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Richard Moore: What a beautiful sunset
Under the Neylon/Nass proposed legislation, every chapter of Wisconsin’s administrative code would automatically expire every seven years unless deliberately re-adopted through a transparent process.

Ryan Clancy: My bill helps fix abysmal conditions in Wisconsin prisons
To effectuate change, elected officials need meaningful access to jails and prisons. How can we do our jobs as legislators when we can’t see the results of our actions?

Jim Bender & Patrick McIlheran: Wisconsin DPI mired in one scandal after another
Botched report cards, lowered standards, licensing and finance scandals erode faith in DPI.

Mike Pochowski: It’s time to bring transparency to long-term care referral agencies
The system, as it currently exists, lacks the transparency families deserve.

Adam Chern and Rebecca Kemble: Is Group Health still a cooperative?
Instead of union-busting, the Board should see union organizing as a gift of collective problem-solving.

Scott Walker: End racial discrimination in the federal government
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the Center for Individual Rights are filing a lawsuit against the federal government to ensure that all Americans are treated equally.

Jamie Stiehm: Trump’s anthem mandate a sour note at Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump’s new regime at the beloved center decreed the National Symphony Orchestra must stand and play the national anthem before every concert.

Dave Zweifel: Obama reminds us of what presidential decorum looks like
On Veterans Day last week, former President Barack Obama showed how presidents of the United States once acted.

Gregory Humphrey: Trump’s angry white male rage vs. American democracy
Even in eras of bitter division, such as the Civil War, the dangerousness of McCarthyism, or during violent Vietnam protests, leaders did not weaponize the language of treason against Congress itself. Trump’s rhetoric today is not politics as usual. Far from it.

Dan Shafer: The highway and the streetcar (and what we’re missing)
As highway widening gets unceremoniously underway and the latest streetcar debate goes in another circle, the bus system and looming cuts to key routes seems left behind.

Quentin Klabon: It’s a mistake for MPS to expel Carmen Northwest
Its performance against its statewide peers is far too low, but the bitter circumstances of Milwaukee schooling mean it is many children’s best available option.

Mark Lisheron: Republican candidates join nationwide scrutiny of tenure
Republican candidates for governor are joining politicians across the country who are increasingly skeptical of tenure guarantees for professors.

Donald Downs and Raymond Taffora: University of Wisconsin must raise bad grade for free speech
To meet its obligation to a troubled pluralistic republic, UW-Madison needs more free speech and diversity of views among its faculty.

Michael Chameides: Rural America needs Congress to act
As Congress sat idle, hardworking Americans faced rising health care costs, farmers battled dangerous market instability, and millions may lose necessary food assistance.

Dave Cieslewicz: The tragedy of Tommy Thompson
Maybe someday he’ll admit that he was wrong to support Trump. I hope so, because if he doesn’t admit that, his support for the worst president in American history will, at least in my book, overshadow everything else he ever accomplished.

Dan O’Donnell: Democrat border policy devastates Mequon
In a rather stunning development, the city of Mequon is under siege by a burglary ring…from South America.

Vincent J. Thompson and Johan Cruz-Polanco: Milwaukee’s health safety net is about to be hit hard
Before the OBBB lands with full weight, Milwaukee must take the steps it still can.

Tom Still: Nobel Prize winner Watson ‘complex’ mentor for UW-Madison researcher
It’s been said the best teachers can be judged by the success of those they mentor. In the case of Nobel Prize winner James D. Watson, who died this month at 97, a prime example is UW-Madison molecular biologist and biochemist Richard Burgess.

Mark Belling: Trump is choosing Brad Schimel for a reason
A battle-scarred vet is picked to lead a crackdown.

Michael Pointer Mace: Judge Dugan’s arrest threatens judicial independence
Our courthouses need a clear policy protecting Milwaukeans from disguised federal agents.

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.