Lawmakers push for cursive writing requirement while ignoring real education needs.

Ron Johnson hasn’t gained the notoriety McCarthy’s “Red Scare” produced back in the 1950s, but he’s obviously working on it.

Before Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman delivered damning testimony about Trump’s wrongdoing to the House Intelligence Committee, he was the subject of a crude and dishonest attack by Johnson.

Mike Nichols of the Badger Institute and David Ditch of the Heritage Foundation talk about out-of-control spending on wasteful projects, and the impact this has on federalism and state sovereignty.

Milwaukee County has been using data-driven decision making for years to lower crime rates and jail time. Too bad the vendor, Justice Point, struggles to provide even the most basic data about its work. Meanwhile, FBI data shows crime has skyrocketed since the county started on this path

Done by UW-Madison researchers, the “Burden of Binge Drinking” report estimated its 2018 cost at $3.9 billion—or about $660 for every Wisconsin resident.

This new battle over Thanksgiving is just the latest front in an ongoing war on American heritage—from its history to its traditions to its very culture itself. This year, let’s be thankful that there are still Americans willing to fight to preserve them.

Even failed and troubled ones like the Job Corps training centers are nearly impossible to shut down.

It was only four years ago that we editorially insisted that Rep. John Nygren and fellow Finance Committee co-chair Alberta Darling had “shamed themselves,” following a brazen attempt, initiated in the JFC, to effectively gut the state’s long-standing openness law without so much as a public hearing or debate.

We need a new UW System President who truly understands the real economy and how education fits into it, and we won’t get one unless we have an intellectually nimble, truly diverse set of interests represented on the search committee.

Keep a snowmobile trail out of Blue Mound State Park.

There is no scientific evidence that cursive writing surpasses printing as it relates to childhood learning and development.

The data is now overwhelming on the positive effect in states that did so.

Milwaukee taxpayers would face a disastrous increase in property taxes, shaking down $640 million in additional annual spending to operate Milwaukee Public Schools, under a scenario contemplated by an ad hoc education referendum committee.

To say that spending in MPS isn’t keeping up with other nearby districts is simply not defensible.

Would mean a massive new federal investment in public schools.

GateHouse purchase of Gannett is dreadful news for local and national journalism.

New deals like the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement or the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement currently before Congress are wins for our country, our state, and our neighbors.