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Richard Moore: Wisconsin’s collectivist bureaucracy: Part I
Both in Wisconsin and across the nation, a bureaucratic Colossus now wields and exercises unprecedented power, often ruthlessly. The administrative state has imposed more than 165,000 restrictions on everyday life in the Badger state, and bureaucrats are adding 3.4 new restrictions every day.

Ann Helms: There’s a way to stop health systems from jacking up costs
Site-neutral payment reform … ensures that patients pay the same price for the same service, regardless of whether it’s delivered at a doctor’s office or a hospital-owned facility. This would lower costs for patients, slow hospital consolidation, and preserve competition and choice in our health care system.

Katie Moureau: Pharmacy benefit managers putting meds out of reach
Now is the time to urge our congressional leaders to enact PBM reforms this year before time runs out.

Alexander Ayala: Milwaukee Police Association urges city to negotiate for residents’ safety
We urge the Common Council to confirm its labor negotiator when they meet Tuesday so that the MPA – together with the city of Milwaukee – can address the crisis in recruitment and retention of our police officers, detectives and forensic investigators.

David Blaska: Cities are turning politically purple
A revolt against Democrat misrule

John Nichols: Mayors ready to put guardrails up against Trump
Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy at the start of December began a two-year term as national president of Democratic Municipal Officials network, the group that represents the tens of thousands of Democrats who serve nationwide as city, village, town and school district officials.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss the legacy of former Justice David Prosser
The WisOpinion Insiders share the legacy of former Justice David Prosser, who served as GOP speaker of the state Assembly before his 18-year career on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Prosser died Dec. 1 at 81. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Ruth Conniff: Blaming schools deflects attention from the real problem with property taxes
Instead of playing a shell game with school funding and pointing fingers as local taxpayers continue to shoulder more and more of the cost, Wisconsin should use a portion of the state’s massive budget surplus to adequately fund schools.

William Holahan: Rebuild UWM beginning with a more collegial search for a new chancellor
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Scott Frostman: Overturning Act 10 is about politics not the rule of law
A return to the pre-Act 10 days of union hubris would be devastating to the state of Wisconsin.

Richard Moore: The elites win in Eau Claire…so far
The nation’s high court has sidestepped a crucial discussion about transgender ideology by refusing to hear a challenge to the gender transition policies of the Eau Claire Area School District.

Scott Walker: College grad’s arrest shows elite education breeds hate, not tolerance
Murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO raises questions about how universities radicalize students

Todd Jaskolski: Wisconsin can do more to prevent fentanyl deaths
We are asking Wisconsin state officials to implement changes to relevant standing orders for all FDA-approved opioid overdose reversal agents now and in the future so we can more adequately address the evolving opioid crisis and prevent deaths in the future.

Gregory Humphrey: Shooting people in New York: From Donald Trump to Luigi Mangione
It says a great deal about the mindset of a larger segment of our nation that the person who called 911 from an eatery is not hailed as a hero on a billboard while shirtless images of the killer are joked about as perfect for grating cheese over an Italian meal.

Dave Zweifel: Criticize Biden all you want; I would have done the same
I think if my son were being left to the whims of an administration whose leader ought to be the one in jail, I’d pardon him, too.

Bruce Murphy: Act 10 ruling could be tough to overturn
New ruling striking down law is based on argument Republicans have trouble answering.

Tom Tiffany: Unchecked illegal immigration strains Wisconsin. Evers shouldn’t obstruct law.
It’s time to put Wisconsinites first. We don’t need dismissive rhetoric from our governor.

Jerry Schulz: We can watch as Trump destroys country or work from bottom up on solutions
We can go into exile for four years and watch as our new president destroys our country. Or we can use our superpowers to work together from the bottom up to begin fixing our broken world. It’s up to us.

Alex Ignatowski: Wisconsin’s DOGE moment has arrived & it’s time for Madison to embrace it
Wisconsin state government, much like the federal government, is in need of change and modernization.

Michael Lucas: Shocker! Price inflation on the rise
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the CPI data for the month of November and found that price inflation increased at a faster rate than in October. Predictably, market pundits, officials and state-owned economists are reporting that these figures are “in line with expectations.”

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ assess shifts in principles, priorities of Wisconsin’s political parties
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine how and why the principles and priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties in Wisconsin have evolved over time. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for March 22
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest in the recall effort against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, a Milwaukee election official’s conviction for illegally requesting absentee ballots and Gov. Tony Evers’ actions on a series of election-related bills and other legislation.