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- Michigan Education Report (2003 Hiatus)
- The Granholm Administration: A Review of Year One
- Ask the Economist: The Benefits of Right-to-Work Laws; and What Is Inflation?
- Public Policy and American Business: The Privatization Revolution
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 23, 2003
- Federal Labor Law Aggravates NMH Strike
- Greater Transparency Could Have Helped Budget Battlers
- Charities Lobby for Higher Taxes
- Mackinac Center Applauds DNR’s Contract for Private Management of State-Owned Ski Area
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 16, 2003
- Why Michigan Should Start Refusing Federal Funds
- Consolidating Elections Is The Right Thing To Do
- Interview About Michigan’s “Cool Cities” Campaign, for “On Point,” Public Radio’s Nationally Syndicated Evening News Program
- Your Tax Dollars At Work
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 9, 2003
- Telecom Regs Stifle Competition and Investment, Raising Costs and Killing Jobs, Analyst Says
- Joseph P. Overton Library Dedication
- Video of Former FCC Chief Economist Thomas W. Hazlett, Speaking on the Failure of Federal Telecom Policy and What Should Be Done About It
- MSU School Finance Study Too Narrow to Support Tax Hike Recommendation
- Crossed Lines: Regulatory Missteps in Telecom Policy
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, December 2003
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 2, 2003
- Charter School Forces Flint Public Schools to Compete
- Are Targeted Incentives Constitutional?
- Land Preservation Double-Cross
- Lack of Transparency Complicates State Budget Challenge
- Solving the Organ Donation Crisis Through Incentives
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 25, 2003
- Want to Monitor Your State Government? Now, It’s Easy
- Government Cancels Christmas; Civil Society Restores It
- Privatization: Back to School with Privatization
- Dumping Retirees
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 18, 2003
- The Fallacy of State Economic "Unilateral Disarmament"
- NMH Nurses’ Vote Puts Hospital, Teamsters in Legal Limbo
- The Time Is Right for a Right-To-Work Law
- Petoskey Nurses Vote Today
- Taxpayers Fund Lobbying for Internet Access Tax
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 11, 2003
- Veterans' Homes: Privatization Could Mean Lower Costs, Better Service (General Article)
- Measure Land Preservation Program by Its Results, Not Its Goals
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 4, 2003
- The Pros and Cons of Zero-Based Budgeting
- The Candy Police
- How to Make Cities “Cool”
- MESSA: Keeping School Districts From Saving Money on Health Care
- French Fried by the Welfare State
- Mackinac Center to Host 13th Leadership Conference
- Reinventing Education in Pennsylvania
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 28, 2003
- How the State Government Can Consolidate Human Resources
- Remembering Grenada, Two Decades Later
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 21, 2003
- Let Automakers Increase Fuel Efficiency
- Great Things in Mind for Michigan
- Eliminate MEDC, MEGA
- Why Michigan Should Shelve its "Economic Development" Programs
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 14, 2003
- Habitat Destruction: Coral Reefs
- Privatizing State Fairs Could Save Michigan Nearly $60 Million
- A Bit More Light on Union Finances
- 2,948 Jobs Won’t Be Created if State Income Tax Cut Delayed, Economic Model Shows
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, October 2003
- Government Can’t Do Cool: How Overregulation Kills Cool, Hip Cities
- Analyst Says: Close Teacher Strike Loophole That Allowed Anti-Charter School Protest
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 7, 2003
- The Candy Police
- Air Travel: A Hundred Years of Safety
- Eliminate Intermediate School Districts
- Don’t Blame Deregulation for the Blackout
- Detroit School Establishment Turns Away $200 million Gift
- S&P School Web Site Provides a Wealth of Data
- Dow Foundation makes major grant to Mackinac Center
- Hearings Should Focus On Reforming Economic Development Policy, Mackinac Center Says
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 30, 2003
- Destruction Is No Blessing
- Air Travel: A Hundred Years of Safety
- Mackinac Center Calls State Report on NMH Strike "Deeply Flawed and Inflammatory"
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 23, 2003
- Signs of Wisdom at UAW
- K-12 Education Funding Hinges on Appeal Now Before Supreme Court
- Michigan High Schoolers To Hone Debate Skills at Mackinac Center Workshops
- A Victory for the Gas-Powered Engine
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 16, 2003
- Inaugural Presentation of the Overton Award
- Bay County Taxpayers Paying Extra for "Union Only" Deal
- The Ultimate Rationale for School Choice
- State Audit Questions MEDC Job Claims
- "Anti-Sprawl" Report Deeply Flawed
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 9, 2003
- New "tool tax" audits send mixed message to job providers
- FCC Order Will Fail to Open the Telecom Market
- Resource Conservation and Private Management Solutions
- Clare Schools Using Privatization to Keep Teachers
- The Best Way to Empower Workers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 2, 2003
- Will Michigan Have its First Unionized Parochial High School?
- Michigan’s Primary Land-Use Plan a Failure
- A Hard Pill for UAW Members to Swallow
- With Friends Like This, We're Winning
- Budget Balancing Endgame
- Agenda and Facts Collide in Land-Use Report
- Ripe for Reform: Binding Arbitration
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 26, 2003
- State Close To Deal To Privatize Porcupine Ski Area
- Invest in the Future
- Eliminate Intermediate School Districts
- A Hard Pill for UAW Members to Swallow
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 19, 2003
- Don’t Blame Deregulation for the Blackout
- Land-Use Council Prescribes Social Engineering
- Re-Hyping the Head Start Program
- Charter Schools Don’t Need More Michigan Department of Education "Oversight"
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 12, 2003
- Lawrence W. Reed Named Advisor to LifeSharers
- Michigan's Farmland Preservation Program: An Assessment
- State’s Largest Land Preservation Program a Failure
- Remarks Before the Midland Area Chamber of Commerce
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 5, 2003
- Will Michigan Have its First Unionized Parochial High School?
- Paul Kersey on the Petoskey hospital strike on Michigan Public Radio
- Repeal Michigan’s Anti-Takeover Law
- Reverse Robin Hoods at the University of Michigan
- The Headlee Amendment: Serving Michigan for 25 Years
- State Should Remain Neutral in Hospital Strike
- MEMORANDUM
- A New Baseball Statistic for Opening Day
- Draculand: Romanian Central Planners to Subsidize Dracula Theme Park
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 29, 2003
- Jack McHugh, Guest on "Politics with Bill Ballenger," WKAR Radio
- Giving Laptops to Sixth Graders Won’t Improve Their Education
- Repeal the Michigan Control Shares Acquisition Act of 1988
- We're All Licensees Now
- IMPACT Spring 2003
- Stronger Incentives for Organ Donation Save Lives
- State looks to build venture capital for high-risk startups
- Why Haven’t Michigan’s High Teacher Salaries Improved Student Performance?
- Measurement: The Key to Charter School Marketing
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 22, 2003
- Joseph P. Overton: Character for a Free Society
- MEDC Budget Cut a Step in the Right Direction
- MEA Tells Members to Quit Reading Mackinac Center Journal
- Legislation Would Resurrect Michigan’s Un-Dead Death Tax
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 15, 2003
- Lessons from the First Airplane (Long Version)
- Privatization: Fashionable and Sensible
- Americans Work Until Today to Pay for Government
- My Good Friend Joe
- Executive with think tank killed in ultralight crash
- News Stories, Columns, Poems, and Web Sites Dedicated to Joseph Overton
- Eulogies for Joseph Overton
- Why 1851?
- Eulogy by June Cramer
- Eulogy by the Hon. John Moolenaar
- Thank You For Expressions of Condolence, Tribute and Support
- Teamsters May Be Set to Lose Petoskey Hospital Strike
- Eulogy by Scott Overton
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 08, 2003
- The Driving-Point Tax: River of Money Could Corrupt Cops, Courts
- Lessons from the First Airplane
- Eulogy by Joseph G. Lehman
- Eulogy by Lawrence W. Reed
- Ford Did Indeed Have A Better Idea
- Mackinac Center Mourns Loss of Leader
- Tributes from Joe Overton's Mackinac Center Colleagues
- Select News Stories - Joseph Overton
- Personal Tributes from Around the Nation and the World
- Joseph P. Overton
- Joseph Overton Visitation and Funeral Times and Places
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 1, 2003
- Wedding Toast to Joseph and Helen Overton
- MACKINAC CENTER MOURNS LOSS OF LEADER
- Regression Analysis Results
- Does the Michigan Economic Development Corporation Even Matter?
- Independent Ideas Are Needed to Save Money
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 24, 2003
- Non-Profit Housing Legislation Might Result in Less Housing for the Poor
- Prescription Drug Advertising: Problem or Solution?
- Supercenters—And Shoppers—Under Attack
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 17, 2003
- WE Can Stop the Spam!
- Muskegon ferry loan shouldn't be granted
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 10, 2003
- Consolidate School Elections with General Elections
- Cool It With the Committee on “Cool”
- What’s Wrong with Government Funding of the Arts?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 3, 2003
- The Driving-Point Tax: A River of Money Could Corrupt Cops, Courts
- Contract Out School Services Before Laying Off Teachers
- Michigan Unions Continue to Lose Support among Workers
- Beachfront Property Rights Need Protection
- History Shows Markets, Not Politicians, Should Set Gas Prices
- Mackinac Center will use Economic Model to Analyze Michigan Tax Proposals
- Mackinac Center Says Supreme Court FMLA Ruling Could Open Dangerous Policy Door
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 27, 2003
- Should Government Hand Out Economic Favors?
- Dealing with Urban Sprawl the Free Market Way
- Whose Mailbox is it Anyway?
- Government Should Neither Favor nor Oppose Labor Unions
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, May 2003
- Dear Governor: Please Don’t Offer My Business Special Favors
- Testimony on House Resolution No. 42 – A resolution to memorialize the Congress of the United States to enact the President's tax cut proposals
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 20, 2003
- Corporate Welfare in Telecom Harms Consumers
- Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win
- Government Subsidy Machine
- No Money Where Your Mouth Is
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 13, 2003
- Should Government Deny Workers a Choice in Comp-Time?
- Policy Analyst: For Safety of Residents,
Privatize Detroit Public Housing
- State debates MEDC’s value
- DNR Purchased at Least $16 Million-Worth of Michigan Land Knowing It Could Not Pay Its Taxes
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 6, 2003
- If DNR Can’t Pay Its Property Taxes, It Should Sell Some Land
- Frivolous, Trendy Teacher Training in Michigan
- County Police Can Patrol Highways for Less
- Eagle Sightings Signal Improved Michigan Water Quality
- How the State Should Encourage Economic Development
- Decline in Union Membership Part of Long-Term Trend, Analyst Says
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 29, 2003
- Arkansas and Ohio Should Emulate Michigan’s Proposal ‘A’
- What Is the Best Way to Teach Reading?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 22, 2003
- Property Rights, Condemnation, and Special Interests
- Legislature’s First 100 Days Documented by MichiganVotes.org
- How We’ll Know When We’ve Won
- Freedom or Free-for-All?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 15, 2003
- The Poverty of the United Nations
- Regulatory Power Threatens Rights of Beachfront Property Owners
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 8, 2003
- High Health-Care Costs Affect Auto Insurance
- Abolishing MEDC a Great Idea, but Not the Only One
- Feds Endanger Michigan Ferry Business
- Remembering Prague Spring
- A Way to Ease the Pain of Budget Cuts
- Will Unions & Management Team Up to Preserve Northwest Airlines?
- Don’t Stifle Telecom Competition, Analyst Warns
- Don’t Stifle Telecom Competition
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 1, 2003
- Frivolous, Trendy Teacher Training In Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 25, 2003
- "Outside the Box" Police Proposal Would Save Taxpayers $65 Million
- The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Brilliance of the Founders
- Paycheck Protection: A Matter of Fairness
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 18, 2003
- Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: The British Connection
- Private Fitness Programs Show How Civil Society Works
- News Stories Prompted by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy Study of the Clean Michigan Initiative
- MEA Teachers Face Maximum Dues Hike to Ease $10 Million Union Shortfall
- Knowing the Real Impact of Government
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 11, 2003
- From this Week's Michigan Education Digest:
- Michigan Education Association Dues Increase Memo
- Seventy Years Since FDR: A Time To Remember John T. Flynn
- Lawrence Reed and a panel of journalists discuss the state budget on Off the Record
- Governor prepares to deal with huge shortfall in first budget proposal
- Associated Press State and Local Wire
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 4, 2003
- Mackinac Center Offers Granholm, Legislature Specifics for More than $2 Billion in Budget Savings
- Recommendations to Strengthen Civil Society and Balance Michigan's State Budget
- Michigan Court of Appeals Accepts Appeal To Dismiss Teachers’ Union Attack
- Attack on SUVs Unwarranted
- How to Fix the Organ Donation Crisis
- Gov. Granholm: Profile in Budget Courage
- Long-term Rx for state budget
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 25, 2003
- School Choice Interview on WDEO Radio
- House Committee Approves Living Wage Preemption
- Testimony on H.B. 4160
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 18, 2003
- Executive Order Cuts School District Funding
- Privatization: Catch It If You Can
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 11, 2003
- K-mart: Another MEGA Failure
- IMPACT Winter 2003
- Celebrating Dr. Hans F. Sennholz on His 81st Birthday
- MEGA Corporate Tax Loophole Worth $45.5 Million
- Gov. Granholm Proposes 14 Expansions of Government, 6 Limitations
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 4, 2003
- Mackinac Center: Cut this and this ...
- Time to Refocus Special Education on Reading Achievement
- A Lesson from Great Britain
- Historic Preservation for Strip Malls?
- Northern Iraq: An Unusual Reminder of Freedom
- Prevailing Wage Repeal Would Save State $400 Million Annually
- New Website Provides "One-Stop Shopping" for State Budget Research
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 28, 2003
- Health Care: Let’s Put People First, Not Government
- Does Holland, Michigan Need 'Living Wage'?
- Sales Tax on Services Is Bad Policy
- MACKINAC CENTER OFFERS BUDGET CUT IDEAS
- Major Ag Cuts Advocated
- The Folly of "Living Wage" Laws
- Forthcoming study will recommend more than $1 billion in total savings
- Proposed Budget Reductions for the Michigan Department of Agriculture
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 21, 2003
- New Labor Rule Would Improve Union Financial Accountability
- Proposed Rulemaking on Labor Organization Annual Financial Reports
- Granholm’s Resistance to Tax Hikes Is Sound Policy
- Senate Bill Would Revive Telephone Price Controls
- Cut State Spending
- Telephone Rate Regulation Rings Hollow
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 14, 2003
- New Hope for Free Markets in Africa’s Most Populous Nation
- Michigan’s Prison Costs And What To Do About Them
- Associated Press State and Local Wire
- Department of Labor Proposes New Union Financial Reporting Rules
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 7, 2003
- Mackinac Center asks Michigan appeals court to dismiss union legal attack
- Why Tax Credits Are Better than Vouchers
- Thomas M. Cooley and the Role of Government
- Reviewing the Engler Tenure
- Union Agreement Threatens West Michigan