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Forgiving student loans, as proposed by Pres. Biden, would cost taxpayers about $420 billion. A graduate with a four-year degree earns, on average, $1.4 million more over her career than someone with a high school diploma. Meanwhile, helping the poorest American families with $500 a month would cost one-tenth as much. The other day theContinue reading “Student Loans vs. Guaranteed Income”

What is it with Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Public Service Commission? Evers has, for the most part, made solid appointments to run state agencies, but he has messed up now in all three of his appointments to the PSC. He started out in his first weeks in office with the worst appointment ofContinue reading “Evers Messes Up Another PSC Appointment”

I am a defender of the United States Senate. There are those, mostly on the hard-left, who would abolish it if they could. They see it as undemocratic (it is) and an institution standing in the way of the big changes they want (it’s that too). A senator from South Dakota (population 900,000) has asContinue reading “Don’t Let RoJo Block Pocan”

It’s time for the Badgers to part ways with men’s basketball coach Greg Gard. And it’s not just because his team, for the second time in three weeks, collapsed in overtime of a game they badly needed. The Badgers lost another heartbreaker yesterday, this time to Michigan. The Wolverines’ big man (and big mouth) HunterContinue reading “Over Time to Move on From Gard”

The more we learn about Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to give away $290 million of the state surplus (otherwise known as taxpayers’ money) to the Milwaukee Brewers the worse it gets. This week Bruce Murphy of Urban Milwaukee wrote a stunning and stinging analysis of how Evers arrived at that $290 million figure. It’s prettyContinue reading “Brewers Inflated Stadium Costs”

Tony Earl believed that “good policy is good politics,” a proposition for which there is scant evidence. When Earl became Governor of Wisconsin in January, 1983 the state faced a budget deficit north of a billion dollars, a big number even today and huge in the context of that time. And that was just theContinue reading “The Man Who Believed In Us”

Every so often the coastal elites who shape the Democratic Party decide they need to better understand people in the center of the country, you know, that big area west of the Hudson River and east of Sacramento? So the party commissioned a study of what they call “Factory Towns” (nothing one-dimensional about that) inContinue reading “National Dems Don’t Get Us”

Yesterday’s primary election had no big surprises, but there were a few small ones. Let’s review. Protasiewicz coasts. On Paczki Day, Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz got 46% of the vote in a four-way race. She was expected to come out on top but her 38 point margin over fellow liberal Judge Everett MitchellContinue reading “Election Lessons”

If you haven’t done so already, go vote today and then reward yourself with a nice donut. It’s Paczki Day, people! Let’s talk about the election first and get that out of the way. There may be other things on the ballot where you live, but here on Monroe Street in Madison there are justContinue reading “It’s Not Just Election Day”

Even if the Milwaukee Brewers were coming off a World Series championship I’d still be against giving them $290 million in taxpayer money to fix up their stadium. But this is a team that has no intention of spending its own money to get anywhere near the World Series. If they won’t invest in theirContinue reading “Brewers Don’t Deserve Our $290 Million”