Public and private schools in Wausau are adjusting to Wisconsin's expanded school choice programs. Educators who work in each system have differing perspectives on how the voucher system is affecting students and taxes.
Gov. Scott Walker proposed eliminating the forestry mill tax, a state-based property tax that funds forest management, preservation and fighting fires. Fred Clark of the Forest Stewards Guild and Tom Larson of the Wisconsin Realtors Association discuss its potential impacts.
In the larger picture of Wisconsin's forest products industry, the volume of birch theft is very small. However, illegal cutting steals future revenue from forestland owners, and destroys trees that will never be legally cut and sold.
A change in Canadian trade policy led a dairy processor to cancel its contracts with dozens of Wisconsin farmers. Wisconsin Farmers Union district director Chris Holman discuses the growing production of milk and what effect it has on small and large dairy farmers.
The book Janesville: An American Story explores the effects of the GM plant's 2008 closure in the southern Wisconsin city. Author Amy Goldstein discusses the short- and long-term impacts of the community losing this employer.
The Manufacturing and Agriculture Tax Credit was passed in 2011 and will cost the Wisconsin $1.5 billion over its first seven years. Some are calling the credit's worth into question as the state Legislature considers how to pay for roads and schools.
Wisconsin's dairy industry is dealing with a big shock after one processor, Grassland Dairy Products Inc., dropped its contracts to buy milk from dozens of farms, citing a new Canadian policy that favors that nation's domestic milk producers.
