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Portrait of Dave Cieslewicz

Dave Cieslewicz: The pro-government backlash

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

Donald Trump and Elon Musk could be the best thing that ever happened to government. And not in the way they intended.

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Dave Zweifel: The wrong way to trim the workforce

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

If downsizing the federal government is the real goal, there’s a way to do it while protecting the millions who have no other choice.

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Bridget O’Brien: Doctors battle misinformation

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

RFK Jr. is wrong — and measles may only be start.

Read More »

R.J. Johnson: Peace at any price is no peace at all

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

Standing with a country defending its sovereignty and democracy aligns with the very principles that America was founded on. Some of those now berating Ukraine used to believe that, too.

Read More »
Capital Times logo

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

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Image of Steven Walters

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

Monday, Mar 3, 2025

The majority party instead vows an income tax cut.

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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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Portrait of Richard Moore

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 »
Capital Times logo

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 »
Badger Institute logo

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 »
Portrait of Dave Cieslewicz

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 »
Portrait of Scott Walker

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 »
Portrait of Dave Cieslewicz

Dave Cieslewicz: The pro-government backlash

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

Donald Trump and Elon Musk could be the best thing that ever happened to government. And not in the way they intended.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: The wrong way to trim the workforce

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

If downsizing the federal government is the real goal, there’s a way to do it while protecting the millions who have no other choice.

Read More »

Bridget O’Brien: Doctors battle misinformation

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

RFK Jr. is wrong — and measles may only be start.

Read More »

R.J. Johnson: Peace at any price is no peace at all

Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025

Standing with a country defending its sovereignty and democracy aligns with the very principles that America was founded on. Some of those now berating Ukraine used to believe that, too.

Read More »
Capital Times logo

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 »
Image of Steven Walters

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 »
Portrait of Richard Moore

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 »
Capital Times logo

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 »
Badger Institute logo

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 »
Portrait of Dave Cieslewicz

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 »
Portrait of Scott Walker

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 »
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