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When you fill out your ballot this fall, don’t stop after the governor’s race. Three proposed amendments to the Wisconsin Constitution are on the Nov. 3 ballot, and each one puts a firm limit on government power.
This constitutional amendment question will be on every ballot across the state, and its intentionally confusing language makes it seem like it’s anti-discrimination, but the devil is in the details.
Wisconsin amendment would bar unjust preferences, defeating agencies’ so-sue-me attitude
Find economic statistics that matter to you and see how they’re doing under the Republicans and Trump. Then please cast your vote.
I fear what will happen to our humanity after this. An irreversible wickedness, to borrow Dickens’ verbiage, will live inside us, waiting for the next opportunity to gawk at state-sanctioned death.
Terrorism is no abstract threat.
R.J. Johnson, longtime Republican consultant, condemns raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.
My 16-year-old son was home alone when armed agents came through our door.
Evidence mounts that ongoing AI use makes our brains lazy and over time will likely make us stupider.
Make your vote an extension of your love for our city and a confirmation of your faith in our neighbors who volunteer to work the polls.
We have a responsibility to fund the core functions of state government and provide the services Wisconsinites depend on. We also have a responsibility to make sure taxpayers receive value for every dollar we spend. Sometimes the best way to determine where we should go next is to start from zero.
A promise not to tax is not a “subsidy” at all when the $35B+ in investment in the state would have likely never happened in the first place, but for the existence of the exemption.
Rather than letting another election season divide us over who is responsible, Wisconsin can work toward a durable solution: give schools predictable, inflation-responsive revenue authority; fund that commitment with state resources; reduce pressure on local property taxpayers; and lessen communities’ dependence on recurring operating referenda.
His record on the environment is just one of the many reasons Tiffany is a dangerous candidate. If you like Donald Trump, his tariffs, his wars, his attacks on free elections, his nastiness and pettiness, Tom Tiffany’s definitely your man.
I struggle to understand why Republicans are fighting so hard to win the midterm elections when so many have already surrendered the very authority they were elected to exercise.
I care about the constitutional freedoms that protect us all. That means defending Matthew Arndt’s right to express opinions I despise.
Woke progressives have an anti-Semitic problem. Three years after the Palestinian terrorists butchered 1,200 noncombatants, including little babies, and took 251 hostages — many of whom were tortured and died in captivity — what is the reaction on the woke left?
As this election year nears its big day on Nov. 3, there are plenty of examples of rapid radicals on the left and right of the political spectrum. But this Rapid Radicals has to do with a faster wastewater treatment
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the 2026 Wisconsin race for governor with Nov. 3 Election Day less than four weeks away. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Property taxes are killing home ownership; imagine if Crowley gets elected.
When you fill out your ballot this fall, don’t stop after the governor’s race. Three proposed amendments to the Wisconsin Constitution are on the Nov. 3 ballot, and each one puts a firm limit on government power.
This constitutional amendment question will be on every ballot across the state, and its intentionally confusing language makes it seem like it’s anti-discrimination, but the devil is in the details.
Wisconsin amendment would bar unjust preferences, defeating agencies’ so-sue-me attitude
Find economic statistics that matter to you and see how they’re doing under the Republicans and Trump. Then please cast your vote.
I fear what will happen to our humanity after this. An irreversible wickedness, to borrow Dickens’ verbiage, will live inside us, waiting for the next opportunity to gawk at state-sanctioned death.
Terrorism is no abstract threat.
R.J. Johnson, longtime Republican consultant, condemns raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.
My 16-year-old son was home alone when armed agents came through our door.
Evidence mounts that ongoing AI use makes our brains lazy and over time will likely make us stupider.
Make your vote an extension of your love for our city and a confirmation of your faith in our neighbors who volunteer to work the polls.
We have a responsibility to fund the core functions of state government and provide the services Wisconsinites depend on. We also have a responsibility to make sure taxpayers receive value for every dollar we spend. Sometimes the best way to determine where we should go next is to start from zero.
A promise not to tax is not a “subsidy” at all when the $35B+ in investment in the state would have likely never happened in the first place, but for the existence of the exemption.
Rather than letting another election season divide us over who is responsible, Wisconsin can work toward a durable solution: give schools predictable, inflation-responsive revenue authority; fund that commitment with state resources; reduce pressure on local property taxpayers; and lessen communities’ dependence on recurring operating referenda.
His record on the environment is just one of the many reasons Tiffany is a dangerous candidate. If you like Donald Trump, his tariffs, his wars, his attacks on free elections, his nastiness and pettiness, Tom Tiffany’s definitely your man.
I struggle to understand why Republicans are fighting so hard to win the midterm elections when so many have already surrendered the very authority they were elected to exercise.
I care about the constitutional freedoms that protect us all. That means defending Matthew Arndt’s right to express opinions I despise.
Woke progressives have an anti-Semitic problem. Three years after the Palestinian terrorists butchered 1,200 noncombatants, including little babies, and took 251 hostages — many of whom were tortured and died in captivity — what is the reaction on the woke left?
As this election year nears its big day on Nov. 3, there are plenty of examples of rapid radicals on the left and right of the political spectrum. But this Rapid Radicals has to do with a faster wastewater treatment
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the 2026 Wisconsin race for governor with Nov. 3 Election Day less than four weeks away. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Property taxes are killing home ownership; imagine if Crowley gets elected.
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