Milwaukee will invariably continue to throw money into the streetcar in a vain attempt at making Mayor Barrett’s vanity project finally work.

Yet the difference is smaller in Wisconsin. Why?

Given the state’s revenue forecast, it makes sense to consider options for returning some of the excess revenue to taxpayers in a structurally sound manner while making Wisconsin more economically competitive in the process.

With an additional $4.4 billion in tax revenue, the legislature and the governor have the opportunity to accomplish priorities that were often thought to be unrealistic: reduce taxes, implement a learning loss recovery program for students who have been left behind from school closures, or expand strategic investments like broadband to ensure all Wisconsinites have access to high-speed internet.

While Gov. Tony Evers and President Joe Biden spend your tax dollars like drunken sailors on leave, consumers are taking it in the shorts.

The bills presented by Wisconsin legislators seek to ignore historical truths, under the guise that teaching history and current events accurately would upset students and assault the sensibilities of Caucasian students.

With more than an estimated 207,000 members of the LGBTQ+ community calling Wisconsin home, LGBTQ+ individuals are our friends, our neighbors and members of our family.

Johnson’s strong predilection toward unscientific notions, ones damaging to public health, is by no means confined to the pandemic.