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LaKeshia Myers: USDA cuts deal another blow to Historically Black Colleges
We cannot allow budget cuts to erase over a century of progress in creating educational opportunities for Black students in the agricultural sciences.

Dave Zweifel: Attacks on DEI are an effort to turn back civil rights
DEI has become a pejorative, the latest catch-all phrase to replace decades of grievances against affirmative action, wokeness and critical race theory, all seen by many on the right as attempts to unfairly advantage women and minorities.

Gregory Humphrey: Black History Month: Willis Ward benched in college game, Gerald Ford fights for affirmative action
Ward Wallis and Gerald Ford, two college buddies and teammates would use a headline making football controversy as a lesson to a nation that needed to come to grips with deeply instilled racism.

Mike McCabe: Bracing for the news
What makes the current moment so perilous for our society is not just that brutes are breaking so many things—norms, laws, social contracts, standards of human decency. The greater danger is that brutishness is being normalized and ritualized, pulling nobler souls down into the gutter.

Jerry Hanson: The soul of America is dying
The America I grew up in is unrecognizable.

Michael Horne: Is Evers too old to run again?
History says otherwise. So does the age of other current governors.

Michael Jahr: Years in the making, free-market dental solution has Wisconsin grinning
Sen. Felzkowski and Badger Institute made the case for dental therapists

Bruce Murphy: Musk wants to buy Wisconsin justice?
His massive campaign donation to Brad Schimel raises big questions.

Susan Crawford: Honoring Black History Month
This month, I am reminded of the strength and resilience of our Black communities, whose unwavering fight for justice has driven our state’s progress. Their efforts have made Wisconsin a hub of political movements and social progress, pushing our state forward.

Andrew Hysell: Right to vote chipped away, one piece at a time
If we keep letting the Legislature chip away at our rights, one day we’ll wake up and they’ll all be gone.

James Causey: Nick Cannon and Elon Musk have a lot in common, but they are judged differently
When we compare figures like Cannon, who is Black, and Musk, who is white, a double standard appears in how society views them as fathers.

John Nichols: Wisconsin at the center of the pushback against oligarchy
Bernie Sanders appeared in Iowa City over the weekend.

Bill Barth: Cut, cautiously, without demonizing people
There’s a new worst American ever, and it’s apparently the men and women who work in government roles. They are under attack like never before.

Steven Walters: Enacting prison reform in Wisconsin will ‘take a village’
The proposal includes major changes for Green Bay, Waupun, Stanley and youth prisons.

Scott Gordon & Dan Fitch: Another layer of isolation could be coming for Dane County Jail ‘residents’
The grounds for scanning inmate mail are dubious, and vendors profit from the high price of connection.

Mark Lisheron: For now, a tiny house in a land of lakes and giant prices
Soaring prices in Vilas County make moving hard for new EMS chief.

Quinton Klabon: How do parents pick Milwaukee schools? Results were shocking.
It does no good for our region if we produce talent that buys a plane ticket out the first chance they get. Better schools will keep our families here.

Michelle Bryant: DOGE 20% give back: A 100% set-up
A bribe for silence in the face of reckless cuts

Bill Kaplan: AG Kaul stands up to Musk and Trump
Wisconsin Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has seized the moment to stand up for the Constitution and the American people, and against cruel overreach.

John Torinus: Fitzgerald faces stiff protests in West Bend
West Bend briefly became a hotspot in the growing revolt against the wide-ranging and deep-cutting executive actions taken by President Trump in his first four weeks in office.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Wisconsin’s Republican false electors
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, talk about Wisconsin’s Republican false electors and how their acknowledgement that Biden won against Trump in 2020 differs from other states. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Jan. 19
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss proposed maps submitted in the redistricting lawsuit before the state Supreme Court, a petition to the court to redraw the state’s congressional districts, the latest action in the Senate and Assembly, Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address next Tuesday and more.