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Kristin Brey: Would you have more kids if it meant less potholes? Vance, Duffy don’t get it.
I have yet to meet a parent who said, ‘We were going to stop at one, but then they repaved Main Street.’

Bruce Thompson: The myth of immigrant violence
Neighborhoods with Hispanic immigrants actually have lower rates of violent crime.

John Nichols: New DNC Chair Ken Martin is ready to build a bigger, bolder party
The DNC elects a new leader as it seeks to unify the party and win back working-class voters.

Dave Cieslewicz: Ben Wikler lost, it won’t matter
The new Democratic National Party chair won’t be in a position to improve the party’s fortunes either.

LaKeshia N. Myers: Education is the next civil rights frontier: Wisconsin must act now
Our state maintains one of the largest achievement gaps between Black and white students in the nation – a crisis that demands immediate attention and action.

Bill Barth: Wisconsin cannot accept racial gap
It’s a statewide embarrassment for our education system.

Jerry Hanson: Our legislators can end the school referendum crisis
The Legislature’s failure to adequately fund public schools has led to school districts turning to referendums to meet their operational costs. Wisconsin’s legislature has not given schools enough funding to keep pace with inflation for the last 15 years.

Jim Piwowarczyk: Gov. Evers: Why are you siding with criminal illegals who commit felonies?
It’s disappointing that Gov. Evers prioritizes political agendas over the safety of Wisconsin families.

David Blaska: Democrats double down on failure
Wisconsin Democrats were hoping their own Ben Wikler would be chosen chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Democrats instead elected the state chairman responsible for Tim Walz in Minnesota.

Dave Zweifel: Trump’s God is not the one I learned about in Sunday School
God works in mysterious ways — or, at least, Donald Trump’s God does.

Mark Belling: President Trump isn’t that conservative
The left abandons its principles as Trump embraces them

Dan Shafer: Donald Trump and the rise of the pro wrestling Republicans
Why recognizing this political and cultural realignment — as fake populist and hollow as it might be — is critical to Democrats’ ability to compete going forward.

Gregory Humphrey: USAID battle proves what happens with severely uninformed person in Oval Office
Such a failure to understand the role and purpose of soft power calls into question the overall IQ of the person sitting in the Oval Office.

James E. Causey: Malcolm X understood what was wrong about Snoop Dogg’s show celebrating Trump
Snoop Dogg lost 570,000 followers on Instagram following his performance, and 20,000 unfollowed him on X.

Spencer Black: We predicted Trump’s chaos; I wish we were wrong
Unfortunately, the first days of the second Trump term are proving this prediction to be prescient.

Steven Walters: What to do with Wisconsin’s $4.3 billion surplus?
New estimate renews GOP tax cut pledge.

Bill Barth: How cost is used to deny access to records
Officials at all levels of government are well aware that prohibitive costs can lead to would-be records requesters relinquishing their rights rather than risking high legal fees.

Wyatt Eichholz: Wisconsin student enrollment and teacher staffing trends
Wisconsin’s public schools are losing students faster than districts are downsizing their staff, analysis of data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction shows.

Michelle Bryant: The urgency of educational leadership
Why the DPI superintendent race matters for Black students in Wisconsin

Dave Cieslewicz: More like Hagedorn, please
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has only one truly principled justice: conservative Brian Hagedorn. Last week Hagedorn recused himself from a case involving Act 10, much to the chagrin of Republicans who were counting on him to be a vote to uphold the law which restricts public employee bargaining rights.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze recent presidential polling in Wisconsin
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the recent presidential polling in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 6
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss President Joe Biden’s visit to Westby, presidential campaign visits, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit to be removed from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot, political ad spending, controversy over student test score changes and more.