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Andrew C. Iverson: Farmers markets promote rural prosperity in Wisconsin
This week, USDA Rural Development Wisconsin is celebrating National Farmers Market Week.

Gregory Humphrey: Virtue not working concept in Trump White House
There was a time when the presidency stood for something more than power.It stood for virtue. For honesty. For the idea that the person behind the Resolute Desk was resolute in character, not just ambition. But that time feels like a relic of a vanished republic.

Dave Zweifel: They ran out of criminals, so they’re deporting children
Now the targets have become children, farm workers, Home Depot employees and hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the U.S. for decades, earning a living, paying taxes and raising children.

David C. Couper: Take the cross back from the oppressors
On Aug. 2, I and a group of fellow believers will carry a large wooden cross through the streets of Madison. We will walk silently, not in protest of one political party or another, but against a deeper sickness — one that perverts the Gospel, sanctions cruelty, promotes violence, militarism and war, endangers our environment and wraps oppression in religious robes.

Kristin Brey: Studies find art on street crosswalks makes them safer. Trump wants them gone.
Asphalt art projects have taken off in the past decade as collaborations between cities, community groups and artists.

David Blaska: Palestinian advocates hurt their cause
Has advocacy for any cause created more ill will than the push for Palestinian statehood?

Noria Doyle: Americans may no longer rely on global dominance of English as U.S. influence collapses under Trump
There is an old joke that goes: if you speak two languages, you are bilingual. But if you only speak one language, you are an American.

Steven Walters: Why Tony Evers could have run again
Why he was likely to win and thrive as a three-term governor.

Bruce Murphy: Youth will be served in governor’s race
Next Wisconsin governor could be three decades younger than Tony Evers.

Heather Murray: Child care needs support to survive
The new state budget wasn’t ideal but it did do two things: Direct payments will continue to go to providers for the next year and early education is finally funded with state dollars in the Wisconsin budget.

David Blaska: Who will milk our cows?
We do not think Republicans can ignore the full-page advertisement in today’s Wall Street Journal addressed to the president from the Dairy Farmers of America. The farmer-owned cooperative asserts that dairy farms need immigrants to stay in business.

Mark Huth: Group Health encourages unionization vote
We proposed three separate sets of dates in May and June to host an NLRB-supervised election. The union declined to schedule a vote.

Bill Berry: Hmong diaspora led to thriving communities in Wisconsin
Amid all the rancor about immigration and just who is an American these days, Wisconsin is commemorating the anniversary of when thousands of Hmong refugees came to the state.

Richard Moore: Nonprofits: The scam of the NGO is bigger than you think
The NGO network is the beating and fraudulently bleeding heart of a massive movement to seize all power for the progressive left.

Michelle Bryant: Sex, scandal, and the politics of obsession
The case of Epstein, Trump, and American double standards

Paul Fanlund: Why Madison’s former top cop is carrying a cross in protest
David Couper, Madison’s former longtime police chief turned Episcopal priest, has organized a vigil in downtown Madison on Aug. 2 to protest Donald Trump’s cruelty.

John Nichols: Evers injected a dose of decency into Wisconsin politics
Evers, a mild-mannered former science teacher and school administrator, was the antithesis to the arrogant, constantly calculating Walker. And to the self-aggrandizing politics of the Trump era.

Mark Lisheron: How the pandemic is now used to make politicians look wonderful
Much-lauded Wisconsin tourism gains helped greatly by drawn-out recovery funding.

LaKeshia Myers: Elections really do have consequences … and the state budget proves it
For too long, the state Legislature has played political games with our children’s education while spouting hollow rhetoric about being “pro-family” and “pro-education.” The truth is laid bare in the numbers: we are failing our students, our teachers, and our communities through willful neglect and misplaced priorities.

Bill Kaplan: Trump and GOP’s betrayal of rural Wisconsin
Trump and Wisconsin congressional Republicans have betrayed rural Wisconsin and its farmers.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ reflect on 2024 and its political winners and losers
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look back on the news events of 2024 and select the year’s political winners and losers. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Jan. 3
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the Elections Commission launching an investigation into uncounted absentee ballots in Madison, the 2025 legislative session, Karen Hyun’s appointment as DNR secretary and more.