Happy Independence Day!
Sierra John247 years ago, 56 men representing the 13 colonies put their lives, fortunes, and their sacred honor all on the line as they signed and made public the Declaration of…
IRG’s K-12 COVID Relief Audit Update: Hundreds of Millions Unallocated with One Year Remaining
Rusty SchultzWHAT HAPPENED Since its January release, the Institute for Reforming Government’s (IRG) K-12 COVID Relief ESSER III Audit has driven statewide momentum for financial transparency and made swifter action for…
Wisconsin Is Outlier Among Great Lakes States for Medicaid Expansion
The Center Squareby Mary Stroka Wisconsin is the only Great Lakes state that hasn’t adopted Medicaid expansion, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. KFF has tracked states’ expansion…
Our family remembers Independence Day
David BlaskaFeed the priest! Reprinted and adapted from previous years Dad was always proud of being born on Independence Day. What are the odds? — two of his sisters were also born on…
Wisconsin ‘Moms for Liberty’ Activist Talks About Radical Left Hatred and Vitriol in the City of Brotherly Love
M.D. KittleScarlett Johnson says she has never seen anything like it. The parental rights activist has gotten used to nasty language and overheated rhetoric from the left. But she said the…
God in the Declaration of Independence
Julaine Appling2023 | Week of July 3 | Radio Transcript #1523(Anna Morken, author. Anna is a Summer 2023 intern with Wisconsin Family Council.) It was June 1776. The American Revolution had…
First Look at the Legislature’s 2023-2025 State Budget: What You Need to Know
WHAT IS IT: IRG’s team of policy experts did an analysis of the legislature’s budget proposal with a focus on big items you need to know. WHY DOES IT MATTER:…
Republicans would rather teach the poor to fish
Than subsidize poverty! Blaska gave his old boss Dave Zweifel plenty of excuse to fire his sorry ass. Especially the time your irascible blogger blocked the employee side entrance at…
A Religious Freedom Victory
Last Thursday, the US Supreme Court, in a victory for religious freedom, broadened protections for religious workers in a case that involved a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service…
University of Wisconsin to Review Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
by Benjamin Yount The University of Wisconsin says it doesn’t yet know what the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to end affirmative action university admissions will mean for UW schools.…