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Portrait of Dave Zweifel

Dave Zweifel: Sticker shock from your property taxes? Here’s who to blame

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

George Mitchell: Vos tackles demographic reality

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

Tom Hefty: Missing issues in AG race: opioid deaths; merger health costs, crime lab

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

Jon Henkes: WisconsinEye provides key insight into our state government

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »
Portrait of Richard Moore

Richard Moore: ’Tis the season to bring WisconsinEye back

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »
Portrait of Gregg Hoffmann

Gregg Hoffmann: Coops look at community solar

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

Community solar emerged as an environmental issue in Wisconsin in 2025. Proposed legislation in the state Legislature could shift costs of community solar.

Read More »

Bill Berry: Jerry Apps was Wisconsin’s story teller

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Rule of law broken in Trump’s military strike on Venezuela, process matters

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

Ashley Furniture deploying machine developed by UW-Stout student engineers

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Ashley Furniture Industries is deploying a pallet stacking machine designed by UW-Stout engineering students, with plans to build six more.  The student team created the machine for a Senior Design Experience II capstone course, and presented it last month during

Read More »
Image of Steven Walters

Steven Walters: Gov. Tony Evers appointed 63 circuit court judges over seven years in office

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Overall, he made 140 appointments to county government.

Read More »
Portrait of Dave Cieslewicz

Dave Cieslewicz: Where’s the moderate in Dem primary?

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

The field for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor is set and it’s lacking a key ingredient. There is no one looking to occupy the moderate lane.

Read More »
Portrait of Scott Walker

Scott Walker: Unaffordability spikes in Wisconsin

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Milwaukee suburb property taxes are one more barrier for residents.

Read More »

Dan Shafer: 2025 was a menacingly miserable year

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

We can get bogged down in the details in certain year-end retrospectives. The big picture? This was a remarkably bad year. Was this the worst year for American politics this century?

Read More »
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel logo

Charlene Gaebler-Uhing and Gail Sklodowska: Abortion bill is government meddling public doesn’t support

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Public opinion is clear on this: the vast majority say women should be the deciders, along with their doctors, without government interference.

Read More »
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel logo

David J Decker: Moves to protect renters actually make housing cost more

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Restricting evictions during certain months or certain households often creates a perverse incentive for nonpayment — and shifts the financial burden onto housing providers.

Read More »

Jerry Hanson: We need a return to moral leadership in 2026

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Helping others does not make us suckers and losers; it just makes us good Americans again.

Read More »

LaKeshia N. Myers: When war games become real

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Trump’s strikes signal dangerous new era.

Read More »

Paul Soglin: No takers for Trump’s Venezuelan oil scheme

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

In the 10 days prior to the extraction of Meduro, Trump and his representatives met with U.S. oil interests to find an operator of the Venezuelan oil industry, with little success.

Read More »
Portrait of Melissa Agard

Melissa Agard: Promises made, promises kept in Dane County in 2025

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

As we look ahead to 2026, it’s worth asking a simple question: Did we do what we said we would do? The people of Dane County deserve results.

Read More »

Rolf Lindgren: The return of Pints & Politics

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

The RPDC is re-energizing a longtime tradition

Read More »
Portrait of Dave Zweifel

Dave Zweifel: Sticker shock from your property taxes? Here’s who to blame

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

George Mitchell: Vos tackles demographic reality

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

Tom Hefty: Missing issues in AG race: opioid deaths; merger health costs, crime lab

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

Jon Henkes: WisconsinEye provides key insight into our state government

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »
Portrait of Richard Moore

Richard Moore: ’Tis the season to bring WisconsinEye back

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »
Portrait of Gregg Hoffmann

Gregg Hoffmann: Coops look at community solar

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

Community solar emerged as an environmental issue in Wisconsin in 2025. Proposed legislation in the state Legislature could shift costs of community solar.

Read More »

Bill Berry: Jerry Apps was Wisconsin’s story teller

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Rule of law broken in Trump’s military strike on Venezuela, process matters

Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

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.

Read More »

Ashley Furniture deploying machine developed by UW-Stout student engineers

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Ashley Furniture Industries is deploying a pallet stacking machine designed by UW-Stout engineering students, with plans to build six more.  The student team created the machine for a Senior Design Experience II capstone course, and presented it last month during a showcase for faculty and representatives of the Arcadia-based furniture

Read More »
Image of Steven Walters

Steven Walters: Gov. Tony Evers appointed 63 circuit court judges over seven years in office

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Overall, he made 140 appointments to county government.

Read More »
Portrait of Dave Cieslewicz

Dave Cieslewicz: Where’s the moderate in Dem primary?

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

The field for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor is set and it’s lacking a key ingredient. There is no one looking to occupy the moderate lane.

Read More »
Portrait of Scott Walker

Scott Walker: Unaffordability spikes in Wisconsin

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Milwaukee suburb property taxes are one more barrier for residents.

Read More »

Dan Shafer: 2025 was a menacingly miserable year

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

We can get bogged down in the details in certain year-end retrospectives. The big picture? This was a remarkably bad year. Was this the worst year for American politics this century?

Read More »
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel logo

Charlene Gaebler-Uhing and Gail Sklodowska: Abortion bill is government meddling public doesn’t support

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Public opinion is clear on this: the vast majority say women should be the deciders, along with their doctors, without government interference.

Read More »
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel logo

David J Decker: Moves to protect renters actually make housing cost more

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Restricting evictions during certain months or certain households often creates a perverse incentive for nonpayment — and shifts the financial burden onto housing providers.

Read More »

Jerry Hanson: We need a return to moral leadership in 2026

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Helping others does not make us suckers and losers; it just makes us good Americans again.

Read More »

LaKeshia N. Myers: When war games become real

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

Trump’s strikes signal dangerous new era.

Read More »

Paul Soglin: No takers for Trump’s Venezuelan oil scheme

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

In the 10 days prior to the extraction of Meduro, Trump and his representatives met with U.S. oil interests to find an operator of the Venezuelan oil industry, with little success.

Read More »
Portrait of Melissa Agard

Melissa Agard: Promises made, promises kept in Dane County in 2025

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

As we look ahead to 2026, it’s worth asking a simple question: Did we do what we said we would do? The people of Dane County deserve results.

Read More »

Rolf Lindgren: The return of Pints & Politics

Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026

The RPDC is re-energizing a longtime tradition

Read More »
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