The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week

Feb 02 2025 500 ep. 10 mins 176
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The Free Market Voice for Wisconsin and the home of the most important public policy debates in the nation. See: @newsmaciver @maciverreport #wiright

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MacIver Report (Jan. 31, 2025) - Week in Review

Feb 02 2025 44 mins  
MacIver's Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas review all the content that the institute produced over the past week. These included stories about: No Place for Parents in Gov. Evers' "The Year of the Kid" Republicans Pitch Constitutional Amendment to Limit Evers’ Veto Power Legislative Audit Committee Waiting for full UW DEI Audit Gov. Evers asks Trump Administration to Pause Fed

MacIver News Minute: Evers is Coming for Your Kids

Jan 26 2025 1 mins  
Gov Evers has declared 2025 to be the year of the kid, and if you’re a parent it should make your skin crawl. In Evers vision, everything your kid needs is provided by the state. You’re not even in the picture. When your kids are in school, they’ll get fed, taught, and nurtured by government employees. When your kids aren’t in school, they get fed, taught, and nurtured by

MacIver Report (Jan. 24, 2025) - Week in Review

Jan 23 2025 53 mins  
MacIver'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

MacIver News Minute: Gov. Evers' Post-Constitutional Wisconsin

Jan 20 2025 1 mins  
When Gov. Evers wants something, he doesn’t let anything stand in his way, and the thing usually standing in his way is the state constitution. During covid, he led us through one constitutional crisis after another while trying to seize autocratic control over the state. Fortunately, Evers lost those fights in court, but ever since liberals won a majority on the state supreme c

MacIver News Minute: How Gov. Evers Might Drain the Swamp in Madison

Jan 19 2025 1 mins  
Tony Evers did not become governor to drain the swamp in Madison, but he might accidentally do just that. He’s suing the legislature because he doesn’t think it should have any say in what rules and regulations his bureaucrats write. The supreme court heard the case last week, and Evers might get more than he bargained for. It seems there’s nothing in the state constitution

MacIver Report (Jan. 10, 2025) - Week in Review

Jan 18 2025 43 mins  
MacIver's Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas review all the content that the institute produced over the past week. These included stories about: - Everyone in the Biden Administration covered for Joe's mental decline - Gov. Evers wants to bypass the legislature by allowing "the people" to pass laws through referendum - Major medical records leaks under Biden's watch - Budget prioriti

MacIver Report (Jan. 10, 2025) - Week in Review

Jan 09 2025 51 mins  
MacIver's Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas review all the content that the institute produced over the past week. These included stories about: - Everyone in the Biden Administration covered for Joe's mental decline - Gov. Evers wants to bypass the legislature by allowing "the people" to pass laws through referendum - Major medical records leaks under Biden's watch - Budget prioriti

MacIver News Minute: Free Market Charity Care

Dec 22 2024 1 mins  
Charity is on a lot of our minds this time of year, and hospitals throughout Wisconsin thought it was perfect time to brag about their supposed largess. The Hospital Association just released a report about all the charity that non-profit hospitals are doing and claimed things like that don’t happen in the free market. Too bad for them, the MacIver Institute, Wisconsin’s premie

MacIver News Minute: Who Raised My Property Taxes?

Dec 18 2024 1 mins  
So, you got your property tax bill, and you’re wondering why it went up so much for the school district. Across the state, school district property taxes went up $327.2 million this year. That comes out to 5.7% A lot of that was because of referendums, but that’s not the whole story. You probably forgot the big budget deal republicans made with gov. Evers last year. They agreed

MacIver Report (Dec. 5, 2024) - Housing Crisis Deep Dive

Dec 04 2024 48 mins  
Why is it so expensive to own a home or rent in places like Madison, Wisconsin? The MacIver Staff delves into all the ways that centralized planning from local government makes a bad situation worse and why the free market is the only way out.