Spending and Accountability
Madison perfect example of why cities should stay out of grocery business
‘This is the way communists think’ Government-supported grocery stores are suddenly all the rage. The site of Madison’s proposed municipally-owned grocery store, located in retail space below an apartment building across the…
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…
Republican candidates join nationwide scrutiny of tenure
Badger Institute has argued for more leeway to lay off professors Republican candidates for governor are joining politicians across the country who are increasingly skeptical of tenure guarantees for professors. U.S. Rep. Tom…
Milwaukee will pay someone to say nice things about The Hop
The City of Milwaukee is willing to pay a new marketing and communications officer for The Hop, its little-used $128 million streetcar, up to $108,000 per year plus benefits that include a pension, deferred compensation plan,…
Fight over Obamacare is fight worth having
Wisconsin taxpayers ought to be rooting hard for conservatives to hold the line during this current federal government shutdown and let the pandemic-era super-subsidies for the Affordable Care Act run out at the end of the…
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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