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Joe Handrick: Evers’ current map was no ‘least-change’ effort—it was a partisan play
If Evers were truly adhering to the court’s directive, he would have made the smallest possible changes to balance populations, not orchestrated a wholesale transfer of tens of thousands of voters to reshape electoral outcomes.

Bill Kaplan: GOP-led House passed cruel deceptive cuts
The GOP-led House passage of the misnamed “One Big Beautiful Act” cuts taxes mostly for the wealthy, shreds food aid and health care coverage, and massively increases the national debt.

Gregory Humphrey: Seriously harsh and fiscally unsound House budget bill requires Senate redo
Medicaid cuts are what the Senators will be most attuned to as they now take up the highly flawed and overly mean-spirited House bill.

David Blaska: Worse than Watergate
What did Democrats know and who will be held accountable?

Michelle Bryant: America for sale? Luxury over leadership
Under the Trump administration, a troubling narrative has emerged that America might as well have a metaphorical “For Sale” sign plastered across its forehead—or perhaps, more aptly, Uncle Sam’s.

Dave Zweifel: High-speed future hampered by ignorant politicians
It’s bizarre, but for some reason our politicians view fixing our infrastructure to accommodate faster and more reliable passenger trains as prohibitively expensive, but think nothing of building billion-dollar interchanges and adding a couple of lanes to highway corridors that cost billions more.

Ryan D. Jayne: Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding unaccountable private schools
Despite promises of choice and competition, voucher programs have repeatedly failed to demonstrate academic improvements for students.

Christopher Fons: Cutting the fat at MPS central office?
The jobs being eliminated are already of those working in classrooms.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate right of first refusal legislation for Wisconsin transmission line projects
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss legislation deadlocked in committee that would give utilities doing business in Wisconsin the right of first refusal for transmission line projects as utilities and transmission line companies lobby in support. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Alex Beld: Clean energy is the solution to our growing energy demand
By supporting clean energy solutions, energy efficiency measures, and creative management of our grid, we can reliably support the around-the-clock energy needs of data centers and the needs of everyday Wisconsinites.

Mark Lisheron: Plans, zoning and annexation form front lines for Wisconsin cities looking to build more housing
Developers need more certainty if housing market to rebound for middle earners.

Ruth Conniff: Maybe we don’t need a tax cut
Historic cuts jeopardize our health and wellbeing.

Dan O’Donnell: There is no legal or factual basis to overturn Wisconsin’s congressional map
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority should reject this challenge to the congressional map as it did the last one if it wants to retain even a shred of credibility.

David Blaska: Can’t the social justice people just get along?
Taxpayers will pay outside pathologists $30,000 to sort out the recriminations at the Madison Department of Civil Rights. In the meantime, the reality is that Director Norman Davis is guilty until proven innocent. That’s how woke works.

Dave Zweifel: Chicago dust storm a harbinger of things to come
The Chicago Tribune informed us the next day that the last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during those Dust Bowl days in the early to mid-1930s.

Steve Rankin: Bicyclists in Wisconsin are second class citizens
If you are on two wheels when you are killed, you are guilty until proven innocent.

Jamie Stiehm: Trump plans to steal land follow presidential tradition
Trump, a mogul and dealmaker, aims to acquire Canada, Greenland and Gaza. Are these far-fetched whims? No.

John Torinus: GOP on Ukraine: dumb, dumber, dumbest
Our self-anointed master deal-maker, President Donald Trump, gave away the store when he told Vladimir Putin at the get-go that he could keep the land he seized in Ukraine as part of a Trumpian peace deal. With that concession in hand, Putin did not decrease the hostilities against Ukraine; he ramped up his aggression to expand the seized territory.

Bruce Murphy: 54% in U.S. disapprove of Trump
New Marquette poll finds 56% approve of border security policies, only 34% on inflation and cost of living.

Dave Cieslewicz: We need another Supreme Court candidate
I hope that someone with a distinguished legal background and no obvious ideological or partisan leanings will step up to run.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, give their takes on the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Aug. 2
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the presidential race in Wisconsin, a judge dismissing a lawsuit challenging absentee ballot envelopes, the 8th CD race and more.