Dan O’Donnell dives into the battle over voter registration and discovers that the Wisconsin Election Commission quite literally believes that the law doesn’t apply to it. Read More Above the Law?
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Perspective
Medicaid Expansion Still Wrong for Wisconsin
Guest Perspective by James Wigderson – Wisconsinites are fortunate that taking the federal money and expanding Medicaid are not on the Republican legislative agenda. Compared to the states that are participating in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, Wisconsin is actually saving money and making health care coverage accessible to everyone. Read More Medicaid Expansion Still Wrong for Wisconsin
Waukesha Becoming a Clear Example of Why TIF District Reform is Needed
Guest Perspective by James Wigderson – Sen. Duey Stroebel recently wrote an op-ed questioning how Tax Incremental Finance districts, or TIFs, are being used, and possibly abused, by local communities for development projects. The city of Waukesha has been trying to avoid becoming the senator’s top example. Read More Waukesha Becoming a Clear Example of Why TIF District Reform is Needed
Policy Changes Would Weaken Patent Laws
MacIver Perspective – Protecting private property rights is a fundamental tenet of the freedoms on which our country was founded. While we often think of those rights as being applied to a piece of land or structure of some kind, those protections are arguably even more important when used to safeguard a person’s invention — his or her intellectual property — from those who want to take it without just compensation. Read More Policy Changes Would Weaken Patent Laws
Waukesha Shouldn’t Get Lake Michigan Water Because of…Racism?
Guest Perspective by James Wigderson – The city of Waukesha’s quest for a diversion of water from Lake Michigan has just taken a turn to the absurd. Observers are already aghast at the appalling way the science is being ignored by opponents of Waukesha’s application because of politics. Now opponents have taken up a new tactic, playing the race card. Read More Waukesha Shouldn’t Get Lake Michigan Water Because of…Racism?