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John Torinus: Harris, Trump duck soaring health costs
Why the two presidential candidates don’t listen to self-insured managers of health care is a mystery. The reality, though, is that politicians listen to consultants and wonks who have never paid a health care bill for a group of workers.

Mark Belling: The coming Wisconsin property tax bomb
Four factors are at work that could combine to explode Wisconsin’s already extremely high property tax burden.

Steven Walters: Democrats Target Rep. Novak in new district
Remapped 51st AD is 55% Democrat. But incumbent Republican is running hard.

Lucy Ripp: Celebrate Banned Books Week by telling state Republicans to stop censoring our kids’ education
This Banned Books Week and beyond, tell Wisconsin’s GOP lawmakers that we support Wisconsin students’ freedom to read, and we trust parents, teachers, and our public libraries working together — not politicians — to create the best learning environment possible for our kids.

Gregory Humphrey: Hands off the books, stop removal of books from school shelves
Last week, our nation observed Banned Book Week, a time when, sadly, we need to pay attention to the number of books being sought by zealots who wish to ensure the rest of us do not read whatever we desire.

Terrance Wall: Trump visits the Dane County lion’s den
This is a historic event. It takes a lot of guts for a Republican to show his or her face in Dane County.

Gregory Humphrey: Dane County values vs. Donald Trump’s foghorn of racism
Dane County is the polar opposite of what Trump uses in his rallies and threatens if elected to a second term.

Nate Pollnow: How Trump can win over Wisconsin farmers, bigger and better than last time
Donald Trump can win the Dairy State by running up the numbers in rural Wisconsin. No recent presidential candidate has achieved such a lopsided victory in rural communities like he did in 2016. But if he wants to replicate that success, he should stick to a policy contest, not a personality one.

Jim Mulhern: Harris will provide stable, sensible leadership for Wisconsin’s farmers
We need intelligent, serious leaders who are committed to finding workable solutions, not more platitudes and grievances that may make you chuckle but do nothing to solve problems. For Wisconsin agriculture, Trump was bad enough the first time.

Kaelan Dorr: Wisconsinites agree: We cannot afford 4 more years of this
As we grapple with skyrocketing inflation, depleting savings accounts, soaring interest rates, and wages unable to keep pace with the financial ruins the Biden-Harris agenda has left us in, Tim Walz is right- we cannot afford four more years of Democrat failed policies.

LaTonya Johnson: Kamala Harris is giving us the chance at economic opportunity
It’s no secret that Donald Trump’s botched response to the pandemic hurt our economy. Thanks to Vice President Harris’ leadership, more Wisconsinites have jobs and there’s more money in our pockets. But many families still need more support.

Kristin Brey: Eric Hovde’s words reinforce claim Senate candidate is an out-of-touch outsider
Part of Hovde’s consistent oversimplification could be due to him just being an ineloquent speaker, but when it comes to political campaigns, a single sound bite can make or break.

Tom Still: UW’s Jay Rothman takes budget push on the road; path eventually leads to Capitol
Rothman and the Board of Regents must overcome skepticism in the state Capitol, where a recent analysis by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau showed the Universities of Wisconsin employed about 6,000 more people in the 2022-23 academic year than it did in 1992-93. During the same period, overall enrollment climbed only slightly, from about 160,000 in 1992-93 to 163,589 expected this fall.

Nicholas McFaden: Coming change in law could ease Wisconsin housing supply
‘By-right development’ means simpler approval for projects that fit zoning codes.

Bruce Murphy: Did Harbor Commissioner Serve Illegally?
Ron San Felippo has homes in East Troy and Florida while serving on commission and also voting in elections as city resident.

Dave Zweifel: GOP engages in drop-box idiocy
The lock boxes are accessed by one certified clerk and counted on Election Day. The mail, while historically safe, still goes through several hands from the mailbox to delivery at election headquarters. Plus, there are worries about the operational problems facing the postal service.

Bill Kaplan: Schultz and Cheney, thumbs-down on Van Orden
Van Orden’s misbehavior, temper tantrums, mudslinging and extremist views are not a substitute for legislative results that solve problems and constituent services that help regular Wisconsinites.

LaKeshia Myers: Keeping hope alive
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s message inspires a new generation to vote.

Paul Fanlund: Why does Kamala Harris get vilified about interviews?
Why does the credible mainstream national press fixate on the quality of Harris’s interviews, or lack of them?

Fabu: For America’s sake, don’t sit this election out
There are no perfect people and certainly no perfect candidates, yet I will be voting for Kamala Harris. And I hope for the sake of our country, you will too.

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ discuss key issues in the post-budget legislative session
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the impact of Gov. Tony Evers’ budget vetoes on the fall legislative session. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for September 29
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the latest regarding possible impeachment of liberal Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, anti-abortion groups calling on prosecutors in Madison and Milwaukee to file charges against abortion providers, a GOP bill to ban gender-transition treatment for people under 18 years old and more.