Dr. Theodore Bolema

The State should not allow municipal governments to increase public, education and government channel fees when there is no evidence of additional demand. … more

Given a state unemployment rate of more than 8.5 percent, Michigan cannot afford to abandon competition in electricity supply for the benefit of its two biggest utilities. … more

More than a dozen bills are pending in the Michigan Legislature to expand regulation of the electricity industry and to impose new environmental requirements on energy production and sales. As a group, these legislative proposals assume the necessity of government intervention in the production and distribution of energy. This report details the drawbacks for consumers and the economy of substituting political forces for market forces in electricity service. … more

State compliance requirements divert enormous resources toward monitoring the process followed by local mental health authorities, while doing little to measure whether patients in the system actually get better. … more

A reversal in deregulation would restrict choice in electricity supply, harming rather than benefiting consumers and the businesses that employ them. … more

Ending the regional monopoly structure in the generation of electricity was intended to provide customers with lower rates and improved service quality, while also increasing generating capacity for electricity in the state. But attempts are underway to reverse the course of this restructuring. … more

Violation of property rights is the defining feature of current telecom policy. … more

In the end, the blackout was primarily the result of failures at the transmission level — the level where almost no deregulation has occurred. … more

Anti-takeover laws … often promote the very harms they are supposed to prevent, while imposing great costs and delays on the shareholders and other stakeholders in the corporations. … more