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Bruce Murphy: Diane Hendricks now richer than Menard!
Time to marvel at the incredible wealth of Wisconsin’s richest people.

Robert Granader: I’m a Washington Commanders fan. I was heartened at Green Bay Packers game.
It wasn’t just one incident, from the cab driver to hotel check-in desk, the fans in line at pre-game concessions, to the endless sea of tailgaters, they wore their host obligations on their jerseys.

Steven Walters: Wisconsin depends on immigration
Immigrants are 7% of state’s workforce, 11% of business owners, 16% of physicians, HRSC report finds.

Melissa Ratcliff: Investing in Wisconsin’s workforce, building our future
We need bold, forward-looking policies as in the past that support workers, strengthen businesses, and make sure our state remains a place where families want to live and work.

Greg Keenan, Jeanine Burmania and Katie Rice: Beyond the breakthrough: Transforming university inventions into everyday innovations
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has spent a century partnering with UW-Madison to address one of higher education’s most significant challenges: translating university discoveries into real-world impact.

John Nichols: Francesca Hong thinks Wisconsin’s ready for bolder politics
Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, a Madison Democrat who, like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, has made a name for herself as an outspoken legislator who is aligned with the Assembly’s multi-member socialist caucus, thinks there is room for an insurgent politics in this state.

Mark Belling: Wisconsin judge who danced on Kirk’s grave needs to resign
Charlie Kirk was hated because he was so decent and so effective.

Bruce Murphy: The rage of Derrick Van Orden
Congressman’s attacks on liberals spread exactly the kind of wrath he claims to oppose.

Gregory Humphrey: Once again, America is at the crossroads
If we are to survive as a democracy we simply must push back and stem the erosion of shared truth. When facts become negotiable and institutions become stage props, democracy becomes a performative national joke. The stuff that writes itself for a late-night comedian to use.

Dave Zweifel: Power drunk, in charge of the military. What could go wrong?
Aside from wasting taxpayers’ money, this whole business of sending active military soldiers trained to fight wars and kill the enemy to confront their own citizenry is dangerous — and illegal.

Richard Moore: Livestock producers in the bureaucratic crosshairs
DATCP is proposing fee increases on livestock producers, dealers, truckers, and others. Some of the proposed fees would rise by as much as almost 1,700 percent.

Mike McCabe: Reverse engineering
There’s a reason it’s called doomscrolling and not hopescrolling. Social media algorithms favor doom over hope, lies over truth, hate over love.

Christina Lieffring: Finding a refuge for the unhoused
With regressing attitudes towards unhoused people and winter looming, Madison and Dane County need to embrace imperfect solutions.

David Blaska: Disagreement is not evil in a working democracy
My fellow Republicans lose the argument when they call our political adversaries schoolyard names like “Demon-rats.” Progressives might be more credible if they would dial back the hyperbole.

Charlie Sykes: The rough beast slouches closer
A murder that brings out our best … and our absolute worst.

John Torinus: Mr. President: fewer words, more actions on Ukraine
Trump not only failed to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he has made things much worse with his soft, equivocal stance. He spouts off but shows little backbone.

Bill Kaplan: Big Beautiful Act bad for Wisconsin
The GOP-led congressional passage of the Big Beautiful Act is already an unpopular fiasco. The bill is polling badly because most Americans, including Wisconsinites, know it’s bad for them.

Rinn O’Rourke: Investing in families means protecting Head Start
As someone who walks into families’ homes every week, I can tell you: The need is great, and the stakes are high. Our children deserve more than political uncertainty. They deserve a Head Start.

Michael Lucas: Do not give in to evil
Mr. Kirk’s virtue laid in his willingness to pursue honest, peaceful, open debate with people of all sorts. He embodied one of the most crucial aspects of real Liberalism; an aspect which has allowed Western civilization to flourish. But with his death, now his admirers, and especially his opponents, are all the worse for having to live without him.

Dave Cieslewicz: Heroes and victims
It’s possible to be repulsed by an act without canonizing its victim.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze Crawford’s Supreme Court race win
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the factors that led to Judge Susan Crawford’s victory in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for April 11
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss a deal to settle a complaint against Michael Gableman related to his 2020 election review, a Dem bill that would make it illegal to offer payment for signing a petition during an election, a new GOP transmission line and energy bill, President Trump’s tariffs and more.