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Will Coggin: A California law is hurting Wisconsin. Congress has the fix.
California shouldn’t be regulating Wisconsin, and this isn’t particularly controversial. From Arizona to Georgia to Maine, most residents support a Prop 12 fix in the 2026 Farm Bill.

Courtney Graves: Why is Gen Z so anti-capitalist?
A new poll shows that support for socialism among young Americans is at an all-time high. What could be responsible for this fact?

Mike McCabe: What just might unite us
Regardless of where we’re from or where we now live, we share a great many problems. None bigger than our relationship with technology, the question of whether machines will be our servants or masters, whether tools like AI will end up assisting humanity or commandeering it.

Gregg Hoffmann: Data center in the Driftless Area?
It could be time for more Driftless folks to consider zoning, at least for large businesses like data centers and others that could impact the environment.

Michael Lucas: Wisconsin labor market update: March 2026
Despite reports of a bustling stock market, improving employment conditions and rising wages, many have yet to benefit these positive developments personally. What’s really going on?

Anthony Pahnke: Wisconsin farmers are in crisis. Lawmakers aren’t helping.
Changes introduced by our Wisconsin lawmakers do little to fix an agricultural system hemorrhaging producers. Still, these changes do little to fix an agricultural system hemorrhaging producers.

Mark Belling: Democrats tell Evers to just go away
Leftist hatred of tax relief kills lame-duck governor’s deal for school aid and tax cuts.

Bill Barth: Common ground cursed by purists
A grand compromise — there’s that dirty word in politics — was scuttled for the sake of political grandstanding.

John Scott: Medicaid cuts are hurting Wisconsin
Hospitals in Van Orden’s congressional district were projected to lose more than $42 million in annual revenue under the budget law.

John Torinus: Columbus, Indiana, visionary model for smaller cities
Columbus, Indiana, a city about the size of West Bend, has become a mecca for its collection of 70 buildings designed by world-class architects.

John Imes: When removal becomes a political tool, democracy suffers
Four members of the Shorewood Hills Village Board voted to remove me as village president. Obviously, my family and I are disappointed. More importantly, this was not right, and the legal standard for removal was not met.

Bruce Murphy: The lessons of Watertown
How the bizarre censorship of instrumental music punished students and parents.

Steven Walters: Four reasons why the Wisconsin tax cut, school aid package died
The deal was worked out between Gov. Tony Evers, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, all of whom are retiring.

James E. Causey: Squirreling away surplus money while people suffer is wrong
Could you use an extra $300 or $600 right now? A proposed Wisconsin bill aimed at helping taxpayers and schools is now dead after lawmakers rejected the deal.

Reese Wood: Libertarian Party of Wisconsin condemns Wisconsin petition circulator ban
Measures like this do not strengthen democracy, they weaken voter choice and make it harder for grassroots candidates, independent candidates, and third parties to compete in Wisconsin elections.

Dan Knodl: Wisconsin’s energy future: reliability, affordability and reality
The conversation about our energy future should not be driven by ideology. It should be driven by reliability, affordability, environmental stewardship, and honesty with the people paying the bills.

Tom Still: This ‘pajama party’ is one way how AI enhances rural healthcare
Artificial intelligence is dramatically shortening “pajama time” in health systems and clinics where certified note-taking technology is adopted.

George Mitchell: Influential Harvard journal recognizes Wisconsin’s Kim Feller
Far too few know the incredible story of Wisconsin’s Feller School and the promise it holds to address the literacy crisis that affects schools across the state and country.

Natalie Eilbert: The Wisconsin school board hell-bent on erasing history
The Watertown School Board set a dangerous precedent last week when all but one member voted to ban the Watertown Wind Symphony’s performance of “A Mother of a Revolution!” by Omar Thomas.

John Nichols: Henry David Thoreau and Wisconsin’s wild apples
Thoreau’s reflection on wild apples drew on many sources of inspiration — including, knowing chroniclers now suggest, Wisconsin.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ examine the tension between funding Wisconsin schools, reducing property taxes
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss whether state school funding or lowering property taxes is the more dominant political issue. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your week in review for May 1
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss the dismissal of another lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s congressional map, a ruling requiring the state DOJ to release the names of all Wisconsin law enforcement officers, Judge Pedro Colón joining the 2027 state Supreme Court race and more.