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Alex Lasry: It’s time to demilitarize the police
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act ends this practice and will finally start to demilitarize our police departments.

Dave Zweifel: Discriminated against for decades, Black farmers deserve relief
In 1920, African-Americans owned some 14% of the farms in the United States. Today, thanks to a century of racial discrimination, from land theft in the Jim Crow South to banks and governmental farm services refusing to consider them for loans or other financial assistance, that number has dropped to just 1.4%.

Adam Neylon: Bill banning local governments from taking private election funds about fairness, integrity
The bill is simple. Local governments cannot accept private money to administer elections. If funds are offered, they must go to the Wisconsin Elections Commission who will distribute the funds across the state on a per-capita basis.

Bruce Murphy: How Vos pushes the Big Lie
Claiming election irregularities, undermining election officials, hiring a GOP expert in smears.

Carolyn Stanford Taylor: Congratulations to Wisconsin’s Class of 2021
Wisconsin’s Class of 2021 have used their voices to push for positive changes in their communities. They are a group who has demonstrated a unique ability to adapt and have gained many lifelong skills along the way.

Dave Cieslewicz: The hard left is afraid of ideas
Demand that Mike Pence’s book not be published the latest of many such examples.

Dan O’Donnell: The Joint Finance Committee gets an A on school funding
Wisconsin’s public schools are as well-funded as they ever have been, and any suggestion to the contrary is simply dishonest.

Don Vruwink: State needs a better way to serve justice
Wisconsin cannot afford to continue the course its criminal justice system is on.

John Gurda: By shunning the shot, anti-vaccination advocates repeat an old mistake
Nearly 125 years after the smallpox wars in Milwaukee and elsewhere, we’re suffering through another epidemic of willful myopia.

M.D. Kittle: Texas Dems flee like Wisconsin libs did in Act 10
Texas is experiencing what Wisconsin did a decade ago, when Democrat senators fled the Badger State in a lame and cowardly attempt to stall a vote on then-Gov. Scott Walker’s bold public sector collective-bargaining reforms known as Act 10.

Steven Walters: Enhanced jobless benefits meant less stress for this worker
I thought it was time to hear from someone who has fought so hard to stay in Wisconsin’s middle class over almost two years that he doesn’t have time to follow the Capitol machinations of Republicans and Democrats.

John Nichols: The unfinished revolution of a Wisconsin vet
Memorial Day for me has always been associated with the memory of Phineas Cadwell, one of the 40 Revolutionary War veterans buried in the cemeteries of small towns across Wisconsin.

Bill Kaplan: Speaker Vos is disingenuous in opposing Medicaid expansion
Vos falsely disparages Medicaid expansion as “massive welfare expansion.”

James Rowen: GOP is the pain-and-suffering party
Led by Robin Vos, Republicans repeatedly back policies causing poverty, sickness and death.

Howard Marklein: Budget bulletin: K-12, higher education
Education has always been – and continues to be – the single largest investment in our state budget. Year after year, we have invested in our kids, our teachers and our schools. This year is no different.

Reggie Jackson: A racial tragedy in Philadelphia: Part 1 – The Move 9 versus American jurisprudence
On May 13, 1985 one of the most brutal acts of police brutality in American history occurred and you’ve probably never heard of it. A police helicopter dropped a bomb onto the roof of the MOVE home during an armed standoff. The fire it started destroyed over 60 homes in West Philadelphia and killed six adults and five child members of MOVE.

Barbara Hummel: Congress needs to protect providers, not insurance companies
Policymakers in Washington must ensure that the recently passed No Surprises Act is implemented to protect access to lifesaving care, not insurance company profits.

M.D. Kittle: Discrimination complaint shows hypocrite Kaul’s lack of leadership
In December, Attorney General Josh Kaul signed off on the Wisconsin Department of Justices’ Equity and Inclusion Plan. The state’s liberal top cop just doesn’t seem to be living up to the same standards he’s set.

John Nichols: ‘Bipartisan’ is how Republicans say ‘sucker!’
The GOP counterproposal to Biden’s infrastructure plan is not a “bipartisan” gesture. It’s a scam to gut programs that care for the elderly and save the planet.

Lena Taylor: Policing reform bills
A chance to get it right on the front end.

Alex Lasry: It’s time to demilitarize the police
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act ends this practice and will finally start to demilitarize our police departments.

Dave Zweifel: Discriminated against for decades, Black farmers deserve relief
In 1920, African-Americans owned some 14% of the farms in the United States. Today, thanks to a century of racial discrimination, from land theft in the Jim Crow South to banks and governmental farm services refusing to consider them for loans or other financial assistance, that number has dropped to just 1.4%.

Adam Neylon: Bill banning local governments from taking private election funds about fairness, integrity
The bill is simple. Local governments cannot accept private money to administer elections. If funds are offered, they must go to the Wisconsin Elections Commission who will distribute the funds across the state on a per-capita basis.

Bruce Murphy: How Vos pushes the Big Lie
Claiming election irregularities, undermining election officials, hiring a GOP expert in smears.

Carolyn Stanford Taylor: Congratulations to Wisconsin’s Class of 2021
Wisconsin’s Class of 2021 have used their voices to push for positive changes in their communities. They are a group who has demonstrated a unique ability to adapt and have gained many lifelong skills along the way.

Dave Cieslewicz: The hard left is afraid of ideas
Demand that Mike Pence’s book not be published the latest of many such examples.

Dan O’Donnell: The Joint Finance Committee gets an A on school funding
Wisconsin’s public schools are as well-funded as they ever have been, and any suggestion to the contrary is simply dishonest.

Don Vruwink: State needs a better way to serve justice
Wisconsin cannot afford to continue the course its criminal justice system is on.

John Gurda: By shunning the shot, anti-vaccination advocates repeat an old mistake
Nearly 125 years after the smallpox wars in Milwaukee and elsewhere, we’re suffering through another epidemic of willful myopia.

M.D. Kittle: Texas Dems flee like Wisconsin libs did in Act 10
Texas is experiencing what Wisconsin did a decade ago, when Democrat senators fled the Badger State in a lame and cowardly attempt to stall a vote on then-Gov. Scott Walker’s bold public sector collective-bargaining reforms known as Act 10.

Steven Walters: Enhanced jobless benefits meant less stress for this worker
I thought it was time to hear from someone who has fought so hard to stay in Wisconsin’s middle class over almost two years that he doesn’t have time to follow the Capitol machinations of Republicans and Democrats.

John Nichols: The unfinished revolution of a Wisconsin vet
Memorial Day for me has always been associated with the memory of Phineas Cadwell, one of the 40 Revolutionary War veterans buried in the cemeteries of small towns across Wisconsin.

Bill Kaplan: Speaker Vos is disingenuous in opposing Medicaid expansion
Vos falsely disparages Medicaid expansion as “massive welfare expansion.”

James Rowen: GOP is the pain-and-suffering party
Led by Robin Vos, Republicans repeatedly back policies causing poverty, sickness and death.

Howard Marklein: Budget bulletin: K-12, higher education
Education has always been – and continues to be – the single largest investment in our state budget. Year after year, we have invested in our kids, our teachers and our schools. This year is no different.

Reggie Jackson: A racial tragedy in Philadelphia: Part 1 – The Move 9 versus American jurisprudence
On May 13, 1985 one of the most brutal acts of police brutality in American history occurred and you’ve probably never heard of it. A police helicopter dropped a bomb onto the roof of the MOVE home during an armed standoff. The fire it started destroyed over 60 homes in West Philadelphia and killed six adults and five child members of MOVE.

Barbara Hummel: Congress needs to protect providers, not insurance companies
Policymakers in Washington must ensure that the recently passed No Surprises Act is implemented to protect access to lifesaving care, not insurance company profits.

M.D. Kittle: Discrimination complaint shows hypocrite Kaul’s lack of leadership
In December, Attorney General Josh Kaul signed off on the Wisconsin Department of Justices’ Equity and Inclusion Plan. The state’s liberal top cop just doesn’t seem to be living up to the same standards he’s set.

John Nichols: ‘Bipartisan’ is how Republicans say ‘sucker!’
The GOP counterproposal to Biden’s infrastructure plan is not a “bipartisan” gesture. It’s a scam to gut programs that care for the elderly and save the planet.

