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Brian Fraley: DPI response fails to make the grade
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has many problems. They’re self righteous, secretive and indignant. Their communications efforts do not offer clarity, they obfuscate. This was on full display in their spokesperson’s response to Dairyland Sentinel’s reporting.

Richard Moore: The biggest bully in the school just might be … the school
There was a time when the biggest bully in school was a kid with a bad haircut and a mean streak. These days, in too many places, the biggest bully in the school is the school itself.

Dalia Brasuel: Wisconsin bill echos national legislative assault on trans youth
AB104 would intervene within the privileged, confidential relationship between physicians and pediatric patients, offering no avenue of support for gender-diverse youth at a time when the Lemkin Institute has characterized the erosion of transgender rights in the United States as indicative of the “early stages of genocide.”

Bill Kaplan: GOP-Trump, higher health care premiums
Wisconsin Democrats are promoting affordability and economic security, while Republicans’ stonewalling on ACA tax credits results in more suffering and political payback for the GOP in November.

James Causey: Trump Obama ape video latest in string of unhinged actions
Anyone blindly defending this behavior is as much as racist as Trump. This is not the first time he crossed the line.

Dave Zweifel: Trump’s cabinet full of names we’d like to forget
I wonder if my old civics teacher would have wanted us to memorize these names?

Michelle Bryant: When the pulpit speaks, communities listen
Inside or outside the church, all of us have a role to play in advocating for social justice.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ weigh in on the political fight over data centers in Wisconsin
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the political uproar over data centers and legislation for siting them in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Gloria Randall-Hewitt: Big Tech wants Wisconsinites to pay for their data centers. We need to speak up
As we prepare for the PSC to make a decision on data centers, we need to make our voices heard to decision makers: Big Tech and We Energies don’t get to decide what’s best for Wisconsin.

Dave Zweifel: Lawmakers should be subject to their own transparency laws
Maybe it’s got something to do with the air in the state Capitol. But once otherwise ordinary men and women are elected to serve, they develop a belief that they’re above the law.

Bill Barth: Your right to information is under attack
Journalists make mistakes. Plenty of them. Criticism is often deserved. The only time I saw journalism under this kind of relentless attack, though, was at the height of the Watergate crisis. Let’s look at some issues facing journalism today.

James E. Causey: Instead of attacking student protesters, we ought to listen
No matter what one’s political views are, especially when it comes to adults and children, the grown-up bears responsibility for exercising restraint.

John Markson: The real story of the prosecution of Hannah Dugan
Federal agents derailed a state proceeding, undermining the integrity of our court system.

David Blaska: Redefining failure & waste
Wisconsin employers can’t find literate workers

Mike Nichols: Time for UW-Madison to do away with ethnic studies requirement
Time can be better spent on other things like AI

Tom Still: Despite caution signs, state investors aim to follow balanced road
While some regions may be more dependent on a single tech sector, it’s reassuring to know Wisconsin is spreading its investment bets. It just needs bigger bets.

Katie Kitzerow: Not ‘just an accident’; an elderly driver killed my child
We require testing and recertification for many professions where public safety is at stake, yet we place virtually no specialized requirements on elderly drivers.

Scott Walker: Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan
This week, we celebrate President Reagan’s birthday. Though his last public statements were decades ago, so many of his words still ring true today.

H. Carl Mueller: Bader legacy creates example for other families to follow
The memories of one generation of Baders is kept alive by current family members to share with others. In Milwaukee, the foundation has a special focus on community and neighborhood development.

Ryan Clancy: How do we stay safe from ICE?
Legislation alone won’t keep us safe from ICE. Because the harm that ICE does is inherent to it, it cannot be reformed or trained to be a positive institution.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss how the right of first refusal lost its spark
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider how a transmission line bill dubbed “right of first refusal” lost support in the Wisconsin Legislature.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 14
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the end of the federal government shutdown and a ban on THC-containing hemp products included in the deal, President Trump’s pardon of lawyers involved in Wisconsin’s GOP false electors scheme, school report cards and more.