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Jodi Habush Sinykin: The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program: A bipartisan promise to Wisconsin
Continuing this program is vital to ensure that the state is able to preserve and properly maintain these special places in our community and across the state.

Michael Lucas: The real owners of ATC
Like a zombie rising from the grave or Dracula’s predictable return from hell, Right of First Refusal simply will not die. And why would it? ATC may be owned by “state-regulated” monopolies, but when has a monopoly ever been interested in improving the lives of its customers?

James E. Causey: MPS is on the brink of collapse. New board leader shouldn’t be chosen in secrecy.
One of the best ways the public can stay engaged with MPS is board meetings, which are often poorly attended unless significant events are anticipated. An important meeting lies ahead. Here’s why.

Dave Cieslewicz: Schools eclipse a State Street mall
The state of our K-12 education demands attention.

Dave Zweifel: Other schools do baseball. Why can’t UW-Madison?
Much to the chagrin of area baseball backers, the Badgers dropped the sport back in 1991.

Jeremiah Mosteller: Federal prosecutors in Madison have stopped prosecuting cannabis offenses
Data from the United States Sentencing Commission shows that Wisconsin’s two federal court districts treat cannabis differently.

Bill Kaplan: What’s coming next, speak up
Senate Republicans are pretending that extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts will cost nothing. Sprinkling fairy dust doesn’t change a lie.

Michelle Bryant: Unreciprocated solidarity: Black and brown communities
Many African Americans find themselves grappling with a familiar frustration: being called upon to stand in solidarity with others, while often feeling abandoned when it is our turn to receive reciprocal support.

Noria Doyle: Why the unchecked power and tactics of ICE under Trump have earned comparisons to secret police
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not a secret police force, not yet. But recent actions taken by ICE under Donald Trump’s regime raise urgent and unavoidable parallels.

John Nichols: The pope refused to look away from Palestine
Amid so much pain and so much crude political maneuvering by U.S. and Israeli leaders, the pontiff focused on the humanity of Palestinians.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s docket
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take a look at the docket for the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s 2024-25 session, which ends in June. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Jennifer Mnookin: Revoking student visas at UW-Madison is arbitrary, unjust
International students bring ideas, energy and determination.


Mike Nichols: Derail the Hop permanently
‘Free’ federal money put Milwaukee on the hook for ongoing expenses; time to say ‘enough.’

Paul Fanlund: If Donald Trump’s voters suffer too, I can live with it
I will admit it. I enjoy the shock I hear in town hall meetings from many voters in Trump country.

Dave Zweifel: White supremacist president nixes decades of racial progress
Here we are today, backsliding on what the John Lewises of the world have given us through their years of pain and suffering. And almost all of it by executive orders signed by a bumbling white supremacist president.

Jeffrey Leverich: Susan Crawford win helped propel national movement
With Crawford’s victory, Wisconsin boosted a national movement for change just a few short months after the last presidential election, increasing hope for our nation.

Mark Belling: Milwaukee iron became Euro woke
A Milwaukee-hating CEO destroys Harley

Bill Barth: Only hope is for lessons learned
Vos eventually found his spine and fired Gableman. Too little. Too late. And definitely not enough to absolve him of blame in this mess.

Richard Moore: Special counsel probes large Dane County dog research facility for abuse
Ridglan Farms could face criminal charges as well as regulatory consequences.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s docket
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take a look at the docket for the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s 2024-25 session, which ends in June. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for April 18
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the Supreme Court upholding Gov. Tony Evers’ 400-year veto, tensions boiling over during this week’s Elections Commission meeting, the Wisconsin GOP’s new code of conduct and planned spring election postmortem, the 2026 election and more.