WMC’s Director of Environmental & Energy Policy Craig Summerfield testified in favor of legislation that would prohibit a state agency or local government from banning gas-powered engines in motor vehicles…
WMC’s Senior Director of Workforce, Education & Employment Policy Rachel Ver Velde testified in support of a package of workforce bills, which contain reforms to the state’s unemployment insurance and…
Democrats’ choice of Chicago makes progressive sense! We always regretted not taking up a friend’s entreaty that we drive on down to Chicago that summer of 1968 to see a…
Wait Until Eighth urges parents in a community or school to sign a pledge and rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least eighth grade. Banding together,…
Additional context from IRG’s Director of State Budget and Government Reform, Alex Ignatowski What happened? Assembly and the Senate committees both held hearings this week on bills that would ban the state…
A note from IRG CIO Director Anthony LoCoco: The Legislative Audit Bureau has released a new report showing a clear disconnect between the Department of Corrections central office and its…
Conservatives in Wisconsin have lost nearly everything since 2018. So rather than exclusively hyper-focusing on the candidate's faults, it's time to take that proverbial look in the mirror. Collectively we…
Let’s forget about economic pie-growing for a minute (just a minute) as our legislators start to debate tax reform in Madison. Let’s, just for now, debate the issue on the…
Over the past year, the Badger Institute has explored how Wisconsin’s justice system is facing massive criminal case backlogs that are fueling severe delays in justice for victims and defendants…
Today marks the anniversary of when George Friderick Handel's famous opus “Messiah,” was first performed in seventeen forty-two. The composition includes the "Hallelujah" chorus which is sung in churches across…
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