Wisconsin’s April election is shaping up to be one of the most important spring elections in decades.

The decision to have an abortion should never be made by politicians; it should be up to the person seeking the abortion.

The speech from Wisconsin’s governor prioritized issues like mental health, education, water contamination, workforce development, local government and child care. Not exactly a “hot button” speech.

The governor and special interests want to shower local governments around the state with buckets of money that they can spend any way they want to, specifically by giving 20 percent of the state’s sales tax revenue to local governments as shared revenue.

When is it wrong, or at least of little usefulness, to ask the people their opinions on public issues? When it’s all about partisan cynicism and hypocrisy, ladled with a generous dollop of raw selfishness.

Putin needs reality check.

In his fifth State of the State address Tuesday evening, Gov. Tony Evers began laying out how he plans to use Wisconsin’s $6.6 billion surplus, pitching a spending bender of big government initiatives already with a price tag to date of around $1.3 billion.

The word? Crime.

Both candidates for state Supreme Court got legal training from mediocre Bible-oriented school.

Democrats say boosting the April 4 turnout is why Republican legislators put a constitutional change and a non-binding advisory referendum before voters.

Suddenly, the state of Illinois has become one of our Republican legislators’ favorite places. Illinois, you see, has a “flat” income tax.

Hesselbein has emerged as an outspoken champion of working Wisconsinites — and the truth.

Democratic voters in Milwaukee are turning away from the feel-good do-nothing rhetoric of progressive elected officials and that scares the Democratic Party, and rightly so.

We have witnessed 39 times this far what more guns, easily bought with few limitations, has brought upon our country.

I’m hardly the first to observe that if wealth and hard work truly went hand in hand, every African woman would be a millionaire.

In his recent column in this newspaper, Mark Belling says Justice Kelly “seem(s) mostly motivated to avenge an unfair defeat” and is “likely to lose again.” Mr. Belling is wrong on both counts.

I’ve been talking with politically knowledgeable folks around the state about this race. Their unanimous opinion is that Protasiewicz is far and away the strongest progressive candidate.

Judicial appointments and elections do, too.

Medicare Advantage is part of the solution.