Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers has recently criticized the idea, saying that the report cards are currently a pilot program and that these report cards aren't ready to be a piece of high stakes educational policy. However, that's not what Evers and the Department of Public Instruction said as these report cards were being developed to replace an ineffective No Child Left Behind (NCLB) system back in February of 2012. Read More »
Robert Mentzer, the opinion editor at the Wausau Daily Herald, is grateful that my op-ed last week for the MacIver Institute was free of "Obamacare = death of freedom" rhetoric, even as he finds my arguments opposing Medicaid expansion to be less than compelling. I'll leave the cataclysmic rhetoric to Democrats like Senator Max Baucus and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who described President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act as, "a huge train wreck." Read More »
The Central Wisconsin Action Camp will be holding a three day training program for protestors against the proposed iron mine in northern Wisconsin. The group will hold the camp in a secret location about an hour northwest of Wausau. One organizer told the Journal Sentinel protestors will learn techniques for tree climbing so activists could prevent a mining company from doing advance work at the mine site. Read More »
MacIver News Service (Updated 5/15/13 at 6:36PM) - The Joint Committee on Finance will vote today on providing additional bonding authority of $115 million for the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship program for 2013-2015. This program has $1.4 billion in bonding authority through 2019-2020 and has debt service payments in excess of $90 million annually. Read More »
"No one should feel comfortable right now based on the alleged un-American activities of the IRS," Rep. Nass wrote in his email. "That is why these requests should be stripped from the budget." Read More »
Accused Eco-Terrorist Groups to Train Protestors at Central Wisconsin Action Camp