Author Archives: Jonathan Krause

OMRO, Wis. -- Nine municipalities in Winnebago County are joining together to pay for ambulance service. The city and town of Omro, the town and village of Winneconne, Black Wolf, Nekimi, Poygan, Rush...

APPLETON, Wis--The Appleton Area School District is seeing success in reducing the number of seclusion and restraint incidents in the classroom.     There were 127-incidents were students we...

When equating Donald Trump with the worst leaders in world history, the comparison invariably refers to Adolph Hitler. "Hitler did this too" and "Hitler did that as well" are the fallback responses to...

Six years ago, the National Bureau of Economic Research brought together academics from throughout the country--including two from UW-Madison--to conduct the first-ever rigorous study on the impact on...

Help Wanted: One advocate. Duties include defending me from any and all attempts to hold me accountable for my actions. Required skills include: A talent for framing accountability as unwarranted puni...

You might think in our current political climate that there is absolutely nothing upon which Republicans and Democrats agree. But the recent "One Big Beautiful Bill" revealed that members of the two p...

One of the arguments that "Big G" Government types like to make for growing the size and scope of public services is that "the Government is never going to go out of business--so it will always be the...

Last week, I was invited to attend a gathering of "community leaders" hosted by a regional health system that is looking to "re-imaging" the way healthcare is provided to the community. It was the sec...

I'd like to direct your attention to a podcast series from the New York Times entitled "The Protocol". The six-part series details the foundation and spread of the processes used to treat children dea...

A lot of adjectives are being used to describe the actions of the Trump administration: chaotic, inconsistent, vengeful, spiteful, juvenile, racist, bigoted, fascist, unconstitutional, and reckless ar...