Rights of nature and the wrongs inflicted on Wisconsinites
Patrick McIlheranIf your lightbulbs are connected to the power plant that’s connected to the lake, you’ll pay Went over to Devil’s Lake last weekend to look at leaves, did you? Good…
Bill would use tax credit to lower cost barrier to new nuclear in Wisconsin
Measure includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on’ Legislation touted by its sponsor as the logical follow-up to a bipartisan law signaling support…
Fixing regulatory rampage will require amendment, say observers
But reforms via statute might help Wisconsin avoid a still more onerous environment Fixing the damage wreaked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court when it stripped the Legislature of its power…
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 If we’re to go on having universities that are worth the name, Wisconsin needs to start teaching…
Overwhelming demand for choice schools in Milwaukee drives massive philanthropy and big builds
Aug Prep’s north campus will fill ‘opportunity gap’ for thousands of kids in years ahead A family’s huge bet on bettering the lives of thousands of Milwaukee children is moving…
Wisconsin can learn from neighbors’ disappearing-passenger blues
When even a city built around commuting by train can’t win back riders, it’s a warning to Milwaukee Minnesota just last month finally pulled the plug on commuter rail line…
Tony Evers’ puzzlingly swift rejection of more education money
Could governor soften his view of new federal channel for donors’ generosity? Why was Gov. Tony Evers so swift in rejecting a big stream of money from private donors for…
Private schools in Wisconsin’s choice programs prove far more effective with taxpayer money
DPI numbers show public schools can do much better Critics of school choice often lean on a talking point that goes like this: Wisconsin can’t afford two systems of schools,…
‘We still need to pave our roads’
As stewardship program is up for renewal, northern counties’ budgets, economies are squeezed by how much land already is taken out of equation Like practically everyone else in Wisconsin, state…
Robocars vs. overpriced groceries
And the real reason Wisconsin won’t join the modern world and let cars operate without drivers With automated, driverless robotaxis carrying paying passengers in at least half a dozen cities,…