Government Transparency
Behind the curtain, Evers Administration diverts taxpayer money to fund environmental bureaucracies
Ousted Wausau mayor among the hires The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature. Gov. Tony Evers created the…
Lawmakers split on how to keep WisEye broadcasting
Senate throws a wrench into Assembly plan for sustaining nonprofit that covers Legislature’s doings Until last week, it appeared that legislators from both political parties were on a path to restoring WisconsinEye, an…
Marquette poll finds 80 percent of Americans trust government ‘only some of the time’ or ‘never’
Independents were among the most distrustful A recent nationwide Marquette University Law School poll found that 80 percent of Americans trust the government “only some of the time” or “never,” a widespread, intergenerational…
Wisconsin DPI mired in one scandal after another
Botched report cards, lowered standards, licensing and finance scandals erode faith in DPI Accused of gutting academic standards, manipulating report cards, slacking on fiscal oversight and bungling oversight of sexual…
Wisconsin lax on predatory teachers who groom students, legislators told
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 severe criminal…
When the budget deadline died
North Carolina is now nearly four months into the fiscal year, yet lawmakers have not enacted a budget for the 2025–27 biennium — or even sent a proposal to the governor’s desk. Before 2016, when a budget wasn’t in place by…
School-bus Wi-Fi finally gets reined in while pandemic-era home internet subsidies only now dribble out
Two more ways government manages to screw up subsidies There’s more evidence in recent days that the federal government spends money in two ways — too quickly and too slowly. Proof of both stems from programs that were…
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