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Reg Wydeven: Lawsuits accuse egg producers of fixing prices after avian flu losses
According to the plaintiffs, the companies set prices through Urner Barry’s pricing benchmarks and a private trading platform.

Courtney Graves: Wisconsin sees a surge in childhood disability program enrollment
Enrollment in CLTS and Birth to 3 programs has skyrocketed in recent years, highlighting both rising developmental concerns and growing program participation.

Dave Zweifel: Few ICE detainees qualify as ‘worst of the worst’
More than 97% of the immigrants detained in Donald Trump’s now ended “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago had no criminal conviction whatsoever.

Jeffrey Sommers: Minimum wage buys less than it did in 1945. US needs a raise
Stuck since 2009 and having lost a third of its value, the minimum wage is bad for American workers and productivity. If our Congress and President refuse to increase it, Wisconsin’s Governor and Legislature should do the job.

James Causey: Getting even small share of American Dream seems far-fetched
To achieve the American Dream — owning a home, saving for retirement, raising children, paying for college, owning a car, having good health care, going on vacations, caring for pets, and paying for a wedding — you need to earn over $5 million in your lifetime, according to Fortune.

Scott Walker: Thankful for family and a nation that overcomes every challenge
Thanksgiving encourages us to honor the past, cherish the present and fight for a freer and more prosperous future

LaKeshia Myers: Just be thankful for what you’ve got
As a society, we can become so enveloped in our personal wants and desires that we don’t take the time to stop and give thanks for all of the things we already have.

Bill Kaplan: Trump is Putin’s lapdog
Putin, greenlighted by Trump, will not stop at Ukraine’s borders.

Arthur Cyr: Trump’s Venezuela aggression follows U.S. pattern
Given the turmoil, literal and rhetorical, context is important. A basic fact of life is that the United States does not willingly tolerate hostile regimes in the Americas. The Monroe Doctrine stated this concern early.

Kristin Brey: Don’t let politics tear Thanksgiving apart. Talk it out.
Here’s the unfunny truth: Economists have actually measured that Thanksgiving dinners with mixed political affiliations end 30–45 minutes earlier than those where everyone shares the same party.

Brian Reisinger: Family farms face disaster that leaves us all vulnerable
The Thanksgiving food on our tables this year is more vulnerable than it’s ever been, as the loss of farms across the nation reaches a tipping point.

Steven Walters: The battle over on-line betting
Gambling keeps growing in Wisconsin. How did we get here?

Tom Still: Modernized state tax credits can help young technology firms
Successful tech-based companies become so in different ways, a phenomenon on display of late with the announced $23 billion acquisition of Wisconsin’s Exact Sciences by Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories.

Sam Klinger: Compass Health Center’s Brookfield opening is an investment in Wisconsin’s mental health
We believe that when communities invest in mental health, they invest in everything that makes them stronger—families, classrooms, workplaces, and neighborhoods.

Mike McCabe: The more things change
With life and politics more and more disconnected, no wonder so many people are disillusioned and detaching from the democratic process.

Bill Berry: A grandfather’s record book sheds light on early union years
My grandfather, William J. Taylor, was a labor leader who documented a time when unions were truly united.

LaKeshia Myers: Honoring our heritage: Celebrating Black Catholic History Month
November is Black Catholic History Month—a time to celebrate the profound contributions of Black Catholics to the Church, to remember our spiritual ancestors, and to reflect on the rich tapestry of faith that stretches from the earliest days of Christianity to the present moment.

Paul Fanlund: A first look at the Center for Black Excellence and Culture
Led by Alex Gee, the Center on Madison’s West Badger Road will open early next year. It’s intended to celebrate and foster Black culture.”

John Imes: COP30: From Rio to São Paulo to Belém—local leadership driving global impact
After opening COP30 in Rio de Janeiro with hundreds of mayors, governors, and regional leaders at the Local Leaders Forum, the momentum carried straight into São Paulo and then Belém – and the message has remained consistent, clear, and urgent: the world is looking to local and state leaders to deliver real climate progress when national governments stall. America is showing up – and America is still in.

John Nichols: Maybe Grothman never heard about Ripon’s utopian socialists
U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeaulah, joined 198 other House Republicans — along with 86 of the more ill-thought members of the Democratic caucus — in voting last week for a resolution that “denounces socialism in all its forms and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.”

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss a bipartisan vote to audit the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the recent bipartisan Legislative Audit Committee vote to audit the Department of Public Instruction following a series of issues involving the department. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 14
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the end of the federal government shutdown and a ban on THC-containing hemp products included in the deal, President Trump’s pardon of lawyers involved in Wisconsin’s GOP false electors scheme, school report cards and more.