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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,…
Port Washington to be land of opportunity for job-seekers
Tech school grads among those who’ll benefit from data centers Technical college graduates and small business owners will be big winners in the massive Vantage Data Centers development soon expected to become the largest…
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…
Reckless Milwaukee drivers pushing conservatives out of traditional lane
Camera culture becoming even more pervasive Sen. Cory Tomczyk, a Republican from Mosinee, says he fully expects to take criticism from his own party for helping author a bill that would allow Milwaukee police to use cameras…
Claims of data center water use are laughably wrong
Lake Michigan not imperiled by water needs The biggest data centers planned for Wisconsin, the Microsoft project in Mount Pleasant and the Vantage project in Port Washington, are not a threat to local water systems or to Lake…
Bill would use tax credit to lower cost barrier to new nuclear in Wisconsin
Measure includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on’ Legislation touted by its sponsor as the logical follow-up to a bipartisan bill signaling support for new nuclear energy in Wisconsin got…
Fixing regulatory rampage will require amendment, say observers
But reforms via statute might help Wisconsin avoid a still more onerous environment Fixing the damage wreaked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court when it stripped the Legislature of its power to halt bureaucrats’ regulations will…
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…
Post-Kirk assassination, Wisconsin needs to teach difference between words and bullets, says prof
Silence after attack on the soul of universities puts too much at risk If we’re to go on having universities that are worth the name, Wisconsin needs to start teaching the difference between words and bullets, says a…
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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