Financial smarts have been missing in the Trump/Musk blunderbuss approach to getting our deficits and debts under control.

As a 35-year veteran of Wisconsin’s import-export economy told a group of entrepreneurs meeting this month in Milwaukee, the numbers still dictate that small and mid-sized companies should think seriously about markets beyond American borders.

In Wisconsin, that national lens has turned what might otherwise be a lower-profile judicial election into an ideological battlefield.

Think about what real problems that much money could solve across our state. Mental health services in schools. Affordable housing initiatives. Child care support. Job training programs.

Meth is injected, smoked, snorted or ingested in just about every corner of Wisconsin. But by at least one measure the insidious problem is worse in two adjacent counties — Brown and Outagamie — than anywhere else.

Supporting the proposed Wisconsin Community Solar Policy would bring energy independence, economic stability, meaningful savings, and smart land use to communities like ours across the state.

School districts that rely heavily on federal partnerships to maintain equitable learning conditions and modern facilities would likely face an uphill battle, and higher education institutions might be forced to scale back affordability measures.

The state’s unions look back on the past 14 years from a place of both promise and great danger.

What do the polls show? How big will turnout be?

It’s the federal programs and services delivered by all federal employees to Wisconsinites that will be dramatically impaired by Musk’s program cuts and firings. Wisconsin is getting shafted. Musk is engineering a return to the 1920s.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a microcosm of a broad set of issues, erosion of public trust in the judiciary, partisan ideology, and obscene amounts of money. However, the impact of representation on communities of color cannot be overstated.

The upcoming ballot measure on voter identification is not just unnecessary—it’s a calculated attempt to further marginalize vulnerable populations and create additional barriers to voting.

Wisconsin has a chance to send a message to those causing all the angst and pain that is visiting the American people.

Is it just me, or do Democrats seemingly scream “constitutional crisis” whenever a Republican is president?

One of the creative and intelligent designs (among others) that the Founding Fathers placed into the Constitution was local control over elections. It was almost as if they had a portal to look into the future and see how election interference by a nefarious politician could undermine our nation.

For generations, the women of rural America did the work of men and drove social progress. Losing that worsens divisions and endangers food.