Unfinished business includes ways of blocking corrosive ideas and permitting freedom to flourish Wisconsin’s biennial budget is passed and lawmakers are out of Madison, at least until after Labor Day.…
The flacks for the Milwaukee Public Schools put out a press release the other day, the sort of thing they issue at this time of year, bragging that 1,056 recent…
With Republican legislative leaders and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers having reached and passed a budget deal for Wisconsin’s 2025-27 biennium (fiscal years 2026 and 2027), it is worth examining two…
Northern Wisconsin Job Corps center spent $290,000 per graduate on ineffective training A federal judge’s injunction Wednesday is blocking the Trump Administration from saving $1.7 billion annually and closing down…
Progressives object because proposed Wisconsin relief goes to people they envy Rain is proverbially indiscriminate. It falls over whole swaths of thirsty land, not caring nor asking whether the cornfield belongs…
But part should be jettisoned, and we need to keep working toward flat tax The best part about legislative Republicans’ proposed tax measure is that it really does cut taxes…
Federal, local tax money to city’s two PBS affiliates is separate from state taxpayer aid to PBS Wisconsin in rest of state Federal taxpayers will save at least $2 million…
As nearby states reform, Wisconsin clings to licensure requirements that add little value The numbers don’t lie, and nobody knows that better than all the kids who no longer want…
Past ‘expansion’ debate was over issues that aren’t past at all As the nation tussles about how to rein in the projected spiraling costs of Medicaid, it’s remarkable how much…
Laments Medicaid’s ‘legalized fraud’ and says childless adults should work The U.S. Senate has an opportunity to slow the growth of Medicaid, something that hasn’t been seriously tried for decades,…
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