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John Torinus: Guv wannabes could tackle health costs
Health care management is complex. But smart politicians should, on behalf of citizens, be able to cut through the complexity toward solutions that work.

Richard Moore: Keeping Wisconsin, Wisconsin-owned
The Wisconsin legislature has introduced a bill to prohibit “foreign adversaries” from owning or acquiring land in Wisconsin. Richard Moore gives the low-down and compares it to similar efforts being made in other states, and at the federal level.

Lee Drutman and Barry Burden: How to break the doom loop of modern American politics
UW Law School on Friday will be holding a one-day conference on reviving fusion voting in Wisconsin.

Steven Walters: Should Wisconsin allow fusion voting?
The process was once common, according to Project Democracy, and two states — New York and Connecticut — allow some version of it.

John Nichols: Fusion voting opens up the fuller promise of democracy
Fusion voting gave New York City voters a chance to reject Trump’s outrageous attacks on Mamdani, while at the same time putting an increasingly marginalized GOP in its place.

Anna Adl: The US threatens to break its promise to special education students
Until now, special education has been one of the few areas where politics didn’t divide us.

Ruth Conniff: Tariffs, trade wars and immigration crackdowns
The cruelty, the waste, the lack of any coherent plan by this administration is becoming clearer and clearer.

David Blaska: Sierra Club goes woke, goes broke
It is a cautionary tale of what can happen to an organization and to a society that goes Woke. Not content with being green, the Sierra Club embraced “social justice” and proceeded to devour itself in backbiting, blame-gaming, and inquisitions.

Dave Cieslewicz: New books connects Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy to broader economic trends
The ship went down in Lake Superior 50 years ago.

Mark Born: $15 million for fixing Wisconsin prisons isn’t blank check
We will not rubber-stamp another vague, headline-driven initiative that risks public safety and wastes taxpayer money.

Bruce Thompson: The imperial Legislature loses again
Yet another Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling slaps down legislative overreach.

Mark Lisheron: UW students turning away from gender and ethnic studies degrees
Students want ROI and jobs.

Doug Mell: Boo U gave me the opportunity I needed; now it’s gone
It is not hyperbole to claim that without what is now known as the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County, or Boo U, I never would have graduated from college and had a career in newspapers and public relations.

Holly Clendenen and Josh Wyner: Here is why Southwest Wisconsin Tech is a prize-winning community college
We believe every college can learn something important from top community colleges: how to stay laser-focused on post-graduation success.

Bill Kaplan: Voters rejected Trump’s economy and shutdown
On Election Day Democratic candidates won big everywhere.

Scott Fitzgerald: Democrats created the ‘Obamacare cliff’ and now they’re crying foul
The end of Obamacare’s temporary subsidies accounts for only 3-4% of projected premium increases.

Jerry Hanson: Going hungry in America
President Trump’s true colors were on display when he appealed to the Supreme Court to deny SNAP food benefits to Americans at serious risk of going hungry.

David Blaska: Democrats won’t pay federal workers unless Republicans pay their $60B ransom
Democrats are still holding out for renewing the supposedly one-time, emergency subsidies to Obamacare, occasioned by the Covid pandemic.

Gregg Hoffmann: Climate change conference better off without Trump
Trump has been making the U.S. irrelevant in the climate change discussion worldwide since his first term. He also has more or less given other countries the advantages on development of green energy.

Michelle Bryant: Trump officials are moving into residences on military bases
Historically, even under intense security threats, senior White House officials have not sought refuge on military bases. By placing senior White House officials in military housing, the Trump administration is blurring the line between military and civilian roles.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the April 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the April 1 election for Wisconsin Supreme Court between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Feb. 28
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the state budget, state Supreme Court race spending, a proposed audit of statewide student testing standards and more.