An altered line-item veto wouldn’t be a panacea for solving government overspending. But exposing earmarks was a good idea in the 1990s and still is now.

These days, while boomers, generation Xers and millennials dominate most public stages, wouldn’t it be something if it is the youngsters from generation Z — those born after 1995 — who are central to restoring us to being a nation focused on the common good?

State Transportation Department no longer publishes data updates done for decades.

Ostensibly the April 3 election is non-partisan, but no one believes that. What happens in Wisconsin will reveal a lot about the future.

There are five important reasons to vote ‘no’ on this Constitutional referendum.

Neither Gov. Walker nor anyone else is forcing the UW-Stevens Point decision. The chancellor’s statement suggests it is, in fact, market driven.

Democrat La Follette served two-year terms from 1964 to 1968 while Republican Warren Knowles was governor. For sure they had their political differences, but rare was the occasion when they came to loggerheads over an issue.

Not doing special elections hasn’t saved money, it’s actually cost taxpayers. A lot.

So Walker agrees to follow a law by calling special elections. Don’t get too giddy about that.

Liberal judges tend to prefer more expansive interpretive methods that move beyond the text and its history. They argue that the neutrality sought by conservatives is itself political and are more likely to read the Constitution in light of emerging progressive goals.

A conservative defeat in a Wisconsin Supreme Court case would be notable after a decade-long string of victories that has produced a 5-2 conservative advantage on the court. If such a defeat happens, only time will tell if it means anything beyond a closing of the ideological gap on the court.

Those “too big to fail” banks are among the biggest winners in Donald Trump’s tax cut law that will put the United States another $1.5 trillion in debt while the country’s infrastructure continues to deteriorate and programs like Social Security and Medicare are treated like unwanted orphans.

RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson talks with the MacIver Institute’s Bill Osmulski about Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, and Democrats’ plans to amend the state constitution.

The Wisconsin Idea to us is the conviction that science, discovery and innovation can improve our lives individually and collectively as a community. It’s about combining exceptional patient care with innovative technologies, and encouraging people and organizations to think broadly about where they can collaborate to improve the state of Wisconsin as a whole.

Look carefully. Both candidates are not what they claim to be.

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