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Colleston Morgan: MPS still needs a plan: Full minds, not half-empty buildings
The Milwaukee Board of School Directors promised residents a comprehensive facilities plan – and the city’s families and taxpayers have done their part. After years of dithering and delay, the school board has an obligation to produce a plan that actually matches the scale of the problem.

Michael Lucas: NRC Approves U.S.’s first small modular nuclear reactor
The NRC’s approval of this technology is a welcome development for those in the AI industry who have great demand for new, reliable power sources.

John Torinus: Use $3 billion surplus to move state forward
In our unstable hyper-partisan political era, the $3 billion Wisconsin budget surplus has become a political football. Shouldn’t it be appreciated, instead, as a huge strategic opportunity?

Mark Lisheron: On Janesville’s November ballot: an ‘anti-development’ question
Activists want ability to bypass elected officials and directly quash large development projects on old GM site

John Imes: What I’m bringing home from Climate Week NYC 2026
Climate action gets stronger when affordability, innovation and community come together.

Gregory Humphrey: Iowa’s farm woes will echo at the ballot box
I strongly suspect that the farmers who feel abandoned by federal policies, frustrated by trade uncertainty or squeezed by market conditions will decide to send a message on Election Day.

Scott Walker: Tim Walz’s fall from VP nominee to Democratic Party liability
Fraud in Minnesota is a major issue in the state’s 2026 campaigns. The problem is so severe that it heavily shadowed Gov. Tim Walz’s decision not to seek reelection.

Dave Zweifel: Trump takes his campaign of destruction to the Smithsonian
Someone asked the other day if Donald Trump or his cadre of culture warriors have ever visited the Smithsonian museums. Perhaps not, but it’s probably best they stay away. Look what happened, after all, when they got inside the Kennedy Center.

John Nichols: Francesca Hong is rallying vital support for Crowley
The popular Madison state representative is heading out to the far corners of Wisconsin this fall to rally voters on behalf of a Democratic “trifecta” — the November result that would give the party control of the governorship and both chambers of the Legislature.

Gregory Humphrey: Tom Tiffany’s assault on reporters from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel strikes at the public’s right to know
Tom Tiffany is asking Wisconsin voters to trust him with one of the state’s most important offices. But he shrinks on the campaign trail, unable to let every reporter hold him accountable. That is a troubling look with only about a month to go until Election Day.

Michelle Bryant: The press, the presidency and the politics of exclusion
The First Amendment belongs to all of us. We should never be comfortable watching the door close on someone else’s voice, because tomorrow, it could be ours.

Tammy Baldwin: Reproductive rights under attack by MAGA Republicans
In Wisconsin, reproductive rights are only as strong as the lawmakers willing to protect them.

David Blaska: Competition made America great
If the Brewers can compete, why can’t our schools?

Ruth Schmidt & Jennie Mauer: The real cost of weakening Head Start standards
Head Start’s success is built on a commitment to proven practices that support children’s learning, health, and development. Weakening those standards risks eroding both program quality and public confidence in the results Head Start delivers for children, families, and communities.

Richard Moore: Property rights are not a popularity contest
Janesville referendum could give voters a lasting veto over private development.

Drake Bentley: Reading Colin Kaepernick’s memoir as a biracial Black kid from Milwaukee
Kaepernick’s memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” hit bookstores this month.

Dan Breed: Persecuted Christians should have path to resettle in the US
The refugee resettlement process, which as recently as 2024 welcomed more than 29,000 Christian refugees from countries where Christians face the most severe persecution, no longer welcomes them.

Anthony Pahnke: G20 Summit in Milwaukee gives working people a platform to demand change
The upcoming G20 ministerial meeting in Milwaukee from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 will feature leaders from around the world coming together to discuss these matters, especially trade, making Wisconsin the stage for discussing global policy on everything from artificial intelligence to fuel prices.

Bill Berry: World needs to revisit Aldo Leopold’s ethics
McKibben and other environmental leaders urged the UN this week to make clean energy available to everyone across the globe by 2030, and he thinks it’s possible. Leopold would agree.

Steven Walters: What did Tiffany, Crowley champion when they were state lawmakers?
The candidates for Wisconsin governor had vastly different priorities.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze the blue wave that flipped Wisconsin’s Legislature
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the political blue wave that swept Wisconsin Democrats into control of the state Legislature. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 6
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss the factors behind the blue wave in Wisconsin as Democrats win a trifecta and flip the 1st and 3rd CDs, the priorities of Gov.-elect David Crowley and the incoming Dem legislative majority, the wrangling for legislative leadership posts and more.