wisconsin how to demand a more open-minded academia
Florida’s politics, suggests Owens, which are more confidently conservative than in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin still holds $800 million in people’s unclaimed cash despite a top ranking in returning funds
Wisconsin is tied for first place among states when it comes to reconnecting unclaimed money with its rightful owners — though no state is particularly good at it.
More Wisconsin circuit courts use text reminders to move justice along: a ‘godsend’
More than 60 percent of Wisconsin circuit courts use text-message reminders to notify criminal defendants of upcoming court dates, but only a minority of counties send messages automatically.
