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Michael Wagner: Colbert, courage and capitulation
There is bipartisan opposition to government leaning on universities and TV networks, according to new data from UW-Madison research center

Sidney Plotkin and Bill Scheuerman: While you get gouged at the pump, guess who profits
While many of us are cutting back on groceries, travel, health care and other necessities to pay almost five bucks a gallon for gas, oil companies are raking in mega bucks.

Mel and Mike Ohlinger: The affordability crisis doesn’t stop at the kitchen table. It’s hitting small business, too
Many small businesses feel like we are being priced out of survival.

Jerry Hanson: ‘We the people’ did not authorize a compensation fund settlement
This is a blatant breach of our Constitution by the very people who took an oath to defend and honor our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

Jamie Stiehm: Trump takeover is nearly complete
It’s amazing what Trump thinks he can get away with — and then he does. Why? He goes further than any president ever dreamed to remake the capital in his own image.

Amy Hemmer: Before there was a ‘Karen’, there was a ‘Hanoi Jane’
Generations of young people today are probably unaware of Jane Fonda’s sordid past.

James Causey: Milwaukee can’t allow landlords to profit from human misery
A federal drug case involving a landlord from Hales Corners exposes a deeper issue: how poor and vulnerable tenants are often forced to live in unsafe and exploitative housing conditions in Milwaukee.

Bill Barth: States could help gas pump prices
Taxpayers will pay at the pump or some other way until the incompetents elected to office act with better fiscal discipline.

Chris Ott: Let’s expand and improve Wisconsin’s successful trains
It’s time for Wisconsin to invest more in this convenient, practical, popular alternative. Let’s bring the benefits of modern train service to more people in our state.

Will Coggin: A California law is hurting Wisconsin. Congress has the fix.
California shouldn’t be regulating Wisconsin, and this isn’t particularly controversial. From Arizona to Georgia to Maine, most residents support a Prop 12 fix in the 2026 Farm Bill.

Courtney Graves: Why is Gen Z so anti-capitalist?
A new poll shows that support for socialism among young Americans is at an all-time high. What could be responsible for this fact?

Mike McCabe: What just might unite us
Regardless of where we’re from or where we now live, we share a great many problems. None bigger than our relationship with technology, the question of whether machines will be our servants or masters, whether tools like AI will end up assisting humanity or commandeering it.

Gregg Hoffmann: Data center in the Driftless Area?
It could be time for more Driftless folks to consider zoning, at least for large businesses like data centers and others that could impact the environment.

Michael Lucas: Wisconsin labor market update: March 2026
Despite reports of a bustling stock market, improving employment conditions and rising wages, many have yet to benefit these positive developments personally. What’s really going on?

Anthony Pahnke: Wisconsin farmers are in crisis. Lawmakers aren’t helping.
Changes introduced by our Wisconsin lawmakers do little to fix an agricultural system hemorrhaging producers. Still, these changes do little to fix an agricultural system hemorrhaging producers.

Mark Belling: Democrats tell Evers to just go away
Leftist hatred of tax relief kills lame-duck governor’s deal for school aid and tax cuts.

Bill Barth: Common ground cursed by purists
A grand compromise — there’s that dirty word in politics — was scuttled for the sake of political grandstanding.

John Scott: Medicaid cuts are hurting Wisconsin
Hospitals in Van Orden’s congressional district were projected to lose more than $42 million in annual revenue under the budget law.

John Torinus: Columbus, Indiana, visionary model for smaller cities
Columbus, Indiana, a city about the size of West Bend, has become a mecca for its collection of 70 buildings designed by world-class architects.

John Imes: When removal becomes a political tool, democracy suffers
Four members of the Shorewood Hills Village Board voted to remove me as village president. Obviously, my family and I are disappointed. More importantly, this was not right, and the legal standard for removal was not met.

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.