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- Top 25 Current Comments of 2007
- Capitalism’s Finest Film
- DEQ Adheres to Environmental Law in Kennecott Case
- CD of the Year
- Michigan Civil Service Commission Ruling Allowing State Agencies To Deduct PAC Contributions for Public-Sector Unions is in Conflict with State Law
- Food for Thought
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 18, 2007
- Changing Michigan’s Labor Climate Will Take Work
- Michigan Education Digest Daily, February-March 2008
- Lawmakers Must Make Transformational Policy Changes Their Top New Year’s Resolution, Mackinac Center Analyst Says
- Michigan’s Diaspora: The Revealed Preference for Leaving
- December 15: Bill of Rights Day
- DNR Makes Incredible Find
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 11, 2007
- State of Michigan Should Not Become Collection Agency for PACs
- David Littmann Discusses Gov. Granholm’s Change of Heart
- Mackinac Center Agrees With Governor That State Budget Cuts and Reforms Are Needed, Not Tax Hikes
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 4, 2007
- Michigan Needs Worker Freedom of Choice
- State Budget Is Business as Usual
- School Boards Empowered to Save Insurance Dollars
- Water Agreement Not Right for Michigan
- Choice Leadership: The Story of Two Women
- Remembering Sojourner Truth
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 27, 2007
- Setting the Record Straight
- Firearms, Fat and Fresh Water
- The Opportunities of Education Tax Credits
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 20, 2007
- Restoring Balance to Labor Law
- State Budget Priority: Preserve Business as Usual
- Michigan Education Report (2007-04)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 13, 2007
- MichiganScience No. 5
- NLRB Takes a Stand for Worker Freedom
- Water Agreement a Bad Deal for Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 6, 2007
- Choice Leadership
- “Who Funds You, Anyway?”
- Supreme Court Decision Complicated, But Correct
- Budget Savings Can Replace Recent Tax Hikes
- Tax Increases Harmful to Michigan’s Health
- Michigan Privatization Digest - October 30, 2007
- Where’s the Crisis?
- State Budget Deal Shows “Lawmakers’ Budget Priority Was ‘Business as Usual,’” says Center’s senior legislative analyst
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 30, 2007
- Norval K. “Nub” Morey: In Memoriam
- Michigan’s Crisis and Opportunity
- School Management Series
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 23, 2007
- MDE Earns Failing Grade in Rating Programs
- Spending Cuts Can Offset $1.3 Billion Tax Hike
- Capitalism in the Capital
- 55 Specific Spending Reductions Would Allow Repeal of the $1.358 Billion in New State Taxes
- Replacing Michigan’s New Taxes With Budget Reductions: Curing $1.358 Billion in Overspending With 55 Specific Recommendations
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 16, 2007
- Expanding Lansing’s Prevailing Wage Would Reduce Jobs, Hike Cost to Taxpayers
- Principled Philanthropy
- The Science of Changing the Future
- Failing Children
- Adopting a “Lean Government” Model for Michigan
- Anatomy of a Tax Hike Campaign
- Who is Protected by “Consumer Protection?”
- The Edmonton Public Schools Story
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 9, 2007
- Issues and Ideas Forum, October 9, 2007
- Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis, October 2007
- Michigan Education Digest Daily, October 2007
- IMPACT Fall 2007
- Are Bus Fares Fair?
- Tax Hike Chronicle - Final Entry
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 2, 2007
- Melodies that Support the Market
- Governor and Legislature Appear Unable To Judge Priorities
- The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love
- Sweet Home Alabama
- More Than Seven in Ten Likely Michigan Voters Prefer Spending Reductions to Tax Increases, According to Survey
- September 2007 State Budget Survey
- Health Savings Accounts Could Save State $194 Million
- Statewide School Contracting Could Save As Much As $500 Million
- Prevailing Wage Memorandum
- School Aid Savings
- Michigan Rankings on National Education Test Fall in 8th Grade, Stagnate in 4th; Proficiency Scores Flat
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 25, 2007
- Students Manipulated to Lobby for the Privileged
- Selective Moral Outrage
- Kent Herrick Joins Mackinac Center Board of Directors
- Prophets of Property
- Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis, September 2007
- Michigan Education Digest Daily, September 2007
- Political Drama
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 18, 2007
- Michigan “Job Churn” Figures Demonstrate Central Planning’s Folly
- Healthy Outlook
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 11, 2007
- Michigan Privatization Digest - August 31, 2007
- Effective Funding Increase from Competitive Contracting in Selected Michigan School Districts
- More at Stake in Budget Battle than Next Year’s Spending
- The Only Safe State Spending Bet
- Will Michigan Be “The Victors” Again?
- The Not So Good Life
- Used-Car Dealer Regulations Kill Small Businesses
- Survey 2007: School Support Service Privatization Rises
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 4, 2007
- Mackinac Center’s Labor Trilogy
- Private Property Rights Under Attack
- Squeaky Wheels Stifle Savings
- Mackinac Center Questions MEA Management for Apparently Hypocritical Negotiations With USO Union Workers
- Model Language for Michigan Right-to-Work Amendment Released Today by Mackinac Center
- A Model Right-to-Work Amendment to the Michigan Constitution
- Issues and Ideas Forum, August 29, 2007
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 28, 2007
- Right-to-Work States Continue to Enjoy Significant Economic Advantages Over Michigan and Other Non-Right-to-Work States, According to New Report
- Follow the Money
- The Economic Effects of Right-to-Work Laws: 2007
- Prevailing Wage Costs Taxpayers $250 Million Annually, Reduces Construction Jobs, Primarily Benefits High-Wage Construction Workers
- Good Luck, Mike Bishop!
- The Effects of Michigan’s Prevailing Wage Law
- NCLB Falls Short of Helping Parents
- Mackinac Center Launches University Campus Project
- Communicating Freedom to the Next Generation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 21, 2007
- Back to School Shopping
- Oakland County a model of prudent financial management
- School Services Privatization on the Rise, According to Mackinac Center Survey
- Private Companies Would Stamp out the Post Office
- Survey 2007: More Growth in School Support Service Privatization
- Michigan Education Report (2007-03)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 14, 2007
- Reporting the Seen and the Unseen
- Rules of the Game
- MichiganScience No. 4
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 7, 2007
- Power and Responsibility: The Obligations of a Union
- Thinking Outside the Bars
- Workers’ Paychecks Need Further Protection
- School Support Service Privatization: Getting it Right
- MBT: A More Burdensome Tax?
- Reach Out and Tax Someone
- Mackinac Center Analyst: Gov. Granholm’s Prison Proposal Puts Taxpayers First
- Budget Hawks Should Think Outside the Bars
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 31, 2007
- Baseball, Free Markets and Milton Friedman
- The Next Big Thing
- “A Rich Folks’ Roller Coaster”
- IMPACT Summer 2007
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 24, 2007
- Michigan Unions — Strong or Bloated?
- School Money Primer
- Nobody Knows Who Can Cook
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 17, 2007
- Putting Families First
- Happy Birthday to the Northwest Ordinance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 10, 2007
- Time to Reform Teacher Compensation in Michigan
- Intermediate School Districts: Innovations that are Past Their Prime
- Michigan Needs Environmental Science Board
- How To Avoid Raising Taxes
- School Employee Pension Reform the Key to Budget Problems
- Transporting Privatization
- Right-to-Work
- Songs of Freedom
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 3, 2007
- Behind the Smokescreen
- Artistic Expression
- Right-to-Work FAQ
- Study: Mackinac Center Releases Comprehensive School Privatization Primer for Food, Bus and Custodial Services
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 26, 2007
- A School Privatization Primer
- A Tribute to Hans F. Sennholz
- State Government Needs Structural Change, Not Reorganization
- Study: Revenues to State Universities in Michigan Remain High
- Michigan Higher Education: Facts and Fiction
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 19, 2007
- The Union Movement Goes Wobbly
- Who’s the Boss?
- Alarming Economic Statistics Scream Out Against Raising Taxes
- U.S. Supreme Court Decision Likely to Prevent Challenge to Michigan’s “Paycheck Protection” Law, Mackinac Center legal analyst says
- Book Review: Radicals for Capitalism
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 12, 2007
- Stuck in Reverse
- Michigan Needs Environmental Science Board
- Too Much Time on Their Hands
- Issues and Ideas Forum, June 7, 2007
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 5, 2007
- Money Well Spent?
- What Really Determines School District Spending?
- The Tax Hiker's Shopping Guide
- The Ideas of March
- Stealing From the Future
- Free-Market Movie Moments, Part II
- The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love
- Stealing from the Future
- $19 Billion in School Revenues Described in New “Michigan School Money Primer”
- A Michigan School Money Primer
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 29, 2007
- They Can’t Ignore Us
- Free-Market Movie Moments, Part I
- Right-to-Work Right Now
- Michigan Education Report (2007-02)
- Savings from School District Consolidation Would be Limited and Difficult To Capture, Study Finds
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 22, 2007
- A “Way Forward” for Michigan?
- School District Consolidation, Size and Spending: an Evaluation
- MichiganScience Sponsors Writing Contest for Students
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 15, 2007
- Same Old Song and Dance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 8, 2007
- Weather, Water and Trees Highlighted in Latest MichiganScience Magazine
- Wrestling with Reality
- Say YES! to Right to Work!
- Court Ignored Sound Science in Carbon Dioxide Ruling
- Paying More to Protect the Privileged
- MichiganScience No. 3
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 1, 2007
- Targeted Tax Breaks: “How’s That Working for You?”
- Michigan Privatization Digest - April 25, 2007
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 24, 2007
- Your Getting Rich Costs Me Nothing
- Make Earth Day About Science, Not Unfounded Fears
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 17, 2007
- Tax Day
- Study: Michigan’s Road System Needs Both Reforms and Dollars
- Road Funding: Time for a Change
- Supreme Science?
- Property and Law: The Best Hope for China
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 10, 2007
- IMPACT Spring 2007
- Fast-Growth States Have Lower Taxes — Not More Grads
- Taken For a Ride
- Bigger Taxes or Smaller Government — Let the People Decide
- Foreword
- Reciprocity Can Reduce the Organ Shortage
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 3, 2007
- “Student Activity Fees” an Offense to Free Speech
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 27, 2007
- Kennecott and Other Businesses Harmed by DEQ
- A Tribute to a Polish Hero
- Contradictions and Spurious Conclusions
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 20, 2007
- Need a Penny? Take Many
- Health Care Made Easy
- Medicaid Reform Around the States: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
- Issues and Ideas Forum, March 19, 2007
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Davenport v. Washington and Washington v. Washington Education Association
- Environmental Regulations Collide with Alternative Energy
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 13, 2007
- Unemployment Tax
- Taken For a Ride
- The Estate Tax Strikes Back
- How Healthy is Health Care?
- Study: 19,000 Michigan Jobs Jeopardized by Proposed 2 Percent Excise Tax on Services
- Tax Changes in Michigan: Measuring the Effects of Expanding the Sales Tax to Services
- State Excise Tax Promises More Job Losses
- Comerica Bank Announces Move to Dallas
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 6, 2007
- Potential Per-Pupil Savings Resulting from Health Benefits Changes Made in Michigan School Districts
- Michigan Privatization Digest - March 5, 2007
- State of Michigan: Best-Run or Best-Protected?
- Renaissance Center Brought No Renaissance
- Road Funding: Time for a New Direction
- Hot Enough For You?
- Issues and Ideas Forum, March 5, 2007
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Heaphy v. Department of Environmental Quality
- Another Kind of Tax
- Card Check, Binding Arbitration and Employee Free Choice
- A Collective Bargaining Primer
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 27, 2007
- Market Economics in the Workplace
- March 31 Deadline for Public School Union Decertification Petitions*
- Michigan Cannot Afford a Sales Tax on Services
- Michigan Education Report (2007-01)
- Issues and Ideas Forum, February 2007
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 20, 2007
- “Invest” Means Taking Your Money
- Our Future Depends On Remembering Our Past
- A Man Who Knew How Precious Life and Liberty Are
- School Boards and Teachers Should Address Their Own Insurance Issues
- Malthus, Mating and Money
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 13, 2007
- Eight Ways to Save
- Organized Labor and the Secret Ballot
- Déjà Vu All Over Again
- Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s 2007 State of the State Address
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 6, 2007
- What Price Government?
- Doom for Whom?
- Legislators: Listen to Detroit Parents
- A Movie No One Should Miss
- Mackinac Center Tally of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations in State of the State Address Available Tuesday Night
- They Say “Invest,” But They Mean “Spend”
- Public Officials Using Tax Dollars To Lobby for Higher Taxes
- Students for a Free Economy
- Using Taxes To Lobby for Taxes
- Landfill Capacity and Ballast Water Treatment Headline Latest Issue of MichiganScience
- Powerful Force
- Michigan Municipal Solid Waste Landfills Waste Disposed and Remaining Capacity
- MichiganScience No. 2
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 30, 2007
- SEMCOG’s Crazy Train
- Today’s Announcement of Decline in Michigan’s Union Membership “Dramatically Highlights” Need for Right-To-Work Laws
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 23, 2007
- Socrates and the Minimum Wage
- Getting the Teachers Union on Board for Reform
- Around the State 2007-01
- Higher Education and Economic Development
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 16, 2007
- Legislators Should Do No More Harm To Michigan
- Lansing Businesswoman Receives Mackinac Center “Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor Award”
- Tax Hikes Could Hasten Michigan’s Exodus
- “Tax, Spend and Borrow”
- Elected School Boards or Unions: Who Rules the Roost?
- U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments Today Suggest Unions Could Lose in Key Cases Involving Use of Union Fees for Political Causes, Says Center Legal Analyst
- Michigan Leads the Nation in Outbound Moves
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 9, 2007
- Michiganvotes.org Helps Track Legislator Attendance
- Michigan Tops Nation in 2006 Outbound Move Rate According to New United Van Lines Data
- Lights Out?
- The Difference One Can Make (Monograph)
- New Year’s Resolutions for the Michigan Legislature
- New York Times Devotes Two Stories to Mackinac Center Training Program and Free-Market Movement
- Reed Discusses President Gerald Ford
- The People’s Power: Defending Representative Government
- From Worst to First: The Best Business Tax is None
- Stop Punishing Michigan Investors