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Mansi Peters: Tech giants must protect vulnerable youth from predators
Tech giants must be pressured to implement a series of protections against fraudulent user accounts and address young people’s vulnerability to sextortionists and predators at large.

Gregory Humphrey: Children pay no fee to enter classroom, why pay a fee for lunch?
Some argue that universal school meals are too expensive. But the truth is, we’re already paying for the consequences of not feeding kids properly.

Christine Schindler: We are experts on children. ICE is failing them.
Our national response to immigrant children reveals a society in moral decay.

O. Ricardo Pimentel: As the ICE crackdown continues, empathy lives and hope stays alive
While Minnesota is where much of the resistance has been happening, my gratitude spills beyond its borders because the resistance has been virtually everywhere ICE brutality occurs.

Michelle Bryant: Don’t take the job if you don’t want to do the job!
Congress has the power and responsibility to ensure that no president, regardless of party, becomes an unconstrained authority. However, as we examine the first year of this current administration, it’s fair to say that Trump has been allowed to run amok.

Scott Niederjohn: Federal credit card price cap plan threatens credit access
Lenders don’t respond to capped interest rates by continuing to provide them with loans out of civic duty. They respond by lending less.

Dipesh Navsaria: Confused immunization messaging bolsters anti-vax agenda
The messaging from the federal government — the Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — can only be characterized as a confused mess of some existing science, cherry-picked fringe studies, unproven theories, and wishful thinking.

Jay Rothman: Artificial Intelligence: Preparing Wisconsin for the Future
The question isn’t whether AI will change our lives, but how Wisconsin prepares to thrive in an AI-enabled world.

Chris Taylor: The choice for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court: rights or restrictions
State courts are often the last line of defense when it comes to protecting our fundamental rights and freedoms and in holding those who violate the law accountable, no matter how powerful or privileged. That is why this race matters, and why I am running to be your next Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice.

Gwen Moore: Wisconsin Supreme Court should take up gerrymandered maps
Bothfeld v. Wisconsin Election Commission case is an opportunity for Wisconsin to turn a new page and end minority rule at the federal level. The court should move with deliberate speed to remedy this wrong and strengthen our democracy.

Richard Moore: The Legislature that isn’t
Rep. Brent Jacobson and colleagues introduced measures that would return lawmaking power itself to the branch where the Wisconsin constitution says it belongs.

James Causey: Effort to reduce Milwaukee homicides dealt maddening blow
What I admire most about Procell is how he inspired people who made mistakes. He did not shy away from discussing his past or downplay his actions. He is proof that second chances can work.

Bill Kaplan: Be outraged, nonviolent and vote
To check Trump, Americans must be convinced to vote for a Democratic-led Congress. Violence and extreme rhetoric would be wrong and counterproductive. Keep your eyes on the prize.

John Nichols: Tom Tiffany chooses ignorance
Tiffany’s steadfast refusal to break with the administration — even on issues where it would make sense to do so — has often required absurd political contortions. Nowhere was that more evident than in Tiffany’s response to the killing of Alex Pretti.

Jerry Hanson: It’s about deploying fear and intimidation on American streets
America’s largest federal law enforcement agency has become Trump’s own national police force.

David Blaska: Keeping an uncivil tongue
American presidents set a tone. Some do fireside chats, this one pollutes the atmosphere with vengeful rants.

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.

Dave Cieslewicz: Guv race hits the drop-out phase
The first candidate to leave the field is Republican Josh Schoemann.

Gregg Hoffmann: Knowles-Nelson watered down
Two bills renew the Knowles-Nelson in name but fundamentally weaken the stewardship program’s core purpose: preserving important natural communities, protecting water quality and fisheries, and expanding opportunities for outdoor recreation.

Tom Still: Just catching up: Some follow-ups on past columns and news”
Writing a weekly column is always a snapshot in time. Things can and do happen to advance the story. Here are a few examples tied to my recent “Inside Wisconsin” columns:

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Wisconsin Congressional redistricting cases now before judicial panels
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at court cases seeking the redrawing of Wisconsin’s Congressional district boundaries. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Oct. 3
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel State Government and Politics Reporter Jessie Opoien discuss the federal government shutdown, the races for governor and Supreme Court, a bill from GOP senators to legalize medical marijuana and more.