If we can afford $4.5 billion for Foxconn, we can afford $50 million a year for our rural communities.

Does he face an unstoppable “blue wave”? Maybe.

This is the text of a speech delivered by veteran Wisconsin politico Bill Kraus upon acceptance on April 4 of the first Lifetime Achievement Award for Civic Leadership from the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service. WIPPS celebrated its 10th anniversary with an event in Wausau.

Wisconsin needs a cultural revolution, one that fosters taking risks and thinking like an entrepreneur. If we wait for others to do it we lose ground in a rapidly changing world.

Do I really think the Second Amendment will be repealed? Not any time soon. But just talking and writing about it whenever we can is important.

In the wake of the high court race, widely viewed as a referendum on Walker and fellow Republicans in the Legislature, Democrats are exultant that the worm may finally have turned.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his analysis after Rebecca Dallet’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election win over Michael Screnock.

Shortsighted politicians don’t take notice of the tremendous cumulative effect of tax cuts. But hardworking Americans see the changes adding up every day.

And why Attorney General Schimel didn’t warn him it was folly.

As Wisconsin contemplates granting the City of Racine a diversion of Great Lakes water to supply the Foxconn project with the bulk of a requested seven million gallons from Lake Michigan daily, I suggest you her 2006 opinion and analysis of Great Lakes water management, goals and diversions–an opinion not widely reported by media or widely distributed at the time.

When Donald Trump and the Republican Congress passed, by one vote, the so-called “tax reform” act in late December, drastically slashing taxes paid by big corporations and rich Americans, several pundits predicted that in short order these same “reformers” would come looking to make big changes to Social Security and Medicare.

On the Daily Standard Podcast, Sykes speaks with Weekly Standard senior writer Michael Warren discusses the latest with the Mueller investigation, the latest from the White House and the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

It’s a sobering reality. Although we can deter school violence, we cannot prevent it entirely. Even so, we must take all reasonable measures to shield children from the physical harm that can befall them in the sanctity of schools.

Wauwatosa is embarking on a controversial plan to use a Tax Incremental Financing District to give the developer of the planned Mayfair Hotel over $13 million in direct subsidies.

Dallet’s main appeal was competence, experience and social values but in a form moderates also found appealing. Putting absolutism in ideology first is not as smart as listening to the electorate.