Hearing on alleged DPI failures focuses on requests for statutory change as well Vague Wisconsin laws have allowed teachers who are sexual predators to groom children without fearing either appropriately…
The Wisconsin Assembly voted largely along party lines this week in support of a crucial housing bill, AB453, that will rein in NIMBYism — the “not in my back yard”…
Lawmakers advanced a bill this week to buy time for Wisconsin construction projects blindsided by a state agency’s abrupt implementation of a new commercial building code. The Assembly on Tuesday…
Supreme Court’s ‘constitutional revolution’ unleashes wave of new regulations, new costs Housing costs are already stratospheric. And building something bigger than a single-family house in Wisconsin is going to get…
A possibility that the Badger Institute reported on last fall moved a little closer to reality this week as the owner of a now-shuttered nuclear power plant near Kewaunee announced…
What took them so long? Years after we first reported on daily calls to police from MPS high schools, the Milwaukee Public Schools finally obeyed a judge’s order and placed…
Download the fact sheet Facts for Wisconsin citizens and legislators Situation now Click to expand Nuclear provides 16% of all electricity generated in Wisconsin. Down from 24% in 1990. Coal:…
SNAP is a larded, sugary mess State Sen. Chris Kapenga and Rep. Clint Moses are seeking support for legislation that would prohibit Wisconsin’s 700,000 FoodShare recipients from buying Snickers bars…
A Dane County judge on Monday struck down dozens of sections of the 2011 labor reforms dubbed Act 10, 13 years after the law was passed by a Republican legislative…
From the desk of Mike Nichols, Badger Institute President The 132 members of the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate who will head to the Capitol this January will include at least…
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