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Bruce Thompson: How Wisconsin’s taxes turned more regressive
It was supposed to make Wisconsin’s economy better. Did it?
Emily Tseffos: Draw the line and hold it
How Evers and Democrats can step up in state budget negotiations.
Dan O’Donnell: Demographics is Wisconsin’s destiny
Lost in the fierce debate over the future of Republican Party of Wisconsin Chairman Brian Schimming amid a decade-long losing streak is an even more uncomfortable reality than an incompetent GOP: A steadily changing electorate that is turning the state bluer with each passing election.
Melissa Agard: Confronting the past, committing to justice
How Dane County is taking action on racial covenants.
Justice Castañeda: Why Madison’s housing gatekeepers are getting uncomfortable
Advocates for increased density are part of a broad-based effort to correct inequities.
John Imes: The real cost of the ‘Big, Broken Bill’
Why Wisconsin can’t afford to lose our clean energy future
David Blaska: Something crazy this way comes
Trump can win on his own but thanks, Democrats, for helping!
Bruce Murphy: The professors are the enemy
How and why Wisconsin Republican legislators are starving the UW system.
Kevin Culligan: Abortion is an American genocide. Women must reject this false freedom.
I understand each woman deserves the right to determine freely her own reproductive destiny, but I worry about the consequences of her choice for a child alive in her womb.
Mark Belling: Yes, this is what I voted for
For the first time in decades, the United States has an actual leader who acts decisively, honors his campaign commitments and has the stones to make brutally difficult decisions in the face of overwhelming pressure.
Jerry Hanson: I’ve never been so ashamed of my country
ICE agents pummeled a Hispanic gentleman for the crime of cutting grass at an IHOP in California.
O. Ricardo Pimentel: After the Black Lives Matter backlash, Immigrant Lives Matter, too
Immigrant Lives Matter is now a cry to recognize the humanity of people who are suffering violent attacks after being demonized as “aliens.”
Dave Zweifel: Deportations another example of Trump’s cluelessness
If he paid attention to the country that he leads, he should have known long ago that farmers stand to lose from his draconian crackdown.
LaKeshia Myers: Erasing our heroes: The shameful attack on Medgar Evers’ legacy
The Trump administration considering stripping Medgar Evers’ name from a U.S. Navy vessel isn’t just about a ship’s name; it’s about a deliberate attempt to erase Black excellence from American history.
Kelly Lecker: Misinformation hurts all of us
News travels at lightning speed these days, but we all need to slow down and think about what we’re reading.
Steven Walters: Supreme Court justices call for more security
GOP legislators reject $2.2 million proposal. But that was before Minnesota killings.
John Nichols: Departing justice delivers epic defense of the courts
Supreme Court Chief Justice Ann Walsh Bradley delivered an epic valedictory address on June 12 before a huge crowd of jurists, lawyers, current and former elected officials and grassroots Wisconsinites who have come to regard Bradley as our clearest voice of reason and conscience in these chaotic times.
John Torinus: Bold moves could end UW impasse
There are bold ways that Rothman and Gov. Evers could raise the kind of money they see as necessary for the health of the Universities system and earn back some trust.
Mike Gallagher: Trump’s big opportunity in Japan
A stronger alliance on trade and technology would benefit the U.S. while deterring China.
Kent Miller: Good Wisconsin union jobs are at risk if energy credits are stripped from budget bill
The truth is that this bill is just plain bad news for workers as currently written.
WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, analyze the U.S. Senate race between GOP businessman Eric Hovde and Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin as Election Day draws closer. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Rewind: Your Week in Review for Oct. 11
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss this week’s Supreme Court oral arguments on Gov. Tony Evers’ 400-year veto, the latest in the U.S. Senate race and President Joe Biden’s stop in Milwaukee.