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The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (June 27, 2025) – Budget Spreadsheet and Tax ResistanceWould you believe that the state legislature writes the state budget every two years without using a spreadsheet? We couldn’t believe it either. That’s why MacIver did it for them. But, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Bill and Mike explain exactly how the state assembles its budget, and why everything about it is wrong. At the end of the day, the state knows exactly where it gets its money from, but it only has a vague idea of where it goes…
Bill and Mike also share the 400-year history of American tax uprisings, and why American...
2025-06-2752 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (May 9, 2025) - Week in ReviewBill and Michael walk you through three of the top issues playing out in Wisconsin state politics right now from a free market perspective. Get the latest lowdown on: the state budget debate, Democrat immigration enforcement opposition, and Democrat lawfare.
Budget Stories:
JFC Bosses Look to Evers-proof Next State Budget
Schoemann: We Need to be Honest About Size, Cost of UW System
JFC Democrats slam Republicans for Slashing Evers’ Budget
Budget Analysis:
MacIver’s Guide to the 2025-27 State Budget
Budget '25: Transportation Analysis
Budget '25: Children and Families Analysis
Immigration:
Wisconsin’s Liberal Leaders Stand Against the Rule of Law
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2025-05-101h 00The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Mar. 28, 2025) - Week in ReviewWisconsin is dealing with another mental illness outbreak, with drag queens campaigning for Crawford in Madison, Bernie Sanders' opening act signing vulgar songs about God, and Democrats arguing that there are just as many hermaphrodites in the US as redheads... MacIver's Bill Osmulski and Mike Lucas don't mince words about what's going on here, and why Republicans are playing defense despite overwhelming public support on these issues.
They also talk about all the issues that will be impacted by the outcome of the state Supreme Court election on Tuesday. Hear about all that, plus a review of MacIver's biggest stories...
2025-03-281h 11The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Mar. 7, 2025) - Week in ReviewThe Wisconsin State Legislature debated the ROFR bill on Tuesday that would establish a monopoly in the private sector for Wisconsin-based electric transmission companies, and on this edition of the MacIver Report, Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas focus on one exchange between a lobbyist and the committee chair about "laissez faire, Adam Smith capitalism.”
They also talk about Gov. Evers' plans to expand Medicaid and replace lead pipes in the state budget, and the latest Marquette Law School Poll. As usual, Bill and Mike take plenty of side trips to highlight MacIver's free market philosophy and how it relates to cu...
2025-03-0744 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Feb. 28, 2025) - Week in ReviewMacIver's Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas review all the content that the institute produced over the past week. These included stories about:
Republican Lawmakers Alarmed by Gov. Evers’ “mother” Changes - The governor changed “mother” to “inseminated person” in a budget line about IVF. The governor also dropped the words “father” and “husband” from other parts of the budget. He even suggested changing "mother" to "parent who gave birth to the child" in another part of his plan.
Evers Calls Budget “realistic,” Worried About Federal Changes - Gov. Evers said his budget, which would spend nearly $9 billion more than this year’s budget, is not ‘Dea...
2025-02-2843 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Sen. John Jagler on the "Year of the Kid"MacIver Content Director Bill Osmulski sat down with Wisconsin State Senator John Jagger (R-Watertown) to point out the hypocrisies and the hidden agenda behind Gov. Evers' "Year of the Kid."
2025-02-2529 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Feb. 21, 2025) - Week in ReviewMacIver's Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas review Gov. Evers' budget proposal and introduce MacIver's budget coverage for the 2025 Wisconsin state budget debate.
2025-02-2142 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Feb. 14, 2025) - Week in ReviewMacIver Institute content director Bill Osmulski and economist Michael Lucas tackle some tough mysteries about Wisconsin public policy in this edition of the MacIver Report. The state senate just introduced a bill this week that would give electric transmission companies a monopoly over future projects in the state. Also, Milwaukee Public Schools' audit came back exploring why the district is a constant financial basket case. And last, but definitely not least, a mom complains about the food her kids get at school while Gov. Evers demands every kid get free breakfast and lunch at school.
2025-02-1554 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Feb. 7, 2025) - Week in ReviewMacIver's Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas review all the content that the institute produced over the past week. These included stories about:
- Wisconsin Supreme Court to Decide Meagan Wolfe non-nomination on Friday
- Wisconsin’s Own USAID Scandal
- Northwoods Congressman Questions Gwen Moore’s ICE-evasion Advice
- Milwaukee County Leaders Call Republican Immigration Plan “Dangerous”
- How Democrats are Using the Supreme Court Race to Rig the Midterms
- Wisconsin Lawmakers Begin Push to Raise Learning Standards in State’s Public Schools
- Sen. Hutton Pitches Legislation to Block Future John Doe Prosecutions
2025-02-0735 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Jan. 24, 2025) - Week in ReviewMacIver's Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas review all the content that the institute produced over the past week. These included stories about:
- Democrat reactions to Trump's second inauguration
- MacIver's state budget coverage
- Evers' State of the State address
- Post-Constitutional Wisconsin
2025-01-2453 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Nov. 21, 2024) - Major State Agencies Have No Budget?!The MacIver Staff discusses a new MacIver report that reveals major state agencies in Wisconsin have no budget. How is that possible? Also, why didn't the Republican Party of Wisconsin run candidates in half of the state's district attorney races? And what about that upcoming State Supreme Court race? It's all in this episode of the MacIver Report.
2024-11-2157 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report (Nov. 14, 2024) - Election Fraud SuspicionsThe MacIver Staff discuss various strategies and factors that impact any potential challenge to Wisconsin's US Senate Race between Eric Hovde and Tammy Baldwin. Also, this week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard a case about whether the state's 1849 abortion ban actually banned abortion, and how liberal justices behaved more like a Supreme Legislature than a Supreme Court. All that and more on this week's edition of the MacIver Report.
2024-11-131h 04
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Predictions for the Next 100 DaysThe MacIver Institute relaunches its “MacIver Report” podcast with a list of bold, yet calculated predictions for the next three months. Join MacIver’s content director Bill Osmulski and lead policy analyst Michael Lucas as they argue exactly why they believe:
• The “October Surprise” will be Jimmy Carter passing away
• Joe Biden will resign or die in office right after the election
• Kamala Harris will be president by the end of this year whether she wins or not
• The US will not be dragged into a war before the election
• An armistice will be declared in the Ukraine
2024-08-1051 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Fact Checking Predictions of a Milwaukee BankruptcyWisconsin lawmakers are fast tracking a plan to bailout Milwaukee to prevent it from declaring bankruptcy. They claim it would be devastating for everyone in Wisconsin if that happened.
"We understand that bankruptcy for the City and County would be detrimental for the entire state," said Sen. Mary Felzkowski, one of the bill's authors. She says AB245 would "hopefully prevent them from spiraling into a post-bankruptcy Detroit."
It's funny she brings up Detroit. Like Milwaukee, it's the largest city in a midwestern state with a strong manufacturing background. It also calls into question any claim that Milwaukee declaring bankruptcy would...
2024-05-0728 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: New District Maps Could Change How Lawmakers Represent Wisconsin ResidentsMacIver News Minute: New District Maps Could Change How Lawmakers Represent Wisconsin Residents by The MacIver Institute
2024-01-1301 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Sen. Ron Johnson and Ranked Choice VotingMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Sen. Ron Johnson and Ranked Choice Voting by The MacIver Institute
2024-01-1013 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Sen. Duey Stroebel and Ranked Choice VotingMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Sen. Duey Stroebel and Ranked Choice Voting by The MacIver Institute
2024-01-1013 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Rep. Glenn Grothman on Ranked Choice VotingMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Rep. Glenn Grothman on Ranked Choice Voting by The MacIver Institute
2024-01-1011 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: TIF Districts Raise Your TaxesTax increment financing. TIF. As in TIF districts.
Just the sound of it is enough to put any taxpayer to sleep, and local officials like it that way. They tell you TIF is basically free money.
We take out a loan, use the money to lure in new developments, and then we tax those new developments to pay back the loans. Brilliant – right?
What they don’t tell you, is that new development increases the local tax levy… and new developments in TIF districts don’t pay into that tax levy – and so everyone else in town not in the TIF distri...
2023-04-1301 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: LeMahieu Announces Senate Plans for a 3.5% Flat Tax in WisconsinWith the state anticipating a $6.5 billion budget surplus, lawmakers have plans for a major overhaul of Wisconsin’s income tax structure. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu says the senate is currently working on plans for a phased-in 3.5% flat tax.
Although championed by conservatives, the flat tax is not party specific. Wisconsin’s democrat stronghold neighbors, Illinois and Michigan, both have a flat tax. Reliably Republican Indiana also has a flat tax, and Iowa is currently phasing one in.
Grover Norquist told the MacIver Institute early this week that voters of all stripes strongly support flat taxes. In 2020, Illinois voters overwhelmingly cast...
2022-12-1423 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Brian Riedl on InflationRunaway inflation has put Democrat politicians in a difficult position going into the 2022 mid-term elections. Brian Riedl, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, explains why Dems believe it is in their own best interest to ignore it, the country be damned, until after the election. That’s going to be difficult to do, because Riedl says inflation is the number one issue facing the US in 2022.
In this edition of the MacIver Newsmakers Podcast, Riedl explains how decisions by the Federal Reserve, the Biden Administration, and Congress combined to create this problem. With the US currently holding $24 trillion in debt, th...
2022-07-2528 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Rep Wittke's Education Reform PlansRep. Robert Wittke (R-Racine) is responsible for 9 education bills designed to turnaround Wisconsin’s failing schools. His bill to break MPS into 4-8 smaller districts grabbed headlines earlier this month, but Wittke is also backing school choice for all and stricter reading requirements. Rep. Wittke told MacIver News all about it in this week’s MacIver Newsmakers Podcast.
2022-02-1835 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Minute: Predict the Top Story of 2022On behalf of everyone here at the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy and our board of directors, we would like to wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2022.
As the new year begins, we want to hear from you - what do you think will be the biggest story of 2022?
Will President Biden stay in office the entire year? Will Covid continue to dominate our lives and local officials take away our freedoms? Will kids recover from lockdowns and lost learning?
Will Republicans uncover wide spread voter fraud? Will Biden-inflation continue to hammer the lower and middle class?
...
2022-01-0401 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Rep. Brandtjen Investigates the 2020 ElectionOn this edition of the MacIver Newsmakers Podcast, Rep. Brandtjen talks to the MacIver Institute about her efforts to restore integrity to Wisconsin’s elections and what roadblocks she faces trying to get that done.
2021-08-2620 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute - PolitiFact Gets It WrongA MacIver Investigation last week discovered that the Evers administration was misleading the public by publicizing a Covid positive test rate that only analyzed some of tests administered to Wisconsinites, not all of the tests.
The administration even went so far as to get their buddies at Politifact to rate our investigation as, no surprise here, pants on fire.
Politicfact however is probably surprised, and a little upset quite frankly, that just hours after carrying water for Evers, the Administration actually did a 180 and publicized the positive rate using all tests administered.
Awkward!
If our investigation was so ridiculous Politifact...
2020-10-1901 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Private Schools Fight Back Against Dane County Shutdown OrderEverything was good to go for private and religious schools to hold in-person instruction this fall throughout Dane County. After spending thousands of dollars and countless staff hours the schools had met all the county’s requirements for coronavirus mitigation. Then the county changed its mind.
Friday evening on Aug. 21st, the county health department notified the schools that they could not reopen – even though some of them were scheduled to begin class that Monday morning.
St. Ambrose Academy, a Catholic junior and senior high school in Madison, is leading the legal fight against Dane County. Its Enrollment and Learning Serv...
2020-08-3124 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: More Bad COVID-19 DataLast week, the MacIver News Service reported on a discrepancy with the State’s COVID-19 data because some counties decided not to record the number of negative tests at the same time as they inputted the positive. We still haven’t figured out who signed off on that piece of genius.
Now MacIver has discovered another serious discrepancy in the COVID data.
At the end of July, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s office recorded 384 deaths from COVID-19.
The problem is, according to the State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County had 438 deaths from COVID-19, NOT 384. That’s 54 more deaths or 14% higher than wha...
2020-08-0301 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: 81% Of COVID Victims Had Additional Health ProblemsIn response to a information request from MacIver, Governor Evers' Adminstration revealed this week that 81% of the Wisconsinites who have passed away from COVID-19, died having another serious, underlying health condition or a what is known in medical circles as a comorbidity.
81%.
According to DHS, only 1% of the deaths have been caused by COVID only, no other conditions, the rest are unknown because of questions about how the death information was recorded.
While we believe that any loss of life is tragic, the fact that the vast majority of the deceased in Wisconsin had another comorbidity seems like a pretty...
2020-07-2101 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Voter Fraud UpdateRemember the MacIver News story back in March reporting that 43 Wisconsinites had been referred by the Wisconsin Elections Commission to local law enforcement for investigation into possible double voting in the 2018 general election?
Of course you don’t. Anything that happened in this world pre Covid-19 seems like it was eons ago.
We are finally starting to find out more about the circumstances surrounding this alleged voter fraud.
While the Elections Commission denied MacIver’s rrequest for the actual names, we now know that of the 43 separate incidents of potential voter fraud, 29 voted in person at the polls in Wisconsin and...
2020-05-2101 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: K12 Graduates Unprepared for UW SystemMacIver News Minute: K12 Graduates Unprepared for UW System by The MacIver Institute
2020-03-0501 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: America's First Socialist GovernmentMacIver News Minute: America's First Socialist Government by The MacIver Institute
2020-03-0501 minThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Evers Vetoes Tax CutMacIver News Minute: Evers Vetoes Tax Cut by The MacIver Institute
2020-03-0500 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Lincoln's Thanksgiving MessageMacIver News Minute: Lincoln's Thanksgiving Message by The MacIver Institute
2019-11-2600 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Wisconsin Leads Nation (in achievement gap)MacIver News Minute: Wisconsin Leads Nation (in achievement gap) by The MacIver Institute
2019-11-0501 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: MacIver's State of K-12 Education 2019As the school year begins, it’s time to measure how Wisconsin students and our schools are performing. MacIver’s annual state of K-12 education report finds slight improvements in some areas, but our toughest problems persist.
89.6 percent graduated high school on time, up a hair from last year. But on-time graduation rates for black students stood at 69 percent—the achievement gap persists.
The standardized Forward exam showed an abysmal 42.4 percent of students proficient in English, and just 43.8 percent proficient in math.
A bright spot for Wisconsin students continues to be AP exams. Total exams taken is up 2.5 percent, while the nu...
2019-09-0301 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: MacIver Sues Gov. Evers for Equal AccessIt seems Gov. Tony Evers doesn’t want to answer the really hard questions.
For the past eight months, the governor’s team has blocked MacIver News reporters from key email lists and press briefings, silencing the taxpayers’ voice in Evers’ east wing.
That’s why the MacIver Institute sued Evers last week. The federal case says the administration is violating MacIver’s rights to free speech, freedom of the press and equal access.
Legal experts agree MacIver’s case is strong. One UW law professor told the Associated Press, “It’s practically a slam dunk,” while his colleague said Evers’ actions raise l...
2019-08-2201 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Brian Hagedorn, Wisconsin's Newest Supreme Court JusticeIn this special edition of the MacIver Newsmakers podcast, MacIver Institute President Brett Healy sits down with Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn the day after his inauguration. Hagedorn, a judicial conservative who faced blistering attacks over his Christian faith during a hard-fought election, won in what many considered a surprise election. He takes over for longtime liberal Justice Shirley Abrahamson and shares his thoughts on everything from the campaign to Christian Yelich, exclusively with MacIver.
2019-08-0614 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Sen. David Craig On Reining In Governor's Veto PowerAfter Gov. Tony Evers used his power veto pen to add $87 million in education spending to the 2019-21 budget, Sen. David Craig and Rep. Mike Kuglitsch aimed to put a stop to the veto magic trick Evers used. Craig sits down with MacIver to discuss the budget, the veto, and his proposed amendment to the state constitution on this edition of the MacIver Newsmakers podcast.
2019-07-2211 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Ismael Hernandez's Journey From Communist To Freedom FighterFreedom fighter Ismael Hernandez was a card-carrying communist - a true believer in the Cuban revolution - an all-consuming belief system that defined most of his young life.
Then he came to the United States to attend college at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Throughout college, his point of view gradually transformed as he realized the stark differences between American-style freedom and Cuban-style communism.
He began a personal transformation. It was a truly spiritual change from the quasi-religion that is collectivism and Marxism to the mindset that all individuals have their own, God-given dignity.
Hernandez went on to work in...
2019-07-121h 24
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Happy Independence Day!MacIver News Minute: Happy Independence Day! by The MacIver Institute
2019-07-0401 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Winners and Losers in the 2019-21 State BudgetMacIver News Minute: Winners and Losers in the 2019-21 State Budget by The MacIver Institute
2019-07-0401 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Sen. Kathy BernierMacIver Newsmakers: Sen. Kathy Bernier by The MacIver Institute
2019-06-1426 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Direct Primary Care Pioneer, Dr. Nicole HemkesMacIver Newsmakers: Direct Primary Care Pioneer, Dr. Nicole Hemkes by The MacIver Institute
2019-06-0333 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: The Queen Of Conservative Talk Radio, Vicki McKennaSomewhere between her Marxist social theory and her professor’s godless “leap of faith,” Vicki McKenna had an epiphany: Socialists are full of it.
It’s hard to believe, but Wisconsin’s Queen of conservative talk radio had to pass through the shadow of liberalism — and a few dozen jobs — before finding the right road.
Shaking off her sociologist fugue, McKenna abandoned her sociologist fate and turned to a life of media (which is like a life of crime, just not nearly as profitable.). It made sense. The Nightline with Ted Koppel junkie had a natural affinity for talk radio.
“I just tried to...
2019-03-2837 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Sen. Pat Testin On The Badger State Becoming The Hemp StateCould industrial hemp become Wisconsin’s next “huge cash crop”? State Sen. Patrick Testin believes so.
The Stevens Point Republican led legislation that created the state’s hemp pilot program — a new industry that has seen significant growth in a very short time.
Last year, the first year of production, 200 growers and more than 100 processors applied to the state to grow hemp. This year, grower applications have topped 1,400, with 700 for processors.
“So obviously, it is clear that Wisconsin farmers and growers are ready to lead this nation again in industrial hemp,” Testin told MacIver News Service.
But will Badger State growers one da...
2019-03-2624 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Sen. Ron Johnson Says Mueller Probe 'Enormous Political Distraction'The mainstream media was itchy again Thursday, with rumors recirculating that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report was about to drop.
The press was disappointed again. The press would have to wait.
That’s been the talk of the Swamp for weeks now, Mueller’s looming report to the U.S. Department of Justice and, more so, what it will contain.
After a prolonged investigation marked by leaks and faulty reporting, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says the American people have a right to know what really happened. Not just with Russian interference in U.S. elections — the actual s...
2019-03-2120 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Sen. Ron Johnson On Trump's Emergency DeclarationU.S. Sen. Ron Johnson tells MacIver News Service he’s hopeful the Senate will take up another resolution that would deal realistically with security at the U.S. Mexico-border.
On Tuesday, the Nancy Pelosi-led House was moving on a resolution rolling back President Trump’s declaration of a National Emergency, in which he would tap money to complete the construction of a border barrier.
Johnson said he doesn’t know how he will vote until he sees the Senate resolution, which he hopes will be markedly different than the House bill. Johnson (R-Oshkosh) says the House resolution is much more abo...
2019-02-2620 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Rep. John NygrenMacIver Newsmakers: Rep. John Nygren by The MacIver Institute
2019-02-0819 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Senate Majority Leader Scott FitzgeraldMatt Kittle and the MacIver crew take the podcast on the road - or at least across the street - for this edition of the MacIver Newsmakers podcast, recorded in Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald's office. Fitzgerald reacts to Tuesday's divisive State of the State speech by Gov. Evers, previews life in a divided government, and looks into the crystal ball to see whether there will be a protracted budget showdown this summer.
2019-01-2324 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Rep. Joe Sanfelippo on Direct Primary Care, Pre-Existing ConditionsMacIver Newsmakers: Rep. Joe Sanfelippo on Direct Primary Care, Pre-Existing Conditions by The MacIver Institute
2019-01-2128 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Steineke Says Liberals Have Picked Another Legal Fight They Will LoseIf Democrat Gov. Tony Evers is serious about cutting taxes, Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna) says Republican legislators are all ears. If the governor plans to push a liberal agenda, then Republicans will strand united against left-wing initiatives, Steineke said.
The Majority Leader joined MacIver News Service Friday on the Vicki McKenna Show, on NewsTalk 1130 WISN in Milwaukee. Steineke says there are areas where Evers and the Republican majority can find common ground, but the spirit of compromise got off to a a bad start when liberal groups late last week filed a lawsuit challenging last month’s extraordinary ses...
2019-01-1616 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Ron Johnson Talks Shutdown And Paying Federal WorkersU.S. Senator Ron Johnson has introduced a bill that would pay essential federal employees during the partial government shutdown. He says it’s a matter of simple fairness and national security.
Wisconsin’s senior senator tells MacIver News Service that the Democrats need to stop the hypocrisy and do what they promised to do before Donald Trump became president: Secure the U.S. border.
Sen. Johnson is our guest on this edition of this edition of MacIver Newsmakers.
2019-01-1516 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Glenn Grothman on No Work Without PayU.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Glenbeulah) says he wants to see the partial government shutdown come to an end, and he wants congress to deliver on a long-held promise to secure America’s southern border.
Grothman, who represents the 6th Congressional District, has taken heat for voting against a House bill that gives backpay to all federal government employees, regardless of whether they work during the shutdown or not. At the same time, House Democrats declined to take up a bill Grothman co-sponsored, the No Work Without Pay Act, which would provide immediate pay for federal employees who are working du...
2019-01-1518 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers With Sen. Ron Johnson: Be Careful What You Wish ForSen. Ron Johnson joins MacIver's Matt Kittle on the MacIver Newsmakers Podcast to talk about the border wall impasse, divided government, the conservative legacy of Gov. Scott Walker, and the bipartisan appetite for unsustainable spending (when asking Santa for bipartisanship, be careful what you wish for). Also, why the Senator prefers old-fashioned Christmas carols and Tom & Jerrys.
2018-12-2016 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers: Speaker Robin Vos on Extraordinary SessionAssembly Speaker Robin Vos joins MacIver's Matt Kittle for an exclusive conversation in this week's MacIver Newsmakers podcast. They discuss the extraordinary session in which lawmakers passed legislation that cements many of the conservative reforms of the past eight years. And they tackle that all-important question: Why is emo rap suddenly so popular?
2018-12-1122 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Happy Hanukkah From MacIverMacIver reflects on the meaning of Hanukkah in today's special MacIver News Minute.
2018-12-0600 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Happy ThanksgivingMacIver News Minute: Happy Thanksgiving by The MacIver Institute
2018-11-2001 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Newsmakers Podcast: Gov. Scott WalkerGov. Scott Walker joins MacIver's Matt Kittle on the MacIver Newsmakers podcast to talk about the final stretch of his re-election campaign, as well as encouraging new numbers in the battle against opioids and the latest in Walker's aggressive welfare reform agenda.
2018-11-0216 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Push To Crack Down On Wedding Barns Reminds Steve Nagy Of What He FledSteve Nagy knows what it's like to witness private business get destroyed by government. A refugee from communist Hungary in the 1950s, he came to America to pursue the American Dream. But a new drive by politicians and special interests to suffocate small businesses like his is eerily familiar, Nagy said in a recent MacIver podcast conversation.
Catch the MacIver News Minute on News/Talk 1130 WISN every Tuesday and Thursday at 8, 11, and 2.
Listen to News/Talk 1130 WISN live:
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2018-10-0200 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Students And Families Save Big With Early College CreditThanks to early college credit programs, students and parents are able to save big bucks on college tuition - $60 million or more in total, according to an estimate by the MacIver Institute.
Catch the MacIver News Minute on News/Talk 1130 WISN every Tuesday and Thursday at 8, 11, and 2.
Listen to News/Talk 1130 WISN live:
www.iheart.com/live/1130-wisn-4245/
2018-09-2701 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Kooyenga Will Keep Pushing For A Low, Flat Income TaxThe author of last year's proposal to put Wisconsin on the road to a flat income tax isn't giving up. Rep. Dale Kooyenga plans to keep pushing to make his vision of a 3.95 percent flat tax, first introduced during the 2017-19 budget debate, a reality. The plan is similar to the MacIver Institute's "Glide Path To A 3% Flat Tax" and promises to make Wisconsin even more competitive in the 21st century.
Catch the MacIver News Minute on News/Talk 1130 WISN every Tuesday and Thursday at 8, 11, and 2.
Listen to News/Talk 1130 WISN live:
www.iheart.com/live/1130-wisn-4245/
2018-09-2501 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Latest K-12 Data Shows Too Many Kids Aren't Making The GradeThe MacIver Institute's annual State of K-12 Education report shows that there's still a lot of room for improvement in a wide range of student achievement metrics. Flat ACT scores, unacceptable achievement gaps, woeful proficiency scores, and more - we simply have to do better.
Catch the MacIver News Minute on News/Talk 1130 WISN every Tuesday and Thursday at 8, 11, and 2.
Listen to News/Talk 1130 WISN live:
www.iheart.com/live/1130-wisn-4245/
2018-09-0601 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report Extra: Gov. Scott Walker Kicks Off Re-Election CampaignNow that the big primary election is over and Democrat Tony Evers is officially his opponent, Gov. Scott Walker's campaign is in full gear and barreling toward November 6th. The governor joins MacIver's Matt Kittle to talk about his opponent, his campaign, and the taxpayer success during his first two terms in office. The king of those success stories is Act 10, which MacIver recently reported saved school districts $3.2 billion just in benefits costs by allowing them simply to shop around.
2018-08-2316 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Local Officials Shirk Road Repair ResponsibilitiesWisconsin's road funding debate is paved with plenty of half-truths. A big one is that local officials have no money to do necessary upkeep, or that it's the state's fault that town, municipal, and county roads are full of potholes. Not true - a new MacIver Institute analysis found that in too many cases, local officials simply aren't making basic road repairs a top priority at budget time. And remember: most local roads are entirely a local responsibility. It's a convenient way to try wringing more money out of state government, but a disservice to local motorists.
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2018-07-2601 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Problems Persist at the Troubled Tomah VA Medical CenterThe Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which earned the monicker "Candyland" when its deadly overprescribing of opioids was exposed - still has troubles. In December, MacIver reported that a sharp temperature spike may have compromised sensitive drugs at the pharmacy there. New information sheds light on the meltdown - and indicates the facility may have something to hide.
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2018-06-1401 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Republican Convention Wrap-upMacIver's Chris Rochester was at the Republican Party of Wisconsin state convention last weekend. He sits down with Bill Osmulski to talk about his experience at the statewide gathering of Republican volunteers and elected officials in a critical election year. We also include Paul Ryan's last convention speech as a member of Congress, just before he was honored onstage by Gov. Walker and Wisconsin's entire Republican congressional delegation.
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2018-05-1540 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: The Meaning of EasterA special Easter message from your friends at the MacIver Institute.
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2018-04-0401 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Progressive Minus The Progress PartWisconsin's self-described progressives cheer for poverty and despair in socialist Venezuela, roll out a plan to drag Wisconsin back in time ten years and transfer power to bureaucrats, and try to stop UW-Stevens Point from modernizing its majors programs. Team MacIver, joined by our favorite intern Abby Streu, discusses all of this and actual progress for conservative reforms.
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2018-04-0355 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - March Madness in the LegislatureTeam MacIver busts its brackets trying to unravel the fast-moving Legislature over the past week, which is simultaneously passing conservative agenda items and stymying other good reforms. Also, why is Eric Holder obsessed with elections in Wisconsin? And why are liberals freaking out in Stevens Point? Team MacIver has answers.
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2018-03-2744 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Wisconsin's Problem With Tax MigrationTens of thousands of Wisconsinites have moved out of the Badger State in recent years, taking billions in income with them, IRS data shows. Wisconsin must continue to improve its tax and regulatory climate to make our state the best place possible to live and work if it wants to get serious in the national battle for population growth.
Read MacIver's report here: http://bit.ly/2GI9b2W
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2018-03-2201 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Back In The Saddle!After a week off, the studio resembles a hospital waiting room as Team MacIver is all in some stage of illness, but duty calls! The Legislature is in the final days of this legislative session, but Assembly and Senate gridlock threatens some of Gov. Walker's top priorities like his school safety package and sales tax holiday. The team talks about all the Capitol intrigue and Matt Kittle interviews U.S. Navy veteran Mark Fink, who was both a caregiver and a patient at the troubled Tomah VA Medical Center.
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2018-03-201h 18
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Time to Get Tough on Repeat OffendersEnough of repeat offenders making a mockery of Milwaukee's criminal justice system. It's time to stop the revolving door - that's the message Sen. Leah Vukmir shares in this MacIver News Minute. Vukmir is co-author of legislation aimed at tackling the problem of repeat offenders that recently passed the Assembly.
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2018-03-0801 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - We've Seen This Movie BeforeAfter some movie talk, Team MacIver talks about all that's new but familiar. For one, Big Labor's never-ending, doomed efforts to sue Act 10 out of existence. For two, Randy Bryce's hauntingly familiar $50 trillion agenda that's copy/pasted out of the Bernie Sanders manifesto. For three, another effort to topple Obamacare's flimsy legal scaffolding in the courts (and this one could go all the way). This week's podcast also features exclusive interviews with Guy Benson on the big national issues and Senator Leah Vukmir on her efforts to clamp down on crime in Milwaukee.
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2018-03-061h 04
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report Extra: Guy Benson On Mueller/Russia, The Horrific Parkland Shooting, and Tax CutsTownhall political editor and Fox News contributor Guy Benson joins MacIver's Chris Rochester for a special MacIver Report Extra podcast. Guy shares his insight on the latest in the Mueller/Russia investigation, the horror that unfolded in Parkland, Florida and the renewed gun debate deadlock, and the total failure of the Democrats' anti-tax cut strategy.
2018-03-0118 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - All Things Liberty (And The Interns Talk CPAC)Team MacIver turns the mics over to interns Jake and Abby, who tell us about what they saw at CPAC in D.C. and interview Heritage Foundation tax expert Romina Boccia. The team also talks literally all things liberty in Wisconsin, from tax cuts to civil asset forfeiture, minimum markup repeal, regulations (less of them), an unfortunate new corporate bailout, tort reform, and more. And of course, the crucial Janus v. AFSCME case and a new union lawsuit against Act 10...when will it end?
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2018-02-271h 14
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Politicians Step On RakesTeam MacIver talks about all the rake-stepping politicians are doing of late. In Wisconsin, they're pushing reviled alcohol regulations, ignoring a reform to the state's hated minimum markup law, and spending piles of money. Meanwhile, D.C. Democrats are finally realizing they completely botched their tax cut messaging. The team also talks about our dental therapy policy brief and Matt Kittle interviews Christy Jo Fogarty about the success of dental therapy in Minnesota.
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2018-02-201h 13
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Seven Years Of Act 10 (And A Silly Season Update)Team MacIver celebrates the seventh anniversary of the introduction of Act 10 with a walk down memory lane and fond memories of throngs of protesters taking over the Capitol in 2011. But back here in 2018, it's another kind of Silly Season at the Capitol with plenty of new spending schemes. Speaking of silly, the team also talks about some outlandish statements by liberals running for governor. That, a look at the new bill to open an investigation into the John Doe investigators, and a look at the packed Capitol calendar in this week's MacIver Report!
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2018-02-131h 01
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - The State Of The Union Is Strong (And Democrats Are Dour)Team MacIver hacks its way through an episode without on-air extraordinaire Matt Kittle, who is out with a nasty bug. This week, the team takes its new podcast equipment for a test drive and talks about the state of the state, the state of the union (and dour Democrats), the latest in the Tax Cut Armageddon, some important bills at the Capitol, and more!
Listen next week as the team gets more comfortable with the new studio, tries some of the new bells and whistles, and maybe speaks into the right part of the mic.
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2018-02-0654 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report Extra: Mark Behrens And John Beisner Talk Tort ReformIn this special supplemental MacIver Report interview, Bill Osmulski sits down in the MacIver studio with Mark Behrens with the American Tort Reform Association and John Beisner with the US Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform. They discuss tort reform, class action lawsuits, and why limiting abuses of the legal system is important to job growth.
2018-02-0220 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - A Whirlwind Week In WisconsinTeam MacIver is short one person because Bill Osmulski is out pursuing truth and justice! The rest of the team talks about Gov. Walker's State of the State speech, the whirlwind week in the John Doe saga, more news from the tax cut apocalypse, and a packed calendar at the state Capitol.
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2018-01-301h 07
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - We're Neck DeepTeam MacIver is neck deep this week. Gov. Walker rolled out his new welfare reform package, tax cut armageddon is still creating havoc, John Doe reckoning is fast approaching, Wisconsin got good economic news...and the federal government was shut down for a short time. The MacIver team has insight about all of it! And buckets of chicken.
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2018-01-2345 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - A Boiling Point in "Wisconsin's Shame"Team MacIver takes some time off from their civil debate over the new Star Wars to talk about the boiling point coming up in Wisconsin's John Doe, check in on the charred ruins left behind by the tax cut apocalypse, and remind listeners about the PC police running wild at UW-Madison. That, and a highly insightful Capitol update including direct primary care legislation, a bill pre-empting locals on employment regs, and an important discussion about violence in the classroom. Oh - and who is Cookie Policy?
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2018-01-1651 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Is UW-Madison a Hotbed of Hate?Team MacIver survived the bitter cold spell to bring you a report on the hotbed of hate pervading the UW-Madison student body - or at least, you might think that if you don't take a closer look at the actual hate and bias reports filed by students. Hear that and Team Mac's incredibly expert insight on a new problem at the Tomah VA, a dispatch from the front lines of the tax cut armageddon, the failure of ethanol, zombie regulations, and the latest at the state Capitol.
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2018-01-0939 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Top News of 2017The MacIver News Minute takes a stroll through the top news stories of 2017.
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2018-01-0301 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - New Years' ResolutionsTeam MacIver is back from the holiday break to talk about failed New Years' Resolutions (getting in shape) and holiday promises kept (tax reform) - and talks about some proposals relevant to rural Wisconsin communities. That, and Matt Kittle talks with Deb Jordahl, one of the victims of the notorious John Doe raids, who hopes for justice in the new year.
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2018-01-0245 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Merry Christmas From MacIverA Christmas message from your friends at MacIver. May you have safe travels and a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones.
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2017-12-2301 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Sayonara, 2017!Team MacIver plays prognosticator, wrapping up the big news of 2017, reminding you of the stories you may have missed, and attempting to read the crystal ball. That and the latest on John Doe and the final chapter of Washington's tax reform saga in the MacIver Report's year-in-review episode.
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2017-12-191h 02
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Liberals Flunk Tax Cut MathCutting the tax burden and letting people keep more of what they earn will lead to more jobs and stronger economic growth - 65,000 more Wisconsin jobs and $2.5 billion in higher wages in 2018 alone, according to a new study released by the MacIver Institute. But liberals have their own alternate-reality math when it comes to tax reform.
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2017-12-1901 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - New John Doe Revelations, and Guy Benson on Tax ReformTeam MacIver zeroes in on the latest revelations about Wisconsin's John Doe probe. According to a new DOJ report, the probe was far more expansive and intrusive than even conservatives believed. That, and Bill Osmulski (not actually a coffee bean farmer)is joined in the studio by Townhall political editor Guy Benson. Guy shares his insights about federal tax reform - sifting through the facts, distortions, and outright lies.
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2017-12-1242 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Tax Reform, Trolls, Hemp, and Born-Again Deficit HawksWhile Mike Flynn and the FBI trumped all in the past week's media coverage, the once-in-a-generation tax overhaul effort continued to crawl toward the finish line when it passed the Senate early Saturday. Team MacIver talks about that, tort reform, expensive hemp, winners and losers of the week, the latest Detroit football failure, and unhinged Twitter trolls (and much more) in this week's MacIver Report.
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2017-12-0547 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Food Coma EditionTeam MacIver survived their Thanksgiving food comas and run-ins with the Black Friday mobs and Price Police to bring you the third episode of the MacIver Report. The team talks about minimum markup, takes a deeper dive into K-12 report cards, and of course - tax reform - and so much more! Don't miss the MacIver Report, new every Tuesday!
2017-11-2851 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Talking Turkey, Taxes, K-12, and Much MoreIn this Thanksgiving edition of the MacIver Report, the MacIver team gives you their turkey-and tryptophan-fueled insights into federal tax reform, new school report cards in Wisconsin, the state's antiquated minimum markup law, the latest saga in campus free speech, and much, much more. Also, find out what stories went below the radar and who the team thinks had a good week, and who had a bad week. Matt Kittle also talks with Rep. Joe Sanfelippo about his Direct Primary Care legislation.
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2017-11-211h 02
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver Report Extra: The Heritage Foundation's Tori WhitingMacIver's Bill Osmulski sits down in the MacIver News Service studio with Tori Whiting, Research Associate at the Center for International Trade and Economics at the Heritage Foundation. Tori discusses the state of free trade and its positive impact on Wisconsin's economy.
2017-11-1616 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekThe MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week - Episode 1 (11/14/2017)In the inaugural MacIver Report, the new weekly podcast of the MacIver Institute, the MacIver team talks about the shadowy Public Finance Authority, reforming the state tax code in 2018, the IRS paying for its targeting of conservative groups, and much more insight you won't find anywhere else. Also, find out who the team thinks had a good week, and who had a bad week. Don't miss the MacIver Report, new every Tuesday!
2017-11-1438 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Obamacare Horror StoriesSkyrocketing premiums, unaffordable deductibles, lost coverage...today's MacIver News Minute tells the horror stories of just a few Wisconsinites who are being crushed by Obamacare. Hear the MacIver News Minute on News/Talk 1130 WISN every Tuesday and Thursday at 8, 11, and 2.
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2017-11-0901 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekJay Weber on MacIver's Obamacare Analysis: "Obamacare Is Not Working."WISN's Jay Weber highlights MacIver's latest analysis of the never-ending Obamacare nightmare. In Wisconsin, 2018 will bring a 36% premium price spike, and 75,000 Wisconsinites will lose their coverage at the end of 2017 thanks to insurers fleeing the fragile market. Callers also describe their own Obamacare nightmare.
Read MacIver's Obamacare analysis here: http://bit.ly/2z4I0vE
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2017-11-0212 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Vampire Slayers Defeat Blood-Sucking IRSThe Halloween edition of the MacIver News Minute zeroes in on the spooky IRS, the federal blood-suckers who blocked conservative groups from exercising their right to free speech during the Obama tenure. Now, the vampire slayers have prevailed and the IRS has agreed to pay up to the tune of a seven figure settlement.
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2017-10-3101 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Good Bye to Obama's Costly Power PlanThe latest MacIver News Minute celebrates the end of the Obama-era "Clean Power Plan," a slate of draconian regulations that would've cost Wisconsin's economy billions of dollars. The Trump EPA announced the end of the rules on Monday. Hear the MacIver News Minute on News/Talk 1130 WISN every Tuesday and Thursday at 8, 11, and 2.
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2017-10-1201 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Welfare Reform WorksThe latest MacIver News Minute spotlights the success of Gov. Walker's welfare reforms. New data shows that 21,000 people have gained employment after participating in FoodShare Employment Training (FSET) - and more people are taking part voluntarily. Hear the MacIver News Minute on News/Talk 1130 WISN every Tuesday and Thursday at 8, 11, and 2.
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2017-10-1001 min
The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This WeekMacIver News Minute: Above The Law - Kevin Kennedy Flouts John Doe Secrecy OrderThe latest MacIver News Minute describes how Kevin Kennedy, one of the ringleaders of the John Doe raids rightly dubbed "Wisconsin's Shame," open violated the secrecy order imposed on agents of the Doe at a confab of his fellow speech cops last year. Hear the MacIver News Minute on News/Talk 1130 WISN every Tuesday and Thursday at 8, 11, and 2.
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2017-10-0501 min