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Dave Cieslewicz: The data center tax ripoff conspiracy
These companies can afford to pay sales taxes like everybody else.

Dan Knodl: Closed schools, open borders, and missed priorities: When policy failures disrupt our communities
Evers’ veto of AB 24 sends the wrong message at the wrong time. It signals a retreat from cooperation with federal law enforcement, a disregard for policies aimed at removing dangerous individuals from our communities, and a willingness to tolerate disruptions that ultimately harm Wisconsin families.

Ruth Conniff: May Day could signal the beginning of a bigger backlash
On Friday, May 1, labor unions and immigrants rights groups are coming together to organize mass walkouts in more than 3,000 cities across the U.S. “No work. No school. No shopping” is the tag line for the national campaign, joined in Wisconsin by Madison Teachers Inc., the Southcentral Federation of Labor, and myriad civic groups.

Ron Malzer: May Day is your chance to support human rights
A Day Without Immigrants on Friday May 1 will make a national statement that immigrants and their allies are vital parts of America and our economy. It will build community when that is desperately needed.

Steven Walters: Conservative justices on Supreme Court ignored 2017 plea for recusal rule
Now the liberal-controlled court is being asked by five retired judges to reconsider

John Imes: Rural Wisconsin is asking the right questions about data centers
Large-scale data center development is moving quickly into rural Wisconsin, and the scale is unlike anything the state has seen.

Jim Wood: How Wisconsin combats a high demand for energy
While the current increase in demand may be unprecedented, Wisconsin’s utilities and the various regulatory bodies with whom they work anticipated it.

Nancy Stencil and Juliana Reimann: Wisconsin mining can’t come at the cost of nature, history
GLW claims to have found significant amounts of gold and copper, as well as tellurium in their sampling. But do we truly want to place northern Wisconsin’s farmland, lakes and streams at risk?

Mark Belling: Madison, we have a problem
Dem voters may nominate an unelectable radical as their candidate for governor.

Gregory Humphrey: May 1st is a teaching moment outside of Madison’s school classrooms
Closing schools on May 1 can be a powerful and principled choice because it acknowledges that students are not just learners in a classroom but members of a nation still wrestling with deep inequities, especially those affecting immigrants and people of color. Madison schools made the call last week to shut their doors on May 1st.

David Blaska: May 1, a day without responsibility
When we heard that Madison teachers had decided to take the day off so they could take to the streets Friday to demonstrate for socialism, open borders, the repeal of Act 10, and opposition to Donald Trump — what was our reaction? It was: Forget it, Jake, it’s Madison. We’re running low on outrage.

Bill Barth: Again, taxpayers stuck with the bill
Two things are immediately obvious. First, it will be American taxpayers who must foot the bill to provide tariff refunds to the U.S. businesses that paid for the tariffs. Second, no one is talking about refunds for American consumers who paid higher prices that were passed along by importers.

MD Kittle: Senator: Biden agency used ‘Benghazi’ to hide emails on Planned Parenthood loans
What on earth does Benghazi have to do with abortion factory Planned Parenthood? It appears to be the codename for cover-up involving some $90 million in taxpayer-funded Covid-era forgivable loans to a nonprofit organization ineligible to receive the government handout.

Dave Zweifel: The spread of misinformation is ruining democracy
Former Democratic state Rep. Jason Fields, now chief strategy officer for the Center for Black Excellence, and longtime Republican activist Tim Higgins of Appleton teamed up to urge Wisconsin citizens to stop swallowing the disinformation being spread about the accuracy of Wisconsin’s elections.

Spencer Black: Trump has turned Earth Day into a sad affair
It’s time to renew the spirit of the first Earth Day and call on politicians to protect our air, our water, our land and our very future.

Cale Battles, Lynne Davis & Devin Martin: Finding a middle ground – legislative compromise can be a hard sell
One thing that nearly all legislative work has in common is compromise. Without compromise, the work of legislating would almost always grind to a halt from the friction of opposing viewpoints. But compromise can be difficult to achieve.

Rebecca Draeger: Why does Josh Kaul keep suing Trump?
Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, Wisconsin’s AG has signed-on to more than 40 lawsuits. Why? And what does it cost the state?

Angela Lang: Running on values: What candidates for governor can learn from Chris Taylor
Taylor’s landslide victory came in running a different kind of campaign, one unabashedly running on her values. Candidates running for governor should take note.

John Nichols: Wisconsin needs public banking
Over the years, the Bank of North Dakota has proved to be more resilient than private banks during depressions, recessions and economic upheavals, such as those associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Natalie Eilbert: A loss of multiculturalism is a loss for our humanity
We must find and support organizations that respond to this moment and listen to the lived expertise of people often pushed to the margins. Our humanity depends on it.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ examine the battle for control of the Wisconsin Legislature
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the upcoming races to control the Wisconsin Legislature and the issues that favor each party. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 18
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss Tom Tiffany’s plane crash, the U.S. Supreme Court halting President Trump’s mail-in balloting restrictions, oral arguments before the state Supreme Court in two cases challenging the state’s congressional lines and more.