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Dave Cieslewicz: The $4 billion solution
Use Wisconsin’s surplus to pay off debt.

Brian Fraley: Digging deeper: Governor Evers’ Office of Violence Prevention casts shadow over Wisconsin DOJ
If the Wisconsin Department of Justice and these agencies and programs within DOJ are delivering results, why create a duplicative Office of Violence Prevention?

Jim Piwowarczyk: Evers should support cops, not create wasteful ‘violence prevention’ office
Gov. Tony Evers’ announcement of a new Wisconsin Office of Violence Prevention and his $10 million funding plan is just another example of government overreach that won’t solve the real problem. Creating another state office to tackle violence will only add more bureaucracy and waste taxpayer dollars.

Ron Malzer: Progressives need to push back against right-wing taunts
It’s time to confront the never-ending use of taunts hurled at progressives and demand that right-wingers discuss the real issues involved.

Scott Frostman: Freedom speech is essential to preserve a thriving free society
Last Tuesday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted Facebook “came under pressure from the Biden administration to censor certain content related to COVID-19,” and limited information about the “Hunter Biden laptop,” among other ways they had done “too much censorship.” Free speech won the day, and needs to have more victories.

Brian Fraley: Evers’ redundant Office of Violence Prevention
An indictment of Attorney General Josh Kaul’s job performance.

Fabu: We need to work toward student success and safety
Young people need love, respect, our prayers and more mental health support, while our country needs more gun control. We all need a 2025 with no shootings at schools.

Bill Barth: Give the governor education authority
Education is too important to have governors and legislators play side roles.

Rob Kreibich: Photo ID protects your vote
Over the past week, Republicans in both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature passed common sense legislation that will give you, the voter, the ability to permanently protect your precious vote by enshrining a photo ID requirement in our state constitution.

JB Van Hollen and Mandela Barnes: Early counts of absentee ballots and uniform drop box rules easy election fixes
Our bipartisan board is behind reforms that make our election process more transparent, fair to every voter across the state, and accessible to every eligible voter.

Frank Zufall: Sean Duffy is an odd pick to run the Department of Transportation
Trump’s nominee has bipartisan support but minimal management experience and rarely discussed infrastructure in his district while in Congress.

Tim Eisele, Dave Clausen and Mark Martin: Don’t stuff sandhill crane hunt down throat of Wisconsin. It will only divide us.
Committee recommended the legislature direct the DNR “to authorize sandhill crane hunting in Wisconsin.” This bypasses the normal decision-making by the Natural Resources Board.

Dave Zweifel: All of a sudden, $1 billion looks like pocket change
There are a lot of working people in America right now banking on the assumption that the billionaires who will soon be in charge will do the right thing for them. I hope they aren’t holding their breath.

Steven Walters: Republicans ignore Evers plea for citizen lawmaking
24 states allow citizen initiatives to create and pass constitutional amendments and laws.

John Torinus: Don’t count on citizen referenda anytime soon
One of the reasons current politicians drag their feet on direct democracy is that they would lose the lobby money if citizens were making policy decisions instead of them. Gun and anti-abortion lobbies would use their deep pockets to mount public media campaigns to protect their interests instead of doling it out politicians.

Ty Babinski: Online learners deserve equal opportunity, fair funding
This year, the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families is pushing for equal opportunity and fair funding for our students. The current funding formula short changes online charter students, and even singles them out by restricting their access to extracurricular activities. In addition, the state standardized testing protocols are archaic, burdensome and unfair, and must be modernized.

John Nichols: Bill Dixon took on Nixon, big banks and politics as usual
The epic political strategist, policy maker and lawyer died on Jan. 8 at age 81.

Michelle Bryant: The legacy of Jimmy Carter: A departure from traditional values in leadership
Carter, who served from 1977 to 1981, embodied a set of traditional values that seem almost alien in today’s political landscape.

Kimberly Campbell: Wisconsinites voted for Trump and a promise of lower prices. Here’s how he can deliver.
President Trump has the opportunity to deliver much-needed relief by harnessing his deal-making genius in expanding Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices. Doing so would save patients and taxpayers in Wisconsin and across the country billions while ensuring that life-saving medications are within reach for all Americans.

Gregory Humphrey: Donald Trump would have been convicted in election case
Our nation was weakened, our justice system was neutered, and the American citizens were denied a judicial process that would allow for an outcome from the illegal behavior that had been committed against them on Jan. 6th.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ break down the race for Wisconsin’s 1st CD
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the race for Wisconsin’s First Congressional District, where former Revenue Secretary Peter Barca, a Democrat who served in Congress from 1993-1995 along with two stints in the state Assembly, is running against Republican incumbent Bryan Steil.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 17
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the absentee ballot drop box case before the state Supreme Court, tensions flaring during a state Senate session to override some of Gov. Tony Evers’ vetoes, the state GOP convention kicking off today in Appleton and more.