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Tom Still: Even without AI, energy use will rise … so how do we get there?
Energy use is growing and a blend of generation strategies will likely be needed to meet demand, with or without a fleet of data centers.

Tom Kamenick: Court ruling improves closed session process for public
Court of Appeals rules that public bodies must explain why they are going into closed session.

LaKeshia Myers: A betrayal of trust
Maryland Governor Moore’s reparations veto shows politics over progress.

William Holahan: Are you better off than you were four months ago?
Trump’s economic policy is driving costs and unemployment up.

Jasmyne Jade Hill: The bot that cried MAGA
How AI’s ability to lie at scale mirrors the idiocy of a movement that broke politics.

John Nichols: Medicaid cut sarcasm spells political trouble for the GOP
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s “we are all going to die” gaffe about Medicaid cuts at a recent town hall meeting in Iowa is now Exhibit A of Republican electoral vulnerability.

Jackie Anderson: Food assistance for Wisconsin rural communities on the line
One of the most concerning provisions in the budget reconciliation bill would shift a large portion of the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from the federal government to the states.

Richard Moore: Apocalypse, interrupted
Some unkind souls have likened Tony Evers’s gubernatorial years to a zombie apocalypse, but I’m here to sort of defend the poor governor, especially about the apocalypse part.

David Blaska: Ben Wikler helped elect Donald Trump
Wisconsin’s Dem chairman ran interference for old Joe.

Bill Kaplan: Republicans want a stacked deck
Congressional Republicans have lost their backbone and common decency. Their America is not for most of us. Beyond shame.

O. Ricardo Pimentel: Trump’s America is not the America I know and love
A country led by an authoritarian leader who thumbs his nose at the rule of law is not the America I know. And it certainly isn’t great.

Jerry Hanson: Mr. President: Is your heart so hard you expel even the innocent?
Mr. President, unclench your fist and open your arms to those already here who deserve the privilege to remain.

Dave Zweifel: GOP attack on education is bewildering
The strange attacks on education aren’t confined to Trump’s tantrums over higher education. It is just as real to a different degree for public education here at home.

Paul Fanlund: Tim Walz brings his everyman appeal to Cap Times Idea Fest
Walz will be Idea Fest’s marquee speaker on Friday night, Sept. 12, at the Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

Michelle Bryant: Rangel: The elected politician who served the public well
There are elected officials, politicians, and public servants. The terms are often used interchangeably but to be clear, there is a difference. You could be one or the other, or if you were former U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, you could be all three.

Mike McCabe: Short little span of attention
The news of the day used to be reported in extraordinary detail. Contrast that with the 140-character format of bulletins—dubbed “tweets”—that made a present-day social media platform one of the world’s most popular.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss budget negotiations between Evers, GOP leaders
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the recent meetings between Gov. Tony Evers and GOP legislators as lawmakers craft Wisconsin’s biennial budget amid looming federal cuts. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Ruth Conniff: The baffling B.S. of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson
Wisconsin’s Republican senator dishes it out to the Milwaukee Press Club.

Michael Jadin: Thanks to tariffs, this National Small Business Month feels different
The challenges we face today are growing stronger, and we are left especially confused by recent decisions in Washington.

Jim Bender & Patrick McIlheran: Taxpayers need more simplicity and transparency — not misleading arguments meant to stoke fears of successful choice schools
A paper from an insiders’ group offers bad-faith arguments about Wisconsin school choice and the “decoupling” reform that would increase transparency.

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.