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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.

David Blaska: Palestinian advocates hurt their cause
Has advocacy for any cause created more ill will than the push for Palestinian statehood?

Noria Doyle: Americans may no longer rely on global dominance of English as U.S. influence collapses under Trump
There is an old joke that goes: if you speak two languages, you are bilingual. But if you only speak one language, you are an American.

Steven Walters: Why Tony Evers could have run again
Why he was likely to win and thrive as a three-term governor.

Bruce Murphy: Youth will be served in governor’s race
Next Wisconsin governor could be three decades younger than Tony Evers.

Heather Murray: Child care needs support to survive
The new state budget wasn’t ideal but it did do two things: Direct payments will continue to go to providers for the next year and early education is finally funded with state dollars in the Wisconsin budget.

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 July 12
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Wisconsin Elections Commission guidance on absentee ballot drop boxes, the state Supreme Court’s decision limiting legislative oversight of land stewardship purchases, calls to improve prison conditions, the presidential race, the 2024 Republican National Convention and more.