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The left likes to cast conservatives who champion voter integrity efforts as pushers of a nefarious plot to strip voters of the franchise. But data from the state Elections Commission illustrates why regular clean-up of the voter rolls is so important. After the 2016 election, thousands of same-day registrations couldn't be verified after postcards sent to their addresses bounced back. There's plenty of evidence that more stringent standards are prudent and necessary to ensure the integrity of the one-person, one-vote concept.  Read More MacIver News Minute: Same-Day Registration Plagued by Thousands of Potential Cases of Voter Fraud

By M.D. Kittle - Some of our readers are wondering: What kind of perks are U.S. senators and representatives hauling in?  Read More The Perks Of Congress: Pensions, Free Parking, Haircuts And So Much More

By Chris Rochester - Almost a thousand cases of potential election day registration fraud were referred to district attorneys across Wisconsin following the 2016 general election, and questions remain over thousands more voters who can’t be located or verified, according to data from the state Elections Commission.  Read More Almost 4,000 Cases of Voter Fraud Recorded By Wisconsin Officials After 2016 Election

What lessons did Madison's tech bureaucrats learn from their failed, $500,000 broadband-for-all pilot project? Not much, it seems. But the public and some skeptical members of a city committee overseeing the project found out from a "lessons learned" document assembled by the bureaucrats what a textbook government boondoggle looks like. MacIver's Chris Rochester joins Matt Kittle on the Vicki McKenna Show on News/Talk 1310 WIBA.  Read More Costly ‘Lessons Learned’ in Madison’s Unfolding Broadband Boondoggle

By M.D. Kittle and Chris Rochester - The city of Madison spent a half million dollars of taxpayer money on a failed pilot program to bring broadband to four low-income neighborhoods. So what did bureaucrats learn from this crash-and-burn experiment?   Read More Costly ‘Lessons Learned’ In Madison Broadband-For-All Boondoggle

The Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which earned the monicker "Candyland" when its deadly overprescribing of opioids was exposed - still has troubles. In December, MacIver reported that a sharp temperature spike may have compromised sensitive drugs at the pharmacy there. New information sheds light on the meltdown - and indicates the facility may have something to hide.  Read More MacIver News Minute: Problems Persist at the Troubled Tomah VA Medical Center

MacIver Institute President Brett Healy discusses the results of Tuesday's special elections in Senate District 1 and Assembly District 42 on the Vicki McKenna Show with guest host, Matt Kittle. The verdict on the #BlueWave some say is coming this fall? It's a mixed bag after the Republicans won the Assembly seat and Democrats took the Senate seat.  Read More Brett Healy Breaks Down Special Election Results on the Vicki McKenna Show

By M.D. Kittle - Perhaps congress should approach the looming Social Security crisis with the same sense of urgency as the U.S.-North Korea peace talks.   Read More Maybe We Should Approach The Entitlement Crisis Like Peace Talks With North Korea

MacIver President Brett Healy joined the WTAQ Morning News with Matt & Earl to recap the results of the special elections in Senate District 1 and Assembly District 42.  Read More Election Analysis from Brett Healy – President of the MacIver Institute

Ohio not only has a right to clean up its voter rolls, but the U.S. Supreme Court basically ordered it to do so, giving the green light to similar election integrity efforts across the country.  Read More Supreme Court Says States Can – And Must – Clean Up Messy Voter Rolls

Leftists are lining up their forces, intent on putting all they've got into raining on Foxconn's big parade later this month when the tech giant plans to break ground on its massive new manufacturing campus. Their ultimate aim? To derail or besmirch the $10 billion, 13,000-job development deal in "any way possible" to improve their odds of defeating Gov. Scott Walker this November.  Read More MacIver News Minute: Left-Wing Agitators Plot to Crash Foxconn’s Groundbreaking Party

MacIver communications director Chris Rochester joins Oliver Burrows to discuss the left's latest attempt to portray Minnesota as a progressive utopia compared to Wisconsin. But the economic data paints a much different picture when it's not being massaged and cherry picked. In fact, by many measures Wisconsin is outperforming its neighbor to the west.  Read More News And Views: Minnesota Versus Wisconsin, and Why Foxconn Matters

MacIver Investigative Reporter Matt Kittle joins Oliver Burrows on WXCO in Wausau for his weekly discussion of Wisconsin news and politics. Up this week - the latest on ousted UW-Platteville professor Sabina Burton, Madison's $173 million broadband boondoggle, and the latest revelations with the troubled Tomah VA Medical Center.  Read More News And Views: Update on Sabina Burton, Madison Broadband Boondoggle, and Tomah VA Candyland

Direct primary care - where a doctor is paid a monthly fee in exchange for a menu of primary care services, bypassing insurance red tape - is a cost-saving, innovative way to tackle the rising price of health care. The City of La Crosse and the La Crosse School District are great examples of the potential to both improve care and save money. Adding DPC to their list of options has proven extremely popular and has saved more than $1.5 million in a few short years.  Read More MacIver News Minute: La Crosse Shows Us Money-Saving Potential of Direct Primary Care

By M.D. Kittle - New cost projections for a proposed broadband-for-all Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) network controlled by the city at least has a government subcommittee second-guessing hopes and assumptions about “ubiquitous” high-speed Internet service.   Read More $173 Million Madison Broadband-For-All Estimate Is A Cold Shot Of Fiscal Reality

By M.D. Kittle - A climate-control malfunction late last year at the Tomah VA Medical Center outpatient pharmacy did compromise medications and cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars to replace, according to government documents obtained by MacIver News Service.   Read More Records Detail Hot Medicine Mess At Tomah VA

Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 has been a resounding win for Wisconsin taxpayers - it's saved more than $5 billion in the years since the landmark law was enacted. But the liberals running to unseat Walker have all pledged to repeal the reform, restoring a huge spigot of money into the campaign coffers of progressive candidates.  Read More MacIver News Minute: Dem Candidates For Governor Pledge to Undo Act 10

MacIver's Ola Lisowski sits down with Rep. John Macco, chairman of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, to talk about the committee's work on overhauling the state tax code. Rep. Macco makes sure tax talk is anything but a dry topic!  Read More MacIver Report Extra: Rep. John Macco On The Future Of Taxes In Wisconsin

By M.D. Kittle - Left-wing activists committed to doing whatever it takes to stop Foxconn Technology Group’s massive manufacturing campus in southeast Wisconsin are planning to rain on the tech giant’s ground-breaking picnic.  Read More Liberal Activists Prepare To Stop Foxconn “Any Way We Can”

By Ola Lisowski - Milwaukee Public Schools plans to cut millions of dollars from its central office, while other costs continue to spiral out of control in the district’s preliminary $1.173 billion budget passed late last month on a unanimous vote by the board of education.  Read More MPS Board Passes A Budget – And The Buck