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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.

Paul Soglin: No takers for Trump’s Venezuelan oil scheme
In the 10 days prior to the extraction of Meduro, Trump and his representatives met with U.S. oil interests to find an operator of the Venezuelan oil industry, with little success.

Melissa Agard: Promises made, promises kept in Dane County in 2025
As we look ahead to 2026, it’s worth asking a simple question: Did we do what we said we would do? The people of Dane County deserve results.

Rolf Lindgren: The return of Pints & Politics
The RPDC is re-energizing a longtime tradition

Thomas M. Nelson and Jerald Podair: Book excerpt: ‘Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy’
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of: “Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy,” by Thomas M. Nelson and Jerald Podair. Published by Michigan State University Press.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ crown their political winners and losers of 2025
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take a look back on the political winners and losers in Wisconsin in 2025. 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.