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Michelle Bryant: America for sale? Luxury over leadership
Under the Trump administration, a troubling narrative has emerged that America might as well have a metaphorical “For Sale” sign plastered across its forehead—or perhaps, more aptly, Uncle Sam’s.

Dave Zweifel: High-speed future hampered by ignorant politicians
It’s bizarre, but for some reason our politicians view fixing our infrastructure to accommodate faster and more reliable passenger trains as prohibitively expensive, but think nothing of building billion-dollar interchanges and adding a couple of lanes to highway corridors that cost billions more.

Ryan D. Jayne: Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding unaccountable private schools
Despite promises of choice and competition, voucher programs have repeatedly failed to demonstrate academic improvements for students.

Christopher Fons: Cutting the fat at MPS central office?
The jobs being eliminated are already of those working in classrooms.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate right of first refusal legislation for Wisconsin transmission line projects
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss legislation deadlocked in committee that would give utilities doing business in Wisconsin the right of first refusal for transmission line projects as utilities and transmission line companies lobby in support. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Alex Beld: Clean energy is the solution to our growing energy demand
By supporting clean energy solutions, energy efficiency measures, and creative management of our grid, we can reliably support the around-the-clock energy needs of data centers and the needs of everyday Wisconsinites.

Mark Lisheron: Plans, zoning and annexation form front lines for Wisconsin cities looking to build more housing
Developers need more certainty if housing market to rebound for middle earners.

Ruth Conniff: Maybe we don’t need a tax cut
Historic cuts jeopardize our health and wellbeing.

Dan O’Donnell: There is no legal or factual basis to overturn Wisconsin’s congressional map
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority should reject this challenge to the congressional map as it did the last one if it wants to retain even a shred of credibility.

David Blaska: Can’t the social justice people just get along?
Taxpayers will pay outside pathologists $30,000 to sort out the recriminations at the Madison Department of Civil Rights. In the meantime, the reality is that Director Norman Davis is guilty until proven innocent. That’s how woke works.

Dave Zweifel: Chicago dust storm a harbinger of things to come
The Chicago Tribune informed us the next day that the last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during those Dust Bowl days in the early to mid-1930s.

Steve Rankin: Bicyclists in Wisconsin are second class citizens
If you are on two wheels when you are killed, you are guilty until proven innocent.

Jamie Stiehm: Trump plans to steal land follow presidential tradition
Trump, a mogul and dealmaker, aims to acquire Canada, Greenland and Gaza. Are these far-fetched whims? No.

John Torinus: GOP on Ukraine: dumb, dumber, dumbest
Our self-anointed master deal-maker, President Donald Trump, gave away the store when he told Vladimir Putin at the get-go that he could keep the land he seized in Ukraine as part of a Trumpian peace deal. With that concession in hand, Putin did not decrease the hostilities against Ukraine; he ramped up his aggression to expand the seized territory.

Bruce Murphy: 54% in U.S. disapprove of Trump
New Marquette poll finds 56% approve of border security policies, only 34% on inflation and cost of living.

Dave Cieslewicz: We need another Supreme Court candidate
I hope that someone with a distinguished legal background and no obvious ideological or partisan leanings will step up to run.

William Osmulski: Two maps show Wisconsin’s leftward slide
Two maps of Wisconsin produced by the MacIver Institute reveal two very different political realities in the state.

Rubie Mizell: My kids shouldn’t have to navigate race in sports. Let them play and be free.
We want our children to grow through sports — to learn discipline, resilience, teamwork. But how can they do that when they’re busy navigating unspoken racial double standards?

Jerry Hanson: Stop taking from those with less to give more to the rich
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans to the top of American society.

Carol Chapin: My son’s life depends on Medicaid. Program cuts put his future in jeopardy.
I urge our elected officials — especially those who have said they want to protect “the vulnerable” — to stop these irresponsible cuts to Medicaid.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ weigh in on the race for state schools superintendent
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up the race to lead the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction between incumbent Jill Underly and education consultant Brittany Kinser. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for March 28
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the surge in early voting ahead of Tuesday’s election, the latest on the state Supreme Court and state schools superintendent races, the voter ID amendment on the ballot and more.