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- Charter Bill’s Demise Signals Opportunity for Granholm Administration Legislation
- Hopes for the New Year
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 23, 2002
- Reflections at Year-End From The Mackinac Center for Public Policy Staff
- Curtailing Carnage at the Traffic Light:
Are Cameras the Answer?
- Permanent Enactment of Medical Savings Accounts Is Needed
- Taxes and the Fight to Cut Them Defined Engler Years
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 17, 2002
- Keep Politics Out of Mutual Funds
- The Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Tax Hikes
- Henry Ford’s 1927 Reinvention and the Implications for Public Education
- Six Habits of Fiscally Responsible Public School Districts Forum
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 10, 2002
- "Six Habits" Recommended to Improve Public School District Finances
- Union Contract Prevents Budget & Classroom Reforms
- The Six Habits of Fiscally Responsible Public School Districts
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 3, 2002
- A Green Light for Choice
- Friend of the Court Not Very Friendly (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- The Forgotten Robber Barons
- Time to Stop Beating Up on Charter Schools
- A Toxic Thanksgiving Menu
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 26, 2002
- MACKINAC CENTER: CLEAN MICHIGAN BONDS INCREASED COSTS
- From Crystal Palace to White Elephant in 150 Years
- Granholm Should Move MEAP Test Administration Back to Education Department
- Control Shifts in Nation's Highest Labor Tribunal
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 19, 2002
- Michigan Education Report (2002-04)
- John Engler’s Impact on State Government
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 12, 2002
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, November 2002
- Labor Freedom Makes Sense, Morally and Economically
- PROPOSAL 02-4: Reallocation of Tobacco Lawsuit Proceeds
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 5, 2002
- The Message of the Nonvoter
- Where There's Smoke, Is There Asthma?
- An Inspiration for All Time
- Michigan Not a Big Supporter of National Certification Program
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 29, 2002
- Review of Environmental Bond Fund Uncovers Inflated Costs, Misplaced Priorities
- Delinquency on Audit Means City of Detroit is in Violation of Uniform Budget and Accounting Act
- Should State Borrow Money for Environmental Programs?
- The Clean Michigan Initiative: An Assessment
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 22, 2002
- Pfizer credit “corporate welfare,” some say
- Democrat & Republican Candidates Agree: Award-Winning Web Site Uncovers Legislative Voting Records
- SPECIAL UPDATE: MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 15, 2002
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 15, 2002
- Proposal 3 costs debated
- Privatization Michigan: Should a Privatized River Run Through It?
- Regulatory Wrangling Stymies Telecom Competition
- ‘Privatize Federal Lands’ says Newest Nobel Laureate
- League of Women Voters Opposes Straight-Party Voting Ban
- Marketplace or Morality Play?
- Standing Up for Principles When Politicians Won’t
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 8, 2002
- Position mischaracterized
- Election tests term limits
- Making Health Care Healthy Again
- If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
- Banning the Straight-Party Vote Option
- Mackinac Center/MEA lawsuit on the G. Gordon Liddy Show
- Michigan fairgrounds' future up to next governor
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST, October 1, 2002
- Alleviate the Organ Shortage with the Golden Rule
- New Online Resource Helps Michigan Voters Evaluate Four Statewide Ballot Proposals
- Ballot Proposal 3 Would Replace a Good State Employee Bargaining System with a Slow, Litigious, Expensive One, Analyst Says
- Proposal 3: Establishing a Constitutional Requirement Extending Mandatory Collective Bargaining and Binding Arbitration to State Government Employees
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 24, 2002
- An Inside Look at the Government-School Mentality
- The November 2002 State Ballot Proposals
- Staffing Services Industry Under Fire
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 17, 2002
- Lawsuit Filed to Stop $130 Million State Building
- IMPACT! Fall 2002
- IJ & Mackinac Center Fight For Free Speech
- PROPOSAL 02-1: Referendum on Straight Ticket Voting Legislation
- PROPOSAL 02-2: Bond Authority for Sewer Infrastructure Improvements
- The True Meaning of Patriotism
- PROPOSAL 02-3: Collective Bargaining and Binding Arbitration for State Employees
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 10, 2002
- Michigan Education Report (2002-03)
- Michigan’s Public Charter Schools See MEAP Scores Rise Faster than Regular Public Schools
- $20 Million DNR Proposal a “Land Grab,” Analyst Says
- Land Grab: State Wrong On Development Rights
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 3, 2002
- A Choice Option that Saves Money for Public Schools?
- Performance Warranties for Roads: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
- Public-Private “Land Exchanges” Could Help Resolve Property Rights Disputes
- Bypassing Proposal A Through the “Sinking Fund” Gambit
- Government Regulation of Hospital Purchasing -- Michigan Patients Pay a Heavy Price
- Michigan Voters Support Labor Reforms
- The Privatization Song
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 27, 2002
- Who Reviews the Peer Review?
- The Federal "Freedom Car": Back to the Future
- More Logging Can Reduce Housing Prices and Forest Fires
- Politics and the Race for Michigan Governor
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 20, 2002
- If Marx Had Been Groucho
- Cigarettes, Taxes, and Terrorists
- Charity and the Presidency
- Concentrated Philosophies
- Digging the Big Ditch
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 13, 2002
- Can Southfield Afford a "Feel-Good" Wage Law?
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, August 2002
- Berlin, August 1961: An Anniversary We Should Never Forget
- Federal "Anti-Fat" Bill Nothing But Meddlesome Pork
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 6, 2002
- Time to Tame the Tax Beast in Michigan
- Michigan Workers Are Ready for Right-to-Work
- Amtrak: The Federal Government’s Own Corporate Financial Scandal
- Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling Interview on WKAR
- Industrial Policy Interview on Michigan Public Radio
- The Muckrakers Reconsidered
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 30, 2002
- Candidates Use Award-Winning Legislative Web Site for Opposition Research
- Cigarette Taxes Are Hazardous To Our Health
- With Clear Eyes, Sincere Hearts and Open Minds
- Bill Would "Sink" Proposal A Property Tax Limits
- Pushing the Right Buttons
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, July 2002
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 23, 2002
- Are More Laws the Answer to Corporate Scandals?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 16, 2002
- Would Privatization Cure the Ills of Blue Cross Blue Shield?
- Privatization: Industrial Policy: Can Government Really "Create" Jobs?
- Bush Revisits School-Voucher Talk With Focus on Tuition Tax Credit
- Would You Like Taxes with That?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 9, 2002
- Jefferson's Words Best Choice for July 4
- Bush Revisits School-Voucher Talk With Focus on Tuition Tax Credit
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 2, 2002
- Summer Reading
- Cigarette Smuggling: Financing Terrorism?
- Evaluating New Drugs: Remember the Bigger Picture
- The Crystal Gazer from Crystal Falls
- Law Prevents Electronic Pricing
- The Gold Standard and Unemployment
- Former Mackinac Center Scholar's Life Explored on C-SPAN
- Michigan reacts to Supreme Court decision
- U.S. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS SCHOOL CHOICE PROGRAM; MICHIGAN POLL RESULTS
- SPECIAL UPDATE FROM MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
- Mackinac Center for Public Policy Poll Conducted by EPIC/MRA
- SPECIAL NOTICE: MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
- Historic Supreme Court Voucher Decision Imminent
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 25, 2002
- Politics of Fear Makes Bad Policy
- Ingham County Commissioners Trample Employee Rights
- Emergency Financial Manager Needs More Power
- Dunn Helps Support and Defend Center's Work
- Study: Right-to-Work Is Powerful Economic Development Tool
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 18, 2002
- Leaving a Legacy of Freedom
- "Statesmanship: A Most Worthy Cause"
- It Wasn't Government That Fixed Your Clock
- Statesmanship: A Most Worthy Cause
- IMPACT! Summer 2002
- Sinking Fund Debt - Another Proposal A End Run
- Redford Union Voters: District Must Prove Sound Financial Management
- MACKINAC CENTER: UNIONS MEAN SLOW GROWTH
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, June 2002
- New Data Bolster Finding of Right-to-Work Report
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 11, 2002
- Is there a case for election consolidation across the state or should such matters be decided at the local level?
- Right-to-Work Laws Accelerate Economic Development, New Study Finds Michigan Losing Ground to Right-to-Work States
- Is Next Energy the Next Energy Boondoggle?
- The Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Economic Development
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 4, 2002
- Farmers Getting Angry over "Checkoff" Programs
- The Great 9-1-1 Tax Pileup
- A Good Time to Cut Taxes on Jobs
- State Lotteries vs. Truth-in-Advertising
- Michigan Education Report (2002-02)
- POLICY BRIEF: Which Educational Achievement Test Is Best for Michigan?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 28, 2002
- Home Schoolers Make Case for School Choice
- Institute for Justice/Mackinac Center News Conference on the MEA's Lawsuit Against the Mackinac Center
- Environmental Panel to Examine Great Lakes Protection
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, May 2002
- Keeping the "Free" In Free Speech: Mackinac Center and Institute for Justice Defend Against Michigan Teachers' Union Attack
- The Michigan Education Association Tries to Take the "Free" Out of "Free Speech"
- Transcript of Battaglieri Remarks
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 21, 2002
- Media Advisory
- Before Cutting Services or Delaying Tax Cuts, State Should Save $110 Million by Repealing Prevailing Wage Law, Analyst Says
- Currency and Exchange Rates
- Governor Re-appoints Mackinac Center Labor Policy Director to Michigan Civil Service Commission
- Gasoline Price Controls Will Lead to Shortages
- Ethanol: Field of Political Dreams
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 14, 2002
- Farm Bill Interview on WNEM TV-5
- "Virtual Reality Fee" Virtually Kills Development
- Thanks to Two Think Tanks
- Dialing (911) for Dollars
- Straightening Out Straight-Party Voting
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 7, 2002
- Mackinac Center Offers Comprehensive Policy Blueprint for New Administration, Legislature
- Unfair Competition from Prison Labor Requires a Congressional Fix
- How Health Care Costs Help Raise Your Auto Insurance Premiums
- Two Michigan Towns with the Same Name
- Michigan Taxpayers Feeling the Heat from Government Greed
- Keeping Michigan on Track:
- Bush Slides In Public's Eye On Issues He's Toiled Over
- Setting the Course for More Effective Environmental Policy
- Rosenberg Salary At $175,000
- Environmental Plans
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 30, 2002
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, April 2002
- Budget and Benefit Resources
- The Mackinac Center for Public Policy Library
- Overcut or Overspent?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 23, 2002
- Hunter Joins Department of Labor Panel
- Broadband Agency Taps Housing Money
- Research Institute Launches Economic Development Clearinghouse
- Mackinac Center Manifesto on Economic Development
- Education Reform, School Choice, and Tax Credits
- Unfair Competition from Prison Labor Requires a Congressional Fix
- Prison Monopoly Threatens Michigan Jobs
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 16, 2002
- Privatization: All in favor of privatization, raise your hand.
- The Free-Market Case Against the "Flat Tax"
- Time to Repeal or Revise Term Limits?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 9, 2002
- Time to Privatize Detroit's Public Lighting Department
- New EPA Air Regs Could Kill Michigan Jobs
- Michigan Business Succeeds Without State Aid
- A New Baseball Statistic for Opening Day
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 2, 2002
- Government and Recessions
- Proposals for Oil Conservation More of a Threat than Energy Dependence
- Did Anybody Really Know What Time It Was?
- The Other Meaning of Arbor Day
- Bill Would Require Public-Sector Unions to Disclose Finances
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 26, 2002
- Supply and Demand of Labor
- Government Intervention and "Unrestrained" Competition
- Can Free Trade Really Prevent War?
- In Defense of Outsourcing
- Is an Earlier School Tax Due-Date Really a Tax Increase?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 19, 2002
- Onerous School Regulations on WNEM TV-5
- Friedman Says Vouchers and Tax Credits Useful Route to Greater School Choice
- Mr. Smith Is in Washington
- IMPACT! Spring 2002
- Of Bush and Beck
- Center-Inspired Legislation Would Hold Unions Accountable
- Government Broadband Plan Was Tried and Failed in Hillsdale
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 12, 2002
- Is the New State Budget a Quick Political Fix?
- New Steel Tariffs Will Kill Jobs
- Steel Tariffs Interview on Michigan Talk Radio Network
- Mayoral Recall May Foreshadow Flint Bankruptcy
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 5, 2002
- A Privatization Revolution-In a Most Unlikely Place
- Bill would make public-worker unions open books wider
- Lighting the Way on the Dark Continent
- Michigan Public School Teachers Launch a Non-Union Revolution
- Free Trade a Sweeter Deal for Everyone
- Great Lakes Drilling: Environmental Threat or Phantom Menace?
- Historic Principles over Government "Historic Districts"
- CAFE = Causing Auto Fatalities Everywhere?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 26, 2002
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, February 2002
- Research: Researching the Researchers
- One on One Interview: Lawrence Reed, Mackinac Center for Public Policy
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 19, 2002
- Mackinac Center Asks Teachers, School Administrators to Find Most Outrageous School Regulations, Rules
- Michigan Education Report (2002-01)
- No Silver Lining to September 11
- Of Meat and Myth
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 12, 2002
- Politics Aside, Facts Show Little or No Risk from Slant Drilling
- MEDC Fights for Its Political Life
- The Importance of Ideas
- Michigan Schools Need to Be Frugal
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 5, 2002
- No: Michigan Can't Afford to Postpone Reducing Taxes, Attracting Growth
- Gladstone, Michigan: A Little Town with a Big Name
- Good News for the New Year: Americans Living Longer Than Ever
- Government "Condemnation" Power Makes Property Rights Less Secure
- "Teach for America" Success Points the Way to Teacher Certification Reform
- Enron Failure Is No Excuse to Enlarge Government
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 29, 2002
- Should the State Boost Broadband?
- Privatization and Hamtramck
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 22, 2002
- NLRB Nominations: No Joy for Beck Rights
- Internet Access and the Role of Government
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, January 2002
- Privatization: Lighthouse Privatization Shines
- A Success Story Without the Success
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 15, 2002
- Socialist Think Tank an Oxymoron
- Wrong Road
- Privatization: Say 'Privatize' to Da U.P., Eh?
- How We'll Know When We've Won
- Engler's Broadband Ambition
- Long Live Us
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 8, 2002
- A Man Who Didn't "Grow" in Office
- Graduation Rates an Imperfect Measure of School Excellence
- Consumer, Not Corporate, "Greed" Is Ultimately Behind Layoffs
- Should D-DOT Work Weekends?
- Proposed Legislation a License to Kill Competitors for Big Auto Dealers