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  • 1 week ago | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron

    President Trump’s executive order to halt federal funding for public broadcasting will save taxpayers nearly $8.5 million annually in reduced federal outlays to public television and radio networks in Wisconsin alone. Republican leadership on the Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance has said it will not support any attempt to replace those reductions in federal spending with state tax dollars.

  • 1 month ago | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron

    More than half of the employees in the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and more than 40% in the Department of Administration still work remotely, five years after COVID sent them home. Numbers collected by the Badger Institute suggest that as many as half of Wisconsin’s 29,000 state employees do not work at all in a state office and that more than 24,000 work either full- or part-time from home. Those are only extrapolations. No one — in Gov.

  • 1 month ago | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron

    Unlike many places in Wisconsin, there is no housing crisis in the Village of Hobart because its leaders have done something developers say is exceedingly rare — making it as easy and predictable as possible for them to do business there. With approximately 11,000 residents, Hobart is one of the fastest growing communities in one of the fastest growing counties, Brown, in the state.

  • 2 months ago | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron

    First in a series on housing in the Badger State, Out of reach: Wisconsin’s housing crisis and hope for the American Dream. Jason Joling was a dream candidate for a dream job in a dream location. Just one problem: He couldn’t afford to live there. “They offered me the job and told me, ‘We expect you to be living up here within four months,’” Joling said. “I said, ‘That ain’t gonna happen.’ I had been on Zillow and there wasn’t anything we could afford. I told them I could give them 50 hours a week.

  • Jan 31, 2025 | badgerinstitute.org | Mark Lisheron |Mike Nichols

    The mainstream media has tried to turn the Trump Administration’s focus on federal grants into just another squabble between the two political tribes. It’s actually part of a much more fundamental dispute over whether Americans should adhere to the Tenth Amendment. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” states that part of the Bill of Rights.

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Mark Lisheron
Mark Lisheron @marklisheron
14 May 25

Asking would-be book buyers to pretend this isn't what they saw years ago in an attempt to reinvent and reclaim a narrative is audacious. https://t.co/lwuhE4XlWV

Mark Lisheron
Mark Lisheron @marklisheron
13 May 25

The GAO has been kicking out reports like these for years and years and the people you've been electing for years and years just ignore them. https://t.co/MuX2IwfaZN

Mark Lisheron
Mark Lisheron @marklisheron
13 May 25

Let's not forget, this micro-enforcement is necessary to keep Milwaukee's frequently empty but always ballyhooed choo-choo, the Hop, running. https://t.co/Ugz6hqTBGq