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WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate right of first refusal legislation for Wisconsin transmission line projects
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss legislation deadlocked in committee that would give utilities doing business in Wisconsin the right of first refusal for transmission line projects as utilities and transmission line companies lobby in support. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Alex Beld: Clean energy is the solution to our growing energy demand
By supporting clean energy solutions, energy efficiency measures, and creative management of our grid, we can reliably support the around-the-clock energy needs of data centers and the needs of everyday Wisconsinites.

Mark Lisheron: Plans, zoning and annexation form front lines for Wisconsin cities looking to build more housing
Developers need more certainty if housing market to rebound for middle earners.

Ruth Conniff: Maybe we don’t need a tax cut
Historic cuts jeopardize our health and wellbeing.

Dan O’Donnell: There is no legal or factual basis to overturn Wisconsin’s congressional map
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority should reject this challenge to the congressional map as it did the last one if it wants to retain even a shred of credibility.

David Blaska: Can’t the social justice people just get along?
Taxpayers will pay outside pathologists $30,000 to sort out the recriminations at the Madison Department of Civil Rights. In the meantime, the reality is that Director Norman Davis is guilty until proven innocent. That’s how woke works.

Dave Zweifel: Chicago dust storm a harbinger of things to come
The Chicago Tribune informed us the next day that the last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during those Dust Bowl days in the early to mid-1930s.

Steve Rankin: Bicyclists in Wisconsin are second class citizens
If you are on two wheels when you are killed, you are guilty until proven innocent.

Jamie Stiehm: Trump plans to steal land follow presidential tradition
Trump, a mogul and dealmaker, aims to acquire Canada, Greenland and Gaza. Are these far-fetched whims? No.

John Torinus: GOP on Ukraine: dumb, dumber, dumbest
Our self-anointed master deal-maker, President Donald Trump, gave away the store when he told Vladimir Putin at the get-go that he could keep the land he seized in Ukraine as part of a Trumpian peace deal. With that concession in hand, Putin did not decrease the hostilities against Ukraine; he ramped up his aggression to expand the seized territory.

Bruce Murphy: 54% in U.S. disapprove of Trump
New Marquette poll finds 56% approve of border security policies, only 34% on inflation and cost of living.

Dave Cieslewicz: We need another Supreme Court candidate
I hope that someone with a distinguished legal background and no obvious ideological or partisan leanings will step up to run.

William Osmulski: Two maps show Wisconsin’s leftward slide
Two maps of Wisconsin produced by the MacIver Institute reveal two very different political realities in the state.

Rubie Mizell: My kids shouldn’t have to navigate race in sports. Let them play and be free.
We want our children to grow through sports — to learn discipline, resilience, teamwork. But how can they do that when they’re busy navigating unspoken racial double standards?

Jerry Hanson: Stop taking from those with less to give more to the rich
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans to the top of American society.

Carol Chapin: My son’s life depends on Medicaid. Program cuts put his future in jeopardy.
I urge our elected officials — especially those who have said they want to protect “the vulnerable” — to stop these irresponsible cuts to Medicaid.

Ben Brunette: Wisconsin delegation should back credit card competition
The Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), introduced last Congress, would inject competition into the marketplace and correct the failures that have allowed swipe fees to grow out of control.

Mark Belling: The Big Lie about Biden shows the left thinks it can do anything
Now that the media itself is admitting that the last two years of Joe Biden’s administration was a giant lie — that Biden was essentially senile and his staff was running the country — the important questions to ask are: How morally bankrupt are they, and how in the world did they think they could get away with it?

Bill Barth: US should follow founding document
Orders are not laws, which is one reason courts keep tossing them out for exceeding the executive’s constitutional authority. Congress makes laws. That’s what the Constitution says. America should follow its founding document.

Victoria Gillet: From patient care to community advocacy: Why a Milwaukee physician is fighting against toxic gas plants
Independent analysis shows the Oak Creek gas plant would cause around 700 new cases of asthma, 60 heart attacks, 250 emergency room visits, and 200 premature deaths over its lifetime and $92-144 million in health costs every year.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the next steps in Wisconsin’s budget process
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the budget-making process in Wisconsin as legislators remake Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 16
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss new state revenue projections and tax cut negotiations, Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan’s not guilty plea to charges she obstructed immigration officials, the latest action in the state Legislature, this weekend’s GOP state convention and more.