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Michelle Murphy: Nearly quarter of WI college students are single moms. They need child care help.
Everyone benefits when someone succeeds. Student parents are taking steps into success by earning degrees. Do we want these parents and their children to succeed long-term? It just requires some additional support right now.
Michelle Bryant: Honoring legacy: The imperative of succession in Black business
Jerrel Jones, the visionary founder of Courier Communications, whose groundbreaking work in Black media has left an indelible mark in Milwaukee and beyond.
Richard Moore: Marco Rubio emerges as a free speech fighter, leader
Yeah, you read the headline right. Little Marco Rubio, otherwise known as the former U.S. senator and now secretary of state, has become a titan inside the Trump administration, and nowhere is his power and importance more noteworthy than in the arena of free speech.
Gregory Humphrey: Governor Tony Evers should seek third term
At a time when our politics is so loud, brittle, and chaos-driven, Tony Evers comes across as a reminder of how our elected leaders once conducted themselves as individuals and worked in the office they were elected to hold.
John Nichols: The US Should not support Israel’s war on Iran, say Democrats and Republicans
Bernie Sanders has sponsored an anti-war resolution in the Senate, while conservative Thomas Massie is doing the same in the House.
Michael Schuler: Limiting consumerism might save our souls, if not the world
Consumption (conspicuous or otherwise) is, I would submit, the quintessential American idol. No god and no religion that I know of has a fraction of its power over people’s lives.
Bruce Murphy: Can Democrats win more rural voters?
Ben Wikler was probably the smartest Wisconsin Democratic Party chair in the last 40 years or so. The Democrats had many victories under him. And he was a zealot about campaigning in rural areas.
Bill Barth: Partisan paralysis remains the norm
Evers and the Republican legislative majority failed to find common ground on a budget.
DJ Nichols: When the state won’t pay its bills, cities pay the price
The Republican majority on the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted last week against fully funding the state’s payments for municipal services, which are designed to reimburse cities for the costs of providing police, fire and other essential services to tax-exempt state properties.
Jodi Habush Sinykin: Child care — connecting the dots
Let me be clear, without continued state support, Wisconsin families, employers, and businesses will be left in the same sinking boat — without access to quality, reliable, affordable child care.
Mark Belling: Conservative state Supreme Court losing begets more losing
Rebecca Bradley probably won’t run for re-election because things seem hopeless.
Bruce Murphy: Trump’s flip-flop on immigrants impacts Wisconsin
His stop and start on ICE raids affects restaurants, dairy industry, hotels and more.
William Osmulski: The left’s latest scare campaign over Medicaid
Republicans might require able-bodied, childless adults to get a part-time job to qualify for Medicaid. They might also end a four-year-old Obamacare subsidy program. Not if Democrats have anything to say about it!
Dave Zweifel: America the beautiful has become America the cruel
Hardly a day goes by that we don’t learn of another cruel and uncaring action by the Donald Trump administration.
James E. Causey: How ‘Black fatigue’ was turned against people it was termed to protect
I’m exhausted by attempts to pretend discrimination doesn’t exist in America.
Steve Goulette: Exploring the world of tariffs
The implementation of higher tariffs may cause some American manufactures to reconsider where they manufacture/outsource products and encourage them to bring some production back to the United States. Only time will tell.
Anne Neal Petri: This American president’s rejection of monarchs and dictators resonates today
Little did our founders know the immense and lasting impact that George Washington’s approach to power would have, not only on America but on the future of democracy across the globe.
John Nichols: Wisconsin said it loud and clear: No kings!
The No Kings! protests drew millions into the streets of Milwaukee, Madison, Eau Claire, Waukesha, Kenosha, Wausau, Eagle River, Sturgeon Bay, Platteville and more than 2,100 other American cities and towns on the same day that the nation’s embattled president presided over a military parade in Washington.
Steven Walters: Evers, Republicans close on budget’s tax cut plan
But far apart on K-12 schools, UW system and child care funding.
William Osmulski: Evers left holding the bag
Governor Evers thought he’d play a game of chicken with the legislature over school funding, and last week, he lost big time. Unfortunately, Evers wagered your property taxes.
WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ preview this fall’s legislative elections
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, set the stage for the 2024 fall legislative elections with candidate filings completed this past week. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Rewind: Your Week in Review for May 10
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and guest host Jessie Opoien of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel discuss Joe Biden’s Microsoft announcement in Racine County, the Joint Finance Committee’s approval of a plan for $36 million in opioid settlement funds and the Joint Audit Committee’s approval of a DEI review.