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Ruth Schmidt & Jennie Mauer: The real cost of weakening Head Start standards
Head Start’s success is built on a commitment to proven practices that support children’s learning, health, and development. Weakening those standards risks eroding both program quality and public confidence in the results Head Start delivers for children, families, and communities.

Richard Moore: Property rights are not a popularity contest
Janesville referendum could give voters a lasting veto over private development.

Drake Bentley: Reading Colin Kaepernick’s memoir as a biracial Black kid from Milwaukee
Kaepernick’s memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” hit bookstores this month.

Dan Breed: Persecuted Christians should have path to resettle in the US
The refugee resettlement process, which as recently as 2024 welcomed more than 29,000 Christian refugees from countries where Christians face the most severe persecution, no longer welcomes them.

Anthony Pahnke: G20 Summit in Milwaukee gives working people a platform to demand change
The upcoming G20 ministerial meeting in Milwaukee from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 will feature leaders from around the world coming together to discuss these matters, especially trade, making Wisconsin the stage for discussing global policy on everything from artificial intelligence to fuel prices.

Bill Berry: World needs to revisit Aldo Leopold’s ethics
McKibben and other environmental leaders urged the UN this week to make clean energy available to everyone across the globe by 2030, and he thinks it’s possible. Leopold would agree.

Steven Walters: What did Tiffany, Crowley champion when they were state lawmakers?
The candidates for Wisconsin governor had vastly different priorities.

David Crowley: Wisconsin can’t afford to ignore rising fuel costs
Wisconsinites from every corner of the state and every walk of life are hurting from these unprecedented costs — and they know U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany and Donald Trump are to blame.

Jessica McBride: David Crowley disses beer gardens in Wisconsin
That’s like trashing cheesesteak in Philly

Bill Kaplan: November 3, every person can make a difference
Now is not the time to think Trump and the GOP can’t be defeated on November 3, Election Day. They are on the losing end of an economy that has gone bad because of their mistakes and miscalculations. Every person can make a difference.

Annie Laurie Gaylor: Vote ‘no’ on Question 2 to keep churches safe
Proposed constitutional amendment would exempt places of worship from any emergency orders.

James Causey: Howard Fuller calls for action on teaching children to read
Dr. Howard Fuller asks how many more meetings does Milwaukee need before we decide that teaching our children to read is more important than just talking about it?

Mike Gallagher: AI and the growing threat to Taiwan
The biggest threat to humanity isn’t rogue AI; it is AI controlled by China, which would use this transformative technology to take Taiwan and displace America as the world’s dominant superpower.

LaKeshia Myers: ‘Move it or lose it’: USDA threatens workers and the rural communities they serve
USDA plans to move more than half of its 4,600 Washington-area employees to regional offices as part of a broader reorganization that it says will better tailor its services to farmers and ranchers.

Tom Southworth: Crypto regulation bill doesn’t have protections Steil implies
The industry itself played major role in drafting cryptocurrency regulation bill and it would fall short of true protection for the public.

Paul Fanlund: Cap Times Idea Fest was uplifting in a difficult time
Idea Fest attendees, many of whom return night after night, seem to enjoy the variety of speakers, topics, and, well, the company of one another. They tell me they learn things, emerge thinking differently about some person or topic, and have fun running into longtime acquaintances.

Ruth Conniff: Tom Tiffany blocks reporters, taking a page from Donald Trump
Tiffany’s effort to keep out journalists whose reporting he doesn’t like violates the same constitutional principle protecting the free press that a federal judge cited when he ordered the White House to restore press passes to the three news outlets Trump banned.

Amy Curtis: Here’s why Tom Tiffany blocked a Journal Sentinel reporter from his campaign event
If you read the sensational headlines in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, you might think Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany’s campaign arbitrarily blocked one of the Journal Sentinel’s reporters from its campaign event. That did happen.

James Wigderson: Tiffany goon prevents reporters from covering campaign event
Tiffany demonstrates a Trump-like scorn for the 1st Amendment.

Michael Lucas: Will the state ban ALPRs? Flock cancellations grow
For about a year these cameras had pretty much flown under the radar in Wisconsin––that is, until stories sprung up of a Milwaukee woman being held at gunpoint for a crime she did not commit.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ handicap Wisconsin’s top congressional races
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine the races for Wisconsin’s 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts as Democrats seek to unseat Republican incumbents. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 25
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss a new group spending millions in Wisconsin against Democratic candidates, the latest in key races on the Nov. 3 ballot, State Superintendent Jill Underly’s State of Education address, bipartisan opposition to proposed Driftless Area power lines, and more.