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Ty Babinski: Celebrating school choice and saying thanks
As we celebrate School Choice Week, I think it’s important to recognize the significance of educational options available to all parents in Wisconsin, the birthplace of school choice.

Richard Moore: A glowing future with nuclear (if government gets and stays out of the way)
Deregulation and ending all tax breaks and subsidies for renewable energies will level the playing field and allow the industry to thrive.

Bill Kaplan: Trump, oligarchy and mob rule
After Trump swore to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” he gave a pardon to about 1,600 January 6, 2021, insurrectionists, while commuting the prison sentences of 14 ringleaders. These thugs assaulted – injured more than 140 police officers and desecrated the U.S. Capitol.

LaKeshia Myers: Where do we go from here: A reckoning with King’s vision and Trump’s America
Our path forward demands radical imagination, collective action, and an unwavering commitment to justice. We cannot afford complacency in the face of political regression.

James Causey: Trump said he’d make King’s dream a reality. He’s already made mockery of that.
Trump and King would have also disagreed on several of the president’s pardons, including the release of 1,500 people charged for taking part in the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Dave Zweifel: Trump’s lie meter is running full steam
Trump will see to it that the fact checkers will always have a job while he’s in office.

Jessica McBride: CBS 58’s Sam Kuffel kerfuffle: Who’s right, who’s wrong
Milwaukee’s CBS 58 and Weigel Broadcasting fired the weather forecaster after conservative talk show host Dan O’Donnell exposed Instagram posts that she made unfairly criticizing Elon Musk for supposedly making a “Nazi” salute.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze the race for state schools superintendent
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, analyze the race for state schools superintendent between incumbent Jill Underly, Sauk Prairie Superintendent Jeff Wright and Wauwatosa education consultant Brittany Kinser. The three are to face off in a Feb. 18 primary, with the general election set for April 1. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Mark Lisheron: Supreme battle shaping up over voter ID
Wisconsin voters will on the same day this April choose a new state Supreme Court justice and also decide whether the state’s voter ID law will become part of the state Constitution — issues yoked by what almost certainly will happen in the months thereafter.

Dan O’Donnell: A question of standards
Evers today seems bothered by Underly’s latest attempt at covering up failures to make the educational bureaucracy look better. If he is sincere in his stated opposition to these changes, then he will sign a Republican bill undoing them.

Ruth Conniff: Ron Johnson’s crusade for simplicity
Trump’s chief enabler is excited to rewrite the tax code.

Fabu: Say yes to resistance and resilience, but no to hate
There were those who felt insulted that the presidential inauguration was on the same day we celebrated King’s birthday. I viewed it as a clear reminder of a King quote: “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Let us be determined not to fear in the next four years and not to hate those responsible for the next four years.

Emily Tseffos: This is not a time to retreat. It’s a time to organize.
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Tom Still: Why tariffs have traction, even if economists and others don’t like them
President-elect Donald Trump has called tariffs “the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” even if many economists and some business leaders find it more akin to a vulgar term to be avoided in polite company.

Gregory Humphrey: Antidote to partisan attacks on LGBTQ found in Verona atop flagpole
Conservatives love their culture wars, and this year’s congressional session will have as their target transgender people who want to have access to health care, serve openly in the military, and participate in school activities.

Paul Fanlund: Tammy Baldwin wins one for women at a sad time in Washington
With Baldwin’s support, a plan to create a monument to women on the National Mall was recently approved and signed into law by Joe Biden just before he left office.

Mike Nichols: The naked truth about Wisconsin’s crazy meth infestation
We need to pay more attention to Wisconsin’s most insidious drug problem.

Michelle Bryant: All my life I had to fight
Hegseth’s appointment raises serious concerns about our military’s future and our society’s very functioning. The nominee’s personal beliefs about women serving in combat duty and sentiments about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion threaten to fan the flames of fragile relationships in the ranks of the U.S. military services.

David Blaska: Is anyone cheering Trump’s pardons?
Not 12 hours after promising a new “Golden Age,” the reinstated President unconditionally pardoned fifteen hundred cop beaters, vandals, and seditious conspiracists attempting to subvert the Constitution on January 6, 2021.

James Causey: Milwaukee homeless count gives false hope. Many more will suffer this winter.
Homelessness is a public health crisis and leaders must implement a comprehensive strategy that addresses the root causes to improve community health.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze the race for an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the upcoming spring 2025 Supreme Court election, now an open seat that will determine ideological control of the court with liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley’s plan to retire. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 31
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Frost’s ties to a 2011 petition seeking to recall former Gov. Scott Walker, Milwaukee Public Schools funding issues, and the latest effort to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.