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Christina Lieffring: What Dane County needs vs. what Sheriff Barrett wants
The Dane County Board’s 2026 budget amendments meet the moment.

Sean Wilson: I lived inside Green Bay Correctional. Wisconsin can’t wait another four years
Real reform means investing in people, not prisons.

J.B. Van Hollen: Legislators gambling with future of sports betting in Wisconsin
The push to legalize sports betting across the nation has grown over the last several years, and the stakes are far too great for us to get this wrong.

Mark Belling: Allegedly drunk Muskego teacher is enabled by lawyers and lousy court officials
The teacher has a problem. What’s everybody else’s excuse?

Melody McCurtis: When poor Black neighborhoods sound the alarm, don’t just listen. Do something.
When poor Black communities sound the alarm, we must listen and act as if everyone else is next. The struggle for food justice is not just about groceries.

Gregory Humphrey: Supreme Court rejects revisiting gay marriage, homophobe loses decade-long hate-filled journey
The Supreme Court’s rejection of Davis’s appeal is a reminder that civil rights are not subject to the whims of individual clerks or the shifting tides of political ideology.

Dave Cieslewicz: Moderates act like adults
Three weeks ago in this space we urged Democrats to do the responsible thing, be the adults in the room, and vote to end the government shutdown. Now, thanks to the sensible moderate Democrats in the Senate, that’s exactly what’s happening. Moreover, it’ll pay off politically for their party.

Bill Barth: Unlikely to pass, but Steil is right
Steil is behind legislation intended to take away elected representatives’ paychecks when the federal government is shut down.

Dave Zweifel: While we’re at it, let’s make America radioactive again
Even if Trump’s new testing is something less than he suggested, nonproliferation advocates worry that even the scientific objectives suggested by Energy Secretary Chris Wright would create a backlash that would open the door for other major nuclear powers to begin their own widespread testing.

Patrick Testin and Scott Krug: Trust the community with solar
Community solar is an option like none we have experienced before; it is decentralized, flexible, and ready to power Wisconsin’s future.

John Torinus: Guv wannabes could tackle health costs
Health care management is complex. But smart politicians should, on behalf of citizens, be able to cut through the complexity toward solutions that work.

Richard Moore: Keeping Wisconsin, Wisconsin-owned
The Wisconsin legislature has introduced a bill to prohibit “foreign adversaries” from owning or acquiring land in Wisconsin. Richard Moore gives the low-down and compares it to similar efforts being made in other states, and at the federal level.

Lee Drutman and Barry Burden: How to break the doom loop of modern American politics
UW Law School on Friday will be holding a one-day conference on reviving fusion voting in Wisconsin.

Steven Walters: Should Wisconsin allow fusion voting?
The process was once common, according to Project Democracy, and two states — New York and Connecticut — allow some version of it.

John Nichols: Fusion voting opens up the fuller promise of democracy
Fusion voting gave New York City voters a chance to reject Trump’s outrageous attacks on Mamdani, while at the same time putting an increasingly marginalized GOP in its place.

Anna Adl: The US threatens to break its promise to special education students
Until now, special education has been one of the few areas where politics didn’t divide us.

Ruth Conniff: Tariffs, trade wars and immigration crackdowns
The cruelty, the waste, the lack of any coherent plan by this administration is becoming clearer and clearer.

David Blaska: Sierra Club goes woke, goes broke
It is a cautionary tale of what can happen to an organization and to a society that goes Woke. Not content with being green, the Sierra Club embraced “social justice” and proceeded to devour itself in backbiting, blame-gaming, and inquisitions.

Dave Cieslewicz: New books connects Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy to broader economic trends
The ship went down in Lake Superior 50 years ago.

Mark Born: $15 million for fixing Wisconsin prisons isn’t blank check
We will not rubber-stamp another vague, headline-driven initiative that risks public safety and wastes taxpayer money.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ weigh in on what Dem victories nationally mean for Wisconsin’s governor’s race
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the impact of the recent Democratic victories nationally on Wisconsin’s race for governor in 2026. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 7
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the federal government shutdown, State Superintendent Jill Underly appearing before a Senate committee to address sexual misconduct and grooming in Wisconsin schools, the state Supreme Court taking up a case on race-based scholarships, election-related legislation and more.