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John Nichols: Tommy Thompson had the right formula in 1994 campaign
Thirty years ago this fall, Tommy Thompson built one of the most remarkable electoral coalitions in Wisconsin history.
Bill Kaplan: Liz and Dick Cheney endorse Harris
Former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney put country over party.
Larry Tye: Dear Kamala: There’s a middle ground, and you can claim it
Show us you’re Bobby Kennedy’s kind of tough liberal — or perhaps tender conservative — which is precisely what we need to stitch back together this divided land.
Jessica McBride: Reagan movie review: Why the elite, snobby film critics are wrong
Was Ronald Reagan perfect? No. But he was the perfect man for the time. Was the Reagan movie perfect? No. But it’s the perfect movie for THIS time.
Gregory Humphrey: What happened to modern-day Republican Party?
Can you imagine the Republican titans of the 20th century coming back and hearing these outrageous comments?
Barry Burden: A big problem with Electoral College is often overlooked
Dumping the Electoral College would have a variety of consequences, but it would immediately remove opportunities for disrupting elections via battleground states.
William Osmulski: Tammy Baldwin’s stolen valor problem
She’s lied about protecting the American steel industry and union pensions, but now Baldwin’s lying about helping veterans and that really crosses the line.
Oliver Willis: Another GOP Senate candidate caught pushing a rags-to-riches lie
In 1987, a year after graduating from college, Hovde and his father, Donald Hovde, launched Hovde Financial. And the elder Hovde had connections at the highest level of American politics.
Dave Zweifel: Ron DeSantis employs Scott Walker playbook on car chargers
If Florida shuns the federal money, its taxpayers are essentially funding EV chargers in other states, like California and New York, just as Wisconsin taxpayers did when Walker rejected the train money.
Michelle Bryant: Must it always come back to slavery
Legacy of segregation and Jim Crow still impacts Black lives.
John Pelletier: Personal finance teachers need training for Wisconsin’s literacy efforts to succeed
We face the additional challenge of ensuring that states have confident, competent educators to teach this critical subject.
David Blaska: Madison’s police chief calls for reinstating school resource officers
Don’t get excited. It’s not going to happen.
WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ weigh in on Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the status of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race between challenger Eric Hovde and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Gregg Hoffmann: When the president comes, it’s still a big deal
In the political climate we find ourselves in as a nation, a visit by the president to a small town has other tones and implications than it might not have had some years ago.
Richard Moore: Forget Project 2025, what about Agenda 2030?
While the left freaks out about Project 2025 because of its conservative principles of limited government that’s held accountable to the people, no one’s talking about Agenda 2030, the left’s radical plan for consolidating global power, seizing private property, and extinguishing individual liberty.
WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ weigh in on Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the status of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race between challenger Eric Hovde and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 6
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss President Joe Biden’s visit to Westby, presidential campaign visits, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, political ad spending, controversy over student test score changes and more.