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Allison Werner: Green Amendment enshrines rights in constitution. This is popular on all sides.
Clean Water Now referendums in 2021 and 2022 showed strong, nonpartisan success when voters were directly asked on their ballots how much they care about Wisconsin’s water.

Dave Cieslewicz: How environmentalists have gone astray
It’s Earth Day and a good time to revisit Line 5 and what that awful saga has to say about what’s become of the environmental movement — or maybe what it has always been.

MD Kittle: Expensive Wisconsin Supreme Court seat already paying off for wealthy leftist donors
The cemented left-led court has upheld Democrat Gov. Tony Evers’ veto trick to increase public school funding for the next four centuries.

Steven Walters: Potential federal funding cuts could drive Wisconsin legislators to consider separate budget bills
The Legislature last took this approach in 1995.

Gregory Humphrey: Village of Hancock, Wisconsin, nearing bankruptcy
Local government needs to restore citizens’ confidence.

Brian Dake: Lawsuit abuse harming Wisconsin’s small businesses
Tort reform is not just a legislative issue; it’s a crucial factor for the survival and growth of small businesses in Wisconsin. By addressing the excessive costs of litigation, reducing frivolous lawsuits and stabilizing the business climate, tort reform would provide small business owners with the tools they need to thrive.

Eric W. Fulcomer: Progress can’t wait: Educating and retaining Wisconsin’s workforce
Let’s work together to ensure every Wisconsin high school graduate—especially those from low-income families—has the opportunity to choose the best higher education path to support their dreams and our state’s future. Doubling the Wisconsin Grant is an investment in our students, our workforce, and Wisconsin’s prosperity.

Richard Moore: Note to gander: What’s good for the goose is…the U.S. constitution
Tariffs could make America and Wisconsin great again. Or not. Whether they are constitutional in their current iteration is another question entirely.

LaKeshia N. Myers: Black American architects: Building America’s skylines against all odds
Despite representing only 2% of licensed architects in the United States today—a statistic that reveals the profession’s ongoing diversity challenges—Black architects have designed some of the nation’s most iconic structures while breaking barriers in a field that historically excluded them.

John Nichols: Pope Francis rejected the savage inequalities of capitalism
Pope Francis used his dozen years as the head of the Catholic Church to advocate for peace, for bold responses to the climate crisis, for humane treatment of refugees, for responsible uses of increasingly out-of-control technologies and — with a consistency that distinguished him from the corporate and political elites of his time — for economic justice.

Jodi Habush Sinykin: The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program: A bipartisan promise to Wisconsin
Continuing this program is vital to ensure that the state is able to preserve and properly maintain these special places in our community and across the state.

Michael Lucas: The real owners of ATC
Like a zombie rising from the grave or Dracula’s predictable return from hell, Right of First Refusal simply will not die. And why would it? ATC may be owned by “state-regulated” monopolies, but when has a monopoly ever been interested in improving the lives of its customers?

James E. Causey: MPS is on the brink of collapse. New board leader shouldn’t be chosen in secrecy.
One of the best ways the public can stay engaged with MPS is board meetings, which are often poorly attended unless significant events are anticipated. An important meeting lies ahead. Here’s why.

Dave Cieslewicz: Schools eclipse a State Street mall
The state of our K-12 education demands attention.

Dave Zweifel: Other schools do baseball. Why can’t UW-Madison?
Much to the chagrin of area baseball backers, the Badgers dropped the sport back in 1991.

Jeremiah Mosteller: Federal prosecutors in Madison have stopped prosecuting cannabis offenses
Data from the United States Sentencing Commission shows that Wisconsin’s two federal court districts treat cannabis differently.

Bill Kaplan: What’s coming next, speak up
Senate Republicans are pretending that extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts will cost nothing. Sprinkling fairy dust doesn’t change a lie.

Michelle Bryant: Unreciprocated solidarity: Black and brown communities
Many African Americans find themselves grappling with a familiar frustration: being called upon to stand in solidarity with others, while often feeling abandoned when it is our turn to receive reciprocal support.

Noria Doyle: Why the unchecked power and tactics of ICE under Trump have earned comparisons to secret police
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not a secret police force, not yet. But recent actions taken by ICE under Donald Trump’s regime raise urgent and unavoidable parallels.

John Nichols: The pope refused to look away from Palestine
Amid so much pain and so much crude political maneuvering by U.S. and Israeli leaders, the pontiff focused on the humanity of Palestinians.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ consider how Wisconsin’s Supreme Court results could impact 2026 elections
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the effect of the recent Supreme Court election on Wisconsin elections in 2026. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for April 11
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss a deal to settle a complaint against Michael Gableman related to his 2020 election review, a Dem bill that would make it illegal to offer payment for signing a petition during an election, a new GOP transmission line and energy bill, President Trump’s tariffs and more.