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John Torinus: UW campus majority: keep community control
West Bend was witness to an incredible exercise in democracy at the local level Thursday night in a jam-packed hearing on the future of the sadly vacated UW campus.

Gregory Humphrey: American values at stake in Ukraine
It is a test of whether sovereign nations can exist without fear of conquest, and whether the rule of law still matters in global affairs.

John Nichols: Evers’ veto rejects gig worker sellout
The legislation was a priority for out-of-state delivery corporations, which seek to classify workers as “independent contractors” to get around labor law protections.

Shannon Zimmerman: The great divide: Can common sense Americans reunite?
We must reclaim our identity, not as Republicans or Democrats, not as coastal elites or flyover country, but as Americans. We must stop letting people who utilize large platforms, but face no accountability, define us.

Scott Mayer: While Trump secures our border, Wisconsin needs to secure its labor force
We should build on the Trump administration’s border security successes and pair them with innovative, safeguarding labor policies.

Bill Kaplan: No deal, Putin-Trump Ukraine summit
Ukrainians die as Russia’s murderous aggression continues. Putin and Trump got a photo op. The summit concluded with no deal, and brief, vacuous statements by Putin and Trump.

David Blaska: Trump crime-shames Democrat mayors
Sometimes, enough is enough!

Paul Fanlund: Punishing the Washington Post and New York Times is dumb
By abandoning the Post or the Times, or even the Wall Street Journal, with its strong news reporting, you hurt skilled professional reporters who spend their days ferreting out facts on which the nighttime spin merchants rely.

Michelle Bryant: Race and class: No breaks, no vacations
Trump’s actions are not just political; they are a social and psychological assault that reverberates in Black communities of every class.

William Holahan: The cost of attacking higher education
A timely lesson from Covid’s Operation Warp Speed.

Mike McCabe: Rising above
We live in a dishonest age, and all the lying is giving fiction a bad name.

Scott Walker: How Republicans can win the midterms
President Trump recently completed the most successful first six months of any term in history.

Scott Niederjohn & Mark Schug: Economics: The Rodney Dangerfield of modern politics
These days, economics is the Rodney Dangerfield of public policy: It gets no respect. In both Washington and Madison, basic economic principles are routinely ignored, as if policymakers believe they can repeal the laws of supply and demand with campaign slogans.

Gregory Humphrey: Didion Milling in Cambria must be held accountable
The company has disregarded the government’s safety demands and upgrades after five people were killed and 14 were injured in a 2017 horrific corn plant explosion.

Dave Zweifel: WILL thinks ordinances protecting birds are for the birds
One of the most absurd cases that WILL championed was aimed at the city of Madison for its attempts to save our migrating birds.

Jasmyne Jade Hill: Milwaukee’s urban farming: How a Rust Belt city cultivated a grassroots idea into a national model
Milwaukee’s reputation as a manufacturing powerhouse once defined its economic and cultural identity. But as industry collapsed and neighborhoods suffered decades of disinvestment, residents began turning to the land in vacant lots, schoolyards, and rooftops as a means of survival and resistance.

Thomas G. Boyce: As your kids head back to school, it’s important as ever to check their vaccines
During my 30 years of practicing medicine, I have cared for unvaccinated children who died from vaccine-preventable diseases like bacterial meningitis, whooping cough, and influenza.

Geraldine Byrne Nason: Milwaukee’s Irish Fest is one of largest celebrations of our culture in world
The imprint of Irish culture on American life has been immense. Today, over 30 million Americans identify as Irish, over half a million of whom live in Wisconsin.

Scott Gordon: The outsides of other people’s homes
Complaints about ugly new housing abound in Madison, but they aren’t getting us anywhere.

Kate Felton: Medicaid and SNAP helped my family
Derrick Van Orden’s vote to cut these programs will be harmful.

‘The Insiders’ analyze the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the spring election for state Supreme Court between Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel and Dane County Judge Susan Crawford. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Feb. 7
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Republicans’ new immigration enforcement bill, a proposal to restore previous state testing standards and Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposals to promote clean water.