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Paul Fanlund: Democratic leader Ben Wikler reflects and looks ahead

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

Ben Wikler’s recent announcement that he’s stepping down as Wisconsin’s Democratic leader generated a volume of national coverage I’ve never seen for the head of a state party.

Read More »

Crocker Stephenson: Closing Social Security offices as harmful as benefit cuts. Access essential.

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

For 40% of America’s retirees, the payments they receive from Social Security makes up half or more of their total monthly income.

Read More »

Hadley Ott: The Evers Effect: The governor’s trade missions have not been good for Wisconsin

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

The governor has now visited five European countries in less than two years’ time, and if past performance is any indication of what’s to come, the ‘Evers Effect’ is likely to reduce, not increase, Wisconsin trade.

Read More »

LaKeshia N. Myers: Trump’s executive order on school discipline provides a pathway from school to prison

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

The order, which effectively dismantles Title VI protections established during the Obama and Biden administrations, has raised alarms about potential increases in suspensions, expulsions, and arrests that disproportionately impact Black and Brown students, and students with disabilities.

Read More »

Tom Still: Wisconsin economy in the crosshairs: Debt reduction versus growth

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

Debt reduction is a pressing need, but current remedies will likely hurt three of Wisconsin’s key industries – manufacturing, agriculture and science-based research. In the long run, it will be economic growth from those kinds of industries nationwide that reduces the national debt. Let’s keep that economic principle in mind.

Read More »

E.G. Nadeau: Making America great is costing us dearly

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

Terms likes stagflation and the Misery Index have already come back into our vocabulary in 2025. It will take several years and a dramatic shift in leadership before we have a healthy domestic economy again.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: We need to protect sandhill cranes and other grassland birds

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

While the cranes may have made progress, the nation’s grassland birds, spread across 320 million acres in 14 states, have declined 43% since 1970, more than any other category, and are “in crisis,” according to the U.S North American Bird Conservation Initiative’s “U.S. State of the Birds” report released last month.

Read More »

John Nichols: An American radical inspired Pope Francis

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

Dorothy Day, in her decades of activism from the 1910s to the 1980s, made common cause with American socialists, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners and anti-war protesters.

Read More »

Jill Underly: US Education Department’s DEI directive is frustrating

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

I’ve asked for clarification on the department’s directive related to diversity, equity and inclusion. But so far, we’ve received nothing. The silence is frustrating — and telling.

Read More »

Scott Walker: California’s high-speed rail boondoggle

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

High-speed rail, with rare exceptions, is a boondoggle. The massive cost overruns, project delays and incompetence with the proposed line in California further prove that my logic was correct.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Want to cut fraud and waste? Look to Medicare Advantage

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

If co-presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk really want to find some savings in the administration of Medicare they’d do away with the wasteful program we know as Medicare Advantage.

Read More »

Scott Gordon: Wisconsin’s leaders need to stop being doormats

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

Lawsuits and stern statements won’t cut it—and nothing short of escalated resistance will.

Read More »

Ruth Conniff: Martin O’Malley comes to Wisconsin to sound the alarm about Social Security

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

‘Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to break Social Security so they can rob it,’ says the former agency head.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Pope Francis’ morality vs. Donald Trump’s nihilism

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

This week, much of the world can witness the differences between a man known to be honorable and caring and one known to be a blowhard and the epitome of malodorous.

Read More »

Bruce Murphy: Wisconsin Battles Over ICE

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

Gov. Evers, county officials call for due process and are condemned for this.

Read More »

Stephen Gutschick: Wisconsin has a moral duty to protect wolves

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

Wolves deserve to live where they once thrived, and we have a moral obligation to right a past wrong.

Read More »

Tom Still: Higher ed in all forms plays big role in western Wisconsin economy

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

Meeting in Chippewa Valley Tech’s Energy Education Center, chancellors or presidents from UW-Eau Claire, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, Northwood Technical College and CVTC talked about how they cooperate among themselves to produce students who contribute to western Wisconsin’s economy – often working with business and industry along the way.

Read More »

Dave Cieslewicz: NFL should’ve paid for its own party

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

The NFL is a billion dollar industry. So, why is the state kicking in $2 million in taxpayer money to help pay for their party?

Read More »

Bill Berry: COVID gave us the chance to prepare; we blew it

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

March has come and gone, as has the hope that our national leaders would actually reflect on COVID, including what we did right and wrong. And America, once considered an international leader on public health, has slipped down a few more notches.

Read More »

Michael H. Bloom: We’re being lied to

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

The SCOTUS order in Noem v. Abrego Garcia

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: Democratic leader Ben Wikler reflects and looks ahead

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

Ben Wikler’s recent announcement that he’s stepping down as Wisconsin’s Democratic leader generated a volume of national coverage I’ve never seen for the head of a state party.

Read More »

Crocker Stephenson: Closing Social Security offices as harmful as benefit cuts. Access essential.

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

For 40% of America’s retirees, the payments they receive from Social Security makes up half or more of their total monthly income.

Read More »

Hadley Ott: The Evers Effect: The governor’s trade missions have not been good for Wisconsin

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

The governor has now visited five European countries in less than two years’ time, and if past performance is any indication of what’s to come, the ‘Evers Effect’ is likely to reduce, not increase, Wisconsin trade.

Read More »

LaKeshia N. Myers: Trump’s executive order on school discipline provides a pathway from school to prison

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

The order, which effectively dismantles Title VI protections established during the Obama and Biden administrations, has raised alarms about potential increases in suspensions, expulsions, and arrests that disproportionately impact Black and Brown students, and students with disabilities.

Read More »

Tom Still: Wisconsin economy in the crosshairs: Debt reduction versus growth

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

Debt reduction is a pressing need, but current remedies will likely hurt three of Wisconsin’s key industries – manufacturing, agriculture and science-based research. In the long run, it will be economic growth from those kinds of industries nationwide that reduces the national debt. Let’s keep that economic principle in mind.

Read More »

E.G. Nadeau: Making America great is costing us dearly

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

Terms likes stagflation and the Misery Index have already come back into our vocabulary in 2025. It will take several years and a dramatic shift in leadership before we have a healthy domestic economy again.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: We need to protect sandhill cranes and other grassland birds

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

While the cranes may have made progress, the nation’s grassland birds, spread across 320 million acres in 14 states, have declined 43% since 1970, more than any other category, and are “in crisis,” according to the U.S North American Bird Conservation Initiative’s “U.S. State of the Birds” report released last month.

Read More »

John Nichols: An American radical inspired Pope Francis

Monday, Apr 28, 2025

Dorothy Day, in her decades of activism from the 1910s to the 1980s, made common cause with American socialists, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners and anti-war protesters.

Read More »

Jill Underly: US Education Department’s DEI directive is frustrating

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

I’ve asked for clarification on the department’s directive related to diversity, equity and inclusion. But so far, we’ve received nothing. The silence is frustrating — and telling.

Read More »

Scott Walker: California’s high-speed rail boondoggle

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

High-speed rail, with rare exceptions, is a boondoggle. The massive cost overruns, project delays and incompetence with the proposed line in California further prove that my logic was correct.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Want to cut fraud and waste? Look to Medicare Advantage

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

If co-presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk really want to find some savings in the administration of Medicare they’d do away with the wasteful program we know as Medicare Advantage.

Read More »

Scott Gordon: Wisconsin’s leaders need to stop being doormats

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

Lawsuits and stern statements won’t cut it—and nothing short of escalated resistance will.

Read More »

Ruth Conniff: Martin O’Malley comes to Wisconsin to sound the alarm about Social Security

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

‘Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to break Social Security so they can rob it,’ says the former agency head.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Pope Francis’ morality vs. Donald Trump’s nihilism

Friday, Apr 25, 2025

This week, much of the world can witness the differences between a man known to be honorable and caring and one known to be a blowhard and the epitome of malodorous.

Read More »

Bruce Murphy: Wisconsin Battles Over ICE

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

Gov. Evers, county officials call for due process and are condemned for this.

Read More »

Stephen Gutschick: Wisconsin has a moral duty to protect wolves

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

Wolves deserve to live where they once thrived, and we have a moral obligation to right a past wrong.

Read More »

Tom Still: Higher ed in all forms plays big role in western Wisconsin economy

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

Meeting in Chippewa Valley Tech’s Energy Education Center, chancellors or presidents from UW-Eau Claire, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, Northwood Technical College and CVTC talked about how they cooperate among themselves to produce students who contribute to western Wisconsin’s economy – often working with business and industry along the way.

Read More »

Dave Cieslewicz: NFL should’ve paid for its own party

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

The NFL is a billion dollar industry. So, why is the state kicking in $2 million in taxpayer money to help pay for their party?

Read More »

Bill Berry: COVID gave us the chance to prepare; we blew it

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

March has come and gone, as has the hope that our national leaders would actually reflect on COVID, including what we did right and wrong. And America, once considered an international leader on public health, has slipped down a few more notches.

Read More »

Michael H. Bloom: We’re being lied to

Thursday, Apr 24, 2025

The SCOTUS order in Noem v. Abrego Garcia

Read More »
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