Talking Trade with DATCP Export and Business Development Bureau Director Ira Frydman
In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” host Sandi Siegel interviews DATCP Export and Business Development Bureau Director Ira Frydman about the agency’s success in expanding markets for Wisconsin agricultural exports.
Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy: New CROWE Report: Wisconsin’s Hospital Markets are highly concentrated. Mergers and closures have made them more so
MADISON, Wisconsin, October 13, 2026 — Wisconsin’s hospital markets are highly concentrated, andthey grew more concentrated between 2018 and 2025, driven mainly by hospital mergers and closures ratherthan by patients choosing different hospitals. That is the central finding of a
Steven Walters: What role will Fox Valley voters play in the Wisconsin governor race?
They have hurt Democrats in the polls in recent years.
John Nichols: Trump hurts Tiffany, Obama helps Crowley
When it comes to their high-profile national supporters, David Crowley and Tom Tiffany are a study in stark contrasts.
Bill Berry: The 7th District congressional race shouldn’t be this close
By most rational accounts, the congressional race in Wisconsin’s sprawling 7th District in northern Wisconsin should be no contest.
Jim Piwowarczyk: Vote YES on all three Wisconsin constitutional amendments on Nov. 3
When you fill out your ballot this fall, don’t stop after the governor’s race. Three proposed amendments to the Wisconsin Constitution are on the Nov. 3 ballot, and each one puts a firm limit on government power.
Angela Lang: Don’t fall for the sneaky language: Why you should vote NO on Question 3
This constitutional amendment question will be on every ballot across the state, and its intentionally confusing language makes it seem like it’s anti-discrimination, but the devil is in the details.
Patrick McIlheran: The only remedy for government discrimination is to make it stop discriminating
Wisconsin amendment would bar unjust preferences, defeating agencies’ so-sue-me attitude
Chuck Melvin: Check economic stats under Republicans. Then cast your vote.
Find economic statistics that matter to you and see how they’re doing under the Republicans and Trump. Then please cast your vote.
Natalie Eilbert: Livestreaming a firing squad execution will taint us forever
I fear what will happen to our humanity after this. An irreversible wickedness, to borrow Dickens’ verbiage, will live inside us, waiting for the next opportunity to gawk at state-sanctioned death.
Scott Walker: Never forget Oct. 7 or its perpetrators
Terrorism is no abstract threat.
Bruce Murphy: Top Republican has turned on Donald Trump
R.J. Johnson, longtime Republican consultant, condemns raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.
R.J. Johnson: The raid on Ilhan Omar’s home. I’ve been there.
My 16-year-old son was home alone when armed agents came through our door.
Mike McCabe: Do-it-yourself lobotomy
Evidence mounts that ongoing AI use makes our brains lazy and over time will likely make us stupider.
Berman campaign: Shots fired: New Berman ad, “PULL,” puts Bryan Steil’s data center ties in the crosshairs
RACINE, WI — Today, the Mitchell Berman for Congress campaign released a new TV ad, “PULL.” The ad contrasts Berman’s commitment to the rural district’s values with Steil’s pay-to-play, pro-data-center record. “Bryan Steil says he wants Wisconsin to be ‘a great