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Debby Jackson: Wisconsin’s hidden bridge crisis: Bringing small local structures out of the shadows
More than 1,600 of small bridges and culverts are in poor or severe condition. After years of work, a new platform, FixWIBridges.com, offers a transparent, user-friendly view of the problem.

Ruben Anthony: Supreme Court ruling guts Voting Rights Act
This is not a moment for despair or division. It is a moment for resolve. We are in a democratic state of emergency, and the response must be peaceful, informed and proactive.

Henry Olsen: Supreme Court’s Callais redistricting ruling could backfire on GOP
America faces a choice: Either it can have unrestrained partisan gerrymandering, or it can have a democratic republic. It can’t have both.

Michael Lucas: Tax breaks aren’t subsidies
Both the left and the right have been lamenting the fact that Big Business has been granted a number of “subsidies” in the form of tax exemptions and tax credits. But are they really subsidies?

Gregg Hoffmann: Sustainable Ag research shows results
Findings from the first phase of the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project highlighted the direct benefits of sustainable land management on commercial dairy forage fields, according to a Mid-West Farm Report story.

Elaine Griffin: ‘Digital Delusion’ destroys myths about AI learning
A back-to-basics approach to learning: ‘The Digital Delusion’ reveals how students learn best, and it’s not through high-tech AI in classrooms.

Noria Doyle: Expat vs. Immigrant: The racial sorting and stigma hidden inside everyday migration vocabulary
The words we use to describe people who cross borders are not neutral. In Milwaukee, where immigrant labor constructed the breweries, tanneries, and foundries that built the city, the vocabulary of migration still sorts people by race and origin long after they arrive.

Dan Knodl: Shifting blame won’t lower energy bills
If we are serious about affordability, we must take a more balanced approach, one that prioritizes reliability, phases in new technologies responsibly, and stops forcing families to pay twice for the same electricity system.

Tom Kamenick: Your Right to Know: How to solve high record costs and long delays
Change the law so that custodians can charge location costs only if the records are produced within a strict deadline — perhaps 10 business days.

Mark Belling: The opposite of cutting-edge innovation
The slow-moving, inconvenient, expensive Madison-to-Milwaukee train idea is back.

John Nichols: Hong sides with Wisconsin workers over AI robber barons
Like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and California U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna at the federal level, she’s taking the AI debate seriously.

Dave Cieslewicz: Voting rights ruling could help Dems
The bottom line is that it’s way too early to declare this a big victory for Republicans or even to claim with much confidence that it will reduce the number of Black representatives. And, if it makes us consider voters as individuals with a simple right to vote, rather than as faceless members of a bloc that votes all the same, so much the better. Now, that would be true progress.

Paul Van Auken, et al: If we want peace in the US, we should learn from Ireland
People can find points of connection in the stories of others, even if they’re of a different political party, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Listening is the key to building relationships.

Dave Zweifel: RFK Jr. ushers in age of contagion
A doctor friend of mine predicted this would happen 10 years ago: Measles is back.

Peder Mewis: Wisconsin’s energy future calls for practical, balanced solutions
An all‑the‑above strategy that includes renewables is the responsible path forward and positions our state to succeed for decades to come.

Bruce Thompson: ACA premium costs rose 40% in Milwaukee
How and why ACA marketplace rates rose so high in Wisconsin and the nation.

Curt Kubiak: Direct Primary Care is growing in Wisconsin, and for good reason
At its core, direct primary care offers a simpler way to deliver primary care. Patients pay a predictable monthly fee for access to most primary care services, bypassing insurance billing, copays, and administrative complexity. That simplicity is proving to be a powerful tool for patients, clinicians, and communities.

John Nichols: Where do Wisconsin Republicans stand on voting rights?
Will they maintain the Wisconsin Republican tradition of putting voting rights ahead of partisanship?

Courtney Graves: The growing burden of behavior and special education in Wisconsin classrooms
The growing number of behavior issues in the classroom and Individualized Education Plans are putting pressure on Wisconsin schools and teachers.

LaKeshia Myers: Knowledge is power — and so is money: April Is Financial Literacy Month
The racial wealth gap did not happen by accident. It was built — policy by policy, denial by denial, generation by generation. And while we cannot undo history overnight … Knowledge is power. And so is money. Let’s get both.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ examine the tension between funding Wisconsin schools, reducing property taxes
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss whether state school funding or lowering property taxes is the more dominant political issue. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your week in review for May 1
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss the dismissal of another lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s congressional map, a ruling requiring the state DOJ to release the names of all Wisconsin law enforcement officers, Judge Pedro Colón joining the 2027 state Supreme Court race and more.