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Jim Piwowarczyk: ROFR violates conservative values, stifles free market competition
By effectively sidelining alternative bidders, the legislation can lead to less favorable terms for consumers and impede the entry of new technology and practices that could emerge from a more open and competitive bidding process.

Jeff Mandell: Case demonstrates Schimel’s disregard for the law
The issue in the case cuts to the heart of democracy: Does a school board need to be transparent to the public when conducting public business?

Gregory Humphrey: Brian Schimel’s character is issue over ‘driven by their emotions’ comment, lacks candor over objectivity
The troubling words by Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brian Schimel about the female justices on the Supreme Court concern me on several fronts.

Richard Moore: The DNR’s scientific integrity policy = unaccountability
The proposed DNR budget needs to be thoroughly deconstructed, and then the agency’s internal scientific regime, especially its corrupt so-called scientific integrity policy, needs to be scrapped.

LaKeshia Myers: A time to recognize and advocate for Americans with developmental disabilities
As we welcome the month of March, we acknowledge National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month—a time to recognize the contributions, struggles, and rights of the millions of Americans living with developmental disabilities.

Kristen 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.

Bill Kaplan: Trump abandons Ukraine to Putin
Trump and Vance in a calculated “mob hit” berated, slandered and humiliated Zelensky before the press and abandoned Ukraine to Putin.

John Torinus: Trump messes up ‘The Art of the Deal’
Trump and Vance lost control of their emotions, played to their MAGA base and shattered the U.S. relationship with Ukraine, and possibly Europe, by ambushing Zelenskyy.

Kenneth Zagacki and Richard Cherwitz: Trump’s Ukraine rhetoric forces a new reality
President Trump shocked U.S. allies, not to mention many Americans, when he called Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections” who “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ review Evers’ state budget proposal
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed state budget that GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said was “dead on arrival.” Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Patrick McIlheran: Mobile taxpayers would decide whether Evers’ dream of higher taxes is ‘fair’
Governor talks of new 9.8% top rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

Dave Cieslewicz: All prisons are local
Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to fix Wisconsin’s penal institutions has a chance.

Scott Walker: Happy ‘Inseminated Person’ Day!
Gov. Tony Evers is making Wisconsin a national embarrassment after including language in his state budget proposal that changes the definition of mother to inseminated person.

Mark Mone: UWM has weathered cuts, delivered research to improve health and commerce
As a survivor of multiple cancers, I’m proud that we just launched our third cohort of 15 UWM undergraduates studying cancer with faculty mentors at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Jonathan Patz: We Energies Kenosha County power plant threatens public health and environment
Gas power plants, in addition to emitting greenhouse gases, pollute the air with nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds.

Tommy Thompson: Want cheaper, more reliable power? Pass right of first refusal legislation.
The law would also require Wisconsin’s transmission owning companies to competitively bid out every aspect of the construction process for every covered project.

Paul Fanlund: Donald Trump could teach a master class on how to lie
Lies come so fast that it feels impossible for the press to push back on them all, which is the point.

Ruth Conniff: ‘Evolving away from the cruelty’
The bonds between rural people in Mexico and the Midwest

Gary G. Yerkey: From Ripon College to Selma, Alabama
Remembering a journey against injustice 60 years ago, ‘Participating in the march, which has been called one of the pivotal moments in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, was inspiring. It changed my life.’

Paul Melotik: Celebrating February as Career and Technical Education Month
This month serves as an important reminder of the outstanding technical education opportunities available to residents across Wisconsin.

WisOpinion: ‘The insiders’ analyze the ’24 election in Wisconsin
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look back at the 2024 general election and its highs and lows in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Oct. 25
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the start of early voting, presidential candidate visits, lawsuits targeting Wisconsin elections and more.