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Steven Walters: Four-month redistricting fight looms over Wisconsin’s U.S. House districts

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.

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Julian Bradley and Mattias Gugel: The payroll tax you don’t see — and the raise you don’t get

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.

Read More »

Amy Curtis: Tammy Baldwin’s Obamacare subsidy olive branch backfires on her

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.

Read More »

Richard Moore: Evers, DHS launch war on scientific debate

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.

Read More »

LaKeshia Myers: Remembering Hydeia Broadbent: A voice that changed the world

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.

Read More »

Gregg Hoffmann: Globe is warming quicker than projected

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.

Read More »

Terry Hansen: Denial of Gaza aid is a starvation strategy

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.

Read More »

Northwoods Policy Network launches to promote state’s rural northern region

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

A new advocacy group called the Northwoods Policy Network has formed to promote the state’s northern region, with a focus on business attraction and economic viability for rural communities.  Paul Schecklman, the nonprofit’s executive director, says the group aims to

Read More »

Dem bill would revive Main Street Bounceback program with state dollars

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Legislation from Dem authors would revive WEDC’s Main Street Bounceback program with state funding, establishing it permanently in Wisconsin statute.  Sen. Kelda Roys of Madison and Rep. Alex Joers of Waunakee sent a co-sponsorship memo late last week to other

Read More »

Jessie Rodriguez: Wrongful conviction compensation reform

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Wisconsin decided 112 years ago that the state had an obligation to right their wrongs when the justice system fails its citizens. We cannot give back the centuries taken from exonerees, but we can take a step to make things right.

Read More »

John Nichols: Unlike Tiffany, Barnes respects Wisconsin

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Mandela Barnes carries forward the legacy of the modern Democratic Party of Nelson, Phillips and so many other progressive champions of economic, social and racial justice — a fact that Tiffany would do well to recognize, and respect.

Read More »

Mark Lisheron: Majority of Wisconsin kids fall short in math as legislators consider fix

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

As math proficiency continues to decline in Wisconsin schools, the Legislature is considering a plan to improve numeracy, or the ability to work with numbers in daily life.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: MAGA is vulnerable in 2026, but Dems could screw it up

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

My focus is on a hope that Democrats will offer candidates who can win in places Democrats hardly ever do. To me, that gives the country the best chance of reversing damage Trump has done.

Read More »

Bill Kaplan: Who’s to blame if ACA tax credits aren’t extended?

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

It’s long past time for Trump and congressional Republicans to extend the ACA tax credits.

Read More »

Michelle Bryant: Words matter: Trump’s Dangerous Reckless and Racist Rhetoric on Somalia

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Instead of governing with civility and respect, Donald Trump has once again chosen a path of division and disdain.

Read More »

Shefaali Sharma: Trump left contraceptives to rot — and women paid the price

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. government ordered the destruction of nearly $10 million worth of U.S.–funded contraceptives, based on the false claim that birth control is an “abortifacient.”

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Prime example of what is wrong with American politics

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

When a senator cannot muster even basic knowledge about a headline-making pardon or the courage to speak candidly, yet has endless energy for a culture-war grievance and the attacks on an aging American, it signals to this columnist that contempt for the public’s intelligence is on at full speed.

Read More »

Arthur I. Cyr: Trump getting a bad rap on Ukraine

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Given the fundamental values and ideals of our nation, seeking — and ideally, fulfilling — the role of committed peacemaker is directly in line with the human and egalitarian vales expressed brilliantly in our Declaration of Independence.

Read More »

Judith Davidoff: Support local news — just don’t call it journalism

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

A new study informs strategies for talking with readers and donors.

Read More »

Scott Walker: Conservatives, take note of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes

Friday, Dec 5, 2025

The most radical leftist up for governor could win.

Read More »

Steven Walters: Four-month redistricting fight looms over Wisconsin’s U.S. House districts

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.

Read More »

Julian Bradley and Mattias Gugel: The payroll tax you don’t see — and the raise you don’t get

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.

Read More »

Amy Curtis: Tammy Baldwin’s Obamacare subsidy olive branch backfires on her

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.

Read More »

Richard Moore: Evers, DHS launch war on scientific debate

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.

Read More »

LaKeshia Myers: Remembering Hydeia Broadbent: A voice that changed the world

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.

Read More »

Gregg Hoffmann: Globe is warming quicker than projected

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.

Read More »

Terry Hansen: Denial of Gaza aid is a starvation strategy

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.

Read More »

Northwoods Policy Network launches to promote state’s rural northern region

Tuesday, Dec 9, 2025

A new advocacy group called the Northwoods Policy Network has formed to promote the state’s northern region, with a focus on business attraction and economic viability for rural communities.  Paul Schecklman, the nonprofit’s executive director, says the group aims to drive conversations around what’s important for northern Wisconsin and help

Read More »

Dem bill would revive Main Street Bounceback program with state dollars

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Legislation from Dem authors would revive WEDC’s Main Street Bounceback program with state funding, establishing it permanently in Wisconsin statute.  Sen. Kelda Roys of Madison and Rep. Alex Joers of Waunakee sent a co-sponsorship memo late last week to other lawmakers seeking support for LRB-5328. They point to the success

Read More »

Jessie Rodriguez: Wrongful conviction compensation reform

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Wisconsin decided 112 years ago that the state had an obligation to right their wrongs when the justice system fails its citizens. We cannot give back the centuries taken from exonerees, but we can take a step to make things right.

Read More »

John Nichols: Unlike Tiffany, Barnes respects Wisconsin

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Mandela Barnes carries forward the legacy of the modern Democratic Party of Nelson, Phillips and so many other progressive champions of economic, social and racial justice — a fact that Tiffany would do well to recognize, and respect.

Read More »

Mark Lisheron: Majority of Wisconsin kids fall short in math as legislators consider fix

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

As math proficiency continues to decline in Wisconsin schools, the Legislature is considering a plan to improve numeracy, or the ability to work with numbers in daily life.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: MAGA is vulnerable in 2026, but Dems could screw it up

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

My focus is on a hope that Democrats will offer candidates who can win in places Democrats hardly ever do. To me, that gives the country the best chance of reversing damage Trump has done.

Read More »

Bill Kaplan: Who’s to blame if ACA tax credits aren’t extended?

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

It’s long past time for Trump and congressional Republicans to extend the ACA tax credits.

Read More »

Michelle Bryant: Words matter: Trump’s Dangerous Reckless and Racist Rhetoric on Somalia

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Instead of governing with civility and respect, Donald Trump has once again chosen a path of division and disdain.

Read More »

Shefaali Sharma: Trump left contraceptives to rot — and women paid the price

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. government ordered the destruction of nearly $10 million worth of U.S.–funded contraceptives, based on the false claim that birth control is an “abortifacient.”

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Prime example of what is wrong with American politics

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

When a senator cannot muster even basic knowledge about a headline-making pardon or the courage to speak candidly, yet has endless energy for a culture-war grievance and the attacks on an aging American, it signals to this columnist that contempt for the public’s intelligence is on at full speed.

Read More »

Arthur I. Cyr: Trump getting a bad rap on Ukraine

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

Given the fundamental values and ideals of our nation, seeking — and ideally, fulfilling — the role of committed peacemaker is directly in line with the human and egalitarian vales expressed brilliantly in our Declaration of Independence.

Read More »

Judith Davidoff: Support local news — just don’t call it journalism

Monday, Dec 8, 2025

A new study informs strategies for talking with readers and donors.

Read More »

Scott Walker: Conservatives, take note of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes

Friday, Dec 5, 2025

The most radical leftist up for governor could win.

Read More »
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