Latest crime figures show a Milwaukee in trouble
Sean Kennedy2022 drop still leaves crime levels in city well above those as recent as 2019 When Milwaukee’s year-end crime figures for 2022 were released, Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Police Chief…
Wisconsin lawmakers in the dark on broadband
Mark LisheronLegislators have no idea if the state is getting its money’s worth Gov. Tony Evers has asked that Wisconsin spend another $750 million to expand broadband in the state without…
The underfunded part of Wisconsin public schooling
Patrick McIlheranInnovative, 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…
Assembly Speaker calls for tolling to fund Wisconsin infrastructure
Michael JahrDeclining gas tax revenues require a fair and sustainable replacement Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday renewed a call for Wisconsin to adopt tolling as a way to pay for state infrastructure…
Foreseeing the Future of Wisconsin’s Flat Tax
Mike NicholsCROWE reports long-term gains in output and income I don’t know if they need binoculars, a magical telescope, one of those Deloreans that Christopher Lloyd drove around in Back to…
Safety Net Fact Sheet
Badger InstituteAdapted from the full report by Angela Rachidi, Ensuring Opportunity: Altering Wisconsin’s Safety Net to Encourage Upward Mobility. Download the Fact Sheet 2023 Safety Net Fact SheetDownload The post Safety…
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…
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