Submit columns for consideration to wisopinion@wispolitics.com

Dave Zweifel: GOP created UW funding crisis

Rather than help these campuses with even a modicum of funding, they’d use the state’s healthy surplus to give wealthy taxpayers several thousands of dollars in tax cuts when they could be helping young people attend campuses in their districts.

Read More »

Don Leake: A Christmas present

Wisconsin Maps Assessment Project has done its shopping early.  Here is a gift that we would like to present to SCOWIS courtesy of Dave’s Redistricting App (DRA) – WIMAP23; a strictly contiguous, higher performing Assembly district map.

Read More »

Howard Marklein: Understanding the Brewers stadium deal

The bottom-line is that this is a good deal for Wisconsin. We are not “giving rich guys money”. Our investments in our facility maintain the income and sales tax revenues that result from a team using the stadium that we own as taxpayers. In the end, the state of Wisconsin could generate approximately $330 million in additional revenue that would not exist without the team’s presence.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: GOP created UW funding crisis

Rather than help these campuses with even a modicum of funding, they’d use the state’s healthy surplus to give wealthy taxpayers several thousands of dollars in tax cuts when they could be helping young people attend campuses in their districts.

Read More »

Don Leake: A Christmas present

Wisconsin Maps Assessment Project has done its shopping early.  Here is a gift that we would like to present to SCOWIS courtesy of Dave’s Redistricting App (DRA) – WIMAP23; a strictly contiguous, higher performing Assembly district map.

Read More »

Howard Marklein: Understanding the Brewers stadium deal

The bottom-line is that this is a good deal for Wisconsin. We are not “giving rich guys money”. Our investments in our facility maintain the income and sales tax revenues that result from a team using the stadium that we own as taxpayers. In the end, the state of Wisconsin could generate approximately $330 million in additional revenue that would not exist without the team’s presence.

Read More »

Upcoming Events