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Abigail Miller: Strategies to help Wisconsin employers improve the mental health of employees
Mental or behavioral health conditions can have a large impact on a company’s workforce and on individual employees. By designing programs with employees’ whole-person health needs in mind, employers can help nurture a healthier workplace culture, reduce workplace stigma, and improve people’s lives and productivity.

Bill Kaplan: GOP whoppers and health care cuts
Health care is on the line. Vote health care security, not fear.

Scott Walker: Harris-Walz’s assault on the Constitution
The fight to uphold the Constitution of the United States is more important today than ever in our nation’s history.

Michelle Bryant: Trump’s lies pouring down like cats and dogs
Truth doesn’t stop dangerous campaign rhetoric.

Dipesh Navsaria: The joy factor versus gloom and doom
While we may think doom-and-gloom messaging will warn people of imminent threat and inspire them to rally in defiance, the reality is that leading with this kind of messaging runs a high risk of placing the listener in a defeatist, negative frame of mind.

John Nichols: Wisconsin Teamsters back Harris
Harris had received so many endorsements from Teamsters joint councils and union locals in states across the country that her campaign is now touting the fact that units representing more than 1 million of the labor organization’s 1.3 million members are backing the Democratic ticket.

David Blaska: We RINOs have a fall back position
For members of that lost tribe of Republicans sitting out this year’s presidential contest, hope rests entirely on electing a Republican Senate.

Patrick McIlheran: How Wisconsin could triple its nuclear power
Federal report touts nuclear power plant sites, including Kewaunee, as ‘ideal’ for new reactors.

Mike McCabe: Four miserable words
Stay in your lane. Succinct as instructions go. One not to be trifled with if social acceptance matters to you. One to ignore if you’re driving in a city of any size or pursuing happiness.

Catharine Buccowich: We need the Peace Corps more than ever. Congress, support a funding boost.
If fully funded, the funds would serve as a significant step forward toward reversing a 10-year drop in the agency’s purchasing power and thus, enable the Peace Corps to sustain its operations.

Dave Zweifel: Civic Games encourage student engagement
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association is once again sponsoring what it calls Civics Games, a statewide contest aimed at reaching young people who will soon become the country’s voters and leaders.

Christina Lieffring: Two years and 400 unpaid hours later, a Metro Transit mural is in limbo
Delays with artist Jenie Gao’s project highlight problems with Madison’s public arts programs.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze recent presidential polling in Wisconsin
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the recent presidential polling in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Ruth Conniff: Wisconsinites push back on anti-immigrant attacks
Contrary to all the toxic rhetoric, immigration is a net plus for our country, and especially for the white, rural areas the Trump/Vance campaign is targeting in Wisconsin. Beneath the noise of the political campaign, a lot of people in those communities can tell you about it.

Bruce Murphy: Will western Wisconsin shock the nation?
Republican-held CD3 could elect Democratic challenger.

Wyatt Eichholz: Misers v. big spenders — and where the Badger State fits in
Ever interested in how Wisconsin can spend less on government, we found fewer examples of parsimonious politicians elsewhere in America than we’d hoped.

Howard Fuller, Abby Andrietsch and Colleston Morgan: Wisconsin school choice isn’t controversial among students and families it helps
Families are not making a political statement when they choose a school. They simply want the freedom to find the best place for their student.

Dave Zweifel: Time to quit whining about inflation
Yes, prices are up compared to the pre-pandemic days, and much of it is the result of the Federal Reserve’s decision to drastically raise interest rates that hit rent rates, mortgages and car payments, but inflation has settled back to 2.9% today, the same rate it was in 2018 during Donald Trump’s presidency.

Richard Moore: A “Red” in every glovebox
Lawmakers need to end insurance commissioner’s Stronger Wisconsin climate mitigation program.

Taima Kern: How Dungeons & Dragons helps me lead my newsroom
In my eight years as a newsroom leader, I’ve learned that the soft skills I had to hone to be good at D&D could help me manage my team.

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ examine the role of third-party presidential candidates in Wisconsin
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the role third-party presidential candidates have played in Wisconsin over the years. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for September 8
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss GOP lawmakers’ talk of impeaching liberal Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz if she doesn’t recuse herself from redistricting cases, a Dem Party-backed campaign to get Republicans to back down from those threats, Gov. Tony Evers’ vow to veto Republicans’ proposed $3 billion tax cut plan and more.