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David Blaska: Democrats stick with losing formula
Wisconsin Democrats, at least, are sticking to the old-time religion: racial grievance, welfare statism, class warfare, open borders, redistributionism (aka “socialism”), Greta Thunberg, and pronouns.

Spencer Black: State parks’ 125th birthday gift? Least state funding in US
According to the National Association of State Parks Directors, funding for the Wisconsin state park system is the lowest in the country.

Gregg Hoffmann: Rural impact on energy
Rural America, and specifically rural Wisconsin, can play important roles in the move to the next generation of energy.

LaKeshia Myers: Reclaiming the road: Black joy and the legacy of safe haven travel
The story of African American travel is one of resilience carved from necessity.

Mark Belling: Ron Johnson’s spending cut demand could torpedo Trump’s tax cut
If Johnson is able to apply pressure to improve a bill that ultimately passes, he will be a hero. But if that pressure does the reverse and torpedoes everything, he will have his fingerprints on a disaster.

Gregory Humphrey: Utterly preposterous: Trump peddling ‘law and order’ as reason for troops on American streets
When the leader is so disrespectful toward the laws, we have a higher duty to stand up and let values and democratic principles flow.

John Nichols: Anticipating Trump, Tom Paine was saying ‘No Kings!’ in 1776
While Trump will mount a monarchical display in Washington on Saturday with a military parade on what happens to be his birthday, the No Kings! movement says that: “On June 14th, we’re showing up everywhere he isn’t — to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings.”

John Torinus: To Trump, more adversaries are bad business
The adversaries that President Trump unnecessarily keeps making won’t be there to help us with breakthrough thinking. Conversely, we need to develop as many allies as we can, so collaborative thinking can help us remain the leading military power in the world.

Bruce Murphy: Bucks violating promises on unions?
Adding non-union businesses to Deer District after making promises to get state subsidy.

Tom Still: For ‘treps, there are some enduring paths to success
The latest edition of the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest underscored that entrepreneurs can be found in all business sectors, from agriculture to artificial intelligence, and from recharging tired batteries to repurposing old clothing.

Cate Zeuske: Decoupling a common sense solution to Wisconsin school funding conundrum
At the heart of this issue is what I believe to be a false notion that school choice ‘siphons’ money away from public schools.

Nancy Gertner and Michael Luttig: Prosecution of Judge Hannah Dugan undermines centuries of legal precedent
Her arrest and prosecution are nothing but the next attempt by the current administration to threaten and intimidate the judiciary because the courts are ruling against the president and his administration daily.

Dan O’Donnell: Now the whole country knows how bad the Wisconsin Supreme Court is
Writing for all eight of her fellow justices, Sotomayor wrote that the Wisconsin Supreme Court grossly violated Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights when it denied them a religious exemption to the state’s unemployment tax and, in so doing, treated the organization differently than other religious groups.

Bill Kaplan: Trump and GOP – more dead, sick and hungry
Trump and the GOP-led Congress want to pay for tax cuts skewed to the rich with draconian cuts in health care coverage and aid to feed the hungry.

Ruth Conniff: Wisconsin members of Congress stand up to rogue feds
U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan and Gwen Moore toured Wisconsin’s only the ICE detention facility and demanded answers about the people being targeted for deportation in the state.

Mark Lisheron: At center of America’s essential debate, Johnson says resist spending frenzy
Johnson laments Medicaid’s ‘legalized fraud’ and says childless adults should work.

Michelle Bryant: Threats to Medicaid coverage endanger us all
Many of the proposed cuts in the Trump administration’s budget, don’t just harm specific groups—they have a ripple effect on families and communities.

Paul Fanlund: Enough with the obsessing about what Democrats got wrong
While the Biden saga dominated recently, the Democratic bickering and blame-placing is getting old now six months into the second Trump presidency. Everyone has a prescription for Democrats, many directly conflicting with others.

John Nichols: Pride flag opposition puts GOP on the wrong side of history
Those efforts do not merely seek to erase the heritage of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ community. They also dismiss the rich legacy of enlightened Republicans, like former Gov. Dreyfus, who stood on the right side of history.

Edward J. Huck: America must support more critical thinking skills
Teaching people to be skeptical of a source is not an indoctrination tactic, it is an essence of democracy.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss issues found in audit of Universities of Wisconsin DEI programs
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up a recent audit of Universities of Wisconsin diversity, equity and inclusion programs that found a failure to track spending on the initiatives, among other problems. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 2
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the state Supreme Court suspending a Milwaukee County judge after her arrest on charges of obstructing ICE, Republican Washington County Exec Josh Schoemann filing to run for governor, the state budget and more.