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James Causey: Trump targets nurses, teachers, women-dominated professions
It’s absurd that the U.S. Department of Education has chosen to exclude nursing from its definition of ‘professional degree’ programs.

Bill Barth: Needed: Conversation about boys and men
Professor and author Scott Galloway says if, as a country, we want better young men — and one certainly hopes we do — then we need better older men. And we need them to step up as mentors.

Dave Cieslewicz: Trump fades some more
The evidence of Donald Trump’s slipping hold on his party is growing.

Mark Belling: Barnes defies Democrat bosses
They fear he’s the only Democrat who could lose the governor election.

Dave Zweifel: Wisconsin’s minimum wage is an embarrassment
Unfortunately, the state is not alone. The federal government, too, has stubbornly refused to raise the wage floor above $7.25 an hour, the same absurd floor as Wisconsin’s.

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.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider potential ’26 GOP candidates for Wisconsin governor
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at potential GOP gubernatorial candidates to run in 2026 as Gov. Tony Evers considers whether to seek a third term. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 30
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the Joint Finance Committee’s first votes on the state budget, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s push to reduce federal spending, the Department of Public Instruction’s new effort to revamp school report cards and more.