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Charlotte Rasmussen: Congress, relieve Wisconsin taxpayers by closing the double duty drawback loophole
This loophole is the result of a minor policy change Congress enacted more than 20 years ago that has allowed foreign cigarette manufacturers to claim refunds on taxes they haven’t actually paid.

Bruce Murphy: How state has slashed Milwaukee County’s funding
County would have gotten $1 billion more since 2003 if funding kept up with inflation.

Steven Walters: New legislators sponsor ‘wish list’ bills
You’d be surprised by the range of ideas and proposals by Capitol newcomers.

Mark Belling: A 9-0 smackdown
Leftists join conservatives in striking down Wisconsin’s nutty Supreme Court.

Demond Means, Matthew Joynt and Cathy Olig: Lawmakers should listen to their own commission and fully fund special education
Instead of investing in our students on the front end, your state government is deliberately passing the buck, transforming a state responsibility into a localized property tax hike.

Jim Goodman: Enbridge Line 5: A clear and present danger
Line 5 is a privately owned property, existing only to generate profits for Enbridge.

A. Kristen Foster: Not flying pride flag an act of acquiescence by Wisconsin Historical Society
The erasure of history has been used to do harm, maintain power, and silence painful reckoning.

Bill Barth: Making it worse, from both sides
America cannot keep spending more than it takes in year after year.

David Blaska: Another insurrection — this one not pardoned
Los Angeles is burning again — this time over President Trump’s enforcement of immigration law.

Nick Ramos: I don’t recognize you, America
I never imagined waking up in a country where this would happen. But today, we are living through a moment where the foundations of our democracy are being tested like never before.

Dave Zweifel: Has Ron Johnson no sense of decency?
Wisconsin citizens once again have a U.S. senator who has become a national embarrassment.

Ruth Conniff: After this year’s graduates leave Madison schools, what will be left?
Budget cuts and Wisconsin’s massive school choice program could undo public education.

David Blaska: Democrats stick with losing formula
Wisconsin Democrats, at least, are sticking to the old-time religion: racial grievance, welfare statism, class warfare, open borders, redistributionism (aka “socialism”), Greta Thunberg, and pronouns.

Spencer Black: State parks’ 125th birthday gift? Least state funding in US
According to the National Association of State Parks Directors, funding for the Wisconsin state park system is the lowest in the country.

Gregg Hoffmann: Rural impact on energy
Rural America, and specifically rural Wisconsin, can play important roles in the move to the next generation of energy.

LaKeshia Myers: Reclaiming the road: Black joy and the legacy of safe haven travel
The story of African American travel is one of resilience carved from necessity.

Mark Belling: Ron Johnson’s spending cut demand could torpedo Trump’s tax cut
If Johnson is able to apply pressure to improve a bill that ultimately passes, he will be a hero. But if that pressure does the reverse and torpedoes everything, he will have his fingerprints on a disaster.

Gregory Humphrey: Utterly preposterous: Trump peddling ‘law and order’ as reason for troops on American streets
When the leader is so disrespectful toward the laws, we have a higher duty to stand up and let values and democratic principles flow.

John Nichols: Anticipating Trump, Tom Paine was saying ‘No Kings!’ in 1776
While Trump will mount a monarchical display in Washington on Saturday with a military parade on what happens to be his birthday, the No Kings! movement says that: “On June 14th, we’re showing up everywhere he isn’t — to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings.”

John Torinus: To Trump, more adversaries are bad business
The adversaries that President Trump unnecessarily keeps making won’t be there to help us with breakthrough thinking. Conversely, we need to develop as many allies as we can, so collaborative thinking can help us remain the leading military power in the world.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Musk’s role in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, talk about the role Elon Musk played in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 9
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss lawsuits from Dem voters challenging Wisconsin’s congressional lines, controversy over the Evers administration’s guidance for how state employees should respond to visits from federal immigration officials, the Joint Finance Committee removing 612 items from Gov. Tony Evers’ budget and more.