Submit columns for consideration to wisopinion@wispolitics.com

LaKeshia Myers: Instead of doing right, they’d rather see us gone

Last week, the Mississippi senate introduced a proposal that mandates the State Institutions of Higher Learning to select three of the eight public universities by June 2025, for closure by 2028. While the bill did not specifically name the HBCUs by name, alumni and supporters of these universities are on edge at the thought of their closure.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Put gun violence blame where it belongs: the Supreme Court

The real culprits are the right-wingers on the U.S. Supreme Court who first, in a 5-4 decision written by the late Antonin Scalia in 2008, declared that the Second Amendment gave Americans the right to own guns outside of being in a militia. Two years later, again on a 5-4 decision, this one written by Samuel Alito, the court declared that right also applies to the states.

Read More »

LaKeshia Myers: Instead of doing right, they’d rather see us gone

Last week, the Mississippi senate introduced a proposal that mandates the State Institutions of Higher Learning to select three of the eight public universities by June 2025, for closure by 2028. While the bill did not specifically name the HBCUs by name, alumni and supporters of these universities are on edge at the thought of their closure.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Put gun violence blame where it belongs: the Supreme Court

The real culprits are the right-wingers on the U.S. Supreme Court who first, in a 5-4 decision written by the late Antonin Scalia in 2008, declared that the Second Amendment gave Americans the right to own guns outside of being in a militia. Two years later, again on a 5-4 decision, this one written by Samuel Alito, the court declared that right also applies to the states.

Read More »