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Dan O’Donnell: Walking on thin ice
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is considering banning ICE detainers. Liberal justices want to declare these unlawful, but unfortunately for them, the Constitution and 230 years of unbroken federal supremacy stand in their way.

Bruce Thompson: Life expectancy in Wisconsin vs. other states
Hawaii is the leader. How high — or low — does Wisconsin rank?

Gregory Humphrey: A bittersweet farewell to George Meyer, dies in Madison, 78
In the days ahead, many tributes will honor Meyer’s legacy. His voice and actions shaped Wisconsin’s environmental policies, advancing forward-thinking measures that continue to benefit residents today.

Bill Barth: Time for a revolution of the rational
I’m tired of tolerating radical right-wingers or left-wingers who belligerently want to tell me and everybody else what to think … We are broken because the few have appointed themselves to speak for the many and the rest of us have let them get away with it.

Julie Quinlan Brame: Carmen schools are successful. Why is MPS fighting them?
As we seek alternative spaces for Carmen Northwest, we ask that you reach out to the Milwaukee Public School board and the mayor’s office, asking them to lease or sell us the building.

David Blaska: The wrong guys open their property tax bills
So much for the party of ‘affordability’

Roman Fritz: UWPD’s careless assault on student protest
olice records from the encampment crackdown in May 2024 show enforcement inconsistency and the “obstructing or resisting” trap.

John Torinus: New blood for governor? Kevin Conroy
Instead of a long line of professional politicians in the governor’s mansion on Lake Mendota, how about an outstanding entrepreneur who has created thousands of new jobs and a bundle of wealth for venture investors?

Michael Jahr: Much of America figuring out how to build more homes
Wisconsin can follow suit and cut regulations.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: Wisconsin farmers who backed Trump stand to gain welfare-style handouts thanks to his failed tariff war
Donald Trump announced a proposed $12 billion farm aid package on December 8, marketing it as a lifeline for agricultural producers battered by trade disruptions, inflation, and volatile global markets.

Courtney Graves: Understanding Wisconsin’s health care costs
While Wisconsin’s health care costs are not among the worst in the country, our inadequate policy choices are undermining potential for cost relief.

Spencer Black: Trumpflation is hurting Americans
While we’re all paying more because of Trumpflation, Trump is calling concern about affordability a “con job” and a “false narrative.” Guess his billionaire buddies don’t have to worry about the price of a burger.

John Nichols: AGs push back against Trump’s bid to preempt AI regulation
A bipartisan coalition of three dozen state attorneys general has come together to oppose efforts to ban state regulation of artificial intelligence.

Dave Cieslewicz: The elites had this coming
We’re seeing this revolt happening all over the political landscape and all over the developed world. This Humphrey’s case is just another example. On the actual merits of the case, I’ll lament the new power given to the president — especially this president. But on a higher level, the elites had it coming.

Mike McCabe: Curled up in a ball
Watching the decline of civilization in real time produces such overwhelming feelings of helplessness for some that they fear for their mental well-being. They’re curling up in a ball, not because they’re apathetic, because they’re feeling besieged and powerless.

Russ Feingold, Jeff Mandell and Rachel Snyder: SCOTUS could reshape US campaign rules
Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.

Steven Walters: Four-month redistricting fight looms over Wisconsin’s U.S. House districts
The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.

Julian Bradley and Mattias Gugel: The payroll tax you don’t see — and the raise you don’t get
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.

Amy Curtis: Tammy Baldwin’s Obamacare subsidy olive branch backfires on her
When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.

Richard Moore: Evers, DHS launch war on scientific debate
Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider top issues before the Wisconsin Supreme Court
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider cases on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s docket and other issues it may take up. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 21
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss former Wisconsin AG Brad Schimel’s appointment as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, this week’s Assembly and Senate floor sessions, a ruling upholding wedding barn alcohol permit requirements, utility rate hikes and more.