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Kristin Brey: Super Bowl ads show why representation is key to supporting women in sports
Girls who play sports before reaching college have higher levels of self-esteem, lower chances of developing depression and better body images compared to those who do not.

Richard Cherwitz: With no checks and balances, how to rein in the president?
The legislative branch has abdicated its responsibility, and the power of the judiciary may have been neutralized because of the absence of an enforcement mechanism.

Brian Reisinger: As fights rage over DOGE and USAID, farmers battle decades of government failure
Farm programs are broken and fragmented, leaving countless gaps where American farmers can slip between the cracks. Fixing this requires much deeper change.

Mark Belling: The spending orgy is over
Musk, Trump and DOGE are reclaiming the money the left has stolen from us.

John Torinus & Tom Hefty: Wisconsinites’ health is deteriorating: Madison needs to wake up
We just received another wakeup call on health care in Wisconsin, where costs are too high, public health outcomes have plummeted, and our governor has hit the snooze button.

John Imes: Building new natural gas plants in Wisconsin will strap customers with big bills
We Energies’ proposed gas plants are not just unnecessary — they’re a long-term financial burden on ratepayers.

Dave Zweifel: Property taxes unbearable? The GOP doesn’t care
Legislators should work to help elderly people on fixed incomes, and the young family in their first home, afford the property taxes their policies of starving public schools and micromanaging local governments are foisting on them.

Steven Walters: ‘I’m all for him’
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson champions Trump from the sidelines.

Luke Fuszard: Electoral grief is a real thing, and there’s a lot of it
For the millions struggling with electoral grief, experts recommend focusing on what you can control.

Judith Davidoff: Local news in the time of Trump 2.0
We’ll focus on the context and impact, not the chaos.

Bruce Murphy: Hospitals get even more stingy on charity care
Hospitals in state and metro area have further cut the percent of revenue for this.

James Causey: Those who tell me to be more like MLK expose their own ignorance of his legacy
Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘America was given its colored people a bad check, marked ‘insufficient funds.” Do you believe this still holds today?

Angela Lang: Trump and Duffy were wrong to blame DEI. But is DEI really the answer?
It was never about DEI. DEI was only the crumbs they allowed us to have, while simultaneously undermining any advancement with harmful policies.

John Torinus: Trump’s tariff war ignores his promises
President Trump is fixated on tariffs as an ultimate solution to many problems. Did he and we not learn from his tariff war in his first term that they are often counter-productive on prices and inflation?

John Nichols: The Constitution does not give Musk more power than Congress
The Constitution of the United States makes no mention of “special government employees,” and it certainly does not suggest that they should be able to roll over the Congress in a wholesale effort to turn the federal government into a billionaire’s playground.

Amy Hemmer: A minority party throwing a major tantrum
Since January 20th, it’s obvious that the Democrats did not learn a thing from the brutal shellacking they received on November 5th, 2024.

Tom Still: Federal support for academic R&D helps people, economy in many ways
Trump may well be justified in dialing back federal spending; the nation has run a deficit every year since 2001 and spending has grown to about 24% of gross domestic product. What’s alarming is that university research seems like a counter-productive place to start.

Dave Cieslewicz: In praise of Joe Manchin
Liberals hated the Supreme Court and the filibuster. Now those things are among the last lines of defense against an authoritarian state.

Bill Berry: Amid the calamity, you have to look for good news
Amid the torrent of bad news gushing from Washington like sewage from a busted pipe, there are fragments of good news fluttering around us.

Wyatt Eichholz: To what extent are school districts losing teachers they want?
Teacher turnover varies by pay, seniority and other characteristics.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Wisconsin tribes’ push to legalize medical marijuana
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take a look at the Wisconsin’s Native American tribes’ recent push to provide medical marijuana. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 20
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to be removed from Wisconsin’s ballot, municipalities opting against using absentee ballot drop boxes, a Republican National Committee lawsuit over election observers, a push for more funding for the Universities of Wisconsin and more.