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Carolyn Kott Washburne: Flood response presented real-world opportunity to ‘help thy neighbor’
My neighbors and I found community among carnage.

Emily K. Sterk: Milwaukee police use facial recognition technology we know is flawed
Facial recognition technology is developing faster than we can study and understand it. We cannot turn to it simply because it is a free tool available to the Milwaukee Police Department.

LaKeshia Myers: Parent power: A literacy playbook for Wisconsin Parents
Maya Payne Smart, a renowned literacy advocate and author of “Reading for Our Lives,” challenges us to move beyond the traditional “bedtime story” approach to literacy.

Mark Belling: Trump is right about our America-hating museums
The new Milwaukee museum is likely to be miserable.

Dave Zweifel: Why do we have to be so mean?
Every day we learn of new heartless attacks on immigrants. Federal agents frequently grab people who are in the U.S. legally. Families are torn about. Children, legal residents of the U.S., are left without parents.

Steven Walters: Primaries let voters pick governor candidates
How many candidates will run? The list looks long.

John Nichols: Sarah Godlewski’s smart bid for lieutenant governor
Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski could easily have run for the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Gov. Tony Evers. Instead, she’s opted to run for lieutenant governor, which is a smart move for her and good news for Wisconsin Democrats as they prepare for the definitive elections of 2026.

Dora Drake: Budget cuts and supermarket closures affect your food security
Your elected leaders have a responsibility to take bold policy measures to protect our food security, and you have my commitment to do just that.

Bill Berry: Bill Horvath an unsung hero of Wisconsin conservation
Horvath, a rural Shawano County native, was in the rare company of those who are able to turn their vision into reality.

James Wasley: Milwaukee has turned toxic legacy into civic asset with river cleanups
With this final dredging push, Milwaukee’s waterways are poised to be removed from the national list of toxic hotspots — a milestone worth celebrating.

Carolyn Bhakta: Meet new face of cancer in Wisconsin: She’s under 50. We can’t wait to act.
For decades, we thought of cancer as a disease of aging. But that assumption no longer reflects reality.

Richard Moore: How progressives hijack democratic governance (yet another way!)
A lawsuit by Wisconsin Dairy Alliance and the Venture Dairy Cooperative has spotlighted yet another tactic progressives use to bypass democratic governance.

Bill Barth: Yelling at Brian Steil is not democracy, it’s rude and crude
Free speech is a wonderful American value, but with it comes responsibility.

James E. Causey: Slavery in US was brutal and oppressive. We can’t whitewash history.
Regardless of how Trump wishes to abolish ‘wokeness,’ the fabric of our nation’s history remains touched by the bloodshed from Black and brown bodies that has yet to be made whole to this day.

Gregory Humphrey: U.S. citizenry must stop normalizing the abnormal
Not for the first time, I stress that what is happening to a very troubling degree is more than Donald Trump’s autocratic ambitions. What should stir our righteous indignation is the institutional surrender that has enabled him.

Paul Fanlund: Tony Evers, author Garrett Graff will intrigue Cap Times Idea Fest attendees
Politics, history, medicine: Idea Fest’s Wednesday night lineup is one you will not want to miss.

Bill Kaplan: Wisconsin gets hit hard
The Wisconsin congressional delegation stood up as Wisconsinites asking FEMA for aid after terrible floods. Why not continue doing that? Stop listening to Trump. Do your jobs. Listen to rural, urban and suburban working people.

Emma Kempf: I voted, you lost my ballot. How can I trust you?
At a time when trust in public institutions is at an all-time low, the city of Madison needs to see this as a wake-up call.

Mark Lisheron: Wisconsin breweries no longer chugging along
Beer production in a state that prides itself on its brewing heritage is down more than 15 percent in just the last four years, a victim of a confluence of local and national drinking trends.

Tom Loftus: My five Nobel Peace Prizes
Also, a short history of American presidents and the prize.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the legacy of former Justice David Prosser
The WisOpinion Insiders share the legacy of former Justice David Prosser, who served as GOP speaker of the state Assembly before his 18-year career on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Prosser died Dec. 1 at 81. 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.