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Scott Walker: Open gubernatorial race in Wisconsin gives promise to conservatives
The race for governor in the most important swing state in the country is wide open.

Ron Spoerl: Environmental review worked. Now let’s move forward with Line 5 relocation
The current delays and legal maneuvering surrounding the Line 5 relocation project serve no one. They hinder progress, put the energy security of millions at risk, and postpone job opportunities and infrastructure improvements that benefit both tribal nations and neighboring communities.

Tom Still: A new college at UW-Madison focused on AI? Now may be the time
It’s an ideal time for leadership at the UW-Madison to consider creating a new college to focus on computing, data and AI.

Mike Nichols: Where the precipitous drop in birthrates is a very, very good thing
Teen birthrates are a small fraction of what they used to be.

Jamie Stiehm: Obama didn’t fight back, and we got Trump
Obama never played hard against Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and others. That flaw cost us dearly.

Dave Zweifel: The kid who journeyed from the newsroom to Wisconsin history
Jack Holzhueter, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, went on from The Capital Times to become one of Wisconsin’s best-known and revered historians, working at the Wisconsin Historical Society for 36 years as a research specialist.

Bruce Thompson: Justice Rebecca Bradley’s favorite obsession
She’s death on “unelected bureaucrats.” What’s that all about?

Matt Raboin: Insiders shutting the door on fresh Democratic candidates
Let’s not fear open processes. Let’s welcome it. Let’s create space for new voices and unexpected ideas. Let’s allow voters — not insiders — to choose.

Bill Barth: Kids, grandkids get our debt bomb
Americans demand more from the government than they are willing to pay for, year after year. That translates to a debt bomb. Look around at your children and grandchildren. They will inherit our bomb.

Mike McCabe: From the ashes
America flourishes when Americans are willing to let go of yesterday and can’t wait for tomorrow to come, anxious to build something brand new. This is truly something to hope for, to plan for, to work for.

James Causey: Milwaukee youth crime is shocking. So are parents who won’t discipline their kids.
If children do not receive discipline at home, how can any adult in public be expected to check them when they misbehave?

Mitchell A. Sobieski: Redistribution of credit
When systemic manipulation rewrites who is thanked for doing the real work.

Gregory Humphrey: Bee pollinator research victim of Trump’s Project 2025
Justifying these cuts as a way to redirect funds from climate-related “social agendas” that conservatives have ridiculed for decades is simply negligent in every sense of the word.

Mark Belling: Handicapping the Wisconsin governor race
Governor is a great gig and Evers has no clear heir apparent.

Adam Brabender: Democrats should pick moderate to succeed Evers
That is how Gov. Tony Evers presented himself back in 2018, and that is how he won against Scott Walker. As much as I would like a screaming progressive, Wisconsin is not ready for one yet.

Andrew C. Iverson: Farmers markets promote rural prosperity in Wisconsin
This week, USDA Rural Development Wisconsin is celebrating National Farmers Market Week.

Gregory Humphrey: Virtue not working concept in Trump White House
There was a time when the presidency stood for something more than power.It stood for virtue. For honesty. For the idea that the person behind the Resolute Desk was resolute in character, not just ambition. But that time feels like a relic of a vanished republic.

Dave Zweifel: They ran out of criminals, so they’re deporting children
Now the targets have become children, farm workers, Home Depot employees and hundreds of thousands of people who have been in the U.S. for decades, earning a living, paying taxes and raising children.

David C. Couper: Take the cross back from the oppressors
On Aug. 2, I and a group of fellow believers will carry a large wooden cross through the streets of Madison. We will walk silently, not in protest of one political party or another, but against a deeper sickness — one that perverts the Gospel, sanctions cruelty, promotes violence, militarism and war, endangers our environment and wraps oppression in religious robes.

Kristin Brey: Studies find art on street crosswalks makes them safer. Trump wants them gone.
Asphalt art projects have taken off in the past decade as collaborations between cities, community groups and artists.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ weigh in on charges against Milwaukee judge in ICE evasion case
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the FBI’s arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who is facing felony charges over accusations she helped an undocumented immigrant attempt to evade arrest by federal immigration officials. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for July 11
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturning the Legislature’s power to suspend administrative rules, the Wisconsin Elections Commission report on the former Madison clerk’s actions after discovering uncounted absentee ballots, a new lawsuit challenging the state’s congressional lines, the state budget and more.