Category: mi perspectives

Medicaid Showdown Looms

This weekend, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published a column by MacIver President Brett Healy. In part, Healy wrote: With Wisconsin stuck in the middle of the highly charged “recall season,” those on the left...

The Milwaukee County Board: Much Ado About Nothing

By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute But soft, what through county budget breaks? It is for youths, 65 grand the sum. Now is the budget of some ill content, made glorious spending by this son of...

Wigderson’s Take on: Proposed Hoan Bridge Bike Path

By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute It’s the $9.4 million question, or possibly we could be playing for ten times that amount. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) will stop...

The Milwaukee County Board’s Unquenchable Thirst for More Spending

By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute Because of Milwaukee County’s sheer size in terms of population and impact on the state’s economy, what happens to Milwaukee County is of interest to...

Two-Faced Barrett or Evil Twin?
Milwaukee’s Mayor on Ohio, Wis. Act 10

By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute Last Tuesday, voters in Ohio reversed an attempt to curb collective bargaining privileges for government employees. Unlike in Wisconsin, Ohio voters can...

Democrats Push Pedal Power as Solution to Budget Woes

By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute State Representative Brett Hulsey has found a way to solve all of our state budget problems. Everyone, get out of your cars. No really, get out of your cars...

Walker Hopes to Follow Engler Model

By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute Some years ago, there was a panel discussion of how American foreign policy is formed. The former U.S. secretaries of state that were alive at the time...

Chris Abele Takes Trail Blazed by Scott Walker

By James Wigderson Special guest perspective for the MacIver Institute A rather scary assemblage of every special interest in Milwaukee will gather on Halloween for a public hearing on the County budget. They will be the usual...

On Ayers and the Occupiers

By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute Elisabeth Kubler-Ross wrote, “There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” In a moment of synchronicity,...

Will Legislature Cave to Education Bureaucrats on Open Enrollment?

By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute Like many parents, my wife and I meet with our children’s teachers at the beginning of each school year. We have learned the hard way you can’t wait...