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3 weeks ago | 
badgerinstitute.org | Ken Wysocky |Mike Nichols |David Wise
Meth is injected, smoked, snorted or ingested in just about every corner of Wisconsin. But by at least one measure the insidious problem is worse in two adjacent counties — Brown and Outagamie — than anywhere else. In 2023, the drug most often identified in samples sent by law enforcement to the State Crime Lab was meth, which accounted for 1,378 of the 4,805 samples tested — more than cocaine or heroin or fentanyl or even THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
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2 months ago | 
badgerinstitute.org | Angela Rachidi |David Wise
Wisconsin state legislators recently introduced a series of bills to help working families across the state. Among these proposals is one that calls for providing free breakfast and lunch for all schoolchildren. At first glance, the initiative seems straightforward and compassionate — after all, who would oppose ensuring children have enough to eat?
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
badgerinstitute.org | David Wise
Go outside, Wisconsin, and take a deep breath. Mark it in memory, and if you’re in metro Milwaukee, do the same two weeks from now, on Jan. 16. Will you be breathing more polluted air? No; almost certainly, you’ll inhale air that, like today’s, is much cleaner than just 20 years ago. Enjoy.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
apg-wi.com | David Wise
In January of this year NASA, NOAA, and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Services all reported that 2023 was hottest year on record since modern temperature record-keeping began back in 1880, and that the past ten years have been the warmest on record during that period. Earlier this month the same agencies reported that May of this year was the warmest May ever recorded, making it the twelfth month in a row of record-breaking monthly temperatures.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron |David Wise
Gov. Tony Evers, a former state Superintendent of Public Instruction, has a unique opportunity given his skill set to take charge of the Milwaukee Public Schools, a former MPS superintendent said. Bill Andrekopoulos, MPS superintendent for eight years until his retirement in 2010, and an educator in the district for 38 years, said that unless the school district was willing to yield completely to outside reform, nothing — not the financial bungling or low student performance — would change.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
apg-wi.com | David Wise
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron |David Wise
When The Glidden Enterprise is gone — and that day is coming soon — owner Barbara Hart Kempf says she worries about all of her subscribers, but especially those who have been gone a long time. Kempf moved back to Glidden after many years on the road with her husband to take over the 121-year-old family business because she knew what it meant to the larger community. Birth notices on the front page and the obituaries inside.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
badgerinstitute.org | Mike Nichols |David Wise
It’s hard to rise up — especially when you’re a single mom with a newborn — but by no means impossible. That’s the message I take from a new study, “Dynamics of Families After a Nonmarital Birth,” written by Angela Rachidi, a senior fellow in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute who is also a visiting fellow here at the Badger Institute.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
apg-wi.com | David Wise
Right now, there are children being born in America who will live to see the 22nd century. What kind of nation will they inherit? Under what form of government will they live? In a recent Pew study, 51% of Americans said they are dissatisfied with how democracy is working and 46% said they are open to other forms of government, including rule by an individual leader. Less than one-third of Millennials consider it essential to live in a democracy.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
apg-wi.com | David Wise
Summers in the Chequamegon Bay area can be as pleasant as any place you’ll find, which can make it easy to miss the significance of the changing climate around the world. If you read the Arizona Republic newspaper this summer, however, you would have read that as many as one-third of the patients at the Arizona Burn Center in downtown Phoenix on any given day were otherwise healthy people who were severely burned from falling on asphalt that was as hot as 180 degrees.
