Urban Milwaukee’s data wonk Bruce Thompson reports that Affordable Care Act premiums increased by 40% in Milwaukee. In the five prior years, the ObamaCare costs rose by about 2% annually, he reports, but GOP members of Congress decided to cut subsidies and add to the unaffordability of health care in 2026.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s James Causey points to a video posted by a Philadelphia teen to underscore what he calls the truth about abysmal student reading. Less than 60% of students can read proficiently by the time they reach high school, he says, and the video shows the evidence.
On his Substack blog Ebiyan House, Mike McCabe insists America isn’t talking, nor even thinking. We’ve got national emergencies — eight of them in all — coming out of our ears and we’re not meaningfully discussing them much less taking corrective action, he writes…