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Jimmy Anderson: Book bans must be banned in Wisconsin

Combined with a nationwide shortage of school librarians, these escalating attacks are creating a dangerous culture of censorship. Instead of walling off students from new and unique perspectives, we should be encouraging them to explore our world more widely through books.

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R. Alan Bates Jr.: Is Trump eligible to run?

Hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the issue of eligibility of Mr. Trump before our Wisconsin primary ballots are prepared. … The question for each voter is: Does racist speech, lies about the 2020 election, and calling for violence against our own government make Donald Trump, in our own opinions, eligible to serve as our president?

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John Torinus: We need people: centrist immigration reforms

Our economic growth is being hampered by worker shortages. Even Manufacturers & Commerce, the state’s biggest business lobby, which usually acts as a wing of the Wisconsin GOP, says so. Long and short, there is room for a bunch of competent immigrants and families here – 8.8 million open job in the country. That’s just reality, despite recent anti-immigrant bigotry.

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Mike McCabe: Passing on a blind corner

Either unaware or forgetful of truths like what happened in Tulsa in 1921 or on the Virginia coast in the late 1600s, we collide with others we are conditioned to see as enemies but with whom we share so much in common socially, economically and politically. We are put at each other’s throats by ruling elites who seek to divide and conquer us to enrich themselves. Things never taught in school become mistakes repeated.

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Jimmy Anderson: Book bans must be banned in Wisconsin

Combined with a nationwide shortage of school librarians, these escalating attacks are creating a dangerous culture of censorship. Instead of walling off students from new and unique perspectives, we should be encouraging them to explore our world more widely through books.

Read More »

R. Alan Bates Jr.: Is Trump eligible to run?

Hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the issue of eligibility of Mr. Trump before our Wisconsin primary ballots are prepared. … The question for each voter is: Does racist speech, lies about the 2020 election, and calling for violence against our own government make Donald Trump, in our own opinions, eligible to serve as our president?

Read More »

John Torinus: We need people: centrist immigration reforms

Our economic growth is being hampered by worker shortages. Even Manufacturers & Commerce, the state’s biggest business lobby, which usually acts as a wing of the Wisconsin GOP, says so. Long and short, there is room for a bunch of competent immigrants and families here – 8.8 million open job in the country. That’s just reality, despite recent anti-immigrant bigotry.

Read More »

Mike McCabe: Passing on a blind corner

Either unaware or forgetful of truths like what happened in Tulsa in 1921 or on the Virginia coast in the late 1600s, we collide with others we are conditioned to see as enemies but with whom we share so much in common socially, economically and politically. We are put at each other’s throats by ruling elites who seek to divide and conquer us to enrich themselves. Things never taught in school become mistakes repeated.

Read More »

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