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- 25 CCs of Adrenaline
- Wine Sellers and Protectionism
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 21, 2004
- Price-Fixing Versus the Poor
- Unwrapping Privatization
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 14, 2004
- Dancing Around Education: A 170-Year Waltz With Reform
- Asian Food for Thought
- Solve the Problem Any Way We Can
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 7, 2004
- Intelligent Design?
- Profit Has a Role in Public Schools
- New Year’s Resolution: A Taxpayer Bill of Rights
- The Changing UAW
- Veterans’ Woes Illustrate Problem With Government Health Care
- Slicing Municipal Golf from Government Balance Sheets
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 30, 2004
- Ironic Choices
- From Cranberries to Acrylamide — 45 Years in the Anxiety Industry
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 23, 2004
- Bequeathing Freedom
- The Legacy Society: Nurturing the Tree of Liberty
- Patient Approach
- Capitalizing Trouble
- Michigan Needs to Become Freer to Become Richer
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 16, 2004
- Undereducated Today, Outsourced Tomorrow?
- The Granny Clause
- Profit, Loss and Pluto
- Lawrence Reed on Public Policy Principles
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 9, 2004
- Son of Richard H. Headlee Comments on His Father’s Passing
- Mackinac Center President Honors the Memory of Richard H. Headlee
- Remembering a Giant: A Tribute to Richard H. Headlee
- Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: The British Connection
- Fiscal Policy in Michigan
- An Outsourcing Parable
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 2, 2004
- From Arbroath to Austin
- The Golden Calf of Democracy
- Mental Health Care Reform Should Put Patients First
- Should You Fear School Choice?
- Just Pay Me Tuesday, Warren
- Well-InformedVotes.org
- Courts Limit Selective “Economic Development”
- IMPACT Fall 2004
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 26, 2004
- The Cause and Perils of Inflation
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, October 2004
- Spending Fix?
- Striking Out
- Teaching by Example
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 19, 2004
- Recycling Garbage
- Gaining Ground
- Bay Mills Charter Crews
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 12, 2004
- Tax Cut Stories Miss the Picture
- Fewer Students = More Money?
- Storm Drain
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 5, 2004
- Freeing to Choose
- An Anchor to Windward
- “Milking the Cow” of State Development Departments (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Did Anybody Really Know What Time It Was?
- Why Socialized Health Care in Canada Is Not the Model to Follow
- Honoring John and Ranny Riecker
- The Silver Lining to the Toyota Deal
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 28, 2004
- Economic Development's Dismal Record in Michigan
- School Board Self-Help
- Translating Ideas Into Success
- Should You Fear School Choice?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 21, 2004
- Counties Held “Hostage” to Wasteful State Spending
- Mackinac Center Analyst Suggests Balanced-Budget Solutions
- Charter Schools: Left Untried
- Back to Budget Basics
- Mackinac Center Scholar to Debate Michigan AFL-CIO President
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, September 2004
- "60 Minutes" in September
- Detroit News Editorial Reaches Same Conclusion as Mackinac
- Outsourcing Benefits Michigan Economy and Taxpayers
- Mongol Khan-Quest
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 14, 2004
- Does Teacher Certification Matter?
- County Tax Shift: It Quacks, It Waddles; It’s a Duck
- Certifiable Numbers?
- Labor Gains
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 7, 2004
- Going Broke by Degree
- The Record of “Economic Development” Policy in Michigan
- When Politics Trumps Science
- Shortchanging Michigan
- U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Ohio’s Targeted Investment Tax Credit Unconstitutional
- Union Members' Attitudes Toward Their Unions' Performance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 31, 2004
- Pivotal? Probably Not
- Power to the People?
- A State Gas Tax That Should Run Out of Fuel
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 24, 2004
- Michigan’s Budget Deficit Calls for Structural Reforms
- Carpenter Helps Build Jobs With Snow
- Michigan Education Report (2004-01)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 17, 2004
- Student Debaters To Study United Nations Peacekeeping Resolution at Annual Mackinac Center Workshops
- The Blackout of 2003 Doesn’t Justify Regulation in 2004
- A Telecommunications Policy Primer
- When Will Conventional Public Schools Be as Accountable as Charters?
- Re-regulating Electricity Could Shock Michigan’s Economy
- America’s Scientific Leadership Imperiled by Weakened Curricula
- Free Markets Blossom in Vietnam
- Democracy Isn’t Nirvana
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 10, 2004
- Symbolic Victories?
- Wetlands You Can't Bank On
- “Milking the Cow” of State Development Departments (General Article)
- The Real Lessons of Walter French Academy
- Reform Efforts Can Bring Budget Solutions (long version)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 3, 2004
- Vindicating Property Rights
- Make America Safer by Making Government Smaller
- Detroit Schools’ Deficit Appears Linked to Adding Staff During Enrollment Decline, Says Analyst
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 27, 2004
- Vouchers or Tuition Tax Credits:
- Offshoring State Services Benefits Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 21, 2004
- New Study Warns Against Re-regulating Michigan’s Electricity Market
- Assessing Electric Choice in Michigan
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, July 2004
- National Survey Suggests Union Workers at Odds With Union Officials Over Organizing Tactic
- Checking the Premises of “Card Check”:
- State Economic Development:
- Playing Monopoly With Detroit’s Kids
- Eminent Domain Extremism Runs Into Judicial Brick Wall
- Union Subjects Religious Objector to Modern-Day Inquisition
- Lansing Bureaucracy Threatens New Communications Technology
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 13, 2004
- Cities that Cry Poverty Should Sell Their Money-Losing Ski Areas
- Detroit Schools Should Take Advantage of Teacher Placement Program
- When Will Conventional Public Schools Be as Accountable as Charters?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 6, 2004
- Are Targeted Incentives Constitutional?
- The True Meaning of Patriotism
- Michigan Privatization Report Spotlights
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 29, 2004
- Cigarette Tax Increase Should Go Up in Smoke
- Government Spending Lobby Has 200 Service Taxes for You
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 22, 2004
- Is Affirmative Action the Right Fight?
- Bob Lyons, R.I.P.
- Competition for a Prize Launches the New Space Race
- Lower Gas Prices by Scrapping Counterproductive Regulations
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 15, 2004
- What Is Real Compassion?
- Cut Train Subsidies to Re-connect Rural Michigan
- Governor’s Water Scheme Is All Wet
- Government Policies Make Gas Situation Worse
- Strange Lessons in School Discipline
- Analyst Lauds Governor’s Decision to Wait for Dioxin Data
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 8, 2004
- Bioavailability Study Needed for Dioxin
- On the Passing of Ronald Reagan, America’s 40th President
- Education for All: Choice, Reform, and Optimism
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 1, 2004
- Setback for Workers: Granholm Administration Doesn’t Want State Employees to Know Their Rights
- Why Limit Government?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 25, 2004
- Cities Need Less Government, Not More
- Home Schooling: An “Encouraging and Robust” Movement
- Making a Difference for Liberty in the World
- Cut Taxes on Smokeless Tobacco Products to Improve Health
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 18, 2004
- What Can't Brown Do for You?
- Groundwater Regulation Would Threaten Michigan’s Economy
- AFL-CIO Says: Union Rules Hurt Us
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 11, 2004
- 100,000 Public School Employees Near Deadline to Save $200 Each
- Back to Basics: State Tax Policy and Economic Development
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 4, 2004
- Recommendations to Strengthen Civil Society and Balance Michigan’s State Budget — 2nd Edition
- Lawmakers Could Balance Budget by Cutting Spending and Selling State Assets
- Jobs Outsourcing: Beneficial Trade by Another Name
- Real World Entrepreneur Gives Economics Lesson to Government Officials
- Wetlands Case Proves Need to Curtail Abuse
- Are Jobs the Object?
- Picturing a Successful Government
- Forging Consensus
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 27, 2004
- Privatization Could Have Michigan Seeing Green
- Legislature May Give Away $1.6 Billion ‘Racino’ Windfall
- Adam Smith's Principles of Sound Tax Policy
- Earth Day, Not Doomsday
- Adam Smith’s Principles of a Proper Tax System
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 20, 2004
- No More Czars, Please
- “Not Yours to Give”
- Seven Principles for Selecting a New DNR Director
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 13, 2004
- Victory for Free Speech Against MEA Lawsuit: Interview with Lawrence Reed and Joseph Lehman
- Of Architecture, Philosophy and Individualism: The Alden B. Dow Story
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 6, 2004
- Laptops for Sixth Graders?
- Drain Code Bill Harnesses Unconstrained Tax Power to a New Environmental Mission
- Time to Take Another Look at Teacher Certification
- Remembering a Classic, and the Man Who Wrote It
- Sinful Sin Taxes
- Michigan on the Wrong Track?
- Has Proposal A Been a Success?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 30, 2004
- Threat to Jobs Is Politicians, Not “Outsourcing”
- China's Break from Serfdom
- Michigan Education Association Sues Mackinac Center for Public Policy for Quoting the Union's President
- Proposed Landfill Fee Really a Tax
- Spurring Economic Growth and Jobs in Michigan
- $1.2 Billion State Deficit Is Really Only $327.4 Million
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 23, 2004
- Victory for Free Speech: Michigan Appeals Court Sides With Think Tank, Rejects Teachers Union’s Lawsuit
- Brownfield Redevelopment and “Cool Cities”
- Why a Statewide Property Tax Increase is a Bad Idea
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 16, 2004
- Political Correctness Suppresses Education
- Entrepreneur’s Son Gives Government an Economics Lesson
- Seven Environmental Challenges Facing Michigan
- The Taxing Power of Michigan's Drain Code
- Michigan Can’t Afford Tuition Grant Program
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 9, 2004
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, March 2004
- The Trade Deficit: Much Ado About Nothing
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 2, 2004
- Why Are Mighigan's School Districts Borrowing More?
- Privatize the University of Michigan (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Michigan's Poor: How Much Do Numbers Alone Really Tell Us?
- Michigan Consumers Will Lose if the Legislature Fixes Gas Prices
- Granholm Would Resurrect Michigan’s Un-Dead Death Tax
- Civil Society Is Working in Northville
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 24, 2004
- Senate Majority Leader Sharply Condemns Regulatory Agency Power
- High School Fiddlers’ Group Goes Private (General Article)
- Why Are Schools Borrowing More?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 18, 2004
- Tax Shots Across the Budget Bow
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 10, 2004
- What Impact Do Tax Increases Have on Employment?
- Privatizing Air Traffic Control: Safer and Cheaper
- In Celebration of Black History Month, 2004
- MichiganVotes.org Assembles Database of Votes Lawmakers Missed in 2003
- City of Saginaw May Trash Current Refuse Collection System
- Rotary Tribute, January 28, 2004
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 3, 2004
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, February 2004
- "Proposal A," 10 Years Later
- Black History Month: Remembering Ralph Bunche
- Alexander Graham Bell Meets George Eastman
- Union President Praises Institute, Then Files “Don’t Quote Me” Lawsuit
- More Privatization In Plymouth’s future?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 27, 2004
- Making the Grade
- States Hiring Private Consultants to Manage State Property
- Money and Red Tape
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 20, 2004
- Mackinac Center Hires Former DEQ Director Russ Harding
- Michigan’s Renewable Energy Program: Still Tilting at Windmills
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 13, 2004
- Just Show Up, And We’ll Give You Better Grades
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 7, 2004
- MichiganVotes.org Provides the Only Complete Description of Legislature’s 2003 Actions
- Let Cintas Workers Make Up Their Own Minds
- Why School Districts Can’t Save on Health Care
- The Granholm Administration: A Review of Year One
- Ask The Economist