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David Blaska: Is the A-word a winning vote getter?
The people will decide, not the court.

Wendell J. Harris: Obesity’s inequitable impact on Black people exacerbates health disparities
Obesity is a serious, chronic disease that impacts Black people in Wisconsin and our country at higher rates than any other racial group; yet, people living with obesity have been denied access to the care they need to survive, widening disparities throughout our health care system.

Owen Robinson: Evers bestows Office of Environmental Justice on Wisconsin
In the face of a contracting economy, high gas prices, the worst inflation in 40 years, raging violent crime, and a collapse of government education, Gov. Tony Evers has ordered the Department of Administration to create an Office of Environmental Justice.

Steven Walters: A county-level look at recent primary votes
Which counties provide the most votes for parties in statewide primaries?

Matt Rothschild: Authoritarianism can happen here
Trump’s defeat merely interrupted anti-democracy movement, expert warns.

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Milwaukee’s bid to host the 2024 RNC
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Milwaukee as the potential host of the 2024 GOP National Convention. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

Paul Fanlund: GOP election strategy has nothing to do with educating kids
Republicans simply want to use education as a convenient container into which they can dump their familiar culture war grievances.

Dave Zweifel: The GOP’s new No. 1 issue: education
Scott Girard’s and Jack Kelly’s cover story in this week’s print edition of the Cap Times told the inside story of how Wisconsin Republicans, like those nationwide, are trying to make K-12 education the defining issue in this fall’s elections.

Chris Kapenga: Superintendent Underly, what are you teaching our teachers?
Kapenga in an open letter questions the Educational Equity Leadership Series offered to teachers.

Al Dickenson: Kooyenga’s comments on redistricting ignore key context, history
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. With the Wisconsin legislative districts still gerrymandered, there has been no shortage of discussion regarding incumbency and the redistricting process. One

Scott Walker: Abortion on demand doesn’t make it ‘safe’ or ‘rare’
Project Rachel provides support to those with post-abortive trauma.

Gregory Humphrey: Conservatives may get Roe reversal, but public is mighty angry at GOP
The folly and pure hubris of conservatives taking reckless actions with our democracy are now coming home to roost.

Dan O’Donnell: Correcting the worst media and Democrat disinformation about the Supreme Court’s abortion decision
With much of the media still hyperventilating over the likelihood that Roe v. Wade will be overturned once the Supreme Court publishes its leaked decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, it has been difficult to determine the true impact of the decision.

Tamarine Cornelius: Ending state income tax helps the 1%
Proposal would give the wealthy a tax cut 60 times higher than for middle income folks.

David Shorr: Local politics heats up in central Wisconsin
There’s nothing like an attempt by political opponents to flip control of the city council to concentrate the minds of local legislators. With local politics becoming more fractious all across the country, this was the peril that faced several other Stevens Point council members and me in the April 5 Wisconsin spring election.

Tom Still: Up the river with a paddle
Wisconsin River investors making waves.

Ruth Conniff: ‘We saw this day coming’
Midwives prepare to protect abortion access in Wisconsin.

Dan O’Donnell: The brilliance of the Dobbs decision
There is no right to an abortion in the Constitution, either in the text or implicit in any other rights that it confers.

Dave Cieslewicz: Safe, legal & rare
For the third time in six years Democrats and liberals are being given an opportunity to turn tragedy into progress. Will they blow it again?

Lena Taylor: Precedent v. History
Reproductive control has always been a thing.

David Blaska: Is the A-word a winning vote getter?
The people will decide, not the court.

Wendell J. Harris: Obesity’s inequitable impact on Black people exacerbates health disparities
Obesity is a serious, chronic disease that impacts Black people in Wisconsin and our country at higher rates than any other racial group; yet, people living with obesity have been denied access to the care they need to survive, widening disparities throughout our health care system.

Owen Robinson: Evers bestows Office of Environmental Justice on Wisconsin
In the face of a contracting economy, high gas prices, the worst inflation in 40 years, raging violent crime, and a collapse of government education, Gov. Tony Evers has ordered the Department of Administration to create an Office of Environmental Justice.

Steven Walters: A county-level look at recent primary votes
Which counties provide the most votes for parties in statewide primaries?

Matt Rothschild: Authoritarianism can happen here
Trump’s defeat merely interrupted anti-democracy movement, expert warns.

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Milwaukee’s bid to host the 2024 RNC
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Milwaukee as the potential host of the 2024 GOP National Convention. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

Paul Fanlund: GOP election strategy has nothing to do with educating kids
Republicans simply want to use education as a convenient container into which they can dump their familiar culture war grievances.

Dave Zweifel: The GOP’s new No. 1 issue: education
Scott Girard’s and Jack Kelly’s cover story in this week’s print edition of the Cap Times told the inside story of how Wisconsin Republicans, like those nationwide, are trying to make K-12 education the defining issue in this fall’s elections.

Chris Kapenga: Superintendent Underly, what are you teaching our teachers?
Kapenga in an open letter questions the Educational Equity Leadership Series offered to teachers.

Al Dickenson: Kooyenga’s comments on redistricting ignore key context, history
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. With the Wisconsin legislative districts still gerrymandered, there has been no shortage of discussion regarding incumbency and the redistricting process. One

Scott Walker: Abortion on demand doesn’t make it ‘safe’ or ‘rare’
Project Rachel provides support to those with post-abortive trauma.

Gregory Humphrey: Conservatives may get Roe reversal, but public is mighty angry at GOP
The folly and pure hubris of conservatives taking reckless actions with our democracy are now coming home to roost.

Dan O’Donnell: Correcting the worst media and Democrat disinformation about the Supreme Court’s abortion decision
With much of the media still hyperventilating over the likelihood that Roe v. Wade will be overturned once the Supreme Court publishes its leaked decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, it has been difficult to determine the true impact of the decision.

Tamarine Cornelius: Ending state income tax helps the 1%
Proposal would give the wealthy a tax cut 60 times higher than for middle income folks.

David Shorr: Local politics heats up in central Wisconsin
There’s nothing like an attempt by political opponents to flip control of the city council to concentrate the minds of local legislators. With local politics becoming more fractious all across the country, this was the peril that faced several other Stevens Point council members and me in the April 5 Wisconsin spring election.

Tom Still: Up the river with a paddle
Wisconsin River investors making waves.

Ruth Conniff: ‘We saw this day coming’
Midwives prepare to protect abortion access in Wisconsin.

Dan O’Donnell: The brilliance of the Dobbs decision
There is no right to an abortion in the Constitution, either in the text or implicit in any other rights that it confers.

Dave Cieslewicz: Safe, legal & rare
For the third time in six years Democrats and liberals are being given an opportunity to turn tragedy into progress. Will they blow it again?
