Economist vindicates Act 10 and common sense
Patrick McIlheranRewards for good teaching, wins for kids Recently a Yale professor wrote something that was astonishing because it shouldn’t have been astonishing. Barbara Biasi, a labor economist, vindicated the labor…
Economics of the fist: Unions favor telling to asking with Wisconsin’s right to work
The strong-arm tactics of Act 10 antagonists Among the winks and nudges offered by Janet Protasiewicz on her way to the Supreme Court was that Act 10, the Gov. Scott…
The underfunded part of Wisconsin public schooling
Innovative, unconventional — and unexplainably made to operate on 60% of what other public schools get As you watch four kids in a low-ceilinged basement space soldering parts for the…
If we don’t pay for roads, we don’t get mobility
Vos is correct: Even if we stop using gas, we need to fund the roads that let Wisconsin grow Robin Vos spoke a hard truth the other day, something unpleasant…
Amid illiteracy, where was the urgency?
An establishment that for so long failed to apply known science has no place dismissing parents Several hundred Wisconsinites gathered in Madison this month to revel in a revelation: We’ve…
What parents need to save their sons
A school that’s making Milwaukee’s future men navigates harsh fiscal environment Milwaukeean Scott Stewart sounds urgent when he talks of his son Savion’s school. “These kids need this. They need this…
Those who pay for pavement set the width
To ensure road policy prioritizes roads’ users, replace Wisconsin’s fading gas tax The other morning, drumming my fingers on the wheel while westbound traffic oozed along I-94 from downtown Milwaukee…