Dave Zweifel: Sticker shock from your property taxes? Here’s who to blame
Legislative leadership is willing to allow the most regressive tax of all — the property tax — to continue out of control, in turn causing harm to elderly homeowners on fixed incomes and making rents and homeownership even more unaffordable for younger people.
UW-Stout: ‘Good design is invisible’: UW-Stout industrial design students combine engineer-thinking, artistic expression
Students’ products inspired by Crate & Barrel, Room & Board, more; share final project experience in photo essay Menomonie, Wis. – The warm, sweet, earthy smell of fresh sawdust, the roaring sound of bandsaws and ventilation hoses, and the shush-shush-shush
George Mitchell: Vos tackles demographic reality
As Assembly Speaker Robin Vos explained in a recent interview, “we can’t have an ever-growing government” when the state’s population is stagnant and forecast to decline.
Tom Hefty: Missing issues in AG race: opioid deaths; merger health costs, crime lab
The issues of accountability for handling the multi-million opioid settlements, oversight of provider consolidations, the management of the state crime lab should be central in the AG race.
Jon Henkes: WisconsinEye provides key insight into our state government
For the past 18 years, Wisconsin’s equivalent to C-SPAN has provided an inside look into the workings of state government. We are calling on state lawmakers to help save the Capitol network.
Wisconsin Policy Forum: Data centers may change Wisconsin’s utility landscape
Richard Moore: ’Tis the season to bring WisconsinEye back
A democracy that cannot see itself clearly will eventually lose itself. WisconsinEye has spent nearly two decades making government visible at a price that is laughably small compared to what the state spends on far less defensible priorities.
Gregg Hoffmann: Coops look at community solar
Community solar emerged as an environmental issue in Wisconsin in 2025. Proposed legislation in the state Legislature could shift costs of community solar.
Bill Berry: Jerry Apps was Wisconsin’s story teller
Apps was truly the godfather of Wisconsin writers and storytellers, an elder sage and historian with more than 50 books on a remarkable range of topics.
Ebben campaign: New: Trump Conservative Jessi Ebben posts huge fundraising quarter, highlighted by Wisconsin business leaders support
STANLEY, WI – Trump Conservative Jessi Ebben announced a massive fundraising haul in the race for the WI-07 Republican nomination. Ebben raised more than $300,000 in her first quarter with support from major Wisconsin business leaders, including Diane Hendricks, Eric
Rodriguez campaign: Bill Kaplan in WisPolitics: “Rodriguez is best positioned among all Democratic candidates to run statewide and win in November”
WISCONSIN—In case you missed it, a recent WisPolitics opinion column by longtime political observer Bill Kaplan points to Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez as the “best positioned among all Democratic candidates to run statewide and win in November.” Kaplan notes Rodriguez’s statewide strength and
Gregory Humphrey: Rule of law broken in Trump’s military strike on Venezuela, process matters
Any nation wishing to be viewed favorably must adhere to laws. When those laws and processes are discarded or tossed aside, the very structure of government starts to lose credibility, and the citizens are the losers.
Pronouns bill sparks debate at Senate hearing
Opponents said the legislation amounts to bullying of an already vulnerable population., while backers said it would ensure parents are involved in decisions for their children.
Gov. Evers, Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Announce $5 million to support local farmers and bolster statewide hunger relief efforts
Funding provided by 2025-27 biennial state budget to connect local nonprofit food assistance programs with local farmers and producers to keep shelves stocked MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), today announced