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Steer clear of voting myths

Misinformationaboutelectionsisspreading faster than the facts that debunk it, and it's time to set the record straight. Take absentee mail voting: some claim it isn't safe, but in Wisconsin, every ...
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Climate change plays role in wildfires

Dear editor, Six Wisconsin Republican congressmen — Bryan Steil, Derrick Van Orden, Scott Fitzgerald, Glenn Grothman, Tom Tiffany, and Tony Wied — recently sent a letter to the EPAblaming Canada’swildfiremanagement for the toxic smoke affecting our state. The letter, however, makes no mention of climate change. While management practices matter, climate change is the primary factor behind...

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Protecting the right to vote by mail

Voting by mail dates back to the Civil War. In 2024, 31% of U.S. voters—about 48 million people—cast ballots by mail. In March 2026, the administration issued an executive order directing USPS to refuse delivery of mail-in ballots to voters not on a federally compiled “eligible voter” list. Not only isn’t this federal government’s jurisdiction, the states already maintain well-ke...

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The radical ideas of progressives

Our congressmen Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden call the progressives’ ideas “radical.” I thought I should list some of these “radical” ideas: •Health care for everyone (like in all other Western democracies) like Medicare for all would cut most administrative burdens and cost us all much less. People would not wait too long before going to the doctor, and would avoid preventab...

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Double standards a concern with current U.S. immigration policies

On June 18, U.S. District Judge James Hanlon ordered the release of Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, from nearly three months in Immigration and CustomsEnforcement (ICE) custody after finding evidence that his detention may have been tied to his pro-Palestinian speech. He was freed hours later. Sarsour, born in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is a lawful permanent resid...

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Science and information allow us to effectively prepare

Oneofourfounders—BenjaminFranklin — mapped and measured the depth of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean after learning about its existence from a whaling ship captain. As he traveled between America and Britain and back, he dropped thermometers into the ocean at various depths and carefully recorded and mapped the data. Franklin’s map is remarkably similar to modern infrared maps. Fast...

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Democratic presidential candidates should support cultivated-meat research

Dear editor, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently inveighed against the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act during an appearance at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. The New York congresswoman was invited to speak at Martin Luther King Jr.’s former congregation on May 10, at the invitation of Sen. Raphael Warnock, the current senior pastor there. Many politica...

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