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Big Government Labor Union Leaders Go All Out for Falk in Last-Minute Push

Comments | Posted in News | By MacIver Institute | Posted May 3, 2012 9:24 AM
Big Government Labor Union Leaders Go All Out for Falk in Last-Minute Push

MacIver News Service | May 3, 2012 [Madison, Wisc..] With their favored candidate for Governor trailing in the polls despite benefiting from more than $5 million in support, Big Government Labor Unions are going all out for a last-minute grassroots... Read More »

School Choice Expansion in Milwaukee, Racine, and Green Bay Stands to Lift the Tides of Education in Eastern Wisconsin

Comments | Posted in News | By MacIver Institute | Posted June 6, 2011 1:54 PM
School Choice Expansion in Milwaukee, Racine, and Green Bay Stands to Lift the Tides of Education in Eastern Wisconsin

By Christian D'Andrea MacIver Institute Education Policy Analyst New school choice measures will bring Wisconsin students unprecedented access to quality schools in 2011. This includes students in Milwaukee, Racine, and Green Bay - and schools throughout the Badger State. The... Read More »

Send in the Clowns, Don't Bother, They're Here

Comments | Posted in mi perspectives | By MacIver Institute | Posted February 21, 2011 11:25 AM
Send in the Clowns, Don't Bother, They're Here

The good news from Madison this weekend is that the circus was in town. No, really. If you were driving past the Madison Expo on Saturday you may have noticed there was a little more traffic than usual. Perhaps you... Read More »

Slideshow: Wisconsin Gov. Union Protests

Comments | Posted in News | By MacIver Institute | Posted February 21, 2011 9:45 AM
Slideshow: Wisconsin Gov. Union Protests

Since February 15, 2011 The MacIver News Service has been covering the events in Madison, Wisconsin. In reaction to Governor Scott Walker's Budget Repair bill, which would change the compensation package for State Employees and restrict all government employee unions... Read More »

Union-Negotiated Work Rules for Public Employees Cost Taxpayers Dearly

Comments | Posted in mi perspectives | By MacIver Institute | Posted February 16, 2011 2:48 PM
Union-Negotiated Work Rules for Public Employees Cost Taxpayers Dearly

After spending several days complaining about Governor Walker’s proposed compensation changes for state employees (as if a 100 percent match on pension contributions and picking up 87 percent of health insurance premiums were raw deals) the union operatives have shifted... Read More »

Nearly Half of Wisc's African American Students Academically Unfit to Serve in Military

Comments | Posted in mi reports | By MacIver Institute | Posted February 16, 2011 10:10 AM
Nearly Half of Wisc's African American Students Academically Unfit to Serve in Military

When it comes to the U.S. Military, almost half of Wisconsin’s African American students aren’t even fit to serve. That’s the story from the latest results of the United States Army’s Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) in Wisconsin. In... Read More »

Field Trip!!!!!

Comments | Posted in News | By MacIver Institute | Posted February 15, 2011 4:20 PM
Field Trip!!!!!

February 15, 2011 [Madison, Wisc...] Many of the hundreds of Madison East High School students didn't know why their teachers brought them to the union protests at the Wisconsin Capitol Tuesday. But they knew they were just happy to be... Read More »

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