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A provision in the 2023-2025 state budget created a sales and use tax exemption for these facilities.
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A provision in the 2023-2025 state budget created a sales and use tax exemption for these facilities.

How the Trump administration’s plans will damage the environment and represent an assault on Native American stewardship of the land.

The public trust doctrine is a creature of the swamp. Tiny interpretive shifts can produce massive regulatory consequences. If this case lets the creature out of the swamp, all the world is its beach, including your property.

Cost of compliance is brutal for low-income drivers of old cars.

How Wisconsin Democrats run in 2026, and especially how they govern in 2027, will have a tremendous influence on how presidential contenders run in 2028, a year that could be democracy’s last best hope.

If you live in Wisconsin, you should be paying attention to the health major employers like Kohl’s.

February’s Bureau of Labor Statistics release was bad. Compounding employment problems, the US finds itself in a new war.

The Wisconsin Policy Forum, with a terrific data tool, has handed citizens a treasure trove of hard facts.

“He took the ministry from Sunday morning, and he delivered it to the people,” the younger Jackson said.

Her dark horse campaign is biggest surprise in Democratic primary for governor.

It’s time to truly support fighters for the issues that matter, regardless of their race or gender. We know that women still face systemic barriers. We will continue to fight. We will accept no less.

The Democratic Socialists of America are expanding their footprint, both here in Wisconsin and across the nation. What started as a small, quiet fringe movement has ballooned into a powerful force within the Democratic Party.

Two attempts to peel back the veil of secrecy over the proliferation of data centers, including one by Wisconsin Watch reporter Tom Kertscher, are being honored in this year’s Openness in Government Awards, or Opees, bestowed by the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle came together to support important consent legislation

It’s probably too much to ask any administration, and this one in particular, to be honest at times like this. Democrats and Republicans alike have kept us in the dark during war, and, unfortunately, many other times.

Wisconsin police officers have used Flock to stalk domestic partners and “love interests” while ICE uses it to stalk our immigrant neighbors.

Law Forward filed the lawsuit on behalf of five school districts, parents and others

Complex system insulates districts that agree to raise taxes the fastest

Despite huge long-term stakes, this spring’s high court contest is shaping up to be a relatively low-key affair.

Monitoring is over at Lincoln Hills but reforms must continue – and kids must be kept in their homes and communities

A provision in the 2023-2025 state budget created a sales and use tax exemption for these facilities.

How the Trump administration’s plans will damage the environment and represent an assault on Native American stewardship of the land.

The public trust doctrine is a creature of the swamp. Tiny interpretive shifts can produce massive regulatory consequences. If this case lets the creature out of the swamp, all the world is its beach, including your property.

Cost of compliance is brutal for low-income drivers of old cars.

How Wisconsin Democrats run in 2026, and especially how they govern in 2027, will have a tremendous influence on how presidential contenders run in 2028, a year that could be democracy’s last best hope.

If you live in Wisconsin, you should be paying attention to the health major employers like Kohl’s.

February’s Bureau of Labor Statistics release was bad. Compounding employment problems, the US finds itself in a new war.

The Wisconsin Policy Forum, with a terrific data tool, has handed citizens a treasure trove of hard facts.

“He took the ministry from Sunday morning, and he delivered it to the people,” the younger Jackson said.

Her dark horse campaign is biggest surprise in Democratic primary for governor.

It’s time to truly support fighters for the issues that matter, regardless of their race or gender. We know that women still face systemic barriers. We will continue to fight. We will accept no less.

The Democratic Socialists of America are expanding their footprint, both here in Wisconsin and across the nation. What started as a small, quiet fringe movement has ballooned into a powerful force within the Democratic Party.

Two attempts to peel back the veil of secrecy over the proliferation of data centers, including one by Wisconsin Watch reporter Tom Kertscher, are being honored in this year’s Openness in Government Awards, or Opees, bestowed by the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle came together to support important consent legislation

It’s probably too much to ask any administration, and this one in particular, to be honest at times like this. Democrats and Republicans alike have kept us in the dark during war, and, unfortunately, many other times.

Wisconsin police officers have used Flock to stalk domestic partners and “love interests” while ICE uses it to stalk our immigrant neighbors.

Law Forward filed the lawsuit on behalf of five school districts, parents and others

Complex system insulates districts that agree to raise taxes the fastest

Despite huge long-term stakes, this spring’s high court contest is shaping up to be a relatively low-key affair.

Monitoring is over at Lincoln Hills but reforms must continue – and kids must be kept in their homes and communities