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Mike Nichols: Free Exchange Podcast: A tax reform path to prosperity

The Tax Foundation’s Katherine Loughead and Scott Manley of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce join Badger Institute President Mike Nichols to discuss the challenges posed by Wisconsin’s tax structure as well as reforms – income tax elimination, flat tax adoption, bracket consolidation – that would benefit Wisconsin residents, grow the economy and attract more people to the state.

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Dave Cieslewicz: Save the State Journal

Alden Global Capital is making a hostile takeover attempt to acquire a controlling interest in Lee Enterprises, which owns the Wisconsin State Journal as well as other dailies and weeklies in more than 70 other markets.

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Dan O’Donnell: Open season

For the second time in as many days and third time in two weeks, a law enforcement officer has been shot on the streets of Milwaukee and, for what seems like the hundredth time in the past six months, the suspect was free on bail even though he faces multiple open felony cases that include charges of bail jumping.

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M.D. Kittle: Evers floats election-year bribe

Not satisfied with the approximately $4.5 billion in federal COVID relief aid he has been free to spend at his whim and leisure, Evers now wants to take a big chunk of the projected $3.8 billion state budget surplus and buy off voters with quick-cash stimmies.

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Mike Nichols: Free Exchange Podcast: A tax reform path to prosperity

The Tax Foundation’s Katherine Loughead and Scott Manley of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce join Badger Institute President Mike Nichols to discuss the challenges posed by Wisconsin’s tax structure as well as reforms – income tax elimination, flat tax adoption, bracket consolidation – that would benefit Wisconsin residents, grow the economy and attract more people to the state.

Read More »

Dave Cieslewicz: Save the State Journal

Alden Global Capital is making a hostile takeover attempt to acquire a controlling interest in Lee Enterprises, which owns the Wisconsin State Journal as well as other dailies and weeklies in more than 70 other markets.

Read More »

Dan O’Donnell: Open season

For the second time in as many days and third time in two weeks, a law enforcement officer has been shot on the streets of Milwaukee and, for what seems like the hundredth time in the past six months, the suspect was free on bail even though he faces multiple open felony cases that include charges of bail jumping.

Read More »

M.D. Kittle: Evers floats election-year bribe

Not satisfied with the approximately $4.5 billion in federal COVID relief aid he has been free to spend at his whim and leisure, Evers now wants to take a big chunk of the projected $3.8 billion state budget surplus and buy off voters with quick-cash stimmies.

Read More »