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Patsy Neal: Why I wouldn’t want to compete against transgender women
Changing sex identity after birth could be looked at as a form of enhancement, especially when done after puberty, since the average man has larger hands, is taller, has more strength and is faster than the average woman. This difference between men and women after puberty is one reason sports was separated into men’s and women’s teams, and why many sports make accommodations for these differences.

David Blaska: Only NOW our school board races are political?
Elections are so unfair when your side loses. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is indignant about how “partisan” school board races have become. Because conservatives won a whole bunch of them in the liberal newspaper’s backyard this April.

LaKeshia Myers: Time is money: Exploring the 21st Century poll tax levied by the Georgia GOP
The “Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021” imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local election’s boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water.

John Nichols: It just might be that Democrats know how to win Michigan
A pair of special-election landslides proves that the party is doing something right.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Wisconsin’s role as a presidential election battleground
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, explain the importance of Wisconsin to both presidential candidates in a tightly contested election year. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Dan Knodl: Evers vetoes cast shadow over end of tax season
Three times now just this legislative session, Governor Evers has vetoed tax relief packages sent to his desk, denying Wisconsinites their own hard-earned dollars despite a multi-billion dollar surplus, at a time when taxpayers across the state are feeling the strain of economic uncertainties.

Dianne Hesselbein and Jeff Smith: Senate Republicans are a roadblock to progress in Wisconsin, leaving Madison with unfinished businesses
Despite a number of lawmaking session days remaining, Republicans in the State Senate ended their work early, leaving the people’s business unfinished and several strong, bipartisan proposals without the necessary action to become law.

Paul Fanlund: ‘As goes Wisconsin, so goes the nation’ suggests Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein came to Madison this week and described Wisconsin as, in many ways, the center of politics in America.

Dan Shafer: Marquette Poll breakdown: Biden-Trump, Baldwin-Hovde and more in perpetual ‘toss-up’ Wisconsin
Republicans have to be happy with this poll. But there are encouraging signs for Democrats (Baldwin in particular).

Dave Zweifel: A chance to celebrate Robert ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette
Next week, from April 25-27, The Progressive Magazine will commemorate the 100th anniversary of La Follette’s bid for president with a series of programs and events you won’t want to miss.

Jim Schroeder: Don’t let overregulation impede broadband expansion
While the president and Congress fight to expand access to the open internet, the Federal Communications Commission is working to consolidate its power over the web, setting the rules for how the internet is used, by whom, for what and at what price.

Kristen Brey: Wisconsin health care is bleeding. Tony Evers’ vetoes only worsen trauma.
Wisconsin health care systems are closing hospitals and halting services exacerbating the access people in rural areas have to providers.

Mike Nichols: Minnesotans fleeing to western Wisconsin
Much of the influx into western Wisconsin is coming from Minnesota. The Badger State in 2021 gained a net of more than 3,000 people and their $243 million in gross income from The Gopher State alone.

Tom Still: Fusion energy is a nascent ‘hot spot’ for Wisconsin economy
There are 43 known fusion companies worldwide and 25 in the United States, with three in Wisconsin: Realta Fusion, Type One Energy and SHINE Technologies, each in different stages of development.

Scott Walker: Biden’s ‘don’t’ didn’t work: The dark side of Iran
Iran made a major mistake last weekend. Its unprecedented attack on Israel restored some of the global support received by Israel after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists.

Gregory Humphrey: Ukraine funding too important, Democrats must have Speaker Johnson’s back in vacate vote
Funding Ukraine is a morally correct position to take, as there must be repercussions to audacious and criminal moves by Russia, but they are also a wise investment on the part of the West given the stated desire of Putin to reclaim some of the land that once was a part of the USSR.

Bruce Murphy: Josh Kaul investigating fake electors?
Wisconsin attorney general’s office interviewed Kenneth Chesebro, part of ‘active’ probe.

Melissa Agard: My “Grass Routes” tour: What cannabis can do for Wisconsin
I’ve spent over a decade working on cannabis policy reform in Wisconsin, and I know that our state is ready to legalize. Together, we will make change from the ground up – starting at the grassroots – and work towards equitable, responsible legal marijuana usage in Wisconsin.

Ruth Conniff: Pollsters and pundits visit polarized Wisconsin. Now what?
Political polarization is bad. That’s one thing we can all agree on, say Democratic and Republican pollsters Celinda Lake and Ed Goeas.

Ty Babinski: Legislature gets an incomplete
Four more changes needed for online schools

Patsy Neal: Why I wouldn’t want to compete against transgender women
Changing sex identity after birth could be looked at as a form of enhancement, especially when done after puberty, since the average man has larger hands, is taller, has more strength and is faster than the average woman. This difference between men and women after puberty is one reason sports was separated into men’s and women’s teams, and why many sports make accommodations for these differences.

David Blaska: Only NOW our school board races are political?
Elections are so unfair when your side loses. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is indignant about how “partisan” school board races have become. Because conservatives won a whole bunch of them in the liberal newspaper’s backyard this April.

LaKeshia Myers: Time is money: Exploring the 21st Century poll tax levied by the Georgia GOP
The “Georgia Election Integrity Act of 2021” imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local election’s boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water.

John Nichols: It just might be that Democrats know how to win Michigan
A pair of special-election landslides proves that the party is doing something right.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Wisconsin’s role as a presidential election battleground
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, explain the importance of Wisconsin to both presidential candidates in a tightly contested election year. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Dan Knodl: Evers vetoes cast shadow over end of tax season
Three times now just this legislative session, Governor Evers has vetoed tax relief packages sent to his desk, denying Wisconsinites their own hard-earned dollars despite a multi-billion dollar surplus, at a time when taxpayers across the state are feeling the strain of economic uncertainties.

Dianne Hesselbein and Jeff Smith: Senate Republicans are a roadblock to progress in Wisconsin, leaving Madison with unfinished businesses
Despite a number of lawmaking session days remaining, Republicans in the State Senate ended their work early, leaving the people’s business unfinished and several strong, bipartisan proposals without the necessary action to become law.

Paul Fanlund: ‘As goes Wisconsin, so goes the nation’ suggests Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein came to Madison this week and described Wisconsin as, in many ways, the center of politics in America.

Dan Shafer: Marquette Poll breakdown: Biden-Trump, Baldwin-Hovde and more in perpetual ‘toss-up’ Wisconsin
Republicans have to be happy with this poll. But there are encouraging signs for Democrats (Baldwin in particular).

Dave Zweifel: A chance to celebrate Robert ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette
Next week, from April 25-27, The Progressive Magazine will commemorate the 100th anniversary of La Follette’s bid for president with a series of programs and events you won’t want to miss.

Jim Schroeder: Don’t let overregulation impede broadband expansion
While the president and Congress fight to expand access to the open internet, the Federal Communications Commission is working to consolidate its power over the web, setting the rules for how the internet is used, by whom, for what and at what price.

Kristen Brey: Wisconsin health care is bleeding. Tony Evers’ vetoes only worsen trauma.
Wisconsin health care systems are closing hospitals and halting services exacerbating the access people in rural areas have to providers.

Mike Nichols: Minnesotans fleeing to western Wisconsin
Much of the influx into western Wisconsin is coming from Minnesota. The Badger State in 2021 gained a net of more than 3,000 people and their $243 million in gross income from The Gopher State alone.

Tom Still: Fusion energy is a nascent ‘hot spot’ for Wisconsin economy
There are 43 known fusion companies worldwide and 25 in the United States, with three in Wisconsin: Realta Fusion, Type One Energy and SHINE Technologies, each in different stages of development.

Scott Walker: Biden’s ‘don’t’ didn’t work: The dark side of Iran
Iran made a major mistake last weekend. Its unprecedented attack on Israel restored some of the global support received by Israel after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists.

Gregory Humphrey: Ukraine funding too important, Democrats must have Speaker Johnson’s back in vacate vote
Funding Ukraine is a morally correct position to take, as there must be repercussions to audacious and criminal moves by Russia, but they are also a wise investment on the part of the West given the stated desire of Putin to reclaim some of the land that once was a part of the USSR.

Bruce Murphy: Josh Kaul investigating fake electors?
Wisconsin attorney general’s office interviewed Kenneth Chesebro, part of ‘active’ probe.

Melissa Agard: My “Grass Routes” tour: What cannabis can do for Wisconsin
I’ve spent over a decade working on cannabis policy reform in Wisconsin, and I know that our state is ready to legalize. Together, we will make change from the ground up – starting at the grassroots – and work towards equitable, responsible legal marijuana usage in Wisconsin.

Ruth Conniff: Pollsters and pundits visit polarized Wisconsin. Now what?
Political polarization is bad. That’s one thing we can all agree on, say Democratic and Republican pollsters Celinda Lake and Ed Goeas.
