News & Analysis
Is 5.9 million acres of government-owned land enough?
Northern counties’ budgets, economies are squeezed by how much Wisconsin land is undevelopable and off tax rolls. State government’s power to acquire land through the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program ceased three months…
Is 5.9 million acres of government-owned land enough?
Northern counties’ budgets, economies are squeezed by how much Wisconsin land is undevelopable and off tax rolls. State government’s power to acquire land through the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program ceased three months…
On Janesville’s November ballot: an ‘anti-development’ question
Activists want ability to bypass elected officials and directly quash large development projects on old GM site Business and city leaders in Janesville are warning of the long-term economic damage of citizens taking direct…
Milwaukee-Racine-Kenosha rail idea back on radar, despite costs, existing options
Cities tout costly plans for trains on route already served by commuter buses A costly proposed commuter rail system between Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee is back on the radar of municipal leaders, even as frequent service on…
How a development tool can increase property taxes
Development-spurring TIF has consequences in Wisconsin’s taxpayer-protecting levy limits, but there’s a way around tradeoff “There’s good TIFs and bad TIFs,” as one economic development figure, the head of the Metropolitan…
Johnson uses new budget role to highlight out-of-control Medicaid spending and fraud
Democrats, meanwhile, blocking release of Medicaid enrollee information Ron Johnson, the third-term Republican U.S. senator from Oshkosh, is using his new perch as chair of the Senate Budget Committee to spotlight rampant…
Eau Claire teens find police are the opposite of oppressors
Teens see the fallacy of the abolish-and-defund narrative One recent July morning in a riverside woods west of Eau Claire, 13 high-schoolers took turns firing practice versions of PepperBalls at an old steel drum and…
More Wisconsin circuit courts use text reminders to move justice along: a ‘godsend’
But only a minority of counties use existing capabilities to send messages automatically More than 60 percent of Wisconsin circuit courts use text-message reminders to notify criminal defendants of upcoming court dates,…
Schug, a giant of economics education, took lessons beyond classrooms to anyone willing to learn
We lost a giant in economic and financial education — and in education reform — this week with the passing of Dr. Mark Schug. Dr. Mark Schug Interestingly, I first met Mark in the offices of the Wisconsin Policy Research…
Data centers could be a godsend — if communities let them
Anti-tech sentiment ignoring staggering job and revenue projections A growing number of Wisconsin communities are choosing to act against considerable economic interest and sit out the data center revolution. Vantage Data…
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