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James Causey: Energy bills are rising despite Trump’s promise of a 50% cut
Reports show electricity costs continued to rise into 2025, with increases of around 7% in some areas—hardly the dramatic cut Trump promised.

Scott Fitzgerald: Merger blocking action under Democrats ends Spirit Airlines
Had JetBlue been allowed to acquire Spirit, perhaps they would have been able to weather this financial storm. But in this present reality, consumers are left with fewer flights and higher prices.

John Torinus: No strategic plan for UW System?
If you are looking for an insight on why the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman, reflect back on how he went about closing eight of 13 two-year colleges across the state.

Mary McCormick: Journalists, Rotarians cooperate to build trust and promote civil dialogue
We must each be accountable for ensuring that our actions are guided by the desire to seek truth, to strive for fairness, to build a better world.

Mark Lisheron: Behind the curtain, Evers administration diverts taxpayer money to fund environmental bureaucracies
The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature.

Jodi Habush Sinykin: Wisconsin is facing another child care cliff. We need state investment
Child care is fundamental to our state’s economic vitality and well-being, because without it, our local businesses — including important industries like education, health care and law enforcement — lack the workforce needed to function.

Natalie Eilbert: School cell phone bans alone won’t reverse test score drops
The Madison Metropolitan School District is considering a new cellphone policy that would enact a full-day ban for younger students while allowing more flexibility for high schoolers.

Steven Walters: Wisconsin plays role in national redistricting fights
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upped the stakes.

Michelle Bryant: If you hear the dogs, keep going
Some of the very same states leading the charge to weaken voting rights and diminish Black political engagement are also advancing legislation that criminalizes poverty and homelessness. There is a pattern here and it is difficult to ignore.

Bruce Thompson: The impact of two cases challenging Wisconsin’s Congressional districts
Both judicial panels have essentially kicked the cases back to Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Noel Johnson: Wisconsin shouldn’t get a pass on federal voting rights laws
In 44 other states, you can walk into an election office, eyeball voter registration records and make copies on the spot. Not in Wisconsin. Why? Because in 1993, Congress handed the state a permanent exemption. Thirty-three years later, that carve-out makes as much sense as a car phone — and it is past time to end it.

David Blaska: We’re keeping Chairman Schimming
His detractors discredit the party. … What should be a moon-shot send-off for Tom Tiffany for governor and Eric Toney for attorney general may disintegrate into an attempt to shoot down hard-working and popular party chairman Brian Schimming.

Brian Fraley: What happened to the Wisconsin Idea?
The searches for the next president of the University of Wisconsin System and the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison are the two most important higher education hires in Wisconsin. Who, exactly, is speaking for the rest of Wisconsin in these searches?

Jim Langdon: Adding bipartisan lawmaker regents could clean up UW System
Daylight is the best disinfectant to dysfunctional governance.


Bill Kaplan: Engineered suffering, slashing healthcare and SNAP
All Wisconsin GOP members of Congress ignored Wisconsin doctors and bishops. But the public backlash to their enthusiastic support for the BBB prompted Wisconsin Republicans to double talk and disingenuously refer to the BBB as the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill.

Jerry Hanson: Walworth County should reconsider its ICE cooperation agreement
ICE’s tactics and actions have gone rogue; not matching the mission of the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office.

Arthur I. Cyr: Trump’s flouting of War Powers Act is nothing new
From the beginning of the United States, there has been tension between the executive and Congress over foreign policy.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview the 2026 WisGOP state convention
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s upcoming state convention and discuss challenges facing the party going into the midterms. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Patrick McIlheran: Wisconsin socialists’ dreams outstrip Sweden in price
The Legislature’s “Socialist Caucus” drafted a bill in March that would raise Wisconsin’s existing top income tax rate by one-sixth and add a new top bracket for households earning $1 million. The new top rate: 17.7 percent.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze Taylor’s 20-point win over Lazar in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the large margin of victory for liberal Judge Chris Taylor over conservative Judge Maria Lazar in Tuesday’s Supreme Court election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your week in review for April 10
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss Chris Taylor’s 20-point win in the Supreme Court race, the Board of Regents firing Jay Rothman as UW president, Gov. Tony Evers signing legislation to approve online sports bets through tribal servers and more.