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Scott Mayer: America can’t ignore immigrant labor shortage
America’s immigration debate often gets framed as a choice between security and compassion. It doesn’t have to be. We can secure our border while also recognizing a simple economic reality: The United States needs workers, and most of those workers are immigrants.

Mitchell A. Sobieski: The forgotten middle
How America abandoned cities like Milwaukee that built the working middle class

Mark Belling: State Democrat bosses panic over Francesca Hong
They think the front-running candidate for governor is too radical to win the general election.

Dave Zweifel: Ads paint a folksy image, but he’s still ‘Toxic Tom’
While “Toxic Tom” may have milked a few cows in his youth, he sure hasn’t been much of a champion for Wisconsin’s farmers during his six years in Congress representing the state’s 7th Congressional District.

Scott Allen: MPS is doomed to failure without external intervention
For the educational establishment and their advocates, there is never enough money. For the rest of Wisconsin, we expect better results with the money spent.

Sherry Reams, Mark Rice, Joyce Ellwanger and Harlan Richards: Wisconsin clemency debate: Who deserves a second chance?
Wisconsin leaders are debating who in prison should qualify for clemency. A one-size-fits-all approach risks ignoring rehabilitation and growth with age.

James E. Causey: America’s reparations hypocrisy is impossible to ignore
The racial wealth and education gaps created during slavery and segregation still exist today. That is the part of America many people still refuse to confront.

Michael Rosen: Anti-union monopoly power kills an iconic Milwaukee industry
Attacks on packinghouse workers’ unions and the increased economic concentration of meatpacking firms are bad for workers, ranchers and consumers.

John Nichols: No mention of Gaza in the DNC’s 2024 autopsy? Seriously?
Too many Democrats still refuse to acknowledge how gravely the party was harmed by a failure to actively oppose genocide.

Dave Cieslewicz: The YSDA ’24 postmortem report
The DNC’s report is useless because it doesn’t even begin to address what’s fundamentally wrong with the party.

Steven Walters: Wisconsin Republicans have plan to win in November
Top officials outlined their game plan; it’s about key issues and striking first.

Spencer Black: Dems must pick strongest candidate to beat Tiffany
Democratic voters enjoy an embarrassment of riches because there are seven serious Democratic candidates for governor, all of whom are well qualified to lead our state.

John Torinus: Trump pall and Republican exodus
The unusual exodus of Republican legislators from the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly undoubtedly stems from differing personal factors by each office holder. But the dark pall over the Republican Party cast by President Donald Trump surely also figured heavily into their departures.

Gregg Hoffmann: Wisconsin sticks with PFAS standards
The feds might be planning to roll back PFAS limits, but Wisconsin plans to continue with stricter standards, at least for now.

Bethany Rentschl: Trauma-informed care can heal struggling veterans and us all
Veterans are not the only ones with post-traumatic stress. Approximately 13 million Americans carry it.

Natalie Eilbert: Wisconsin needs more Latino peer specialists
Even prior to Trump’s punishing campaign, Wisconsin’s Latino community has struggled at disproportionate rates with poor mental health.

Bruce Murphy: Sewerage District problems are suspicious
Why did it resist an audit? And why does Mayor Johnson agree it must be done quickly?

LaKeshia Myers: We cannot balance the budget on the backs of our children or the people who serve them
Milwaukee Public Schools — our schools, our children, our community — deserves a budget that doesn’t just address yesterday’s deficit. It deserves a plan that truly builds for tomorrow.

Bill Kaplan: Memorial Day
U.S. troops and our dead must be honored. Trump and his political appointees deserve our contempt.

Mike DuPre: Remember those who died in Trump’s war
This Memorial Day weekend, remember the men, women and, in some cases, children who gave their lives to create the United States 250 years ago and defend it ever since. Remember especially the 13 women and men who were killed most recently because their commander in chief chose to go to war.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ debate who will pay the political price for rising energy costs
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss which party has a better message on energy costs facing voters in the 2026 midterm election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for July 31
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss Mandela Barnes dropping out of the Dem primary for governor, how candidates performed during Tuesday’s debate, an appeal court upholding Act 10 and more.