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Owen Robinson: Push to exclude soda and candy from welfare purchases
This is a fight worth having both for the health of people and for the tax dollars spent.

Mike McCabe: Double vision: America is not colorblind; it’s blinded by colors
Red and blue have turned into emblems of division and polarization, and not by accident.

Steven Walters: Why Wisconsin’s education superintendent race is important
DPI’s powers include determining how to measure academic progress.

Bill Kaplan: Buying Wisconsin and America
Billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, spent nearly $300 million to elect Trump. Now he is trying to buy Wisconsin.

Kat Klawes: Vote like your lives depend on it
Wisconsin Supreme Court race is about life and death issues.

John Nichols: What Mr. Musk doesn’t know about Wisconsin
Elon Musk has suddenly taken great interest in the American judiciary. Unfortunately, he’s not up to speed on the basics.

Josh Schoemann: Local governments to face deficits if union bill repealed by Wisconsin Supreme Court
It is perfectly clear; Act 10 must stay. While some may wish to go back to 2010, to a $3.6 billion deficit and to relitigate the past, now is not the time to go back.

Michelle Bryant: Reality check: Taxes are necessary
“No new taxes” is a great slogan, but it is not a realistic way to govern. The reality is that infrastructure doesn’t fund itself, roads don’t repave themselves, and bridges don’t rebuild themselves. Taxpayers make that happen, one way or another.

Dan Knodl: Evers poised to engage in crony capitalism
Right of first refusal would raise rates on hardworking Wisconsinites.

Ruth Conniff: Rays of sunshine as democracy is enveloped in darkness
Just before Sunshine Week, this week’s annual mid-March public education campaign celebrating the importance of open records and freedom of information, the Wisconsin Examiner proudly accepted the 2025 Media Openness Award from the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council for our reporters’ work forcing police department records into the open.

Richard Moore: Wisconsin governs where the sun don’t shine
This is Sunshine Week and, as is usually the case, this year it presents an opportunity to demonstrate just how truly hostile most politicians in both parties are to transparency.

Dave Zweifel: Sotomayor cries foul in immunity decision
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor isn’t backing down from her scathing dissent to the court’s decision to grant presidents, essentially, the power of a king.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the April 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the April 1 election for Wisconsin Supreme Court between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

John Nichols: The Wisconsin Supreme Court race has become all about Elon Musk
The richest man in the world is the biggest spender on behalf of a right-wing effort to take control of a state Supreme Court.

Dave Cieslewicz: Who’s really hurting the UW?
Joe Gow was fired as chancellor and stripped of his tenure; LaVar Charleston was removed from administration but allowed to return to teaching.

Mark Lisheron: ‘Predictable’ Hobart a rarity for developers in Wisconsin
While many municipalities throw up roadblocks, Brown County village welcomes increased supply of homes.

Josh Stolzenburg: Long-term stability for solar incentives is key to Wisconsin’s economy
With a decade of stability in funding for solar tax credits and incentives in Wisconsin, businesses like Northwind Solar have been able to confidently invest in employees and infrastructure for solar projects. However, this progress is at risk due to pressure at the federal level to stop funding for clean energy and solar initiatives that create jobs for Wisconsin communities.

Kristin Brey: Hobbling USAID could worsen conflicts and cost US more, former ambassador says
Thomas-Greenfield: Us leaving our leadership role vacant is opening the door. It’s offering China leadership on a silver platter.

Bob Chernow: GOP reps more afraid of you, the voter, than Trump
Turn up and confront them. If you are angry, show it. Remember they are more scared of you than they are of Trump.

Ron Johnson: Is this any way to run a budget?
The federal government gives less scrutiny to its spending than a private company—or your family.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ reflect on 2024 and its political winners and losers
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look back on the news events of 2024 and select the year’s political winners and losers. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Year in Review
WisconsinEye Host and CBS 58 Capitol Reporter Emilee Fannon and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross review the top stories of 2024 in state politics.