Sunday, October 25th, 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.”
For Wisconsinites forced to suffer through the left’s political temper tantrum in 2011, Thursday’s walkout by the Democrats on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee might feel like a bit of deja vu.
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The governor who has done more to kill Wisconsin business and jobs than COVID-19 could ever do now says the Badger State’s “economy is going to tank” if residents don’t follow his economy-killing edicts.
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Milwaukee Ald. Khalif Rainey, in a bid to defund the Milwaukee Police Department’s K-9 unit, is comparing the crime-fighting dogs to the canines used in Nazi Germany.
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Members of the mainstream political media inadvertently furthered an Iranian disinformation campaign Wednesday by writing a number of viral reports suggesting that the far-right Proud Boys group was threatening Democratic voters via email.
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President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden clashed over alleged foreign financial entanglements in the final presidential debate on Thursday night.
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The Democrat running for Southeast Wisconsin’s 13th Assembly District has urged “smart development” for her community, but she hasn’t attended a single meeting of the Town of Brookfield development committee she was named to more than two years ago.
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