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Rebecca Blank and Marsha Mailick: UW-Madison’s research ranking matters

High rankings strengthen our national reputation and that affects our ability to recruit and retain the best and brightest students, faculty and staff. Rankings matter to our partners and our competitors for benchmarking purposes. Employers use rankings to identify universities where they want to recruit. Rankings also hold up a mirror to ourselves and monitor our performance.

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Christian Schneider: Democrats spread the politics of envy

Somewhere along the line, Americans on the left began thinking incomes were a zero-sum game; if someone was making more money, it meant they were making less. But the idea that your life would be better if someone else was worse off is antithetical to an opportunity society. Envy may be a useful talking point, but as a general rule, deadly sins make for bad tax policy.

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Leon Young: The GOP’s Blind Eye to the Environment

All in all, Walker has made good on his promise that Wisconsin would be open for business, which has included consistently siding with environmental polluters. The Foxconn fiasco is just the latest example of a governor bent on ravaging our natural resources and destroying our environmental quality of life.

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Spencer Black: Donald Trump’s working to destroy the free press

Trump has vilified and sought to discredit any media outlet that dares to report news that is not flattering to him. His attacks on the media have even incited threats of violence against reporters. Less visible are his efforts to use government power to threaten the independent media and to hand over control of key broadcast outlets to his corporate supporters.

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Rick Esenberg and CJ Szafir: Why we sued State Superintendent Tony Evers

It’s simple civics. In our constitutional republic, the legislature makes the law and the executive carries it out. This is part of our cherished “separation of powers” by which each branch of government acts to check and balance the others. But State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers has violated this fundamental democratic principle.

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Jonathan Krause: Those tricky millenials

So the state is going to spend seven million dollars in a marketing effort to attract more millenials to Wisconsin bolster the workforce. The marketing campaign is going to focus on things WEDC thinks millenials care about: affordable housing, lower taxes and short commute times. But what they fail to take into consideration is that those are things those of us who have been independent adults for decades care about–but the generations that have followed us have all but abandoned.

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Dave Zweifel: ‘Tax reform’? No, GOP plan is ‘wealth care’

Like their national counterparts, the Wisconsin legislative Republicans would have us believe that the middle class will reap huge tax savings, when in fact those savings pale compared to the $1.5 trillion giveaway to corporations whose leaders won’t even say whether they’ll use their tax savings for more investment and workers’ wages.

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Rebecca Blank and Marsha Mailick: UW-Madison’s research ranking matters

High rankings strengthen our national reputation and that affects our ability to recruit and retain the best and brightest students, faculty and staff. Rankings matter to our partners and our competitors for benchmarking purposes. Employers use rankings to identify universities where they want to recruit. Rankings also hold up a mirror to ourselves and monitor our performance.

Read More »

Christian Schneider: Democrats spread the politics of envy

Somewhere along the line, Americans on the left began thinking incomes were a zero-sum game; if someone was making more money, it meant they were making less. But the idea that your life would be better if someone else was worse off is antithetical to an opportunity society. Envy may be a useful talking point, but as a general rule, deadly sins make for bad tax policy.

Read More »

Leon Young: The GOP’s Blind Eye to the Environment

All in all, Walker has made good on his promise that Wisconsin would be open for business, which has included consistently siding with environmental polluters. The Foxconn fiasco is just the latest example of a governor bent on ravaging our natural resources and destroying our environmental quality of life.

Read More »

Spencer Black: Donald Trump’s working to destroy the free press

Trump has vilified and sought to discredit any media outlet that dares to report news that is not flattering to him. His attacks on the media have even incited threats of violence against reporters. Less visible are his efforts to use government power to threaten the independent media and to hand over control of key broadcast outlets to his corporate supporters.

Read More »

Rick Esenberg and CJ Szafir: Why we sued State Superintendent Tony Evers

It’s simple civics. In our constitutional republic, the legislature makes the law and the executive carries it out. This is part of our cherished “separation of powers” by which each branch of government acts to check and balance the others. But State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers has violated this fundamental democratic principle.

Read More »

Jonathan Krause: Those tricky millenials

So the state is going to spend seven million dollars in a marketing effort to attract more millenials to Wisconsin bolster the workforce. The marketing campaign is going to focus on things WEDC thinks millenials care about: affordable housing, lower taxes and short commute times. But what they fail to take into consideration is that those are things those of us who have been independent adults for decades care about–but the generations that have followed us have all but abandoned.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: ‘Tax reform’? No, GOP plan is ‘wealth care’

Like their national counterparts, the Wisconsin legislative Republicans would have us believe that the middle class will reap huge tax savings, when in fact those savings pale compared to the $1.5 trillion giveaway to corporations whose leaders won’t even say whether they’ll use their tax savings for more investment and workers’ wages.

Read More »

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