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Mark Lisheron: Microsoft underpromising on what will be massive development
Groundwork for Foxconn deal was essential.

Richard Moore: And the censors come for … me … and you
Today’s censorship war is a cat-and-mouse game like the one CBS engaged in with the Smothers Brothers all those years ago—free speech advocates figuring out how they can evade the network censors, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, until of course they are fired. In today’s America, it’s the constitution that is in danger of being fired.

Dave Cieslewicz: Embrace the crisis
City of Madison officials should use the $22 million budget deficit to examine efficiencies

Robert Popovian: Health care profiteers skimming funds meant for poor
Health care systems have found a way to generate bigger profits by skimming dollars from a drug discount program designed to help indigent or uninsured patients.

Dave Zweifel: Proposed Sauk County nursing home sale raises concerns
The Sauk County Board is considering selling its Medicare rated five-star county nursing home to a nonprofit that it curiously will not name.

Bill Barth: Mutual challenges, and mutual solutions
Explore regional efficiencies in providing emergency services.

Christine Durrance: Wisconsin’s opioid crisis complicates an already troubled health care system
54% of respondents in UW-Madison survey report health care as quite or an extremely big problem for Wisconsin; 69% feel this way about health care being a problem for the country.

Gregory Humphrey: Tim Walz: Midwestern nice is tonic for rancid politics
We have never had to place basic goodness on the must-have list of characteristics when choosing our national candidates, but since 2016 this has been a requirement.

Jeffrey C. Bauer: Take a breather on growth, Madison, and get a plan
Madison will become a big city, but not a very good one, if its leaders do not rethink their approaches to growth.

Evan Dannells: A proposed constitutional amendment could block the aid that helped save my business
If Questions 1 and 2 pass it would upend our state’s constitution and tie the hands of either Evers or any future governor as they respond in times of emergency. When the next crisis occurs, Wisconsin’s leaders will keep the dreams of small business owners like mine alive through swift, executive action for the good of our state.

Terrence R. Wall: The fed has been wrong on every single move
This Fed, under Powell’s leadership, has virtually been wrong on every single Fed move; always too late to loosen, too late to tighten, and whipsawing the economy up and down at their own whim.

Susana Martinez: Charting a path to combat the China challenge
The work undertaken by the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party stands as a testament to progress and consensus that can be built in Washington around the very real threat we face from China.

Lucy Ripp: Wisconsin state Supreme Court progressive majority one year later
In just one year, the new progressive majority has been doing exactly what voters across the Badger State elected them to do: hear cases where our constitutional rights and freedoms are at stake and ensure those rights and freedoms are protected.

Dave Zweifel: Amendments another example of why people dislike Legislature
Although the Republican leaders were perfectly fine with former Gov. Scott Walker dispensing federal funds, they didn’t like Tony Evers having that same power, especially when federal funds directed at COVID relief, and later, the sweeping infrastructure act, significantly increased Wisconsin’s share of one-time federal aid.

Spencer Black: Don’t fall for Republican tricks; vote ‘no’ on amendments
Republicans in the gerrymandered Legislature are attempting a devious power play.

Patrick McIlheran: Government heat pump subsidies in Wisconsin will lead to higher costs for homeowners
Taking the rebate could cost you dearly.

Tehassi Hill: Federal aid helped cultivate Native food practices that have sustained us for generations
The concept of Food Sovereignty for Native Communities means the right to choose, cultivate and preserve food practices.

Mark Belling: How to rig an election
The biggest threat is a malady that plagues many local communities around the state. It’s called: Lazyclerkitis.

John Torinus: Trump economy claims: mostly delusion, B.S.
Even after subtracting 2020, the last year of the Trump presidency that was devastated by the onset of COVID-19, the economic performance for GNP growth during his first three years in office from 2017 to 2019 were below that of President Biden’s tenure and far below that of several other presidents like Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.

Amy Hemmer: Thank you, Kamala
Tim Walz gives Trump a better chance to win.

Mark Lisheron: Microsoft underpromising on what will be massive development
Groundwork for Foxconn deal was essential.

Richard Moore: And the censors come for … me … and you
Today’s censorship war is a cat-and-mouse game like the one CBS engaged in with the Smothers Brothers all those years ago—free speech advocates figuring out how they can evade the network censors, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, until of course they are fired. In today’s America, it’s the constitution that is in danger of being fired.

Dave Cieslewicz: Embrace the crisis
City of Madison officials should use the $22 million budget deficit to examine efficiencies

Robert Popovian: Health care profiteers skimming funds meant for poor
Health care systems have found a way to generate bigger profits by skimming dollars from a drug discount program designed to help indigent or uninsured patients.

Dave Zweifel: Proposed Sauk County nursing home sale raises concerns
The Sauk County Board is considering selling its Medicare rated five-star county nursing home to a nonprofit that it curiously will not name.

Bill Barth: Mutual challenges, and mutual solutions
Explore regional efficiencies in providing emergency services.

Christine Durrance: Wisconsin’s opioid crisis complicates an already troubled health care system
54% of respondents in UW-Madison survey report health care as quite or an extremely big problem for Wisconsin; 69% feel this way about health care being a problem for the country.

Gregory Humphrey: Tim Walz: Midwestern nice is tonic for rancid politics
We have never had to place basic goodness on the must-have list of characteristics when choosing our national candidates, but since 2016 this has been a requirement.

Jeffrey C. Bauer: Take a breather on growth, Madison, and get a plan
Madison will become a big city, but not a very good one, if its leaders do not rethink their approaches to growth.

Evan Dannells: A proposed constitutional amendment could block the aid that helped save my business
If Questions 1 and 2 pass it would upend our state’s constitution and tie the hands of either Evers or any future governor as they respond in times of emergency. When the next crisis occurs, Wisconsin’s leaders will keep the dreams of small business owners like mine alive through swift, executive action for the good of our state.

Terrence R. Wall: The fed has been wrong on every single move
This Fed, under Powell’s leadership, has virtually been wrong on every single Fed move; always too late to loosen, too late to tighten, and whipsawing the economy up and down at their own whim.

Susana Martinez: Charting a path to combat the China challenge
The work undertaken by the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party stands as a testament to progress and consensus that can be built in Washington around the very real threat we face from China.

Lucy Ripp: Wisconsin state Supreme Court progressive majority one year later
In just one year, the new progressive majority has been doing exactly what voters across the Badger State elected them to do: hear cases where our constitutional rights and freedoms are at stake and ensure those rights and freedoms are protected.

Dave Zweifel: Amendments another example of why people dislike Legislature
Although the Republican leaders were perfectly fine with former Gov. Scott Walker dispensing federal funds, they didn’t like Tony Evers having that same power, especially when federal funds directed at COVID relief, and later, the sweeping infrastructure act, significantly increased Wisconsin’s share of one-time federal aid.

Spencer Black: Don’t fall for Republican tricks; vote ‘no’ on amendments
Republicans in the gerrymandered Legislature are attempting a devious power play.

Patrick McIlheran: Government heat pump subsidies in Wisconsin will lead to higher costs for homeowners
Taking the rebate could cost you dearly.

Tehassi Hill: Federal aid helped cultivate Native food practices that have sustained us for generations
The concept of Food Sovereignty for Native Communities means the right to choose, cultivate and preserve food practices.

Mark Belling: How to rig an election
The biggest threat is a malady that plagues many local communities around the state. It’s called: Lazyclerkitis.

John Torinus: Trump economy claims: mostly delusion, B.S.
Even after subtracting 2020, the last year of the Trump presidency that was devastated by the onset of COVID-19, the economic performance for GNP growth during his first three years in office from 2017 to 2019 were below that of President Biden’s tenure and far below that of several other presidents like Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
