Viewpoints
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…
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…
Working folks get short shrift while city funds vanity streetcar
Money wasted on Hop while bus access for people who really need it is at risk Milwaukee County’s bus network has swerved back from the fiscal brink, one tire halfway over the void as officials shuffle money, trim back some…
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…
Rights of nature and the wrongs inflicted on Wisconsinites
If your lightbulbs are connected to the power plant that’s connected to the lake, you’ll pay Went over to Devil’s Lake last weekend to look at leaves, did you? Good choice. Lovely place. Did you get the lake’s permission? No,…
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,…
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…
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