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Tiffany Koehler: Early and easier cancer screening can save lives
New screening methods offer more convenient, comfortable options that break down the barriers to care, helping increase screening rates, and most importantly, enabling early detection that can mean the difference between life and death.

Amy Kind: Orion Initiative helps rural health providers team with UW medical partners
Orion Initiative centers rural providers who identify their areas of greatest need, then collaborate with UW academic medical partners to develop innovative solutions to meet those challenges.

Mark Belling: Milwaukee’s busiest I-94 stretch to undergo widening
For decades, Milwaukee leftists opposed widening Interstate 94 in Milwaukee County.

James E. Causey: AI-generated videos depict MLK in unflattering ways. Be prepared to turn off.
Just scroll through your social media feed, and you’ll likely come across something created by AI where you can’t tell if it’s real or fake.

Gregory Humphrey: Local newspapers need our support
The decline of local journalism has real consequences. Studies show that towns without newspapers experience lower voter turnout, fewer contested elections, and increased government inefficiency. When watchdogs in the local newsroom disappear, so does accountability.

Bill Barth: Why independence can’t be given up
From liberal MSNBC to conservative FOX News and dozens of journalism organizations in-between, news gatherers last week refused an administration demand to only report information that is Pentagon-approved.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: News rating services aim to classify reporting bias but risk distorting the role of journalism
Rating services like Ad Fontes and Ground News offer public guidance, but critics say they mislabel ethical reporting as partisan bias and open the door to reputational harm.

Dave Zweifel: If Trump and his minions said it, it’s probably a lie
Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson and a chorus of Senate Republicans — all amplified by the “fair and balanced” Fox News network — claimed that the Democrats shut down the government “to give free health care to illegal aliens.”

John Nichols: In Wisconsin, progressive politics can prevail
The key to Baldwin’s victory was not, as the New York Times writers now suggest, centrist caution.

James E. Causey: Here’s how President Trump can deliver campaign promise to lower grocery prices
A grant-funded initiative, such as Mobile Markets in urban and rural areas, would help lower grocery bills, aligning with Trump’s promise to reduce grocery costs.

Paul Kundert: I lead UW Credit Union. Exploitive overdraft fees trouble me.
Four of the 15 largest Wisconsin-based financial institutions take in more than $1 million every month in overdraft and NSF consumer fees.

Richard Moore: Call gender therapy bans what they are: government censorship
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term has already produced a case with explosive implications, including here in Wisconsin, and it could be one of the most consequential free speech cases in years.

Aaron Olver: Tom Still: An entrepreneur’s entrepreneur
Since 2001, former Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still has been innovating and creating new programs and initiatives to foster entrepreneurship, investment, and growth across Wisconsin. He is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

Nisha Rajagopalan: Why Group Health care providers need a union
As a cooperative where members stand “at the top of the leadership chart,” GHC’s Board should respect membership’s vote by voluntarily recognizing our union, effective immediately.

David Blaska: Give it up, people!
We cling to this silver lining: deep down, the anti-Vos/Mike Gableman crowd realizes the abortive insurrection was a stain on the Constitution. That explains — nine months into the Restoration — their pathetic search for scapegoats, however absurd.

Patrick McIlheran: Bill would use tax credit to lower cost barrier to new nuclear in Wisconsin
Measure includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on’

Sherrie Tussler: Public is in the dark about FoodShare rule changes that will create great harm
Food drives do not end hunger. Effective public policy does.

Eileen Harrington: Madison is not D.C.
Although the polarization endemic to Washington, D.C. is felt here as well, there are stronger and more real currents in Madison that should provide some hope.

Bill Kaplan: Trump refuses health care negotiations
Trump and congressional Republicans must listen to Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin: negotiate to extend the expiring ACA tax credits, stop GOP punitive actions and end the shutdown.

Dave Cieslewicz: Who hates America?
Mike Johnson’s got a lot of chutzpah. For a guy who meekly rolls over and lets Trump trample on the prerogatives of his branch of government, for a guy who says nothing or openly supports Trump as he tramples on the Constitution over and over again — for THAT guy to say that it was the No Kings protesters who hate America is just ludicrous.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions curtailing legislative oversight
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss recent Supreme Court decisions that affect how the Legislature reviews rules and how the administration spends budgeted funds. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 19
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya Van Wagtendonk discuss the growing Dem field for governor, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Rebecca Taibleson’s hearing before the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, Gov. Tony Evers’ executive order on vaccine access and more.