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Bill Barth: Fully unprepared for pace of change
AI appears to have the capacity to make previous changes look modest. Meanwhile, state and federal authorities — and much of the business world, let alone employees — look thoroughly unprepared to keep up. Hold on. Rough ride ahead.

Reg Wydeven: Companies are using AI to tailor pricing for specific customers
Proposed bill would stop practice of ‘surveillance pricing’

Rick Gundrum: ‘Erin’s Law’ will help children protect themselves
This session, I am the Assembly lead author of Assembly Bill 156, a bill that helps to prevent child sex abuse.

Steven Walters: Statistics show reliance of Wisconsin residents on food stamps, Obamacare
Recipients of both programs face uncertainty due to the government shutdown.

Tom Content: Your Right to Know: Data center secrecy is unacceptable
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. All too often, secrecy and confidentiality carry the day in proceedings of state and local government. In one recent case, the

Courtney Graves: The unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act
How the ACA led to soaring insurance premiums and rapid market consolidation.

Bruce Murphy: Tiffany is a leading election denier
GOP U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald were the state’s only lawmakers voting to overturn Biden’s presidential victory in the key swing states of Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Prescott Balch: Caledonia’s Microsoft rejection – the other side of the story
We wanted our village board to assess the risks identified and either slow way down or stop the deal because we felt the risks set the village up for significant harm in the short and long-term. Our objections were not based on emotion or anti-development ideology. Our objections were fact-based and numerical.

Dave Krause: Wisconsin Investment Board crypto moves masterclass in disciplined management
The Wisconsin pension fund’s Bitcoin investments were a masterclass in disciplined fiduciary management that most commentators completely misunderstood.

LaKeshia Myers: The Hop: Building our transit future or abandoning our economic promise?
Milwaukee Hop is more than a downtown amenity. It represents the critical first step toward establishing regional transit authorities in Wisconsin, which remain prohibited by state law. This prohibition hasn’t just hindered Milwaukee; it has hobbled economic development across our entire state.

William Holahan: Market economic principles can protect us from radical economics
The chaotic tariff policy and the massive cuts to basic scientific research erode our ability to lead, innovate, and enable our citizenry to afford their accustomed daily activities. They render our nation increasingly dependent on foreign innovation, less competitive, less secure and ultimately, less free.

John Torinus: Trump’s tariff wars: self-defeating
Trump needs to get his tariff obsession done with so the economy-wrecking uncertainty is put to rest.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: Why the political arguments used by conservatives to twist the Second Amendment are a public fraud
For decades, conservatives in America have shouted that the Second Amendment exists to protect citizens from government tyranny.

Gregory Nemet and Morgan Edwards: Despite Trump moves, COP30 will show efforts to curb planet warming persist
Even before this latest addition to the long list of foreboding climate records, a spring Gallup poll showed a record number of Americans view global warming as a serious threat to them personally.

Richard Moore: Josh Kaul’s crusade to bureaucratize religion
Wisconsin attorney general Josh Kaul has decided that if the U.S. Supreme Court won’t let him discriminate against Catholic Charities when it comes to a religious tax exemption, then he’ll take a wrecking ball to the tax exemption itself.

David Crowley: Making Wisconsin work for working families
As governor, I’ll make it my top priority to make life more affordable for everyone.

George Mitchell: Fact-checking a School Choice critic
Urban Milwaukee editor Bruce Murphy skates past key evidence and bases a major claim on factual errors.

Bruce Murphy: Wisconsin is creating 2 school systems
At what point will taxpayers rebel against the high costs?

Shale Horowitz: Why the far left opposes a law defining antisemitism and why Wisconsin needs it
The IHRA definition covers not just the traditional antisemitism most common on the far right, but also the newer antisemitism more prevalent on the far left.

Bill Kaplan: It’s un-American to hurt the hungry and sick
Stop the cruelty, extend the ACA tax credits and end the shutdown.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the latest Marquette Law School poll
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss takeaways from the latest Marquette University Law School poll. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for July 25
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk and Associated Press Capitol Correspondent Scott Bauer discuss the developing field in the 2026 governor’s race after Gov. Tony Evers announces he won’t seek a third term, Dem efforts to win the majority in the state Senate, AG Josh Kaul joining his 26th lawsuit against the Trump administration and more.