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John Torinus: Goodby Project 2025, hello project 2026
Let’s mint more millionaires.

Michelle Bryant: Trump: Whoville’s new nemesis
Donald Trump’s performance during his recent public address brought to mind a familiar holiday figure, “The Grinch.”

John Nichols: A Christmas call to care for the poor
In this season of light and charity, we have every reason to hope for the renewal of those instincts that Abraham Lincoln identified as “the better angels of our nature.”

Mike McCabe: ‘Just needs a little love’
Christmas is about doing what’s right, Charlie Brown. And it’s about what it does to us.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the federal ban on hemp-derived THC products
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up the federal ban on hemp products containing THC and its effect on a multi-million dollar industry in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public

Scott McCallum and Sam Liebert: Don’t allow election deniers to sow doubt. The fix is easy.
Wisconsin is one of only seven states that prohibit clerks from processing absentee ballots before Election Day.

Laurie Burgos, Matthew Joynt, Deborah Kerr, Jeffrey Weiss, Todd Alan Price and Cathy Olig: State elected officials need to take responsibility for increase in property taxes
The state Legislature has abandoned Wisconsin’s long-standing commitment to funding two-thirds of public education, shifting more of the cost onto local property taxpayers.

Richard Moore: Americorps is a dangerous Trojan Horse
What Evers announced was the funneling of taxpayer dollars to left-wing ideological organizations, many of them explicitly political, to spread progressive fervor among the youth.

Dave Zweifel: Trump comments disgusted some GOP reps, but not Wisconsin’s
While Republican lawmakers like Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Rep. Mike Lawler of New York and even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia expressed their disgust, there was not a peep from Wisconsin’s six Republican members of the House, or U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

Arthur Cyr: Give Jerome Powell some credit for successful economy
Fed Chair Jerome Powell and colleagues must weigh a myriad of conflicting information.

Dan O’Donnell: Dem’s inflation desperation
Democrats have finally noticed that prices are way too high…just in time for them to blame them on President Trump ahead of the midterm elections.

Dave Cieslewicz: What’s college for?
An Associated Press story from the other day caught my eye. It was about a controversy stemming from a new policy limiting how much a student can borrow under federally supported student loan programs.

Brian Reisinger: Without WI deer hunters, environment would be in big trouble
The deer hunt may represent bloodthirsty slaughter for some, but those who grew up hunting know a moment like this is a chance to teach deep life lessons.

Sarah Keyeski: Charitableness, activism and resiliency: Gifts constituents bring to Senate District 14
In my first year as State Senator, I’ve learned so much about District 14 and the people living within it. While these have been really tumultuous times, they have also revealed so much goodness, and that deserves highlighting at the end of 2025.

Jeff Mandell: Michael Gableman should be disbarred — he’s earned it
The court must set aside any discomfort about judging a former colleague and revoke Gableman’s law license.

Juan Carlos Garcia Martinez: Beltline expansion proposals suggest dead-end logic
“Another lane will fix it” still reigns at WisDOT, but the public is pushing back.

David Blaska: The president stuck his foot in it
Next time, pick a villain who is unlikeable.

Dan Shafer: There have been many challenges to Wisconsin’s congressional maps. This one is different.
One of the biggest political stories of 2025 has been the push for mid-decade gerrymandering of state’s congressional maps.

Emily Pritzkow: I’m a WI union leader. We back data centers done right.
For us in the building trades, data centers aren’t some big, scary mystery. They’re high-skill, long-term work. The kind of work that feeds families, pays mortgages, and sends kids to college.

Brad Pfaff: Small businesses form the backbone of the local economy

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the federal ban on hemp-derived THC products
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up the federal ban on hemp products containing THC and its effect on a multi-million dollar industry in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 22 – Dec. 5
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the latest in the SNAP benefits debate, a redistricting panel being appointed, the Supreme Court accepting a case from an immigrants rights group challenging ICE detainers in five Wisconsin counties, and more.