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Brian Reisinger: China buying US farmland is a serious threat across America
Just like China tariffs, trade disputes and dependence, how we deal with China and other foreign countries now matters for decades.

Dan Knodl: Standing with law enforcement, upholding the rule of law
We owe it to the citizens we represent and to the men and women in uniform who serve us to stand firm in support of lawful and effective immigration enforcement.

Scott Walker: Disrupting a church service and Special Olympics’ event exposes left’s protest extremism
The thugs who barged into a church service in Minnesota on Sunday reminded me of a similar crowd that tried to disrupt an event in which I, as governor of Wisconsin, was taking part.

Jamie Stiehm: How could we punish a president for the harm he’s caused?
Trump well knows impeachment is coming if Republicans lose the House in the midterms. That’s why he’s openly flirting with the Insurrection Act and imposing martial law.

Dave Zweifel: Anne Arneson made kids’ well-being her life pursuit
Her greatest cause was a lifetime of advocacy for the women and children of Wisconsin, serving as the executive director of the Wisconsin Council on Children & Families for more than 20 years (now called Kids Forward) where she oversaw the publication of Kids Count, the first database to track the well-being of children’s health in Wisconsin.

Steven Walters: 250 deadlines in crowded political year
Wisconsin Elections Commission website lists more than 250 deadlines that candidates, voters and local clerks must meet to make all that happen.

Bruce Murphy: Tiffany’s donation from College Republicans looks smelly
How Republicans did an end-run around two different prohibitions.

Jared Walczak: Governor Evers’ property tax relief plan fails to constrain property tax growth
Plan fails to address reason property taxes keep rising: his own “400-year veto”

Paul Smith: Wisconsin Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program deserves reauthorization
The Knowles Nelson Stewardship Program, which since 1989 has acquired public lands for conservation and outdoor recreation in Wisconsin, is set to expire in 2026.

James Causey: Ag secretary food tips comical distraction from high prices
I wonder if Rollins or her boss, Trump, could eat these recommendations seven times a week? Would they even want to?

Colin Gillis: Collective bargaining rights for nurses benefits all workers
Across the nation, workers are coming together to demand unions because when we have a voice on the job, we have power to shift the scales back to prioritizing our communities.

Mark Belling: 50 years after: Milwaukee’s failed busing experiment
Forced busing destroyed Milwaukee schools and killed its middle class.

Steven Tipton: Speak up and speak out against unjust tobacco industry practices
Widescale marketing of mentholated tobacco – a chemical compound used in commercial tobacco products which makes them easier to inhale, more appealing to use, and more difficult to quit – has been strategically aimed at Black communities.

Bill Barth: Continuing to push phony conspiracy
The 2020 presidential election — held in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century — was not perfect, but it was not stolen.

Bruce Murphy: 11 takeaways from governor’s race donations
How much money was raised, and from who, tells us a lot about the candidates.

Dave Cieslewicz: State of guv’s race in the third inning
The bottom line is that it’s a close game with no clear favorite right now.

Richard Moore: Legislature needs to rein in state DHS’s authoritarian ‘science’
State agencies are not legally or ethically bound to be zombies to federal guidance. But they are also not obligated to replace it with recommendations from private associations that promote their own agendas, and their own bottom lines.

Ruth Conniff: Buttigieg tells rural voters to connect with their neighbors as they share concerns for country
In making his La Crosse appearance to bolster a Democratic candidate in a swing district ahead of the midterms — and perhaps to stick his toe in the water ahead of a potential 2028 presidential run — Buttigieg connected with rural and blue-collar Midwestern voters.

John Torinus: Tell your Congress members: Enough already on Greenland and goons
When, oh, when will the Wisconsin congressional delegation take a loud, hard stand against new levels of outrageous policy coming out of the mind and mouth of President Donald Trump?

Spencer Black: Trump is squashing the free press
Trump has aggressively sought to use the power of government to control the information that the public receives through intimidation, lawsuits, the power of the Federal Communication Commission and the money of his MAGA billionaire buddies.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ take up Johnson’s reconciliation fight
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s demand for deeper cuts in the House version of the federal reconciliation bill. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 9
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss lawsuits from Dem voters challenging Wisconsin’s congressional lines, controversy over the Evers administration’s guidance for how state employees should respond to visits from federal immigration officials, the Joint Finance Committee removing 612 items from Gov. Tony Evers’ budget and more.