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Simran Arora: Before we lead, we need to listen
Leadership isn’t about having every answer. It’s about listening to the people you represent, understanding their challenges, and working together to find a way forward.

Paul Ryan and Les Ford: Americans are getting caught in the safety net
The 1996 welfare reform helped move people from dependency to work. We need to do that again.

Dylan Wilder: House Democrats embrace socialism
Two House Resolutions put Congressmen on record regarding their stance on socialism. In less than a year, a party that was split on the issue became unanimous.

Masood Akhtar: Two attacks on America; two very different responses
America has experienced many moments of tragedy, but two dates stand apart: Sept. 11, 2001, and Jan. 6, 2021.

Bill Barth: Return money to the taxpayers
Try again. Put more money into public schools. Send more aid to cities to reduce property taxes. Temporarily lower gas taxes, or income taxes, or send rebate checks to taxpayers. Fix more potholes. And keep some to build the rainy-day fund.

Mark Belling: Crowley gives laptops to Milwaukee jail inmates who intimidate witnesses
Wisconsin voters, in picking their governor in two months, will decide if they want to elect a leftist so addled that he signed legislation using public money to give laptops and tablets to jail inmates who then used them to intimidate witnesses and view pornography.

Bill Lueders: Let the public copy court records
Court records are among the most important public records we have. Clerks of court should not be making it harder or cost-prohibitive for members of the public to access them.

Jordan Sinz: Innovation in service of students
As students return to school this fall, educators across Wisconsin are focused on a familiar mission: providing every student with the best possible opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: Wisconsin’s brain drain shows how a rural state can produce talent yet struggle to keep it
Wisconsin’s latest brain drain numbers point to a problem that is less dramatic than a population collapse but more durable than a temporary labor-market fluctuation.

Stephen Pluháček and Heidi Bostic: We are having the wrong conversations about AI
Not only are the bodies and the souls of these AI workers being harmed, so is the Earth from which the materials needed to power AI are being extracted.

Bruce Murphy: Milwaukee County Parks has oh so many friends
But so little funding. How did this contradictory, messy situation arise?

Jessica Strand: Milwaukee County’s replacement for the Public Safety Building prioritizes victim-witnesses
The replacement for the Public Safety Building and the renovated Historic Courthouse is being designed with fully separate, secure hallways, so that people in custody move through the building on entirely different paths than victims, witnesses and their families.

Mike McCabe: Mooching us to financial ruin
In the time it takes to read this article, our nation will be some $22 million deeper in debt.

Dave Zweifel: Trump’s chaos is all part of the plan
The administration’s strategy has nothing to do with solving the nation’s problems. Instead it’s a three-pronged approach to distract Americans while it dismantles the government that could address those problems.

James Wigderson: We defeated socialism!
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ensocialism. No, really.

Steven Walters: It’s been a hot summer for news
An insider’s take on Canadian tariffs and Wisconsin, Elon Musk, commutations and elections.

Phillip Connelly: Wisconsin should boost support for mental health clubhouses
By formally incorporating and expanding the Clubhouse model, the state can build on its progress. With stronger support from policymakers, they can work for far more Wisconsinites.

Gregory Humphrey: Data Centers are coming, let’s plan smartly
The question before us is whether we build them in ways that strengthen both the national interest and international requirements and work in tandem with the local communities asked to host them.

Gregg Hoffmann: Affordable, reliable, balanced energy
If you seek a balanced approach to issues, you might take a look at the Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future.

Spencer Black: Trump’s destruction of public lands will be a damning part of his legacy
President Donald Trump is robbing us of our incredibly valuable natural heritage that is preserved on our public lands — lands we all own as Americans

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.