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Juan Carlos Garcia Martinez: Beltline expansion proposals suggest dead-end logic
“Another lane will fix it” still reigns at WisDOT, but the public is pushing back.

David Blaska: The president stuck his foot in it
Next time, pick a villain who is unlikeable.

Dan Shafer: There have been many challenges to Wisconsin’s congressional maps. This one is different.
One of the biggest political stories of 2025 has been the push for mid-decade gerrymandering of state’s congressional maps.

Emily Pritzkow: I’m a WI union leader. We back data centers done right.
For us in the building trades, data centers aren’t some big, scary mystery. They’re high-skill, long-term work. The kind of work that feeds families, pays mortgages, and sends kids to college.

Brad Pfaff: Small businesses form the backbone of the local economy

Bill Berry: In the fight for democracy, don’t count the boomers out
“A bunch of old hippies.” That was the derisive term used by some to describe 2025’s massive protests of Trump administration policies.

John Nichols: When Rob Reiner joined Wisconsin’s fight to beat Trump
In the fall of 2020, as Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden were locked in a high-stakes competition for the presidency, Wisconsin ranked as the ultimate battleground state.

Richard Moore: When dreams (and liberty) go up in smoke
Our governor made sure it won’t be a possibility coming our way any time soon, vetoing a bill to exempt new cigar bars from the state’s public smoking ban.

Amelia Robinson: Trump’s Rob Reiner slam sign of syndrome that plagued Archie
That so many inexcusable things have happened since Trump was re-elected does not somehow make his heartlessness any less vomitous. Dancing on someone’s grave isn’t cute.

Scott Fitzgerald: A merger could bring better streaming
Consumers stand to benefit from Netflix’s acquisition of Warner.

Gregory Humphrey: Saturday’s mass shooting: Moral indictment of nation unwilling to protect its citizens
The mass shooting at Brown University today is a barbaric and unacceptable tragedy that once again exposes the nation’s inability to confront its epidemic of gun violence.

Michelle Bryant: Seizures and sinkings: Trump’s troubled maritime policy
I have a simple question: If you can board a tanker, why do you need to sink/AKA “blow up/AKA “kill everybody” on fishing boats?

Jessica McBride: A new bill would change the power structure at UW, giving students a better education
My program could hire Tom Brokaw or Walter Cronkite (if he was still alive) to teach broadcast journalism, and they would have no vote on which broadcast news classes we offer because they aren’t PhDs with tenure. Make that make sense.

Dave Zweifel: State Dems pushing back against anti-vax trend
Hats off to state Rep. Lisa Subeck and state Sens. Kelda Roys and Chris Larson for pushing back against the insane campaign to get Americans to shun vaccines.

David Blaska: Can Madison WI afford to be any more progressive?
In a few months, The Capital Times will encourage voters to elect progressives to local political office. We know this from bitter experience.

Don Leake: Pushing back against partisan redistricting
With its recent decision in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens, the US
Supreme Court has opened the door wide to partisan redistricting. What other
conclusion can be made?

Robert Nigh: Why Wisconsin needs Farm Bureau health plans
When my dad passed away in 1966, our family lost their primary health insurance overnight. My name is Robert Nigh, and I’m a dairy farmer from Vernon County, and this is a story that has repeated itself through three generations of my family.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Wisconsin Congressional redistricting cases now before judicial panels
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at court cases seeking the redrawing of Wisconsin’s Congressional district boundaries. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Ruth Conniff: Wisconsin candidates decry money in politics, promise to raise a ton of it
Ending the vicious cycle of campaign cash and the destruction of democracy

Brian Fraley: Waiting on word …
The worst kept secret in Madison is that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos may not run again in 2026. These rumors surface every two years around this time, and while his departure would be hugely significant, it would hardly be unexpected.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider top issues before the Wisconsin Supreme Court
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider cases on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s docket and other issues it may take up. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Oct. 31
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the looming cutoff of Wisconsin FoodShare benefits amid the federal government shutdown, projected ACA health care premium spikes, the release of $15 million to plan Wisconsin’s prison overhaul and more.