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Brian Fraley: DPI’s ‘portrait’ of secrecy
Why won’t the state reveal its Education Steering Committee members?

Melissa Ratcliff: Wisconsin’s youths showing us what pride is all about
Pride Month reminds us that progress has never come from silence. It comes from people brave enough to stand up for one another, often in the face of criticism, fear or hostility.


Dave Zweifel: The rise and fall of the dog-racing craze
In the end, dog racing couldn’t compete with blackjack and slots. All five greyhound tracks fell into financial distress.

Melissa Agard: Strong contracting matters for Dane County
Strong contracting practices may not grab headlines, but they are one of the most important tools we have to protect taxpayers, ensure high-quality services, and maintain public trust.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s congressional lines
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at efforts to appeal lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s congressional lines after three-judge panels dismissed them. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Erin Gaede: Mobile home parks at risk in Wisconsin
Today’s threat to mobile home parks echoes the loss of another affordable housing option: single-room occupancy units.

David Blaska: Does Trump help or hurt Tiffany?
That Democrats have any chance at all there is owing and due to fear and loathing of Donald Trump.

Tom Still: Focus is back on Wisconsin’s decentralized election process
While no system is perfect, the decentralized administration of all elections in Wisconsin comes with multiple checks and balances – mainly because much of the work is done by ordinary people in cities, counties, villages and towns. These supervised poll workers are largely volunteers accountable to their own communities.

Michael Lucas: LeMahieu: Two more senators’ support would send surplus deal to governor
The surplus deal, which failed to pass in the Senate last month, may not be dead.

Patrick McIlheran: Why did New Richmond’s bathroom policy make girls give way?
School district now faces lawsuit and federal investigation

Dave Zweifel: Paying tribute to Wisconsin’s ‘last progressive’
Among my collection of books on Wisconsin’s famed Progressive Party and the family of “Fighting Bob” La Follette is one by professor Patrick Maney, an acclaimed historian and accomplished author who grew up in Wisconsin and recently retired from the history faculty at Boston College.

Jake Leigh: We must do everything in our power to keep families together
As an evangelical Christian, it is important to me that our immigration policies do everything they reasonably can to keep families together. But it’s not just me.

Bill Barth: For engaged (and, maybe, enraged) citizens
If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weaker. Standing up to power is hard to replicate.

Scott Walker: Good riddance to CBS News’ Scott Pelley
The firing is a step toward restoring public trust in media.

Jamie Stiehm: After Trump, we can never go back to the past
The Founding Fathers had plenty of flaws. But they would never believe this would come to pass in the republic they cherished. They had standards. They would weep with me. All in time for the Fourth of July, the nation’s 250th birthday.

Missy Hughes: Self-serving politicians undercut surplus spending deal
Both sides of the aisle in this governor’s race chose their ideological corners over the people they want to lead.

Dan Shafer: Tom Tiffany is unfit for office
The presumptive GOP nominee in the race for governor is an election denier, and seeking to overturn the results of a free and fair election is extreme in a way that goes beyond policy disagreements.

Bill Marsan: Wisconsin’s transmission debate needs facts, not false choices
Transmission development should never be about a race to the bottom. Transmission is long-lived, critical infrastructure, and the hard part isn’t submitting low-cost bids. It’s delivering projects on time and maintaining a regulatory structure that holds people accountable for decades after the press releases stop.

Nina Chat: Making Wisconsin classrooms open to parents will benefit students
Open classrooms can connect all the parents, students and teachers as one family.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the Wisconsin Senate shooting down the $1.8B surplus deal
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up the state Senate vote shooting down the $1.8 billion tax cut and school aid package that Gov. Tony Evers worked out with GOP leaders. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your week in review for May 15
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Jessie Opoien discuss the surplus deal failing to pass the state Senate, an FBI investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin, this weekend’s state GOP convention and more.