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Kirt Johnson: Turning Point vs. Wisconsin GOP: Time for a reality check
Turning Point’s assertions that they would do so much better running RPW are totally unfounded, disingenuous, and self-serving.

Dave Zeug: ‘The walleye wars’
Recent reports about harassment of tribal spear fishermen exerting their treaty rights brought memories of the spring of 1988.

Gregory Humphrey: Father of Abundant Life Christian School shooter, must face weight of courts for height of irresponsibility
Society can no longer abide with deaths and tragedies due to willfully stupid and selfish gun owners. A 3-year-old girl would be alive if common sense had been employed.

David Blaska: Is the Madison school shooter’s father guilty?
Would the felony charges against him have been filed in a less progressive jurisdiction than Dane County?

Sarah Kuhns: Inmates shouldn’t have to barter for menstrual products. Prisons must do better.
As of April 2024, only 25 states in the U.S. mandate free access to menstrual products in correctional facilities. Wisconsin is not one of them.

Michelle Bryant: First COVID, now tariffs
Black businesses need us to show up! … Trump’s so-called Liberation Day threatens to return Black entrepreneurs to an employer’s figurative plantation.

Dave Zweifel: Perkins Coie defies Trump’s trampling of rights
John Skilton, one of Madison’s most celebrated attorneys, dropped me a note earlier this week to which he attached the recent ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell that declared in strong terms that Donald Trump’s action targeting the Perkins Coie law firm is clearly unconstitutional.

Arthur I. Cyr: Carney embodies Canadian calmness in crisis
Prime Minister Mark Carney is former head of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, ideally suited by experience and calm temperament to deal effectively with President Donald Trump.

Bill Barth: Why is America’s postal service struggling?
The U.S. Postal Service he founded has become — let’s try to say this without profanity — a stumbling mess.

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.

Mark Lisheron: Taxpayers spared nearly $8.5 million in Wisconsin alone due to Trump administration order cutting aid to public broadcasting
But Wisconsin politicians continue to leave state taxpayers on the hook.

Ruth Conniff: Budget-busting voucher expansion could bankrupt Wisconsin public schools
As the Legislature begins working on the Wisconsin State Budget, a dangerous idea to give school vouchers their own separate line item could become a huge drain on resources.

Gus Smith: Environmental reviews protect lakes and forests from political chainsaws
During my career I experienced several examples where local people had more information than the government.

Carol Blizzard Dunn: Wisconsin small businesses support more credit card competition in Congress
Small businesses are the fuel that keeps Wisconsin’s economic engine running. Our state’s elected leaders in Washington should support the Credit Card Competition Act to help Main Streets across the state.

David Blaska: Madison progressives are the ‘uniparty’
Questions we never expected to see asked in The Capital Times: “Progressives have full control of the city and its schools. Is it for the better?” Figures that it is a freelance journalist, not a CT staffer, posing the question — Marc Eisen, formerly editor of Isthmus.

Jamie Stiehm: A strange exchange: Civil War, writ small
Trump reminds me of a Copperhead. They were Northerners on the wrong side of the Civil War, favoring the Confederacy.

Emily Mills: Roller derby’s beautiful radicalism
The subculture’s diversity, gender-inclusion, and democratic system offers a vision of the world we could live in.

Bruce Thompson: Was Evers’ 402-year proposal legal?
Gov. Walker went even further. Why the high court upheld Evers.

Dan O’Donnell: Wisconsin’s liberal leaders stand against the rule of law
Wisconsin is apparently now the epicenter of resistance to President Trump’s illegal immigration policy; the Constitution, federalism, and the Rule of Law be damned.

Christina Thor: ‘Pro-family’ lawmakers should support families
We cannot accept another budget that treats our lives as an afterthought. Working families are watching. And we are not backing down.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider how Wisconsin’s Supreme Court results could impact 2026 elections
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the effect of the recent Supreme Court election on Wisconsin elections in 2026. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for April 11
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss a deal to settle a complaint against Michael Gableman related to his 2020 election review, a Dem bill that would make it illegal to offer payment for signing a petition during an election, a new GOP transmission line and energy bill, President Trump’s tariffs and more.