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Mark Belling: Insane: The plan to get rid of 25% of AmFam Field parking
An idea only a Tony Evers-appointed board could come up with.

Bill Barth: Remember: ‘If you break it, you own it’
A legitimate question: Is the armed incursion into Venezuela legal?

Gregory Humphrey: Trump fails to understand ‘it’s the economy, stupid’
For a president who staked his reputation on being the ultimate champion of the American worker, the savvy businessman, the powerful master, the current trajectory is a fundamental failure of his economic architecture.

Dan Rossmiller: What is going on with property taxes?
Ultimately, the school portion of your property tax bill is determined by a balance of several factors that are largely outside the control of your local school board.

Dave Zweifel: Sticker shock from your property taxes? Here’s who to blame
Legislative leadership is willing to allow the most regressive tax of all — the property tax — to continue out of control, in turn causing harm to elderly homeowners on fixed incomes and making rents and homeownership even more unaffordable for younger people.

George Mitchell: Vos tackles demographic reality
As Assembly Speaker Robin Vos explained in a recent interview, “we can’t have an ever-growing government” when the state’s population is stagnant and forecast to decline.

Tom Hefty: Missing issues in AG race: opioid deaths; merger health costs, crime lab
The issues of accountability for handling the multi-million opioid settlements, oversight of provider consolidations, the management of the state crime lab should be central in the AG race.

Jon Henkes: WisconsinEye provides key insight into our state government
For the past 18 years, Wisconsin’s equivalent to C-SPAN has provided an inside look into the workings of state government. We are calling on state lawmakers to help save the Capitol network.

Richard Moore: ’Tis the season to bring WisconsinEye back
A democracy that cannot see itself clearly will eventually lose itself. WisconsinEye has spent nearly two decades making government visible at a price that is laughably small compared to what the state spends on far less defensible priorities.

Gregg Hoffmann: Coops look at community solar
Community solar emerged as an environmental issue in Wisconsin in 2025. Proposed legislation in the state Legislature could shift costs of community solar.

Bill Berry: Jerry Apps was Wisconsin’s story teller
Apps was truly the godfather of Wisconsin writers and storytellers, an elder sage and historian with more than 50 books on a remarkable range of topics.

Gregory Humphrey: Rule of law broken in Trump’s military strike on Venezuela, process matters
Any nation wishing to be viewed favorably must adhere to laws. When those laws and processes are discarded or tossed aside, the very structure of government starts to lose credibility, and the citizens are the losers.

Steven Walters: Gov. Tony Evers appointed 63 circuit court judges over seven years in office
Overall, he made 140 appointments to county government.

Dave Cieslewicz: Where’s the moderate in Dem primary?
The field for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor is set and it’s lacking a key ingredient. There is no one looking to occupy the moderate lane.

Scott Walker: Unaffordability spikes in Wisconsin
Milwaukee suburb property taxes are one more barrier for residents.

Dan Shafer: 2025 was a menacingly miserable year
We can get bogged down in the details in certain year-end retrospectives. The big picture? This was a remarkably bad year. Was this the worst year for American politics this century?

Charlene Gaebler-Uhing and Gail Sklodowska: Abortion bill is government meddling public doesn’t support
Public opinion is clear on this: the vast majority say women should be the deciders, along with their doctors, without government interference.

David J Decker: Moves to protect renters actually make housing cost more
Restricting evictions during certain months or certain households often creates a perverse incentive for nonpayment — and shifts the financial burden onto housing providers.

Jerry Hanson: We need a return to moral leadership in 2026
Helping others does not make us suckers and losers; it just makes us good Americans again.

LaKeshia N. Myers: When war games become real
Trump’s strikes signal dangerous new era.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss candidates running for Wisconsin Supreme Court
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the candidates running in the spring Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Aug. 15
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the Wisconsin Elections Commission ordering new procedures for Madison after 193 absentee ballots went uncounted in the November election, a hearing on Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline project, the race for the 1st CD, historic flooding in southeast Wisconsin and more.