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James E. Causey: Trump media ban a diversion from high gas and grocery prices
CNN and Fox News rarely agree, but Trump’s decision to ban reporters from the White House brought competing networks together in defense of press freedom and the public’s right to know.

Dave Zweifel: Dems may win in November, but will the GOP let them serve?
Retired conservative federal Judge Michael Luttig is just one of the many who are warning Americans that their form of government is imperiled. It’s no longer a hyperbolic claim. The MAGA crowd has a well-thought-out plan.

Dan Shafer: Wisconsin’s fork in the road
After 16 years of GOP control, Democrats have a shot at winning a majority in the Wisconsin State Legislature. This would be a monumental shift, but it’s far from a given — especially in the Assembly.

Michael Lucas: BECI 765: Laws governing transmission lines
When land usage and cost factors are considered, I speculate that rather than the BECI line having a 99% chance of approval by the WI PSC, its chance of being approved is somewhere between 80 and 90%. The deciding factor in the PSC’s decision of whether to approve the BECI line will rest on the quality of the cost-benefit analyses provided by the applicant and intervenors.

Dave Cieslewicz: Here’s how to use $3 billion
The State of Wisconsin has a projected $3 billion surplus. Here’s the YSDA plan for it.

Dan Knodl: Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program: Conservation requires accountability
The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program has existed for decades. If Wisconsin taxpayers are going to be asked to support it for decades more, they deserve more than assurances that the program is working. We should be able to show them.

Rebecca Bernstein: Local clinics brace for federal benefit cuts for refugees
Consider donating to community health centers, free clinics, and food pantries which are our community’s safety net.

John Nichols: Wisconsinites shouldn’t have to pay for Trump’s war
The argument that Americans should not have to suffer economically because Trump launched a war of whim has become increasingly common among Democrats on the campaign trail — and even some Republicans.

Gregory Humphrey: From Nixon’s press blacklist to Trump’s media bans, the old lessons still apply
The press is not there to soothe. It is there to verify. To challenge. To publish what is true, not what is comfortable. Leaders may not enjoy that. They are not required to. But before they get to elected office, we should require that they be mature enough to accept the facts.

Steven Walters: Pressing health care issues should be fodder for Wisconsin candidates
Immunizations and high hospital costs among them

Michelle Bryant: Before we build faster, we must listen better
AI may be transforming our economy, but in our haste, we must listen better. Communities are asked to accept the future, but they deserve a meaningful role in deciding what that future looks like.

Ben Eisen: Transportation policy for the way Wisconsinites actually want to travel
Transportation policy should begin with the people who use the system: where they want to go, how they want to get there and how those choices may change as new technologies become available.

Brian Reisinger: Urban food deserts and rural farm closures share unseen links
Event will explore connections between food deserts and Wisconsin’s disappearing farms

George Mitchell: People have never cared more nor known less how their food is produced
As an ill-informed city slicker when it comes to agriculture, I had an eye-opening opportunity to tour of the Seneca Foods processing plant in Janesville.

Liam Julian: Peer pressure prevents students from speaking up on politics
In a survey, among students who self-censor, 91 percent cited classmates as a concern. Forty-one percent cited the teacher.

John Gurda: Socialists ended corruption in Milwaukee politics
Where do Milwaukee’s socialists land on the broad and bewildering spectrum of leftist political movements? A short history of local socialism might shed some useful light on today’s national ferment.

Bill Kaplan: Trump and GOP face rout on November 3
Congressional Republicans are reading the polls and tea leaves. Many are avoiding Trump, one ran a TV ad critical of Trump, and some are voting no on GOP policies. But not Wisconsin Republicans.

Bill Christofferson: No need to pretend; Trump is on the ballot
If Wisconsin voters realize Trump really is on the ballot, that could be fatal for his alter ego, Tom Tiffany.

Bruce Thompson: How successful has the Trump economy been in creating jobs?
Graphs of jobs, labor force and manufacturing tell a different story than the campaign speeches do.

Jeffrey Leverich: What will Dems do if GOP negates election?
Preparing for this year’s November election, Democratic attorneys general are coordinating to sue the administration to block its voter-suppression efforts and its attempt to overturn states’ right to control their own elections, as stipulated by the Constitution.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ examine the battle for control of the Wisconsin Legislature
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the upcoming races to control the Wisconsin Legislature and the issues that favor each party. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 18
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss Tom Tiffany’s plane crash, the U.S. Supreme Court halting President Trump’s mail-in balloting restrictions, oral arguments before the state Supreme Court in two cases challenging the state’s congressional lines and more.