When Palermo’s announced they were going to build a new production facility in the Menomonee Valley in 2005, Tom Barrett actually made the announcement. They were to be the first major employer to locate operations in the previously blighted corridor and the move put Milwaukee, and its Mayor, in the best possible light. Read More Milwaukee’s Reluctant Mayor Fails to Surprise
[Madison, Wisc…] The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy has named Sean Lansing as Communications Director. Lansing, a 2008 UW-Madison graduate, has held numerous positions at the state Capitol and on political campaigns, including stints with the Assembly Majority Leader and Eric Hovde’s campaign for US Senate. Read More MacIver Institute Expands
Again, the GAB appears embarrassed that everyday citizens are more concerned about detecting and preventing election fraud than they, the supposed ‘election watchdogs,’ are. Read More The GAB is a Joke
What worked in Wisconsin was bringing state employee benefit costs under control, and that’s what needs to be done in Illinois. Walker won because he had the right playbook. Read More Walker Envy in Illinois
Roseanne Kuemmel, a member of the Racine County Board of Canvassers responded to a comment made by a Democrat official that this is much ado about nothing: “We don’t feel that it’s nothing. I am very concerned seeing this stuff and we want to know why it is happening and prevent it from happening again…We’re very concerned with what we’ve seen during this recount. The sloppy handling of the ballots, it’s just atrocious.” Read More Racine Recount Recap
At the RightOnline conference in Las Vegas sponsored by Americans for Prosperity this past weekend, if you said you were from Wisconsin the rest of the attendees smiled and congratulated you for winning the Recall Election. It was Aaron Rodriguez, who writes the Hispanic Conservative blog, who commented that we were talked to like heroes. It seemed like everybody at the conference wished they were from Wisconsin. Read More What Happened in Vegas? On, Wisconsin!
In the last two years executives and employees of the firm alleged to have received a no-bid contract from the City of Milwaukee have contributed thousands of dollars to the many political campaigns of Mayor Tom Barrett. Read More Barrett Donors’ No Bid Contract Under Scrutiny, Press Ignores Ties to Barrett
Kyle Olson looks at labor’s embrace of radical elements in Wisconsin Read More EAGNews: Anarchy 101
On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel approached the MacIver Institute via email with a request to write an OpEd column for Sunday’s newspaper. So, we publish this column (and a transcript of our exchange with the JS Editor) for two reasons. One, we put the time and effort into writing the piece, setting aside some other projects to fulfill the Journal Sentinel’s request–so we’d like to at least have this column see the light of day. Two, we’ll raise the question: Did the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel spike this piece beause they cannot tolerate even the mildest form of criticism within the pages of their own paper? (Criticism, you will see, that was entirely justified.) Read More Read the Column the Journal Sentinel Requested, Then Refused to Run
How Wisconsin’s School Districts are Saving Money as a Result of 2011’s Act 10 Legislation For your convenience and printability, the .PDF of this study can be found here. Appendix A is attached here. Appendix B is attached here…. Read More MI Report Chronicles Success of Wisconsin Budget Reforms