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WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider the impact of Trump’s policies on Wisconsin’s economy
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the impact of President Donald Trump’s policies on the Wisconsin economy. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Patrick McIlheran: Federal government inaction leaves uranium alongside Lake Michigan
There are free-market solutions to storing or using spent nuclear fuel.

Dave Cieslewicz: What you missed at the Supreme Court debate
It was a fight between two attack dogs and I thought Crawford came out a little bit on top. The only question is if either candidate provided a sound bite for an attack ad.

Scott Walker: Look to Wisconsin to see the left’s weaponization of the courts
Judge Susan ‘Catch-and-Release Crawford’s agenda is bad for America.

Jay Heck: Elon Musk invades Wisconsin
Fresh from spending nearly $300 million to influence the 2024 elections, the richest person in the world has set his sights squarely on Wisconsin.

Richard Moore: The State Bar of Wisconsin
An octopus’s garden of left-wing ideology: Ending mandatory Bar associations and defenestrating the national ABA is one more necessary step to restoring truly free speech in our state and society as a whole.

Amy Hemmer: ‘Family’ matters
Governor Tony Evers recent verbiage controversy has been ridiculed and joked about by many. However, there is a nefarious aspect to Evers “creative” wordsmithing in the recent budget bill before the state legislature.

Bruce Thompson: Why is Trump targeting veterans?
Trump/Musk cuts hurt a popular government program and many workers who back MAGA.

Gregory Humphrey: Standing with Mahmoud Khalil
This vulgar display of authoritarian over-reach by the Trump Administration is not more than we predicted in general terms last fall, but still is most galling and preposterous to see in operation.

Dave Zweifel: New U.S. policy: Our land mines are your problem
Not only have the geniuses paused most foreign aid, cuttig off food and medical help for starving kids in poverty-stricken areas around the world, they’ve also stopped U.S. help to clear land mines that continue to kill and maim innocent people in former war zones.

Dave Cieslewicz: Wisconsin Supreme Court race is about more than abortion
Democrats are trying to make the Supreme Court race about abortion. That makes sense from a political standpoint, but it may actually be a false issue.

Dan O’Donnell: The year without a budget?
As a trio of cases either before or likely to reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court could result in dramatically expanded gubernatorial veto power, the Legislature is being urged to consider abandoning the budget-writing process and simply allow the current budget to roll over to the new biennium on July 1.

Mike Hooper: Wisconsin is having renewable energy transformation. Natural gas plays vital role.
We Energies in the midst of an energy transformation focused on reliability, affordability and economic growth.

Bill Lueders: Five freedom of information heroes, and one dud
The Opee Awards, now in their 19th consecutive year, recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government as well as highlight some threats to it. They are being announced in advance of national Sunshine Week, March 16-22.

Craig Peterson: I’m the father of son with Down syndrome. Using the ‘R’ word is never acceptable.
I thought as a culture we had banished the R-word. Then came Elon Musk and the followers of Donald Trump.

Judith Davidoff: Testing norms, teaching civics
The president of the United States is aggressively testing the limits of his executive power and other political norms. How to teach civics in this moment?

Karla Locher: Privatized mental healthcare won’t yield the right leader for Dane County Human Services
The county’s next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.

Mike McCabe: What brought down an empire
Mahatma Gandhi employed a symbol of defiance to help bring an empire to its knees and free his people.

Steve Kornacki: The voter trends shaping the first big battleground state race of 2025
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1 will offer an early test of the political environment after November’s presidential election.

Mark Belling: If Crawford wins Supreme Court, Wisconsin is California
If the left gets the state Supreme Court (it has had it for a year) for the next several years, it will turn Wisconsin into a California hellhole of radicalism.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider the impact of Trump’s policies on Wisconsin’s economy
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the impact of President Donald Trump’s policies on the Wisconsin economy. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for March 14
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” CBS 58 Capitol Reporter Emilee Fannon and Wisconsin Watch Statehouse Reporter Jack Kelly discuss Wednesday’s state Supreme Court debate, Madison’s clerk being placed on leave amid an investigation into uncounted absentee ballots, this week’s Assembly floor session, Eau Claire Dem Rebecca Cooke launching another bid to take on Republican Derrick Van Orden in the 3rd CD and more.