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Roger Bass: Never forget the cost of fascist lies

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

Ninety years ago, too many people under increasingly autocratic rule stopped caring about the truth.

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Disagreement remains over innocent landowner protections after new Evers PFAS proposal

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

A Gov. Tony Evers budget plan aims to protect innocent landowners from being put on the hook for PFAS contamination — termed a “good start” by one GOP senator spearheading legislation to combat “forever chemicals.” Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature

Read More »

Steven Walters: Republicans reject Gov. Tony Evers’ spending, tax hikes

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The majority party instead vows an income tax cut.

Read More »

Michael Lucas: Why ROFR will not go quietly

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

In 2018, a large competitive project was authorized by MISO, put up for competitive bidding, awarded to the winning bidder, and then denied to the awardee because of the successful passing of a state ROFR law.

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Jim Piwowarczyk: ROFR violates conservative values, stifles free market competition

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

By effectively sidelining alternative bidders, the legislation can lead to less favorable terms for consumers and impede the entry of new technology and practices that could emerge from a more open and competitive bidding process.

Read More »

Jeff Mandell: Case demonstrates Schimel’s disregard for the law

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The issue in the case cuts to the heart of democracy: Does a school board need to be transparent to the public when conducting public business?

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Gregory Humphrey: Brian Schimel’s character is issue over ‘driven by their emotions’ comment, lacks candor over objectivity

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The troubling words by Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brian Schimel about the female justices on the Supreme Court concern me on several fronts.

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Richard Moore: The DNR’s scientific integrity policy = unaccountability

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The proposed DNR budget needs to be thoroughly deconstructed, and then the agency’s internal scientific regime, especially its corrupt so-called scientific integrity policy, needs to be scrapped.

Read More »

LaKeshia Myers: A time to recognize and advocate for Americans with developmental disabilities

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

As we welcome the month of March, we acknowledge National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month—a time to recognize the contributions, struggles, and rights of the millions of Americans living with developmental disabilities.

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Kristen Brey: Backlash to Musk isn’t imagined. When they slash Medicaid it will be worse.

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.

Read More »

Bill Kaplan: Trump abandons Ukraine to Putin

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

Trump and Vance in a calculated “mob hit” berated, slandered and humiliated Zelensky before the press and abandoned Ukraine to Putin.

Read More »

John Torinus: Trump messes up ‘The Art of the Deal’

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

Trump and Vance lost control of their emotions, played to their MAGA base and shattered the U.S. relationship with Ukraine, and possibly Europe, by ambushing Zelenskyy.

Read More »

Kenneth Zagacki and Richard Cherwitz: Trump’s Ukraine rhetoric forces a new reality

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

President Trump shocked U.S. allies, not to mention many Americans, when he called Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections” who “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

Read More »

Patrick McIlheran: Mobile taxpayers would decide whether Evers’ dream of higher taxes is ‘fair’

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Governor talks of new 9.8% top rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

Read More »

Dave Cieslewicz: All prisons are local

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to fix Wisconsin’s penal institutions has a chance.

Read More »

Scott Walker: Happy ‘Inseminated Person’ Day!

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Gov. Tony Evers is making Wisconsin a national embarrassment after including language in his state budget proposal that changes the definition of mother to inseminated person.

Read More »

Mark Mone: UWM has weathered cuts, delivered research to improve health and commerce

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

As a survivor of multiple cancers, I’m proud that we just launched our third cohort of 15 UWM undergraduates studying cancer with faculty mentors at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Read More »

Jonathan Patz: We Energies Kenosha County power plant threatens public health and environment

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Gas power plants, in addition to emitting greenhouse gases, pollute the air with nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds.

Read More »

Tommy Thompson: Want cheaper, more reliable power? Pass right of first refusal legislation.

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

The law would also require Wisconsin’s transmission owning companies to competitively bid out every aspect of the construction process for every covered project.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: Donald Trump could teach a master class on how to lie

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Lies come so fast that it feels impossible for the press to push back on them all, which is the point.

Read More »

Roger Bass: Never forget the cost of fascist lies

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

Ninety years ago, too many people under increasingly autocratic rule stopped caring about the truth.

Read More »

Disagreement remains over innocent landowner protections after new Evers PFAS proposal

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

A Gov. Tony Evers budget plan aims to protect innocent landowners from being put on the hook for PFAS contamination — termed a “good start” by one GOP senator spearheading legislation to combat “forever chemicals.” Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature have clashed over proposals to spend the $125 million set

Read More »

Steven Walters: Republicans reject Gov. Tony Evers’ spending, tax hikes

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The majority party instead vows an income tax cut.

Read More »

Michael Lucas: Why ROFR will not go quietly

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

In 2018, a large competitive project was authorized by MISO, put up for competitive bidding, awarded to the winning bidder, and then denied to the awardee because of the successful passing of a state ROFR law.

Read More »

Jim Piwowarczyk: ROFR violates conservative values, stifles free market competition

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

By effectively sidelining alternative bidders, the legislation can lead to less favorable terms for consumers and impede the entry of new technology and practices that could emerge from a more open and competitive bidding process.

Read More »

Jeff Mandell: Case demonstrates Schimel’s disregard for the law

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The issue in the case cuts to the heart of democracy: Does a school board need to be transparent to the public when conducting public business?

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Brian Schimel’s character is issue over ‘driven by their emotions’ comment, lacks candor over objectivity

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The troubling words by Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brian Schimel about the female justices on the Supreme Court concern me on several fronts.

Read More »

Richard Moore: The DNR’s scientific integrity policy = unaccountability

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The proposed DNR budget needs to be thoroughly deconstructed, and then the agency’s internal scientific regime, especially its corrupt so-called scientific integrity policy, needs to be scrapped.

Read More »

LaKeshia Myers: A time to recognize and advocate for Americans with developmental disabilities

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

As we welcome the month of March, we acknowledge National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month—a time to recognize the contributions, struggles, and rights of the millions of Americans living with developmental disabilities.

Read More »

Kristen Brey: Backlash to Musk isn’t imagined. When they slash Medicaid it will be worse.

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.

Read More »

Bill Kaplan: Trump abandons Ukraine to Putin

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

Trump and Vance in a calculated “mob hit” berated, slandered and humiliated Zelensky before the press and abandoned Ukraine to Putin.

Read More »

John Torinus: Trump messes up ‘The Art of the Deal’

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

Trump and Vance lost control of their emotions, played to their MAGA base and shattered the U.S. relationship with Ukraine, and possibly Europe, by ambushing Zelenskyy.

Read More »

Kenneth Zagacki and Richard Cherwitz: Trump’s Ukraine rhetoric forces a new reality

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

President Trump shocked U.S. allies, not to mention many Americans, when he called Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections” who “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

Read More »

Patrick McIlheran: Mobile taxpayers would decide whether Evers’ dream of higher taxes is ‘fair’

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Governor talks of new 9.8% top rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

Read More »

Dave Cieslewicz: All prisons are local

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to fix Wisconsin’s penal institutions has a chance.

Read More »

Scott Walker: Happy ‘Inseminated Person’ Day!

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Gov. Tony Evers is making Wisconsin a national embarrassment after including language in his state budget proposal that changes the definition of mother to inseminated person.

Read More »

Mark Mone: UWM has weathered cuts, delivered research to improve health and commerce

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

As a survivor of multiple cancers, I’m proud that we just launched our third cohort of 15 UWM undergraduates studying cancer with faculty mentors at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Read More »

Jonathan Patz: We Energies Kenosha County power plant threatens public health and environment

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Gas power plants, in addition to emitting greenhouse gases, pollute the air with nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds.

Read More »

Tommy Thompson: Want cheaper, more reliable power? Pass right of first refusal legislation.

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

The law would also require Wisconsin’s transmission owning companies to competitively bid out every aspect of the construction process for every covered project.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: Donald Trump could teach a master class on how to lie

Friday, Feb 28, 2025

Lies come so fast that it feels impossible for the press to push back on them all, which is the point.

Read More »
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