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Nate Gilliam: It’s time to overturn Act 12. Milwaukee deserves better.
ACT 12 is cementing anti-Blackness in legislation in a place that has suffered deep organized abandonment. It must be reversed.

Tom Barrett: Johnson voted for the Trump bill he called immoral. His choice will devastate Wisconsin.
In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Johnson said he could not support the bill ‘in its current form’ because it increased annual deficits. He voted for one that increased it more.

Gregory Humphrey: UW-Madison graduate students feel impact of Trump’s federal grant cuts
Without a reversal in federal policy, the long-term impact could be dire, not just for Wisconsin, but for the nation’s standing in global scientific leadership.

Judith Davidoff: A time of upheaval for public media
Managers say the struggle to survive hinges on the ability to adapt.

Michelle Bryant: No one should ever accuse Trump of acting like a daddy
NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte has repeatedly called Trump “daddy” during and since the organization’s recent summit in The Hague.

David Blaska: You want fraught? Try the 1950s
Finished reading over this Independence Day weekend a book that explores the meaning of patriotism: “A Good American Family; The Red Scare and My Father.” David Maraniss wrote his 12th book about his parents, especially his father Elliott, edotor of The Capital Times.

Dan Shafer: Wisconsin passed a budget with Democratic votes. But is it enough?
Dianne Hesselbein and Senate Democrats proved critical in achieving major wins in a compromise deal. But overall, did Evers and Democrats press hard enough with newfound leverage?

Dave Zweifel: We should hold lawmakers to the standards they force on UW
In their latest attempt at micromanaging an institution for which their support ranks 44th among the 50 states, the budget contains a provision that requires faculty members to teach at least 24 credit hours per year, a number that is reduced to 12 credit hours for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Kathryn Dicks: Wisconsin needs child care funding now
The child care crisis has been ongoing for several years and demonstrates market failure. The costs are too high for families, and providers struggle to keep their businesses open and pay fair wages.

Richard Moore: Of surrender and sovereignty: A tale of two Republican parties
Just in case anybody is still wondering why Wisconsin Republicans lose statewide elections all the time, look no further than the GOP’s legislative leadership for a quick explanation.

Eve Galanter: Don’t cut funding for public television, radio in Wisconsin
This funding was approved in the past. If it goes away, it would leave many in Wisconsin and across the nation without access to the critical services and educational programming public media provides.

Bill Kaplan: Trump and GOP sullied July 4th
The GOP-led Congress narrowly passed the “Big Beautiful Act”, to kneel before Trump on July 4th, sullying our sacred day.
LaKeshia N. Myers: The echo of history: Douglass’s question resonates in Trump’s America
When Frederick Douglass stood before a Rochester audience on July 5, 1852, and delivered his searing critique “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, he exposed the fundamental contradiction at the heart of American democracy.

Scott Walker: Make American civics courses mandatory in schools
We must remind our fellow Americans why we are a great nation.

Kristin Brey: A Fourth of July list of grievances from overworked, unrepresented America
For a country that prides itself on innovation and reinvention, we sure do seem stuck in the past — clinging to systems that serve fewer and fewer of us, while demanding more and more.

Michael Rosen and Charlie Dee: On Independence Day, we deserve a president who governs by founding principles
Americans celebrating July 4 deserve a president who can both articulate what the Declaration of Independence means and govern according to its principles.

O. Ricardo Pimentel: Who deserves to be a U.S. citizen?
I contend that a chief quality of those who deserve citizenship is that they don’t take their citizenship for granted. They know their parents sacrificed much to make it happen. We are proud Americans. We belong here. And we deserve to stay.

Michael Siebers: Save the VA
DOGE disruptions, retirements and anticipated cuts threaten care for veterans.

Mike Nichols: The truth about MPS, who makes it to graduation and who doesn’t
The big picture: For every kid who enters MPS as a freshman each fall and goes on post-secondary education, there are at least two who do not, at least not in the year after high school ended.

Paul Fanlund: JB Pritzker will bring the fire to Cap Times Idea Fest
Pritzker has long been a fierce Trump critic, and the billionaire governor of Illinois was unsparing in his initial post-election comments, warning against attacks on his state.

‘The Insiders’ review partisan reshuffling in the Wisconsin Legislature
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review partisan reshuffling in the Wisconsin Legislature following the November general election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 1
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss candidates’ closing arguments head of Tuesday’s election, highlights from the Marquette University Law School Poll, early voting data, legislative races to watch and more.