by Chris Rochester | Dec 17, 2018 | Features
Liberals swept to power on November 6, seizing control of all the offices up for a statewide vote – governor, attorney general, treasurer, U.S. Senate. In an especially difficult upset for conservatives, Gov. Scott Walker went down in a narrow defeat to state...
by Chris Rochester | Dec 7, 2018 | Features
MacIver News Service Assembly Bill 1069/ Senate Bill 883 Assembly Vote: 57-27 Senate Vote: 18-15 Requires any southeast Wisconsin freeway megaproject, major highway development, and certain state highway rehab projects using federal money be paid for with at least 70...
by Chris Rochester | Nov 21, 2018 | Features
MacIver News Service | Black Friday, 2018 By Chris Rochester TOWN OF LIBERTY, Wis. – Black Friday is almost upon us again, and in Wisconsin that means only one thing: an epic crime wave is about to consume the state. Every year, the MacIver Institute conducts...
by Chris Rochester | Aug 31, 2018 | Features
The 2018 MacIver Annual Price Check By Chris Rochester MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsinites hunting for back-to-school deals are out of luck for yet another year thanks to the state’s minimum markup law which outlaws sale prices that are too low. The minimum markup law,...
by Chris Rochester | Aug 24, 2018 | Features
MacIver News Service By Chris Rochester MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s largest teachers’ union again is a national leader in membership losses. Nearly 54 percent of active union members left the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) between 2012 and 2017,...
