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M.D. Kittle: Milwaukee pushing forward on ‘free money’ universal income
A Milwaukee Common Council committee has moved a step closer to putting federal taxpayers on the hook for a Universal Basic Income pilot program.

Bill Berry: In Supreme Court water rulings, citizen voices were heard
The state’s highest court confirmed that the DNR does have the authority to protect the state’s natural resources.

Dave Cieslewicz: Vos misreads me
If the Speaker thinks that my criticisms of Gov. Tony Evers are going to help him defeat Evers in the November, 2022 general election, he’s wrong.

John Nichols: I’m fine with sending Jeff Bezos into space, as long as he pays his taxes here on Earth
Taxing the rich might curtail Bezos’s extraterrestrial activities. But it would make this corner of Planet Earth more habitable.

Paul Fanlund: Racist bogeymen and the ‘limits of liberalism’
Those who traffic in racial division gin up outrage and then feign hysteria over one after another bogeyman, most recently that teaching the history of race in America makes white children feel bad.

Bill Kaplan: Bipartisan infrastructure plan gains momentum
It is long past time to end the rural-suburban-urban divide in Wisconsin. The bipartisan infrastructure plan will help all of Wisconsin.

Steven Walters: Tax-cut-laden budget Evers signed divided Democrats
The Republican-crafted 2021-23 state budget—with a $2.3 billion income tax cut and $574 million to control property taxes that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers had to sign into law—split the 50 Democratic legislators in interesting ways.

Brian Jacobs: Evers kills bipartisan bill that would have helped small businesses
When he had the opportunity to rid our state of an outdated tax, a tax that red and blue states alike have repealed, he turned his back on us.

Patrick DePula: Johnson’s rhetoric threatens to prolong pandemic
It’s clear Johnson doesn’t care about our economic recovery, Wisconsin businesses or our workers. Everything he says and does runs contrary to what we need to do to fully bounce back from this pandemic.

WisOpinion.com: The Insiders debate Vos’ 2020 election investigation
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, debate Speaker Robin Vos’ 2020 election investigation.

Lee Snodgrass: Child tax credit a game changer for families, economy
The Child Tax Cut is a win for everyone.

Jill Underly: Legislature has second chance to support our schools and our kids
Through his budget vetoes, Gov. Evers gave the legislature an opportunity to make good on a common and popular promise legislators across the state made to support their local public schools. There are plenty of needs right now, and now we have a second chance to fund those needs.

M.D. Kittle: Evers’ tough lesson from malcontent educrats
No amount of money is ever enough for the insatiable trough feeders in the public education establishment.

Jeff Smith: With GOP in control, Evers signed the best budget possible
The budget was a missed opportunity in many ways and didn’t go nearly as far as we could with the surplus we have.

Matt Rothschild: Overcoming authoritarianism
Our democracy is in real trouble.

Tom Still: Wisconsin must step up to compete for federal R&D dollars
States around the country are gearing up for projects that could pair engineering schools and industry, but the dean of UW-Madison’s College of Engineering warned this week the state will be at a disadvantage unless there’s more investment in infrastructure needed to compete.

Dave Zweifel: Colby? They picked the wrong cheese
But being a native of Green County I’d be remiss if I didn’t view with alarm this proposal to give a cheese that isn’t even among the most popular in the state a place among the other state designees: the robin, the badger, the sugar maple tree, the white-tailed deer and the musky, for instance.

Bruce Murphy: Milwaukee’s urban forest fights climate change
Unlike in some cities Milwaukee’s urban forestry program is not in decline.

Dave Zweifel: Get these full-time political hacks out of town before they do more damage
These politicians are content to let problems fester, starve the public schools, and for goodness’ sake don’t help poor folks get health care coverage.


M.D. Kittle: Milwaukee pushing forward on ‘free money’ universal income
A Milwaukee Common Council committee has moved a step closer to putting federal taxpayers on the hook for a Universal Basic Income pilot program.

Bill Berry: In Supreme Court water rulings, citizen voices were heard
The state’s highest court confirmed that the DNR does have the authority to protect the state’s natural resources.

Dave Cieslewicz: Vos misreads me
If the Speaker thinks that my criticisms of Gov. Tony Evers are going to help him defeat Evers in the November, 2022 general election, he’s wrong.

John Nichols: I’m fine with sending Jeff Bezos into space, as long as he pays his taxes here on Earth
Taxing the rich might curtail Bezos’s extraterrestrial activities. But it would make this corner of Planet Earth more habitable.

Paul Fanlund: Racist bogeymen and the ‘limits of liberalism’
Those who traffic in racial division gin up outrage and then feign hysteria over one after another bogeyman, most recently that teaching the history of race in America makes white children feel bad.

Bill Kaplan: Bipartisan infrastructure plan gains momentum
It is long past time to end the rural-suburban-urban divide in Wisconsin. The bipartisan infrastructure plan will help all of Wisconsin.

Steven Walters: Tax-cut-laden budget Evers signed divided Democrats
The Republican-crafted 2021-23 state budget—with a $2.3 billion income tax cut and $574 million to control property taxes that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers had to sign into law—split the 50 Democratic legislators in interesting ways.

Brian Jacobs: Evers kills bipartisan bill that would have helped small businesses
When he had the opportunity to rid our state of an outdated tax, a tax that red and blue states alike have repealed, he turned his back on us.

Patrick DePula: Johnson’s rhetoric threatens to prolong pandemic
It’s clear Johnson doesn’t care about our economic recovery, Wisconsin businesses or our workers. Everything he says and does runs contrary to what we need to do to fully bounce back from this pandemic.

WisOpinion.com: The Insiders debate Vos’ 2020 election investigation
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, debate Speaker Robin Vos’ 2020 election investigation.

Lee Snodgrass: Child tax credit a game changer for families, economy
The Child Tax Cut is a win for everyone.

Jill Underly: Legislature has second chance to support our schools and our kids
Through his budget vetoes, Gov. Evers gave the legislature an opportunity to make good on a common and popular promise legislators across the state made to support their local public schools. There are plenty of needs right now, and now we have a second chance to fund those needs.

M.D. Kittle: Evers’ tough lesson from malcontent educrats
No amount of money is ever enough for the insatiable trough feeders in the public education establishment.

Jeff Smith: With GOP in control, Evers signed the best budget possible
The budget was a missed opportunity in many ways and didn’t go nearly as far as we could with the surplus we have.

Matt Rothschild: Overcoming authoritarianism
Our democracy is in real trouble.

Tom Still: Wisconsin must step up to compete for federal R&D dollars
States around the country are gearing up for projects that could pair engineering schools and industry, but the dean of UW-Madison’s College of Engineering warned this week the state will be at a disadvantage unless there’s more investment in infrastructure needed to compete.

Dave Zweifel: Colby? They picked the wrong cheese
But being a native of Green County I’d be remiss if I didn’t view with alarm this proposal to give a cheese that isn’t even among the most popular in the state a place among the other state designees: the robin, the badger, the sugar maple tree, the white-tailed deer and the musky, for instance.

Bruce Murphy: Milwaukee’s urban forest fights climate change
Unlike in some cities Milwaukee’s urban forestry program is not in decline.

Dave Zweifel: Get these full-time political hacks out of town before they do more damage
These politicians are content to let problems fester, starve the public schools, and for goodness’ sake don’t help poor folks get health care coverage.
