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Paul Fanlund: Clues from Wisconsin on how to beat Donald Trump
While most of us are tempted to wail on and on about the despicable personal character of Trump, leaders like Evers and Baldwin forgo the politics of bellicosity and focus on ideas to help ordinary people.

Bill Kaplan: Trump’s theatrics and Evers’ substance
Trump’s State of the Union address was the opposite of Wisconsin Democratic Governor Tony Evers’s State of the State address in humanity, tone and substance.

John Nichols: Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes just trumped Trump
What made the remarks by Barnes responding to Trump’s State of the Union address so powerful was his reminder that Trump’s politics are being upended by citizen action.

Michael Jahr: Road tolls are best way to fund highways
Analysis from the Badger Institute over the years confirms that tolling on interstate highways is a workable approach for rebuilding and widening the state’s aging Interstate system.

James Wigderson: Former journalist and WEDC spokesman Mark Maley passed away from cancer
As you can see from the numerous posts about Mark on Facebook in recent days, he was well-liked by nearly everyone and had good reasons to be liked.

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Walker’s political future
This week on “The Insiders,” Chvala and Jensen discuss whether former Gov. Scott Walker is the future of the state GOP. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

Lucas Vebber and Brian McGrath: Wisconsin’s new campaign contributions bill would benefit the legislators who proposed it
What the new law proposed by Sargent and Larson would actually do is limit freedom of speech in a way that benefits them.

Bruce Murphy: Foxconn project in ‘chaos’
Foxconn workers, insiders say Racine project is failing in Bloomberg story.

James Rowen: Even if Foxconn disappears, Vos the Sprawlville King is a winner
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos managed in a state without two spare potholes-filling nickels to rub together to steer to and through his district a quarter of a billion federal and state road-and-interchange widening dollars that will trigger sprawl beyond bulldozed Mount Pleasant farms even if Foxconn never diverts a gallon of Lake Michigan water to produce a single big screen LCD TV.

Bob Chernow: Short-term political goals made suckers out of taxpayers
My guess is that none of the political decision-makers negotiating the Foxconn deal had the business experience to dig deeply. If so, they plainly did not use their common sense.
Mike McCabe: Wisconsin should try a small-scale experiment with universal income
There’s a way to end old welfare programs that discourage gainful employment and replace them with a new policy that rewards work, without saying “so long” to compassion.

Bruce Thompson: Texas lawsuit threatens Republicans
Vos and Fitzgerald support lawsuit overturning Obamacare, but voters don’t.

Dan O’Donnell: State of disunion
Resistance is the only Democrat agenda. Bipartisanship is a laughable concept. Compromise is out of the question. Democrats want just one thing: Trump’s defeat.

Dave Cieslewicz: The Foxconn saga continues
If in the end Foxconn does pull the plug altogether, far from accepting “blame,” Evers should take the credit.

Jeff Simpson: 2019 WisDems party chair race
It is time for new ideas, new people, someone who lives and breathes progressive principles.

Dave Zweifel: Poll confirms that the people are on Evers’ side
Last month’s Marquette University statewide poll didn’t have much good news for the Republicans who continue to control Wisconsin’s two legislative houses.

M.D. Kittle and Chris Rochester: Transportation ‘tax force’ likes 5.5-cent gas tax hike, return of indexing
Fears by legislative fiscal hawks that the Transportation Stakeholder Task Force would be nothing more than a “tax force” seemingly have come to pass.


Chris Liebenthal: The Foxconn con job – An epic Republican fiasco
Foxconn stops construction after receiving vast amounts of corporate welfare, Republicans try to cover up their failure.


Paul Fanlund: Clues from Wisconsin on how to beat Donald Trump
While most of us are tempted to wail on and on about the despicable personal character of Trump, leaders like Evers and Baldwin forgo the politics of bellicosity and focus on ideas to help ordinary people.

Bill Kaplan: Trump’s theatrics and Evers’ substance
Trump’s State of the Union address was the opposite of Wisconsin Democratic Governor Tony Evers’s State of the State address in humanity, tone and substance.

John Nichols: Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes just trumped Trump
What made the remarks by Barnes responding to Trump’s State of the Union address so powerful was his reminder that Trump’s politics are being upended by citizen action.

Michael Jahr: Road tolls are best way to fund highways
Analysis from the Badger Institute over the years confirms that tolling on interstate highways is a workable approach for rebuilding and widening the state’s aging Interstate system.

James Wigderson: Former journalist and WEDC spokesman Mark Maley passed away from cancer
As you can see from the numerous posts about Mark on Facebook in recent days, he was well-liked by nearly everyone and had good reasons to be liked.

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Walker’s political future
This week on “The Insiders,” Chvala and Jensen discuss whether former Gov. Scott Walker is the future of the state GOP. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

Lucas Vebber and Brian McGrath: Wisconsin’s new campaign contributions bill would benefit the legislators who proposed it
What the new law proposed by Sargent and Larson would actually do is limit freedom of speech in a way that benefits them.

Bruce Murphy: Foxconn project in ‘chaos’
Foxconn workers, insiders say Racine project is failing in Bloomberg story.

James Rowen: Even if Foxconn disappears, Vos the Sprawlville King is a winner
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos managed in a state without two spare potholes-filling nickels to rub together to steer to and through his district a quarter of a billion federal and state road-and-interchange widening dollars that will trigger sprawl beyond bulldozed Mount Pleasant farms even if Foxconn never diverts a gallon of Lake Michigan water to produce a single big screen LCD TV.

Bob Chernow: Short-term political goals made suckers out of taxpayers
My guess is that none of the political decision-makers negotiating the Foxconn deal had the business experience to dig deeply. If so, they plainly did not use their common sense.
Mike McCabe: Wisconsin should try a small-scale experiment with universal income
There’s a way to end old welfare programs that discourage gainful employment and replace them with a new policy that rewards work, without saying “so long” to compassion.

Bruce Thompson: Texas lawsuit threatens Republicans
Vos and Fitzgerald support lawsuit overturning Obamacare, but voters don’t.

Dan O’Donnell: State of disunion
Resistance is the only Democrat agenda. Bipartisanship is a laughable concept. Compromise is out of the question. Democrats want just one thing: Trump’s defeat.

Dave Cieslewicz: The Foxconn saga continues
If in the end Foxconn does pull the plug altogether, far from accepting “blame,” Evers should take the credit.

Jeff Simpson: 2019 WisDems party chair race
It is time for new ideas, new people, someone who lives and breathes progressive principles.

Dave Zweifel: Poll confirms that the people are on Evers’ side
Last month’s Marquette University statewide poll didn’t have much good news for the Republicans who continue to control Wisconsin’s two legislative houses.

M.D. Kittle and Chris Rochester: Transportation ‘tax force’ likes 5.5-cent gas tax hike, return of indexing
Fears by legislative fiscal hawks that the Transportation Stakeholder Task Force would be nothing more than a “tax force” seemingly have come to pass.


Chris Liebenthal: The Foxconn con job – An epic Republican fiasco
Foxconn stops construction after receiving vast amounts of corporate welfare, Republicans try to cover up their failure.