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Rob Hutton, Julian Bradley, Dave Maxey and Chuck Wichgers: Address health care costs, don’t pass the buck
Raising taxes just passes the buck to cash-strapped families who can’t afford it; real reform starts with curbing costs, and transparency is a necessary first step.

Scott Walker: Work over welfare: Wisconsin model outperforms Minnesota’s failure
Minnesota and Wisconsin may be neighbors, but they are miles apart on welfare abuse and reform.

Jerry Hanson: Billionaires and corporations fail to pay what they owe
Our present tax policies written by Congress benefit wealthy elites and powerful corporations instead of the people who actually do the work to make our nation great.

Tom Still: How a Dane County tech firm helps to support the Wisconsin economy
Exact Sciences was a failing public company when Kevin Conroy and Maneesh Arora moved it from Massachusetts to Madison. The payoff has not only been huge for Dane County, but for the rest of Wisconsin, as well.

Matthew Petering: Evers’ proposal to ban gerrymandering won’t achieve fairness
The time has come to embrace a new kind of redistricting made possible by recent advances in computer technology. In 2026, Wisconsin can become the first state to do redistricting right.

Bruce Thompson: Is non-citizen voting a real threat to elections in Wisconsin?
Out of 68 cases of election fraud in Wisconsin listed in the Heritage database, only one involved an immigrant, for a rate of 1.5%.

Jodi Emerson: Trump and Van Orden raising energy costs, killing jobs
Van Orden turned his back on Wisconsinites by voting for the Big Beautiful Bill.

Derrick Van Orden: In Wisconsin, every week is Agriculture Week
For generations, Wisconsin farmers have built more than businesses — they’ve built legacies.

Gregory Humphrey: Wisconsin-born legendary ‘Voice of Agriculture,’ Orion Samuelson, dies At 91
For many, his voice is woven into memories of early mornings in the barn, long drives down county roads, and kitchen radios humming beside a pot of coffee. He represented a kind of broadcasting that felt personal, because it was. It was rooted in place, in people, and in purpose.

Patrick McIlheran: How to keep good teachers in the classroom
Teachers who have fled a school or the profession altogether — and there are many of them in Wisconsin nowadays — often do so reluctantly and only after tremendous sacrifice and reflection.

Courtney Graves: Recent survey finds deep ideological imbalance among UW-Madison faculty
A study done by the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership affirms that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a significant ideological diversity problem among its faculty.

Bill Barth: Two senators who won’t do their job
It is customary for a state’s U.S. senators to work together in recommending occupants of certain federal positions. Wisconsin, however, is graced with two senators who couldn’t agree on the time of day.

Jessica McBride: On no endorsement, Sean Duffy, the ‘Prince of Duffylandia’ & those other guys
The 7th CD caucus, comprised of 20-plus county GOP parties, declined to endorse anyone for the open coongressional seat at a March 14 endorsement event.

James Causey: Planting yards signs in Milwaukee lazy way of campaigning
I can tell you one thing: This is not how Judge Chris Taylor is going to earn my vote.

Spencer Black: Don’t put a MAGA extremist on the bench; choose Chris Taylor
Courts are often the last resort for protecting our freedoms. That’s why it’s essential to vote on April 7 and to elect a proven champion for our rights as Supreme Court justice. That’s Judge Chris Taylor.

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.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election in April and how that race has changed in recent years. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your week in review for March 13
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss oral arguments before the state Supreme Court in a lawsuit regarding oversight of the DOJ’s handling of settlement funds; a name, image and likeness bill for Universities of Wisconsin athletes; conservative state Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler’s retirement announcement; and more.