Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett had long been itching to spend all that “free” federal money on a downtown streetcar. Now, Barrett’s got The Hop, a $128 million boondoggle of a streetcar traveling a 2.1 loop in downtown Milwaukee. He’s got big expansion plans for his pet project. The Badger Institute takes a closer look at the costly Hop project in its new video report, “Taxpayers Taken for a Ride: The Milwaukee Streetcar.”
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) this week made good on a previous threat, filing a lawsuit alleging Madison Metropolitan School District’s policies on gender identity violate parental rights.
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In an overwhelming show of unanimity, the Assembly on Tuesday passed a prescription drug transparency bill by a 96-0 vote.
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With just two in five Wisconsin students able to read and solve math problems at grade level, two liberal lawmakers want the state to spend a half million dollars in taxpayer money on a grant program for student video game competitions.
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Billionaire liberal presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg’s campaign slogan should be: Open mouth, insert foot.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democrats have passed a bill that would kill a vital worker freedom law and deliver generous gifts to their Big Labor friends.
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A lawsuit against a Door County town board is about more than the entrepreneurs’ right to operate a food truck on their property, according to the attorney for the plaintiffs. It’s about a basic free-market principle.
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