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Scott Liddicoat: Reflections of a newly minted special voting deputy
In both February and April, I had the privilege of officially facilitating the voting process in several Green Bay senior care centers.

Gregory Humphrey: Ridglan Farms protest: Compassion for animals vs. laws that govern society
A society that values justice cannot allow good intentions to override the rule of law, especially when safer, lawful avenues for change exist.

Bill Berry: Wisconsin communities fighting back against corporate excess
Something’s brewing in Wisconsin and other states as local people stand up for their communities. It may be too early to call it a new age of citizen environmental activism, but it’s starting to look like it. And it’s uniting people across traditional political divides.

Masood Akhtar: Political rhetoric about Muslims reflects double standard
Public officials, regardless of party or ideology, have a duty to condemn violence with consistency and integrity. Terrorism must be defined by actions, not based on religion, race or identity.

John Torinus: Trump turns off more voters every week
President Donald Trump, a very angry man, must get up every morning having figured out 1. How to piss off another segment of people in the country and across the world and 2. How to further screw up the U.S. and world economies.

Jason Fields and Tim Higgins: Wisconsin elections are sound, despite new polling
Healthy skepticism is part of a strong democracy, but so is a willingness to engage directly with the facts. The more we learn about those who run our elections and the systems they oversee, the more our confidence in election integrity can grow.

John Nichols: WEAC boost is vital for Kelda Roys
At a point when polls show substantial numbers of Democratic voters and progressive independents remain undecided about who the party nominee should be, the WEAC recommendation is a major boost for Kelda Roys.

Patrick McIlheran: Referendums on development could kill state’s growth
Process and uncertainty likely to scare off developers

Jennifer Wickman and Corey Gall: Line 5 project will be safe and protect our environment
It’s time for the political and legal games to stop. Wisconsin’s farmers, our workers, our businesses and our families need Line 5 and want to see the relocation built.

LaKeshia Myers: This is bigger than litter
One citizen’s blueprint for saving Milwaukee’s water future

Bill Kaplan: The true cost of war
U.S. inflation is surging. Gas is near $4 per gallon in Wisconsin and above nationally. Mortgage rates are up as are groceries and airfares. Farmers losing markets because of Trump’s tariff wars, now face soaring diesel fuel and fertilizer costs imposed by the Iran War. Moreover, the International Monetary Fund warned that the Iran War and its disruption of oil supply could lead to global inflation and recession.

Michelle Bryant: America at 250: It does feel a little janky
The promise of America has always rested on a simple, radical idea: that power belongs to the people. Anything less than that really is janky.

Dave Zweifel: Scott Fitzgerald’s boundless support for a lunatic president
I remember Fitz when he was strutting around the state Capitol insisting that Wisconsin’s state budget needed to be cut while he voted against school aids and destroyed teachers’ unions seeking better pay for their members. Now he’s gladly voting to pass legislation that adds trillions to an already dangerously bloated national debt.

Arthur Cyr: Hungary election shows the folly of U.S. meddling
Hungary is suffering severely economically, with nil growth, high inflation and low investment. New Prime Minister Magyar and associates have both challenge and opportunity to improve the situation.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss Rothman’s ouster as Universities of Wisconsin president
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the UW Board of Regents’ removal of Jay Rothman as Universities of Wisconsin president. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership.

Devin LeMahieu: Bipartisan help for new moms, cancer screenings in Wisconsin
As the mainstream media focuses on a handful of wedge issues designed to divide Wisconsinites, I penned this column to talk about two bills that united Democrats and Republicans.

Ruth Conniff: Wisconsin Republicans thumb their noses on their way out the door
What are the odds the soon-to-retire Republican leaders of the state Legislature are seriously considering Gov. Tony Evers’ call to end partisan gerrymandering?

Ron Malzer: Democrats are poised for November after Supreme Court win
In a single sentence, Chris Taylor named three issues tabbed by Democrats for the congressional and gubernatorial November elections: the federal government’s assault on individual rights and freedoms; sexual and physical violence against women and its consequences; and extreme income inequality and the struggles of those not among the wealthy.

Goldy Brown III: Measure what matters: family structure and its impact on learning
By measuring family structure alongside academic and discipline outcomes, Wisconsin would gain clearer insight into which disparities are primarily school-based, context-based, or amenable to coordinated intervention.

Aaron Yarmel: How the tactic of ‘open rescue’ came to Wisconsin
The grassroots effort to free the beagles at Ridglan Farms goes back 10 years.

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.