When the state recently released student testing results and updated district and school accountability report cards, it came as no surprise that some were quick to politicize this process.

Infrastructure is so far reaching throughout our lives and its impact is just as vast. We need to put a spotlight on Wisconsin’s infrastructure and urge our lawmakers to keep it as a priority throughout the length of their next legislative session.

America’s drinking water utilities are highly fragmented, with tens of thousands of independent community water systems across the country; there are more than 570 water utilities in Wisconsin alone.

The labor reform, threatened by court ruling, let teachers talk to bosses — but no longer dictate.

Both in Wisconsin and across the nation, a bureaucratic Colossus now wields and exercises unprecedented power, often ruthlessly. The administrative state has imposed more than 165,000 restrictions on everyday life in the Badger state, and bureaucrats are adding 3.4 new restrictions every day.

Site-neutral payment reform … ensures that patients pay the same price for the same service, regardless of whether it’s delivered at a doctor’s office or a hospital-owned facility. This would lower costs for patients, slow hospital consolidation, and preserve competition and choice in our health care system.

Now is the time to urge our congressional leaders to enact PBM reforms this year before time runs out.

We urge the Common Council to confirm its labor negotiator when they meet Tuesday so that the MPA – together with the city of Milwaukee – can address the crisis in recruitment and retention of our police officers, detectives and forensic investigators.

A revolt against Democrat misrule

Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy at the start of December began a two-year term as national president of Democratic Municipal Officials network, the group that represents the tens of thousands of Democrats who serve nationwide as city, village, town and school district officials.