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Mark Belling: Liberation day
Spring election gives some conservative communities chance to finally get conservative leadership

Kyle Maichle: Why Congress must investigate Wisconsin’s DPI
Recent reporting by Dairyland Sentinel has raised deeply troubling questions about how Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is handling federal special education dollars. Particularly, scarce funds that are supposed to directly support students with disabilities, including children with Autism.

Dyllan Moreno Taxman: School shootings spawn new focus on prosecutions of parents
In the last two years, Americans have seen the first-, second-, and third-ever homicide prosecutions and convictions focused on the parents of school shooters.

Steven Walters: Why the rise in property tax anger?
It’s ebbed and flowed since the 1960s, as state politicians tried different solutions.

Dave Cieslewicz: Fight the NIL giveaway
Do you want your tax dollars to help pay Luke Fickell’s salary? That’s essentially the question before the state Senate.

Tom Still: Oil blockage should raise awareness of energy options
A revival of nuclear fission in Wisconsin may be under way. Policymakers in state government have opened that door, and one of the state’s largest electricity wholesalers recently took a step toward walking through.

Mehalia Hauxwell: I wore the uniform and I cannot stay silent about Iran
I cannot stop this war. What I can do is refuse to be silent in my own community, to say clearly, from someone who wore this country’s uniform, that what is being done in our name deserves to be seen, and questioned, and grieved.

Kenneth Zagacki and Richard Cherwitz: War deserves more than casual rhetoric
Wars deserve more than improvisation and insouciance. They deserve the full weight of presidential responsibility. And they deserve a public argument worthy of the cost.

Michelle Bryant: My mother taught me the game: Rev. Jackson showed me the stakes
Movements are not sustained by one towering figure. They are carried forward by ordinary people who, at some point, decide that the work must continue. The question is no longer just who will show up now. The question is whether the rest of us will.

Paul Fanlund: Is Dr. Fred Mohs Wisconsin’s ‘least known famous native’?
Dr. Frederic Mohs developed a highly effective treatment for skin cancer while a medical student at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1930s.

Paul Nannis: FoodShare bill raises practical concerns for food access and privacy
Public health policy should be practical, implementable, and respectful of the people it affects. AB 180 raises legitimate questions on all three.

John Imes: 400 residents showed up to talk data centers. Wisconsin should listen
Residents want transparency, information and a meaningful voice before major infrastructure decisions reshape their communities and household budgets.

Richard Moore: State’s public trust doctrine shouldn’t be trusted
It’s time to revisit a mantra that has grown far beyond its constitutional foundation.

Roger Roth: Military members need access to colorectal cancer screening
Removing barriers, whether they are financial, logistical or simply a lack of options, helps people take that first step. Screening does not have to be complicated to be effective, but it does have to be accessible.

Scott Fitzgerald: Homeland Security shutdown is a national security threat
Millions entered illegally during the Biden Administration. It only takes one to carry out a deadly attack. That’s why weakening our homeland security infrastructure right now is so irresponsible.

Gregg Hoffmann: Once again, oil in middle of crisis
One of the main differences in this crisis and others in the past is that there are more alternatives to oil and gas than ever before. And those alternatives are more cost-effective and easier to develop. The crisis could have been avoided.

Bill Kaplan: Stage-managing the Iran War
Trump and administration officials are stage-managing the Iran War. Whenever the news is bad, Trump distorts and downplays.

John Nichols: The Boss is bringing the cavalry
Bruce Springsteen had never relegated himself to the political sidelines.

Ruth Conniff: Helping refugees in Wisconsin navigate upheaval, uncertainty and fear
An Afghan refugee service provider’s work and life are shaped by shifting U.S. policies

LaKeshia Myers, Milwaukee Courier: Milwaukee Public Schools cuts 260 positions
A $46 million crisis with no clear answers

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider how Evers will spend his final year in office
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider what Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers will do in his final year in office. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 22 – Dec. 5
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the latest in the SNAP benefits debate, a redistricting panel being appointed, the Supreme Court accepting a case from an immigrants rights group challenging ICE detainers in five Wisconsin counties, and more.