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Tom Barrett: Our elections are too important to sit on the sidelines
As 2026 approaches, rebuilding faith in our elections is more urgent than ever. In recent years, both parties have, at times, cast doubt on election processes when outcomes didn’t go their way. Left unchecked, that skepticism corrodes confidence and discourages participation. It is critical to push back, to reassure voters their ballots will be counted and safeguards exist to detect and prosecute fraud when it occurs.

Bruce Murphy: Tom Tiffany’s terrible day
His press conference was supposed to be about taxes. How did it go so terribly wrong?

Jared Walczak: An estate tax would harm Wisconsin’s economy
A money grab at death drives outmigration

Bruce Thompson: How Wisconsin ranks on minimum wage
Comparing to Midwest and the nation. A solution to affordability issue?

Jon McCray Jones: This surveillance system treats ordinary people as suspects
Flock insists its system reduces crime, but long-term reporting doesn’t support that claim.

Julia Watt: It’s time to start using the F-word, Milwaukee
Great Lakes region needs to unite now in the face of fascist occupation.

Rachel Burg: Wisconsin’s wrongfully convicted deserve real compensation
Across the country, reforms increasingly reflect the principle that those wrongfully convicted should not be punished a second time by a system that fails to help them rebuild.

Beth Bennett: Wisconsin newspapers urge passage of bill to protect free speech
Wisconsin is currently behind much of the country in providing these protections. As a result, journalists, activists and ordinary citizens in Wisconsin are more vulnerable to retaliatory lawsuits.

Rick Esenberg: Your ‘private property’ and their ‘public use’
Do we really own our homes or are we only allowed to keep them subject to the whims of the state? Can we be forced to sell all or a part of our “Castle and Fortress?” Maybe.

Bill Barth: Leave them alone if they’re recording
Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Law — arguably one of the best in the country — states that it is the government’s duty to “make a reasonable effort to accommodate any person desiring to record, film or photograph the meeting.”

Tom Loftus: Trump, Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize
It is all about Ukraine. The history of the Nobel Prize Committee is pretty clear: no cigar for a truce, a ceasefire, a buffer zone or postponing war while Russia regroups.

Dave Zweifel: How can so many Americans condone state violence?
What was even more disturbing than ICE’s behavior in Minneapolis this month was the reaction of all too many Americans.

Steven Walters: Legislators adjourn in two months, will any bills get passed?
One traditional rule — any bill that hasn’t passed one house of the Legislature by now, the second year of a legislative session, has little chance of becoming law — doesn’t apply so much anymore.

LaKeshia Myers: Wisconsin’s proposed constitutional question: a wolf in sheep’s clothing
The proposed constitutional amendment on diversity, equity, and inclusion set for the 2026 ballot isn’t about fairness—it’s about dismantling decades of progress toward genuine opportunity for all Wisconsinites.

Lisa Elliott and Jill Oelslager: Don’t penalize retired WI teachers who return to classrooms
Authorizing the provisions within Senate Bill 170 would allow retired teachers the option to return to the classroom without jeopardizing their retirement benefits.

Michael Lucas: Nullify the car kill switch
An amendment preventing enforcement of an unconstitutional federal requirement to install anti-drunk driving technology in all vehicles failed to pass in the House. Time to go back to federalist basics and nullify.

Bruce Murphy: GOP Silence Is Deafening on Shooting of Alex Pretti
Wisconsin members of Congress afraid to address ICE killing of a native son?

John Nichols: Minneapolis’s mayor rips “mass militarized force” after a second Minnesotan is gunned down
A powerful statement from Jacob Frey pleads with Trump to pull ICE forces out of Minneapolis before more people are killed.

Bill Hogseth: Before the wave hits: Rural Wisconsin organizes against the One Big Beautiful Bill
This fight will not be won by politicians, consultants, or pollsters. It will be won by regular people who have decided to build a movement town by town, county by county, state by state.

Curt Kubiak: Let’s stop pointing fingers and fix our health care problem together
Real change will only happen when we first seek to understand, when we come together and listen, identify the shortcomings in the existing model, and create solutions together that solve each of our concerns.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the latest Marquette Law School poll
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss takeaways from the latest Marquette University Law School poll. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for June 27
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss the last-minute budget push, the state Supreme Court’s decisions regarding the governor’s veto powers and congressional redistricting, results of the latest Marquette University Law School Poll and more.