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Tracking Return on Investment in the “Green Economy”

MacIver News Service | January 16, 2012 ZBB Energy, a Menomonee Falls based green energy company, is in a race to bring new green technologies to market as it finds itself in the center of the debate over whether government...

State’s UI Fraud Crackdown Moves Forward

MacIver News Service | October 24, 2011 [Madison, Wisc...] A Wisconsin Senate committee quickly and quietly approved a bill Monday Morning aimed at cracking down on unemployment insurance fraud. The Senate’s Labor, Public...

MacIver Investigation Prompts Call for Sick Leave Conversion Change

MacIver News Service | October 19, 2011 [Madison, Wisc…] A MacIver News investigation that revealed recent state employee retirees cashed in an average of 43 weeks of unused sick leave is prompting legislative calls for...

Obama Jobs Plan Numbers for Wisconsin Don’t Add Up

News Analysis | October 4, 2011 President Obama’s jobs plan, currently on life support in Washington, DC, would either only provide funding for laid off public workers for less than one year or would cover three years’...

State Takes Swift Action on RYO Stores

MacIver News Service | September 29, 2011 [Madison, Wisc...] The Wisconsin Department of Revenue says it did not shut down Roll Your Own (RYO) tobacco stores across the state this week, but store owners and their machine...

Rep. Stroebel Moves to End ‘Double Dipping’

MacIver News Service | September 16, 2011 [Madison, Wisc...] If you are covered under the Wisconsin Retirement System, and you retire, you begin drawing a pension.  However, some government employees in Wisconsin then reenter...

Liberal Recall Money Matrix

- click to enlarge - National and state liberal groups, led primarily by public employee labor unions, have pumped well in excess of $14,000,000 into the Wisconsin state senate recall...

Students Warned on Absentee Ballot/Residency Issues

MacIver News Service | August 4, 2011 Supporters on both sides of this month’s state senate recall elections are emphasizing the importance of absentee ballot programs. Nowhere is that push more evident than of Wisconsin’s...

Amended Unemployment Bill Could Hamper Fraud Detection Efforts

MacIver News Service | July 20, 2011 [Madison, Wisc]  Wisconsin’s efforts to crack down on unemployment fraud took a serious blow Tuesday when the State Senate voted to eliminate a recently passed one-week waiting period for...

GOP Senators Drop Waiting Period for Benefits, Could Cost State $50 Million

MacIver News Service | July 19, 2011 [Madison, Wisc...] A Senate amendment passed Tuesday afternoon could eliminate a proposed one-week waiting period on unemployment benefits, which could cost the state in excess of $50 million...