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Geri Sanchez Aglipay: Investing in Wisconsin means growing resilient Black small businesses
For National Black Business Month, investing in Wisconsin’s growth means investing in Black small businesses with the SBA.

Linda Hansen: I followed the rules and still got breast cancer
New screening bill will help others catch it.

Dave Cieslewicz: Rich lessons in Rich Men North of Richmond
Rich Men North of Richmond has its rough spots, but it’s yet another lesson for Democrats and liberals about how blue collar voters think. You can be sure it’s another lesson that will go unlearned by the elites who run the party.

Ruth Conniff: Lawless MAGA Republicans are trying to overthrow democracy
One thing Gableman, Wait and Chief Justice Ziegler all have in common is that they supported Trump’s challenge to the 2020 election results in Wisconsin.

Jeremiah Mosteller: Criminal enforcement of marijuana laws uncommon in many Wisconsin counties
Incarceration for cannabis-only crimes becomes still rarer, prison almost nonexistent.

Bill Barth: Yet another reason to question process of appointing Godlewski secretary of state
Doubts won’t go away while officials fail to come clean.

Angela Lang: Hate at the debate should not be tolerated for next year’s RNC
Milwaukee is at the center of it all, hosting the Republican debate and the RNC.

Jesús Gregorio Smith and Maureen McCollum: ‘That is how you turn hate into love’
What’s one of the best ways to combat hate? For Jesús Gregorio Smith of Appleton, it’s to push back with love.

Dave Zweifel: Here’s how to put a newspaper out of business
A single defamation suit can become a cudgel against the media in a way the law never intended.

Melissa Agard: It’s past time to re-empower the unions that built the middle-class
The people of Wisconsin face a historic opportunity to correct course and remake our state as a beacon for workers everywhere. Legislative Democrats stand ready to fight for workers across Wisconsin and build back the progressive labor tradition in our great state.

Bill Berry: Today’s GOP suppression efforts echo era of farm workers uprising
Jesus Salas’ book, “Obreros Unidos: The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement,” published this year by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, ought to be required reading for anyone interested in Wisconsin history, except perhaps those who would choose to ignore or obfuscate the truth.

Gregg Hoffmann: GOP debates climate change on a record hot night
Donald Trump wasn’t the one missing from Wednesday’s Republican Debate in Milwaukee. What else was missing were substantive, intelligent discussions about green, environmental issues.

Owen Robinson: Milwaukee GOP debate shows depth, breadth of Republican Party
While it appears that the Republican Party is determined to lose another national election by putting Trump up as their nominee, it is still months until the first votes are taken.

Dave Cieslewicz: Court spirals down
The Wisconsin Supreme Court may be headed for its own constitutional crisis.

Bruce Murphy: Who will blink on Brewers subsidy?
Vos wants a local contribution and Milwaukee officials oppose this. The issue could get very ugly.

Terrance Wall: Inflation = government theft
Inflation is just another way that the government steals your money. The first way is taxation.

John Torinus: For Putin: Not winning is losing
The concept that Vladimir Putin is losing his Ukrainian war because he is not winning may seem contrived. But it’s reality.

Duey Stroebel: Republicans are not ‘defunding’ Child Care Counts
Republicans are not “defunding” Child Care Counts—– the program is simply expiring as the federal money is exhausted, as intended. At the state level, Wisconsin is investing more in child care than before COVID.

Dave Zweifel: UW shortfall of the GOP’s making
Republicans’ demand that the System spend its surplus to make up for cuts in state aid and tuition freezes have been major contributors to the crisis. Yet, the GOP’s leaders saw fit to cut yet another $32 million from the system because it supports diversity and equity programs.

David Blaska: Who is looking at the UW’s books?
Make college affordable again!

Geri Sanchez Aglipay: Investing in Wisconsin means growing resilient Black small businesses
For National Black Business Month, investing in Wisconsin’s growth means investing in Black small businesses with the SBA.

Linda Hansen: I followed the rules and still got breast cancer
New screening bill will help others catch it.

Dave Cieslewicz: Rich lessons in Rich Men North of Richmond
Rich Men North of Richmond has its rough spots, but it’s yet another lesson for Democrats and liberals about how blue collar voters think. You can be sure it’s another lesson that will go unlearned by the elites who run the party.

Ruth Conniff: Lawless MAGA Republicans are trying to overthrow democracy
One thing Gableman, Wait and Chief Justice Ziegler all have in common is that they supported Trump’s challenge to the 2020 election results in Wisconsin.

Jeremiah Mosteller: Criminal enforcement of marijuana laws uncommon in many Wisconsin counties
Incarceration for cannabis-only crimes becomes still rarer, prison almost nonexistent.

Bill Barth: Yet another reason to question process of appointing Godlewski secretary of state
Doubts won’t go away while officials fail to come clean.

Angela Lang: Hate at the debate should not be tolerated for next year’s RNC
Milwaukee is at the center of it all, hosting the Republican debate and the RNC.

Jesús Gregorio Smith and Maureen McCollum: ‘That is how you turn hate into love’
What’s one of the best ways to combat hate? For Jesús Gregorio Smith of Appleton, it’s to push back with love.

Dave Zweifel: Here’s how to put a newspaper out of business
A single defamation suit can become a cudgel against the media in a way the law never intended.

Melissa Agard: It’s past time to re-empower the unions that built the middle-class
The people of Wisconsin face a historic opportunity to correct course and remake our state as a beacon for workers everywhere. Legislative Democrats stand ready to fight for workers across Wisconsin and build back the progressive labor tradition in our great state.

Bill Berry: Today’s GOP suppression efforts echo era of farm workers uprising
Jesus Salas’ book, “Obreros Unidos: The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement,” published this year by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, ought to be required reading for anyone interested in Wisconsin history, except perhaps those who would choose to ignore or obfuscate the truth.

Gregg Hoffmann: GOP debates climate change on a record hot night
Donald Trump wasn’t the one missing from Wednesday’s Republican Debate in Milwaukee. What else was missing were substantive, intelligent discussions about green, environmental issues.

Owen Robinson: Milwaukee GOP debate shows depth, breadth of Republican Party
While it appears that the Republican Party is determined to lose another national election by putting Trump up as their nominee, it is still months until the first votes are taken.

Dave Cieslewicz: Court spirals down
The Wisconsin Supreme Court may be headed for its own constitutional crisis.

Bruce Murphy: Who will blink on Brewers subsidy?
Vos wants a local contribution and Milwaukee officials oppose this. The issue could get very ugly.

Terrance Wall: Inflation = government theft
Inflation is just another way that the government steals your money. The first way is taxation.

John Torinus: For Putin: Not winning is losing
The concept that Vladimir Putin is losing his Ukrainian war because he is not winning may seem contrived. But it’s reality.

Duey Stroebel: Republicans are not ‘defunding’ Child Care Counts
Republicans are not “defunding” Child Care Counts—– the program is simply expiring as the federal money is exhausted, as intended. At the state level, Wisconsin is investing more in child care than before COVID.

Dave Zweifel: UW shortfall of the GOP’s making
Republicans’ demand that the System spend its surplus to make up for cuts in state aid and tuition freezes have been major contributors to the crisis. Yet, the GOP’s leaders saw fit to cut yet another $32 million from the system because it supports diversity and equity programs.
