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Brian Fraley: Wisconsin within America’s first 250 years: Our stories deserve to be told
For nearly four centuries, Wisconsin has shaped the American story. Not quietly or from the sidelines, but from the center of the action.

Masood Akhtar: Muslim Americans: A vital part of America’s success
The attempt to marginalize Muslims or portray them as less American betrays the very ideals upon which this nation was built. Muslims are not a burden on America. Muslims are part of America’s strength. They have helped make this nation more compassionate, more innovative, more resilient and more prosperous.

Scott Mayer: America can’t ignore immigrant labor shortage
America’s immigration debate often gets framed as a choice between security and compassion. It doesn’t have to be. We can secure our border while also recognizing a simple economic reality: The United States needs workers, and most of those workers are immigrants.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: The forgotten middle
How America abandoned cities like Milwaukee that built the working middle class

Mark Belling: State Democrat bosses panic over Francesca Hong
They think the front-running candidate for governor is too radical to win the general election.

Dave Zweifel: Ads paint a folksy image, but he’s still ‘Toxic Tom’
While “Toxic Tom” may have milked a few cows in his youth, he sure hasn’t been much of a champion for Wisconsin’s farmers during his six years in Congress representing the state’s 7th Congressional District.

Scott Allen: MPS is doomed to failure without external intervention
For the educational establishment and their advocates, there is never enough money. For the rest of Wisconsin, we expect better results with the money spent.

Sherry Reams, Mark Rice, Joyce Ellwanger and Harlan Richards: Wisconsin clemency debate: Who deserves a second chance?
Wisconsin leaders are debating who in prison should qualify for clemency. A one-size-fits-all approach risks ignoring rehabilitation and growth with age.

James E. Causey: America’s reparations hypocrisy is impossible to ignore
The racial wealth and education gaps created during slavery and segregation still exist today. That is the part of America many people still refuse to confront.

Michael Rosen: Anti-union monopoly power kills an iconic Milwaukee industry
Attacks on packinghouse workers’ unions and the increased economic concentration of meatpacking firms are bad for workers, ranchers and consumers.

John Nichols: No mention of Gaza in the DNC’s 2024 autopsy? Seriously?
Too many Democrats still refuse to acknowledge how gravely the party was harmed by a failure to actively oppose genocide.

Dave Cieslewicz: The YSDA ’24 postmortem report
The DNC’s report is useless because it doesn’t even begin to address what’s fundamentally wrong with the party.

Steven Walters: Wisconsin Republicans have plan to win in November
Top officials outlined their game plan; it’s about key issues and striking first.

Spencer Black: Dems must pick strongest candidate to beat Tiffany
Democratic voters enjoy an embarrassment of riches because there are seven serious Democratic candidates for governor, all of whom are well qualified to lead our state.

John Torinus: Trump pall and Republican exodus
The unusual exodus of Republican legislators from the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly undoubtedly stems from differing personal factors by each office holder. But the dark pall over the Republican Party cast by President Donald Trump surely also figured heavily into their departures.

Gregg Hoffmann: Wisconsin sticks with PFAS standards
The feds might be planning to roll back PFAS limits, but Wisconsin plans to continue with stricter standards, at least for now.

Bethany Rentschl: Trauma-informed care can heal struggling veterans and us all
Veterans are not the only ones with post-traumatic stress. Approximately 13 million Americans carry it.

Natalie Eilbert: Wisconsin needs more Latino peer specialists
Even prior to Trump’s punishing campaign, Wisconsin’s Latino community has struggled at disproportionate rates with poor mental health.

Bruce Murphy: Sewerage District problems are suspicious
Why did it resist an audit? And why does Mayor Johnson agree it must be done quickly?

LaKeshia Myers: We cannot balance the budget on the backs of our children or the people who serve them
Milwaukee Public Schools — our schools, our children, our community — deserves a budget that doesn’t just address yesterday’s deficit. It deserves a plan that truly builds for tomorrow.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the Wisconsin Senate shooting down the $1.8B surplus deal
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up the state Senate vote shooting down the $1.8 billion tax cut and school aid package that Gov. Tony Evers worked out with GOP leaders. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your week in review for May 15
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Jessie Opoien discuss the surplus deal failing to pass the state Senate, an FBI investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin, this weekend’s state GOP convention and more.