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Governor Evers’ property tax relief plan fails to constrain property tax growth
Plan fails to address reason property taxes keep rising: his own “400-year veto” Policymakers are scrambling for solutions as Wisconsin property tax burdens continue to rise. As homeowners clamor for relief, Gov. Tony Evers…
The Wisconsin Higher-Ed Reform Model
Progress achievable in a purple state (This piece was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.) Provisions in a budget passed in the Badger State this previous summer require that faculty at…
Proposed Commission Would Expand Beyond Electricity to Oversee All Forms of Energy in Virginia
Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookA legislative commission created in 2008 to oversee one narrow function of two electric utilities is about to expand its scope of oversight of all…
Congratulations to Governor Abigail Spanberger on Her Historic Inauguration – A Call for Collaboration and Principled Debate
Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookFor Immediate Release By the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy Date: January 17, 2026 Today, the Thomas Jefferson Institute…
“Affordability” is a Feel-Good Slogan that Ignores Difficult Economic Tradeoffs
Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or Outlook“Affordability” has become the most powerful word in modern politics – and nowhere more than here in Virginia. Candidates promised “affordable…
Youngkin’s State of the Commonwealth Highlights Virginia’s Commonsense Renaissance
Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookGovernor Glenn Youngkin’s final State of the Commonwealth address last night offered more than a farewell, it served as an empirical rebuttal to…
Data center naysayers should consider what the future would have brought to Port Washington
Impacts are minimal in comparison to what might have occurred Seldom if ever conceded by many critics of the planned $15 billion 1,000-plus-acre data center under way in Port Washington is the fact that something was…
Game over: How a professor bungled the facts of Wisconsin school choice
From history to poverty to treating kids like wildlife, errors compound Bungling facts is bad enough. The harm’s far greater when you’re paid by taxpayers to profess them at Wisconsin’s flagship state university. A case in…
The VCEA Renewable Certificate Mandate Reduces Energy Affordability
Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookA key, but poorly understood, provision of the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) is a requirement that Virginia’s two largest electric utilities…
Superior coal terminal is latest victim of declining Great Lakes shipments
A coal terminal in Superior will terminate its operations this year as cargo shippers are moving less tonnage via the Great Lakes. A decline in cargo moving across the Great Lakes via United States-flagged “lakers” has led to…
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