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Kristin Brey: Backlash to Musk isn’t imagined. When they slash Medicaid it will be worse.
GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.

Bruce Murphy: How deportations will hurt Milwaukee
Most of its growth in population and workers in last 30 years has come from immigrants.

Dave Cieslewicz: Democrats: Fight Now!
Aside from their weak and embarrassing antics during the convicted felon Donald Trump’s aggressively stupid speech last week, the Democratic leadership seems to have been pursuing a rope a dope strategy.

Dave Zweifel: What can Trump destroy next? How about Obamacare
Donald Trump has apparently given up in his quest to destroy the Affordable Care Act, so now he’s just going to try to bleed it to death.

Angela Lang: Cherry-picked cases, irrelevant narratives and the recent history of Wisconsin Supreme Court races
Whether through misleading arguments, frustrating questions on “electability” or problematic tough-on-crime ads, campaigns for state Supreme Court have gone in a troubling direction.

Hadley Ott: The governor’s lead pipe record
After six years in office, Evers has consistently argued that the removal of lead pipes is a top health priority, but has failed to offer a clear and strategic plan to achieve this objective.

John Nichols: Pocan town meeting packed as Republicans dodge constituents
Belmont, Wisconsin, hadn’t been all that close to the political action since it briefly served in 1836 as the first capital of the Wisconsin Territory. But on Saturday, the quiet village of 989 people felt like the hottest spot on the political map.

Michelle Bryant: We shall overcome
Resilience in the face of Trump’s leadership

Bill Berry: The sound of Musk’s chainsaw echoes in the national forests
If the additional Forest Service cuts of 7,000 are added to the approximate 3,400 employees already shed, it would amount to more than a third of the workforce. At the same time, Trump has touted a plan to mow down millions of acres of National Forest trees.

John Torinus: Trump/Musk open gates for Asian carp
Construction of the barrier needed to prevent invasive Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan and causing irreversible damage to the fragile ecosystem of the Great Lakes has been put on hold out of uncertainty over whether the federal government will make good on its commitment to fund its share of the project.

Paul Fanlund: The optimism and wisdom of Heather Cox Richardson
Her simple truths about Ukraine make Trump’s lie that Ukraine started the war with Russia sound even more preposterous, his distortions and demagoguery about the conflict more apparent.

Steven Walters: Evers budget raises vehicle title fee by 73%
The money would be used for road improvements.

Dan Knodl: Will Democrats stand with Wisconsin ratepayers or line the pockets of energy executives?
Wisconsinites cannot afford ROFR. Voters deserve transparency—and they will be watching closely to see which lawmakers stand up for fair energy pricing and which ones cave to special interests.

LaKeshia Myers: Dear legislative Republicans, we’ve already paid for education … cut the check
Despite campaign promises and public statements supporting education, the Republican-controlled legislature has consistently blocked efforts to provide adequate funding for our public schools.

Susan Crawford: Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Elon Musk is pouring millions of dollars into this race, running false and deceptive attack ads against me and even hiring canvassers to go door-to-door with flyers that say people should vote for Brad Schimel to protect Donald Trump’s agenda.

Bill Kaplan: Musk’s millions threaten Wisconsin Supreme Court
Musk’s millions threaten the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s independence and integrity. Don’t let Musk wreck the court like he is wrecking the federal government.

John Torinus: Trump, Musk keep digging hole deeper
My solace in the first six weeks of the second Trump presidency is that our chaotic leader never shuts up, like never, and keeps digging a deeper hole for himself and the Republican Party.

John Nichols: Superintendent race highlights partisan divide
Races for state superintendent of public instruction are officially nonpartisan. But that’s not the reality in contests for the state’s top education post.

James E. Causey: Milwaukee’s new poet laureate has taken art form to thousands of MPS students
For decades, poetry slams have woven into the vibrant tapestry of Milwaukee’s urban culture, pulsating through the city’s bars and nightclubs and Shelly Conley was on the scene.

Dave Zweifel: We saved sandhill cranes; the Legislature wants to kill them
Changing the law to help farmers who suffer damage makes a lot more sense than once again killing birds conservationists worked hard to save.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview Wisconsin’s spring Supreme Court election
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look ahead to Wisconsin’s spring Supreme Court election, where former AG Brad Schimel hopes to counter the court’s liberal trend. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 15
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Republican Eric Hovde’s refusal to concede to Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and his claims about election improprieties, the state Supreme Court hearing on the state’s 1849 abortion law, agency budget requests and more.