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Dave Zweifel: Taxpayers pick up the tab to lure firms like Amazon and Foxconn
Taxpayers can’t afford to pump millions and billions into profitable private companies without harming their own economies.

Bruce Murphy: Did business leaders fail on Foxconn?
None raised any doubts about a deal that always seemed suspect.

James Wigderson: Wedding barns safe for now
Owners of agricultural event venues, commonly referred to as wedding barns, will be able to continue to operate without applying for liquor licenses, according to Gov. Tony Evers.

Jane McCurry: Evers calls for using $10M from Volkswagen settlement for electric vehicle charging infrastructure
This funding will go a long way to support a vast network of fast recharging stations across the entire state.

Owen Robinson: Conservatives, can we talk?
Now is not the time to go wobbly.

Dave Zweifel: Wisconsin governor’s race set record for big bucks
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the venerable nonprofit that keeps tabs on how big money is spent to influence Wisconsin politics and shares that information with the public, notes on the organization’s website that the 2018 governor’s race cost a record $93 million.

James Wigderson: Will Democratic National Convention be the sacking of Troy?
The Democrats are coming. Let ’em in. The most harm they will do is to themselves.

John Nichols: Let teens who march for the planet vote to save it
The fight to lower the voting age to 16 may seem like something of a new frontier in the long struggle to expand voting rights in the United States. But this is an idea based in common sense and honest observation.

Owen Robinson: Who wants to live in Evers’ Wisconsin?
Increased taxes, regulation would undo gains made under Walker.

Tony Kurtz: Partisan politics or lack of knowledge motivate governor’s border decision
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. In late February, Governor Evers signed Executive Order #13, withdrawing 112 Wisconsin National Guard personnel from the Southwest Border where they

Bill Kaplan: Better Wisconsin roads require higher gas tax
Time for Evers and legislators to sit down at the bargaining table, e.g., combining a gas tax hike with transportation-related fees.

Bill Osmulski: Fewer than half of new taxes and fees go to more road spending in Evers’ DOT budget
At the end of the day, Evers can only claim he is adding $294.1 million to local and state road improvements, while increasing taxes and fees by $600 million. His critics could add that without bonding, Evers would only be increasing total road spending by $69 million.

Dominique Paul Noth: Evers and GOP fighting for Wisconsin’s political soul
What may have been true for eight years under GOP’s departed governor Scott Walker is undergoing the crashing sounds of change.

John Nichols: Pocan tackles the cruelest abuse of gerrymandering
Congressman Mark Pocan accomplished something remarkable last week. Amid all the wrangling in Washington, he proposed to end an injustice and got the House to go along with him.

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the budget battle ahead
Now that Gov. Tony Evers’ budget has been released, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, chart its path through the legislative process and the degree of partisan wrangling before its approval. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

Paul Fanlund: Madison’s candidates for mayor, in their own words
The Cap Times editorial board interviewed the candidates separately for about an hour each after the primary.

Dave Zweifel: New Proxmire book will raise your spirits
If, like a lot of us, you’ve had your fill of today’s politics and are disgusted with the control big money has over so much of our government, run out and get a book that has just hit the shelves.

Jonathan Kasparek: Excerpt from “Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate”
The following is an excerpt from Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate, by Jonathan Kasparek, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. The book is available through libraries and book retailers statewide and online at www.wisconsinhistory.org/store. The book is also available as an e-book.

Mike Fischer: The minimum markup of budget bad news and budget good news
There is no need to protect small businesses by forcing Wisconsin consumers to pay higher prices than they would pay in a freely competitive market.


Dave Zweifel: Taxpayers pick up the tab to lure firms like Amazon and Foxconn
Taxpayers can’t afford to pump millions and billions into profitable private companies without harming their own economies.

Bruce Murphy: Did business leaders fail on Foxconn?
None raised any doubts about a deal that always seemed suspect.

James Wigderson: Wedding barns safe for now
Owners of agricultural event venues, commonly referred to as wedding barns, will be able to continue to operate without applying for liquor licenses, according to Gov. Tony Evers.

Jane McCurry: Evers calls for using $10M from Volkswagen settlement for electric vehicle charging infrastructure
This funding will go a long way to support a vast network of fast recharging stations across the entire state.

Owen Robinson: Conservatives, can we talk?
Now is not the time to go wobbly.

Dave Zweifel: Wisconsin governor’s race set record for big bucks
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the venerable nonprofit that keeps tabs on how big money is spent to influence Wisconsin politics and shares that information with the public, notes on the organization’s website that the 2018 governor’s race cost a record $93 million.

James Wigderson: Will Democratic National Convention be the sacking of Troy?
The Democrats are coming. Let ’em in. The most harm they will do is to themselves.

John Nichols: Let teens who march for the planet vote to save it
The fight to lower the voting age to 16 may seem like something of a new frontier in the long struggle to expand voting rights in the United States. But this is an idea based in common sense and honest observation.

Owen Robinson: Who wants to live in Evers’ Wisconsin?
Increased taxes, regulation would undo gains made under Walker.

Tony Kurtz: Partisan politics or lack of knowledge motivate governor’s border decision
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. In late February, Governor Evers signed Executive Order #13, withdrawing 112 Wisconsin National Guard personnel from the Southwest Border where they

Bill Kaplan: Better Wisconsin roads require higher gas tax
Time for Evers and legislators to sit down at the bargaining table, e.g., combining a gas tax hike with transportation-related fees.

Bill Osmulski: Fewer than half of new taxes and fees go to more road spending in Evers’ DOT budget
At the end of the day, Evers can only claim he is adding $294.1 million to local and state road improvements, while increasing taxes and fees by $600 million. His critics could add that without bonding, Evers would only be increasing total road spending by $69 million.

Dominique Paul Noth: Evers and GOP fighting for Wisconsin’s political soul
What may have been true for eight years under GOP’s departed governor Scott Walker is undergoing the crashing sounds of change.

John Nichols: Pocan tackles the cruelest abuse of gerrymandering
Congressman Mark Pocan accomplished something remarkable last week. Amid all the wrangling in Washington, he proposed to end an injustice and got the House to go along with him.

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the budget battle ahead
Now that Gov. Tony Evers’ budget has been released, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, chart its path through the legislative process and the degree of partisan wrangling before its approval. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

Paul Fanlund: Madison’s candidates for mayor, in their own words
The Cap Times editorial board interviewed the candidates separately for about an hour each after the primary.

Dave Zweifel: New Proxmire book will raise your spirits
If, like a lot of us, you’ve had your fill of today’s politics and are disgusted with the control big money has over so much of our government, run out and get a book that has just hit the shelves.

Jonathan Kasparek: Excerpt from “Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate”
The following is an excerpt from Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate, by Jonathan Kasparek, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. The book is available through libraries and book retailers statewide and online at www.wisconsinhistory.org/store. The book is also available as an e-book.

Mike Fischer: The minimum markup of budget bad news and budget good news
There is no need to protect small businesses by forcing Wisconsin consumers to pay higher prices than they would pay in a freely competitive market.