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- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Unionization
- GVSU to open five new charter public schools
- IMPACT Winter 2011
- Mich. 'Green Jobs' Subsidy Winner Evicted from Saginaw Headquarters
- 2011 MichiganVotes.org Roll Call Highlights
- New Year Resolutions That Need to be Kept
- Happy 96th Birthday, Dr. McCracken!
- As Americans Await Obamacare, Canadians Wait Longer for Treatment
- A Christmas Wish
- Lehman Quoted on Recalls
- Your Favorites: 2011
- Jack McHugh Lists 2011 Accomplishments
- Chevy Volt Story Hits Media
- Hohman Discusses Volt Subsidies on Dobbs Show
- EPA Turns Out The Christmas Lights
- Breaking News: Michigan Loses Population Again
- Rescuing "The Motor City"
- Lehman Cited in Dome Magazine
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 20, 2011
- End of an Error
- Dec. 16 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Motorists Paying for Bike Paths, Museums
- Republican-led Legislature Votes Overwhelmingly to Continue 'Big Hollywood' Film Subsidy
- Don’t Weaken the People’s Power to Recall Lawmakers
- Arbitrary Cap on Charter Schools Lifted
- Happy Birthday, Bill of Rights!
- School Choice Advocates Cheer Lift of Charter Public School Cap
- A Genuinely Sensible Alternative to Light-Rail
- Are the Feds Giving Up on Detroit?
- Skorup Commentary in Crisis Magazine
- Mandating 'Good Samaritans'
- U-M Students Shut Out of Court Hearing
- Hand Wringing Over Liquor Reforms
- Get a Receipt
- Power Hungry
- Michigan Employment Relations Commission Excludes Graduate Student Research Assistants From Judicial Proceedings That Directly Impact Them, Attorney Says
- Muskegon Heights school board asks for emergency manager
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 13, 2011
- School districts required to create anti-bullying policy
- Center President Joseph G. Lehman in Freep
- Bill banning political payroll deductions heads to House
- School board elections moved to November in even-numbered years
- Dec. 9 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- MEAP security was compromised in Hartland
- Big PAC Attack
- Are Politicians Smarter Than the Rest of Us?
- Cherry-Picking Charter School Research
- SEIU Takes $28M from Medicaid Fund
- Charters Increase Special-Ed Enrollment
- That's Not How We Roll
- 'Forced Unionization' Brings In $28 Million For SEIU ... And Climbing
- Michigan School Privatization Survey 2011
- Medical Freedom Zones
- Detroit Public Schools shows first surplus in four years
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 6, 2011
- Dangerous Union of Monomaniacs?
- LaFaive Cited by CBS News on Detroit
- Detroit News: Students Shouldn't be Unionized
- State of the State: How to Move Michigan Forward
- Eight Ideas for Reforming Alcohol Control in Michigan
- Gov. Snyder’s BMI Reporting Mandate Violates Doctors’ Hippocratic Oath
- Inaccurate Claims Buoy Attacks On Charter Public Schools
- Aviation Academy plans major expansion
- Galien district might close
- Dec. 2 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- The Difference With Charter Schools
- Governor Picks Bureaucrats Over Business
- Harding Cited on Battery Maker's Decline
- House panel votes yes on lifting charter cap
- Two Big Developments at the NLRB
- MCLF Cited in Detroit Free Press
- Free Press Misleads on Charter Schools
- We Have Declared War on Ourselves
- Center Experts in Detroit News
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Welcomes Attorney General Entry Into U-M Grad Student Unionization Case
- The New Progressivity
- Brookings Institution: Expand School Choice
- Center Credited for Ending Film Subsidy Payment
- Center Scholar Featured in Slate
- About That Evil Scheme We're Supposed to Have
- Online Learning Revolution 2011: Redux
- Raiding State Trust Funds a Bad Idea
- 10 Stories Showing Why Mandatory Government Collective Bargaining Is Counterproductive
- Commentary: MEA Shock! Mackinac Center and FDR Agree — Ban Government Collective Bargaining
- Why the MEA Attacks the Center — and FDR
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 29, 2011
- Gov. Snyder's Second State of the State
- Center Experts on Education, Labor Issues
- No contract yet at CMU, strike ban expires Wednesday
- Why We Shouldn't Revile Success
- More districts eye social media policies
- Pontiac district found to be $24 million in debt
- Center Analysts in Oakland Press
- Reading Corps planned in Taylor
- Muskegon district seeks to turn over museum to foundation
- Why the Hurry?
- Holding Legislators Accountable
- A Thanksgiving Proclamation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 22, 2011
- School Privatization Survey Cited
- Pay for performance coming to state universities?
- Commentary: Washington Offers Lessons for Michigan Alcohol Law Reform
- Education lobby spending more
- Michigan professor on NCLB waiver review team
- Center Expert on Detroit's Financial Crisis
- Nov. 18 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Detroit Exhausts Its Options
- Kersey Cited in Washington Times
- Ferndale wants to extend tax to 2042
- Environmentalists Threaten Great Lakes
- More Precipitation in Grand Rapids Means What?
- Father, son combo on east Detroit board
- Senators Admit Obamacare Is Unconstitutional
- Cost of Benefits Is Sinking Detroit
- Dues and Don'ts
- SEIU Scheme Leads Detroit Newscast
- An Evening With the Mackinac Center
- Watch The Online Learning Revolution: Southeastern Michigan
- An Evening With the Mackinac Center
- The Online Learning Revolution: Southeastern Michigan
- Gov. Snyder Discusses Mackinac Center Event
- Layoffs at the UAW
- Wasted Talent
- It's for the Children
- Majority Rule
- For Immediate Release: Nov. 15, 2011
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 15, 2011
- Littmann: Congress 'Not Serious' About Spending
- Film Incentive Bill Sows Its Own Expansion
- Digital Learning Growth in Michigan
- Center Analyst: Labor Law in Need of Reform
- An Evening With the Mackinac Center Featuring Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels With Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center: $1,200 Table
- Growing Push to End All Energy Subsidies
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center: $150 Individual
- Illegal Union Scheme Story Hits National TV
- Nov. 11 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Whoville Speaks Out
- Michigan SEIU Story Draws National Attention
- Michigan Pensions Good at Controlling Fraud
- Fluoridation of Water Not a Cut and Dried Matter
- Freedom Equals Money: New York State Shows how Freedom in Wine Shipping Benefits Consumers and State Coffers
- School Privatization Survey Results Available
- A Toast to Freedom
- 20 schools ‘beating the odds’
- On Nov. 9, Attend a Pre-Debate Reception and Townhall in Auburn Hills!
- Issues & Ideas Forum
- Public School Teachers Far From Underpaid
- IMPACT Fall 2011
- U-M Students Object to Forced Unionization
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 8, 2011
- Pipeline Protest Belies National Security 'Concerns'
- Ten Reasons to Reject State Obamacare Exchange
- Their Time Is Your Money
- Public-Sector Retiree Health Care Benefits are Unreasonable
- Do We Really Need a Unionized State Government?
- Government Employee Union Contract Database Now Available
- Present Day Prohibition
- Nov. 4 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Nation's Report Card
- The Rich Are Getting Richer; So Are the Poor
- No kindergarten before age 5?
- CapCon Draws Attention to Teacher Layoffs
- Bureaucracy Trumps Managerial Prowess
- Center Scholar in Washington Times
- Poll shows strong support for education choice
- Too Loose for Comfort
- Center Experts Attract National Following
- Fact finder calls CMU offer reasonable
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Files Motion on Behalf of New U-M Campus Group
- High-Speed Rail Projects Often Derail
- Michigan Virtual Revolution: WAY Program
- WEYI-TV25 Reports on CapCon Story
- Michigan Virtual Revolution: WAY Program
- Minnesota Governor Should Look to California, Not Michigan, on Unionization of Child Care Providers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 1, 2011
- Fire marshal now involved in DPS overcrowding
- Obamacare 'Exchange' Opposite of 'Free Market'
- Center Analysts Expose Corporate Welfare Failure
- Attorney: State Officials Should Investigate How Illegal and Defunded State Agency Continues to Operate
- GOP Senator Tries to Save SEIU Healthcare ‘Employer’
- Candidates scarce in Manistique district
- The Real Purpose of Recall Elections
- Private donors pay start-up costs of statewide district
- Oct. 28 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Student loan revisions will reduce students’ monthly payments
- Hide Your Kids! Hide Your Wife!
- 'Green Jobs' Replaced with Blue Collar Jobs?
- Kersey Discusses Right-to-Work
- Obamacare: GOP 'Hostage Taker'
- A SNEAK PEEK AT THE MENU:
"An Evening with the Mackinac Center" featuring Governor Mitch Daniels and Governor Rick Snyder
- Petoskey to review outside groups’ access to students
- Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Corporate Welfare's Got to Go
- Mythbusted: Overcrowding in Detroit Classrooms
- The Online Learning Revolution: Grand Rapids
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 25, 2011
- The Online Learning Revolution: Grand Rapids
- Online Learning Panel in Grand Rapids
- Royal Oak Schools: Buses or Cadillac Health Care?
- Michigan again in Race to the Top competition
- Obamacare 'Mandate' Could Penalize 70,000 Here
- Scott recall on again, poll shows him winning
- New contract in Mount Pleasant
- Oct. 21 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Alcohol Myths Persist Beyond Prohibition
- $500m Subsidy for Finnish Electric Car Maker
- Pot, Meet Kettle
- Center Scholar Testifies on Cigarette Taxes
- Scott Recall Election: On or Off?
- Bills would expand dual enrollment
- Center Right-to-Work Research Cited in Bloomberg
- NFIB: 'No Rush' on Creating Obamacare Exchange
- ALEC: 'No' to Exchanges, 'Yes' to Health Compact
- The Occupiers vs. Detroit's Recovery
- McHugh Discusses Obamacare on Beckmann
- Center Co-founder, Chairman Featured
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 18, 2011
- From the Department of You Can't Be Serious ...
- Center Expert in Detroit Free Press
- Amtrak Subsidies vs. Megabus Private Enterprise
- Farm Bureau: Climate change book misleading
- Occupy Detroit? Why Not Take Responsibility?
- Tea Party Uses MichiganVotes to Rank Legislators
- Al Gore Now a Great Lakes Expert
- Oct. 14 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- State board divided on charter schools
- Obamacare 'Bending the Cost Curve' UP
- Proposal Would Make State More Accountable
- Harding Cited on Regulatory Reform
- Unionized Government Takes and Spends More
- Center Analyst Cited on Welfare Reforms
- Pennsylvania considers school vouchers
- School closings saved $1.7M in Midland
- 'Green Jobs' Smackdown Worth Repeating
- Center President on Recalls in Grand Rapids Press
- Bloomberg Cites Center Study
- Commentary: Governor Snyder’s BMI Reporting Violates Our Hippocratic Oath
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 11, 2011
- Gov. Snyder and Legislature Must Address Regulatory Regime
- Mackinac Minute: Why We Do What We Do
- Senate: Charters yes, teacher privatization no
- Flint nixes two administrative pay hikes
- CMU professors go to court over delayed pay hikes
- Legislature Finally Repeals Health Care Benefits for 'Retired' Lawmakers After a Decade of Disagreement
- Electric Cars Nonstarter With Consumers
- Money for Nothing?
- End 'Continuing Ed' Teacher Certification
- Oct. 7 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Enrollment up in many West Michigan districts
- Obamacare Exchange: The People or the Insurers?
- Initial 'Right-to-Teach' Bill Has Problems
- Kersey Discusses Labor Policy Forum
- Teacher reverses lecture/homework format
- Issues & Ideas Forum
- The Future of Unionized Government
- From Solyndra to Nevada Geothermal?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 4, 2011
- Careful What You Wish for on Health 'Exchange'
- Rose Beats Tarkenton to the Post
- Jalen Rose on Teacher Tenure
- Back Toward Liquor Control
- Hall of Fame Quarterback Connects With CapCon
- Liquored Up: Michigan Government Should Exit Its Liquor Wholesale Business
- Michigan Should Lower Its Renewable Portfolio Standard Requirements to Zero
- Michigan $1 Billion Closer to ‘Benefits in Balance’
- Ladies for Liberty
- Sept. 23 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- The Solyndra Lesson
- Center Co-Sponsoring 'Ladies of Liberty' Talk
- Sept. 30 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Poll: Voters like school choice, not teacher privatization
- Michigan's 'Very Best' Schools Only 'Above Average'
- State Admits Compensation Problem
- Paying Teachers Not to Teach
- Michigan Charter School Wars
- Grant aimed at preschool science teaching
- Present Day Prohibition
- Ark. Dem. Gov. Says 'No' to Obamacare Grant
- Study: Obamacare's Negative Effect on Ohio
- Education Panel, Op-Ed Tout School Reform
- LaFaive Cited in Wall Street Journal
- Kersey Discusses UAW, Detroit on National Program
- Politicians Pursue 'Green Jobs' at Their Peril
- Live Simulcast of Education Panel at Noon
- Obama outlines NCLB waiver rules
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 27, 2011
- Michigan Amazon Tax Can’t ‘Level Playing Field’
- The Online Learning Revolution - Grand Traverse
- Van Beek: Offer Parents More School Options
- Center Cited on Internet Sales Tax
- Mackinac Minute: Recent Education Reform
- FOIA dispute in East Jordan
- The Online Learning Revolution: Traverse City
- Gov. Snyder’s 'Exchange' an Obamacare Trojan Horse?
- 200-Proof Readings to Accompany Ken Burns’ ‘Prohibition’
- Bill would take back aid from MSU, WSU
- No agreement yet at CMU
- Creating Health 'Exchange' Entrenches Obamacare
- Walker: Nix the 'Amazon Tax'
- Preparing for a Unicorn Stampede
- Tax $$$ for Gov't Union Ban Stuck in GOP Senate
- Michigan to help draft science standards
- GOP Combines Corporate Welfare & 'Cool Cities'
- Ideas for Regulatory Reform
- Three new Detroit high schools announced
- Occam's Razor and Right-to-Work
- EPA Rules Could Impact Electricity Reliability
- More right-to-teach controversy
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 20, 2011
- Letter in Freep is Spurious, Misleading
- Flint Journal Covers CapCon Story
- Michigan Could Lose Jobs Under Obamacare
- Kersey Cited on Right-to-Work for Teachers
- Film Subsidy Bucks Buy Video Games: Does Hollywood Glitz Still Shine?
- Jalen Rose: ‘We have to up the ante’
- New contract in Spring Lake
- Some question Obama plan to spend more on Detroit schools
- It's Not Easy Subsidizing Green
- September 16 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Kersey Featured in Dome Magazine
- Where Are All the Green Jobs?
- Howell says MDOT bid on school land is too low
- Where Are All the Green Jobs?
- State board raises the bar on MEAP, MME
- Jalen Rose: An Education Entrepreneur
- Jalen Rose, Education Entrepreneur
- Former MEA Local Prez: Union May Lose 40% of Members – Including Him – if Teacher Right to Work Passes
- Jimmy Hoffa's Revealing Choice of an Enemy
- If It Ain't Broke, Don't Spend $25 Billion to Fix It
- Michigan Virtual University – The Online Learning Revolution Continues
- Big D Gets a 'C-' for Transparency
- How to Kill Jobs in Urban Areas
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 13, 2011
- More GOP Backlash Against Recall-Happy MEA?
- Performance Review
- NY GOP Blocking State 'Obamacare' Exchange
- "Right-to-teach" headed to Legislature?
- Thousands using Indiana school voucher program
- Charter expansion, schools of choice among reform bills
- Remembering 9/11
- Freedom to Teach
- Professionalizing the Teaching Profession
- Center Scholar Appointed Emergency Manager in Pontiac
- Corporate Environmental Indoctrination
- September 9 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Center Expert Cited on President Obama's Speech
- Obama: Another $30 billion for teaching jobs
- Senate Leader Supports Right to Work For Teachers
- Michigan Should Lower its Renewable Portfolio Standard Requirements to Zero
- Group says university tuition is affordable
- What if Employers Provided Housing?
- Michigan Health Care Workers Seeking Exit from Scandal-Ridden SEIU Affiliate
- New school year brings 19 new charters
- Take Who Out?
- Government Inaction on Air Rule Saves Jobs
- Detroit News Editorial Cites Center President
- Harding Appointed to State Panel
- Teacher privatization among reform ideas
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 6, 2011
- Legislature Should End Abusive Public-Sector Unionizations
- Privatization Still Growing in Michigan Schools
- Alcohol Wholesalers Squeeze Consumers Dry
- Teachers Union Health Insurer Paying Big Raises
- Accountability 101: How’s Your Legislator Performing?
- All “MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report” Votes for 2011
- Reaction mixed on mandatory schools of choice
- Feds ease special education spending rules
- No State Favors For Fastest Growing Companies
- September 2 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- A Smaller Cadillac Is Still a Cadillac
- Lamons Law
- Highland Park under financial review
- Townships Blow Off Residents Over Wind Farms
- Think Tank President Advocates Center's Analysis
- Editorial Cites Center on School Employee Benefits
- Melton joining StudentsFirst
- Michigan Worst in Nation for Adding High-Income Earners from 1999 to 2009
- Political Power, Central Planning & 'Stimulus' vs. the People
- Over Par, Over Priced
- Going in Circles
- Michigan $1 Billion Closer to Bringing Benefits In Balance
- Green Energy Mandates and Cap on Competition Blamed for Michigan's High Energy Costs
- Higher Energy Costs Mean Fewer Jobs
- Grosse Pointe State Rep: Public Schools Must Control 'Who Is Allowed to Attend'
- Detroit News Cites Center Analysis on Liquor Laws
- Madison contract includes schedule freeze
- Unionized Government Gets Poor Reviews
- The Green Jobs Myth
- Schools Privatize Because They Must
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 30, 2011
- Would ‘Family Leave’ boost school involvement?
- Train Station with 78 Daily Riders Gets $1 Million in Stimulus Renovations
- Mount Pleasant trims pay schedule by 1.5 percent, retains steps
- Health care spending limits sent to Snyder
- August 26 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Trimming bus service divisive issue in St. Johns
- Global Warming Will Lead to Alien Invasions?
- School Charges Illegal Registration Fee
- Feds: 'Never Mind' on State Obamacare Exchanges?
- As New State Committee Meets on Liquor Control, Mackinac Center Statistical Analysis Finds Liquor Prices Higher in Wholesale Control States Like Michigan
- Liquored Up: Michigan Government Should Exit Its Liquor Wholesale Business
- Back-to-School Shopping
- Kersey Cited on CMU Strike
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 23, 2011
- Back-to-School Daze
- Why Health Care in Michigan Is Expensive
- CMU Strike: Standing Firm Is Not Bad Faith
- Reagan Fires CMU Faculty PATCO Strikers
- Questions Abound Over Liquor Laws
- ‘Back to school’ comes late for many Detroit children
- Privatization numbers are up
- Center Experts Featured in Oakland Press
- Why Is Regulatory Reform Legislation Stalled?
- Super Speedway Perks Live On: State Tax Credits to MIS Total $18.1 Million
- International High School opening in Ypsilanti
- August 19 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- National Debt More About How We Will Live than How Much We Owe
- Migration and Tax Rates
- Read All About It
- CMU faculty authorize ‘job action’
- Taxes and the Life and Death of Great American Cities
- State Regulations Suffocate Hospitality Industry
- More Schools Save by Ditching Unionized Insurance, Busing, Food and Janitors
- Kent County School District Abandons Illegal Contract Language, Embraces Privatization
- 'Free' Meals for DPS Students
- Lifting charter cap on Senate education agenda
- 'Petoskey Stone': Michigan’s State Stone
- Ann Arbor Considering Fines for Normal Operation of Cars
- Another MEGA Loser
- Michigan Schools Districts Embrace Privatization
- August in Michigan Is Teacher Freedom Month
- Center Scholars Cited in Obama-FDR Comparison
- No Cutting and Complaining Here: Oxford Schools Bucks the Trend
- Ann Arbor Cuts Cops With $1.5 Million Surplus Sitting in Arts Budget
- Center’s 2011 School Privatization Survey Shows That for First Time, Majority of Michigan Districts Contract Out for Noninstructional Services
- Privatization Still a Growing Trend in Michigan Schools
- State launches school performance website
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 16, 2011
- How Will ObamaCare Mess Up My Life and Livelihood?
- MERC Makes Right Call on U-M Students
- Michigan School District Virtually Bucks Spending Cuts Trend
- August 12 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- School accommodates young travelers
- Smoking's Bottom Line
- Former home-schoolers open private school
- Box Office Bombs: Made in Michigan
- Hazel Park launches Promise program
- Law school grads sue over jobs, salary data
- Why True Conservationists Should Cheer “Fracking”
- Michigan Legislature Micromanage? Ahem ...
- EPA: It's For Your Own Good
- How Federal Money Doesn't Translate Into Jobs
- Obamacare Triples Health Insurance Cost Increases
- Court rejects Lansing teachers’ lawsuit
- David Littmann on WJR
- Morning in America: Obamacare Repealed
- Kansas Rejects Obamacare Exchange
- Liquor Panel Formalized
- Former Governor Gets it Wrong Again
- U of M Students Saved from Illegal Unionization
- Center Expert Cited on Education
- 'Michigan Wind Is Less Costly Than Coal' Claim Blown Away by Federal Stats
- Michigan has oversupply of new teachers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 9, 2011
- Public University Students Not Public Employees
- Government Math: Always Round Up
- The Michigan Employment Relations Commission Unanimously Rejects Unionization of U of M Graduate Student Research Assistants
- Detroit unions sue over pay cut
- How to Defuse PERA’s Ticking Time Bomb
- Time to Take School Choice in Michigan to the Next Level
- Five Questions for New Liquor Advisory Committee
- Study: College degree not always ticket to higher pay
- Heritage Foundation Opposes Obamacare "Exchanges"
- Parents angry over report on union tactics
- August 5 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Most school millages defeated
- Wright Discusses U-M Illegal Unionization
- Despite Recall Attempts, School Funding About the Same
- Plymouth-Canton, Livonia consider food service merger
- Municipal Consolidation: Saving Money or Growing Government?
- CAFE Standard Won't Stand
- Center Scholar, Study Cited
- Michigan Creeps Closer to Obamacare 'Exchange'
- Flint Journal Writes About Cap Con Story
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 2, 2011
- Union Claims About RTW Flawed
- Alcohol (Monopoly) Addiction
- Center Chairman Honored
- Detroit Imposes 10 Percent Wage Cuts, Unions Promise Lawsuit
- Media Loves 'Green Jobs' Report; Fine Print Shows 'Green' Means the Garbage Man
- WMU buys private bookstore
- EPA ‘Guidance’ on Wetlands Defies Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court
- Otsego teachers get pay raise, leave MESSA
- July 29 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- A Storm in Washington: David Littmann Discusses the Debt Ceiling
- Remembering Dr. Milton Friedman
- Teachers visit Grand Rapids jobsites
- Friedman Legacy for Freedom Day
- MCLF Fights More Illegal Unionization
- Muslim school backers ask federal oversight
- U of M Graduate Students Target of Union Grab
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Seeks to Prevent Illegal Unionization of U of M Graduate Student Research Assistants
- MCLF Protects Grad Students from Forced Unionism
- Crash and Burn
- Friedman: The Influence of Ideas
- Help Wanted
- EPA's Attack on Coal Could be Deadly
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 26, 2011
- The (Government-Free) Pursuit of Artsy-ness
- Model Resolution Opposing Obamacare Exchange
- Editorial Cites CapCon
- Report: Number of high school graduates will shrink
- Shared bus service draws complaint
- State Compensation Problem Bigger Than Advertised
- Will Schools Keep Ignoring Teacher Effectiveness When Setting Pay?
- Commission will develop evaluation tool
- July 22 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Brighton public, private schools agree to shared electives
- Not So Fast on 'Government Employees Earn Less'
- Ill Wind in New Jersey Is Bad News for Michigan
- Alpena moves ahead on teacher evaluation process
- Government Does Not Create Jobs — But It Can Help or Hurt
- Run From the Border(s)
- A Call to End Forced Unionization
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 19, 2011
- Binding Arbitration Bill Mostly Preserves the Status Quo
- Green Jobs Mostly Invisible
- An Ounce of Prevention
- Insurance switch OK’d in Ovid-Elsie
- And Now for Something Completely Different
- Benefits in Balance: Saving $5.7 Billion Annually
- Urban Sprawl, RIP?
- Ann Arbor to ask voters for technology millage
- Detroit names charter schools chief
- Case Ends; Forced Unionization Still a Threat
- July 15 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- ObamaCare Arrives in Michigan
- Pay-to-play moves beyond sports
- Who Is the Real Target?
- Van Beek at School Choice Forum
- Supreme Court: Schools can’t collect PAC money for MEA
- The Detroitification of Detroit
- Secure Property Rights Good for the Environment
- Editorial Cites Center on Tobacco Taxes
- Feds seek to undo Detroit control of Head Start money
- They Can Be Taught!
- Another $2 Billion Bad Idea From Washington
- 401(K) System Saves the State $4 Billion
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 12, 2011
- Politicians: Stop Blocking the Online Charter School Door!
- Stimulus Giveaways and Higher Electric Bills Pay for ‘Green Energy’ in Michigan
- NCLB showdown heats up in Montana
- Many Detroit charter school scores no better than DPS’
- Without contract, CMU faculty paying more for MESSA
- Measuring Charter Public School Performance
- Atlanta test scandal erupts
- A Larger Perspective on Unions
- Labor Talks
- The SEIU in Michigan: Home Health Aides
- MEA, DFT will push recalls
- Peter Glaser's Testimony on Energy Policy
- Breaking Bad: Dearborn Gives Four Problem Teachers $197K to Go Away
- Time to Abolish Project Labor Agreements
- FOIA Decision Bad for Taxpayers
- MEDC Accountability a Step in the Right Direction
- Van Beek Part of July 13 School Choice Forum
- Power Failure
- Freedom to Work: A New Right-To-Work Effort in Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 5, 2011
- State Pension Underfunding Liability Jumps $6.6 Billion, Confirming Need for Reform
- A Good Start, Policymakers. Now for the Heavy Lifting
- State Pours Interference on Liquor Business
- Michigan ACT scores stable, DPS lags
- New Voucher Question: Are There Enough Seats?
- Insurance Switch Saves Teacher Jobs
- July 1 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Florida Couple Sues, Says Private School Too Easy
- Michigan Freedom to Work Kicks Off
- PLAs: Some Good News for Taxpayers
- Saline Schools’ ‘Last in, First out’ Victims
- Reasons to Celebrate in Michigan
- Is Europe's Attack on the Car Coming Here?
- Supreme Court Won’t Review Teacher Email Case
- EPA: It's For Your Own Good
- Misplaced Priorities
- State Supreme Court Failure to Rectify Disastrous FOIA Ruling ‘Must Be Fixed,’ Says Center Attorney
- Environmental Group Wrong About Coal Plants
- Oddball State Agency Micromanages Liquor Retailing
- Working on the Wrong Problem
- Faith and Hope in Charity
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 28, 2011
- Court removes injunction against privatization
- Side-by-Side Comparison
- New Online Database Provides Unique ‘Context and Performance’ Information for Every Standard Michigan Public High School
- Teacher Kissing Students Is Paid to Leave; Tenure Makes Him Too Hard to Fire
- Warning: Increase Film Subsides Now and Risk Regrets Later
- Charter saves on pensions, retains jobs
- A Good Start, Policymakers. Now Time for the Heavy Lifting
- EMU faculty: No work in DPS without union safeguards
- MichiganVotes.org June 24 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Group sues over emergency manager law
- Energy Policy Should be Above Politics
- Michigan Pension Reform Saves Billions
- School Revenues, Spending
- Good News From Marathon
- Just Shut It
- Michigan State Senator Offers Cigarette Tax Cut to Cut Smuggling
- Study: State Employee Pension Reform Has Saved Taxpayers Estimated $2.3 Billion to $4.3 Billion in Unfunded Pension Liability
- Estimated Savings From Michigan’s 1997 State Employees Pension Plan Reform
- Teachers to pay more toward insurance
- Board can’t agree on filling vacant seat
- When Regulatory Agencies Cross the Line
- Can Ethanol Survive?
- Latest DPS reform hinges on principals
- Godfrey-Lee gets $2.5M in improvement grants
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 21, 2011
- Center Commentary to be Featured in Freep
- Transit Authority Moves to Lower Costs
- IMPACT Summer 2011
- Holly Academy making room for more students
- Losing Control of Government?
- Stimulus funds buffered Allegan budget
- When School Fee Hikes Count as ‘Budget Cuts’
- School for pregnant teens to stay open — as charter
- Distilling the Truth
- Strange Brew
- Obamacare: "Final Report of Stakeholder Work Group Recommendations"
- MichiganVotes.org June 17 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Should Michigan Create a Health Insurance Exchange?
- Second lawsuit in Wisconsin
- High-Speed Rail? Not So Fast
- Meridian considers joining New Tech
- Fact Check: Michigan Government Employees ‘Under Attack?’
- Introducing the New Labor Movement
- Bonuses After Tuition Hike at Delta College
- Critics of HB 4326 Miss the Point
- The 'Control' of the Liquor Control Commission
- Addressing Michigan's 'Shadow Government'
- State Faces Decision in Electricity Grid Upgrade
- Veteran Lansing Reporter Jack Spencer Joins Michigan Capitol Confidential
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 14, 2011
- NEA to Buy More Votes with Video Game Grants
- Pontiac Should Have Listened to Center Experts
- Tenure, seniority reform pass House
- Private Colleges
- MichiganVotes.org June 10 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Michigan State Parks Stuck in a Rut
- A New Perspective
- U-M launches charter school study
- Convoluted Distribution Laws Hurt Local Craft Brewers
- Adrian looks to reserves, cuts to fill $5.2M gap
- It's in the Contract. What Contract?
- U-M center studies school bus crash data
- Tort Reform in Michigan: Luncheon and Online
- MichiganScience No. 16
- Teachers' Unions vs. Schoolchildren
- Some Good GDP News for Michigan
- Lansing Township Action Puts Taxpayers at Risk
- EMU Asks Unions to Give Up Raises
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 7, 2011
- Selective Economics
- Wisconsin considers ‘parent petition’ voucher
- Political Careerists Threaten Freedom, Prosperity
- Does the NLRB Really Expect Businesses to Ignore Strikes?
- Natural Resources Trust Fund Needs a Makeover
- Armada keeps MESSA, freezes salary schedule
- Agassi backs charter school facilities fund
- EPA’s War on Energy Hitting Pocketbooks
- MichiganVotes.org June 3 Weekly Roll Call Report
- DPS won’t release draft budget
- End Energy Subsidies to Reduce National Debt
- State Employee Public Pension Liability Jumps $900 Million in One Year
- Bill would cap superintendent pay
- Are You Kinda Republican, Really Republican or Really, Really Republican?
- No Auto Resurgence Yet
- Report: Single Parenthood Unaffordable in Michigan
- 'The Single Most Important Thing'
- School Revenues and Spending
- Editorial: The Money Isn't Coming
- PETA wants to place ads on lockers
- Revenues and Spending of Michigan's Urban, Suburban, Town and Rural School Districts
- Green-Labor Alliance Bad for Workers
- Nearly $4 Million in Savings Possible
- News Cites Center Research
- How Social Security Digits Could Decide an Ann Arbor Teacher Layoff
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 31, 2011
- Center Study Compares Financial Data for Michigan’s Urban, Suburban, Town and Rural School Districts
- Tecumseh adopts insurance ‘best practice’
- Religious school enrollment down
- MichCapCon Cited by CNN
- MichiganVotes.org May 27 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Tax Cuts vs. School Spending
- Michigone
- Professor dismissed for plagiarism in school consolidation study
- Shedding Light on Michigan's Administrative State
- MSU Professor Dismissed for Plagiarism
- Michigan Tax Reform Signed
- Superintendent to Governor: 'Make My School a Prison'
- New ‘Race’ focuses on early education
- And Now for Something Completely Different
- Flood Insurance May Leave You High and Dry
- Michigan Budget and Economic Facts
- Movie Fiction
- Stage Doors and Broken Windows
- Health Care Compact Myths, Busted
- Beyond the Classroom
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 24, 2011
- The Truth About School Funding
- Pain at the Pump
- College Reconsiders Senior Tuition Waivers
- Win an iPad with MichiganScience!
- Do 90 Percent of Scientists Really Buy Into Global Warming Alarmism?
- Flint considers outsourcing services
- Tax Proponents Wrong to Deny Job Creation
- Environmentalists Object to Following the Law
- MichiganVotes.org May 20 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Senate OKs 80/20 plan on health insurance
- Dependent 'Care'
- A Little Graft Can Do A Lot of Damage
- Righting a Wrong
- Contract ties wages to inflation rate
- Freep Columnist Cites Center Research
- Don't Confuse Estimates With Data
- Garden Variety Bureaucracy
- MEDC Admits Truth About Jobs Claims
- School Funding Myths Forum Today
- Issues & Ideas Forum, May 18, 2011
- Michigan School Spending Hits All-Time High
- Michigan’s Massive Job Creation and Loss
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 17, 2011
- Strike Back Harder
- Center Analyst: State Needs Privatization
- Center Receives FOIA Bills
- Howell School Board Bucks MEA Advice: Saves $2.9 Million and Avoids Program Cuts
- Farmington agrees to concessions over outsourcing
- NEA chiefs propose teacher evaluation changes
- Prison Sentence
- 120K Jobs if Granholm Tax Hike Is Repealed
- Tobacco Smuggling and Taxes
- Eau Claire considers self-funded health insurance
- MichiganVotes.org May 13 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Editorial: Regulatory Reform Long Overdue
- Michigan Stands Out in Tax Redistribution
- West Bloomfield union sues over pay cuts
- Gov. Snyder vs. the Political Careerists
- Careful There, Bob
- Kathy Hoekstra Guest-Hosts on 'Beckmann'
- Online high school will expand
- A New Right-to-Work State?
- Michigan Punches Rail Ticket
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 10, 2011
- Does the NLRB Really Expect Businesses to Ignore Strikes?
- Michigan Budget Helps the Afflicted
- Legacy Costs
- Political Careerists Threaten Freedom, Prosperity
- Michigan teachers join spate of ‘grade-ins’
- Wayne State Removes Questionable Website After Mackinac Center FOIA Requests
- Schools Use Creative Accounting to Exaggerate Fiscal Challenges
- The Benefits of Prison Spending Reform
- Interlocal Agreements — Good Intent, Bad Practice
- Madison voters OK bond for performing arts center
- Lansing struggles to reduce spending
- Hoekstra to Guest-Host 'Beckmann' on WJR
- MichiganVotes.org May 6 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Regulatory Reform vs. Fluff
- Leelanau area schools do the math on health insurance
- Brownfield Credits Are No Level Playing Field
- 'MEA Republicans' Grind Down Tea Party Reforms
- DPS receives bids from 18 charter operators
- Trust Fund Baby
- Dearborn teachers union will manage own health care
- Right-to-Work Dashboard
- 'Love Boat?'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 3, 2011
- Poached Goose Eggs
- School Districts Ignoring Labor Market Signals
- Small insurers gaining school customers
- Local Police/Fire Millage Votes Show Local Politicians’ Bait and Switch
- Study: Observation can identify effective teachers
- DPS will appeal order to repay teachers
- Should Education Money Only be for K-12?
- MichiganVotes.org April 29 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Mackinac Center Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Michigan Case That Could Become a Watershed in State Environmental Law
- Bill would decertify unions that back illegal strikes
- Districts weigh spending cuts
- Hartland Teachers to Share in Belt-Tightening
- Massachusetts House Passes Labor Law Reform
- Government Action Could Lower Gas Prices
- Economist Cites Center Work
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 26, 2011
- National Education Standards Will Stifle Innovation
- UN Treaty Would Give Rights to 'Mother Earth'
- Center Staff on 'Off the Record'
- A Meritorious Idea
- Why We Should Be Cat People
- MichiganVotes.org April 22 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Penalties for Illegal Teacher Strikes
- Editorial Cites Center on K-12 Spending
- Acts of God
- Big FOIA Bills from Michigan State Police
- Recall group denies MEA backing
- Center Vindicated in MSU Plagiarism Case
- Plagiarizing Professor to Be Slapped by MSU
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 19, 2011
- IMPACT Spring 2011
- Meridian Township Rules Against American Flag
- Lehman: FOIA Requests Vindicated
- USA Today Cites Cigarette Tax Studies
- Four Reasons Why the Tea Party Should Ignore Detroit Bridge Controversy
- Lansing tries to head off $25M deficit
- Intervention said to lower special education count
- Bobb ready to modify union contracts
- Who Benefits From Lower Business Taxes?
- Van Beek: MEA 'Posturing' Over Illegal Strike
- Why Film Subsidies Must Go
- MichiganVotes.org April 15 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Bill would require health cost sharing by public workers
- Tax and Union Battles Show Importance of Mackinac Center
- DEQ Fee Increases for 'Business as Usual'
- Average Teacher Salary in Michigan Rises Again
- Bangor Township supports possible MEA job action
- Big Labor, Partisan Politics and Academic Independence
- Schools Spending More, Claiming Cuts
- EPA Budget Cut
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 12, 2011
- Schools Use Creative Accounting to Exaggerate Fiscal Challenges
- Mackinac Center Vindicated on FOIA Requests
- Interlocal Agreements – Good Intent, Bad Practice
- Exclusive Interview With Gov. Rick Snyder
- Few happy with proposed school lunch rules
- School choice programs gain ground
- Budget Impasse Over EPA Worth Having
- DPS: Here’s what we want in a charter operator
- Michigan Taking Steps in the Right Direction
- Other Than the Gratuitous Insults, Columnist Gets FOIA Story Right
- Teachers Union Mocks FOIA Law
- Wayne State Pulls Down Website
- Arizona moves to increase tuition tax credits
- Judge Giddings Upholds Mackinac Center on Government Retiree Health Bennies
- Virtual Learning Meets Reality
- Is the DEQ Harassing Hart Enterprises?
- 'Mackinac Center Is Partisan' Charges More Revealing of Accusers Than Center
- Schools Comment on FOIA Requests
- State Has to Live Within its Means
- Mitch Albom and Michigan Budget Director on Different Sides of Film Subsidy Ledger
- Judge: Retiree health care law unconstitutional
- Government Policies Contribute to Higher Gas Prices
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 5, 2011
- Center FOIA Requests Explained
- 'Controlling' School Health Insurance Costs, Local Style
- Center Receives Death Threats After FOIA Request
- The Public Purpose of Our
'Professors' Email' FOIA Request
- Marquette to Study Later High School Start Time
- School Funding Debate: Dollars vs. Performance
- Law Regarding Prohibited Subjects of Collective Bargaining Needs Updated
- It Shouldn’t Take a Hurricane to Revitalize Detroit Public Schools
- Film Incentive Drama May Upset Reforms
- MEAP: Math up, reading down
- Charter school, other development at Tiger Stadium nixed
- Michigan Schools Still Well-Funded Under Governor's Plan
- Eternal Vigilance Required: Politicians' Persistent Threats to Popular Democracy
- MichiganVotes.org April 1 Weekly Roll Call Report
- MDE wants change on school takeover law
- Opposing FOIA Is Opposing Open Government
- ObamaCare 'Litmus Test' for Legislators
- Kersey: Punish Illegal Strikers
- D.C. scholarship program approved by House
- FOIA Law Enhances Center's Research and Reporting
- Center FOIA Requests Draw Media Attention
- Cool Cities Warmed Over
- Rep. O'Brien Says No Tax Hike Behind Transit Bill
- 'TeaParty' Scores Against ObamaCare in Several States (But Michigan Takes the Money)
- I, Pencil Appreciation Day
- Gold Standard Debate Tonight at Northwood
- Congressman Cites Center Research as Reason for His Change of Heart Over Film Subsidies
- Minor Flaw in Huffington Post's 'Coming Water Shortage Will Repopulate Detroit' Argument
- Public Universities Spending More on Administrators
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 29, 2011
- LaFaive, Albom on Film Subsidies
- LaFaive Discusses How to Fix Detroit
- MichiganScience No. 15
- Some Worry that Portage Buyout Will Affect Tax Vote
- Michigan Business Tax Discourages Economic Growth
- MEA to Members: Save Money for Layoffs, Job Action
- Bloomfield Hills Eyes Consolidated High Schools
- Schools Can Save Money if They Try
- MichiganVotes.org March 25 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Film Incentive Drama May Upset Reforms
- Louisiana Pushes Back on ObamaCare, but Michigan Takes the Money
- 'Brutal' MSU Budget Cut: Just 4.5 Percent
- Gov. Granholm to Tour Country for Green Energy
- Another Way to Deal With Illegal Strikes
- Mackinac Center and Michigan Press Association to File Documents With Michigan Supreme Court in Key FOIA Case
- How Is Gov. Snyder Doing So Far?
- The MEA's Mob Mentality: If We All Strike, You Probably Won't Be Fired
- Number of ObamaCare 'Noncollaborationist' Governors Growing; Gov. Snyder Should Join Ranks
- I Have Seen Your Automotive Future ...
- How Much State Land Is Enough?
- 'Commercial-free' Radio
- 'Budget Cut' Doesn't Mean the Same Thing to Public and Private Sectors
- Bills would stiffen penalties for teacher strikes
- Four Reasons State Policymakers Should Stop Collaborating with ObamaCare
- Missed Opportunity for Regulatory Reform
- Fighting the Wrong War
- UAW Could Return to 'Bad Habits'
- Rallies at the Michigan Capitol
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 22, 2011
- Assessing Gov. Snyder Thus Far
- Teacher Strikes, Prevailing Wage
- DPS Emergency Manager Faces Difficulties
- MEA letter generates strike talk
- Analyst: Bargaining doesn’t boost wages
- Harper Creek names itself policyholder
- Union Corruption — The Latest from DOL
- MichiganVotes.org March 18 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Emergency manager bill draws protestors
- Flaws in Union-Supported Paper Claiming Michigan Government Employees Not ‘Overcompensated’
- DEQ Accused of Harassing Sparta Company
- Good Day, Sunshine
- Illegal Teacher Strike Rumored After Union’s ‘Job Action’ Letter
- Michigan Demonstrator Compares Gov. Snyder to Hitler
- Bill would move school board elections to November
- Mackinac Center Recommendations Found in New Financial Emergency Legislation
- Outstanding in Their Field?
- Gov. Snyder's 'Plot' for Pension Tax
- Parent group wants contract settled
- Natural Disasters Are Good?
- State Forest Resources Underutilized
- Bobb Proposes Converting 41 Schools to Charters
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 15, 2011
- Helpful Facts About Michigan's Public Sector
- The UAW's Anti-Democratic Principles
- Editorial Cites Center on School Consolidation
- Film Council Blasts Proposed Subsidy Cut
- Senator: Schools Should Tap 'Rainy Day Funds'
- Graduation rates don't tell whole story
- Schools Debate Facebook Conduct Policies
- Government Regulation Killing Energy Jobs
- On (Recent Events in) Wisconsin
- House Passes Pay-Freeze Bill
- Public-Sector Bargaining Privileges Are Not Inalienable Rights
- Bigger Fish to Fry
- Everyday Citizens Run Risk of Being Criminals
- Film Subsidy Amounts Grossly Under-Reported
- Union Officials Still Upset That They Can No Longer Take Illegal 'Dues' From Private Business Owners
- Time to End Corporate Welfare
- Prevailing Against Prevailing Wage
- Community College Never Heard From Erstwhile 'Partner' in Forced Unionization Scheme
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 8, 2011
- Win an iPad with MichiganScience!
- Editorials Support End of Illegal 'Union Dues' Taken From Day Care Owners
- Is There 'Balance' in the 'Balance the State Budget' Game?
- A Virtual Learning Revolution
- The Good, Bad and Ugly of Gov. Snyder’s First Budget
- Executive Budget Takes on Government Employee Compensation
- Judge puts school accreditation plan on hold
- With My Mind on My Money and My Money on My Mind
- The Union, Not Day Care Providers, Is Getting the ‘Pay Cut’
- Drill Rather Than Tap U.S. Oil Reserves
- MichiganVotes.org March 4 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Residents have mixed opinion on Snyder budget
- Michigan Ain't Wisconsin, But Their Teachers Unions Share a Playbook
- Michigan House Fires Shot in EPA’s War on Energy
- Unions weigh in on teacher tenure
- A Tip on the Effects of Raising the Sub-Minimum Wage
- Day Care Providers React to DHS Decision on Illegal 'Union Dues'
- Lawsuit Over Illegal Contract Language Dismissed
- National, State Media Covering DHS Decision to End Stealth Unionization of Day Care Providers
- Union suspends activist member
- School Funding Testimony
- Update of New Teacher Contracts
- Government Mandate on Toilets Stinks
- Detroit Free Press Editor Points out Film Incentive Flaws
- Fact Check: Warren Schools' False Budget Cut Claim
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 1, 2011
- Kent County Court Rules That Straightforward Provision of State Public Bargaining Law Is Essentially Unenforceable
- State of Michigan to Stop Illegal ‘Union Dues’ Withdrawals From Checks to Home-Based Day Care Providers
- Light Rail Light on Common Sense
- Firefighters or Mitch Albom's Movie Subsidy?
- Union says book deal violated contract
- The People Mover's Pricey Pensions
- Emergency manager bill draws union fire
- Time to Repeal Public Act 312
- MichiganVotes.org Feb. 25 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Public Radio Claims Hide Actual Costs
- Hollywood Battles Michigan's New Budget Chief
- Kersey Testifies on Prevailing Wage
- Criminals Profit From Carbon Trading
- Forced Unionization Case Awaiting Court Decision
- Lawmakers Walk Out on Legislatures, But No One Walks Out on a Union
- Tea Partiers Counter-Protest Government Union 'Lobby Day'
- Buddy, Can You Spare $580?
- New Film Subsidy Study Doesn't Show Full Picture
- Snyder budget may force issue of pay, benefits
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 22, 2011
- The Unstable Funding Myth
- State OKs DPS Plan to Close Half Its Schools
- Absent Information and Competing Risks Assessment, Invalid to Declare Debt Relief Convention 'Too Risky'
- A Lesson on Public-Sector Unions
- Benefits or Jobs: Schools, Legislature Must Choose
- Madness in Mad-Town
- This Should Be an Easy Call
- Good, Bad and Ugly of Gov. Snyder's Budget
- Governor Looks At Public Employee Compensation
- Eliminate the Michigan Business Tax
- No More Excuses
- MichiganVotes.org Feb. 18 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Turning Point in the Midwest?
- Saline bond proposal, video draw questions
- This Actually Happened
- Expect Plenty of Debate Over New Budget
- Study: Michigan gets B for history standards
- Benefits in Balance FAQs
- The Taxpayers Speak
- The Latest in Union Crime in Michigan
- Electrifying: Center Cited on Battery Subsidies, Privatization
- 'Bannering': Carpenters Union Outsources Picketing
- More school buildings up for sale
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 15, 2011
- Lake Orion Teachers Health Benefits 52 Percent Above Private-Sector Average
- NY Times Editorial Cites Michigan Capitol Confidential
- Yes, Government Workers Get More Benefits
- West Bloomfield Tackles Costs With Aggressive Privatization Strategy
- Study: Michigan’s Public Employment Relations Act Should Be Overhauled or Eliminated
- Reconsidering Michigan's Public Employment Relations Act
- State Raises Bar on MEAP, Wants Same for Accreditation
- Virtual Academy reports mixed results
- Imlay City workers agree to health care contributions
- A Reform Movement Is Born
- MichiganVotes.org Feb. 11 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Bills would repeal tenure, limit step pay
- Benefits in Balance
- MLive.com Picks Up Capitol Confidential Story
- Eliminating MBT Good for Michigan
- Bobb asks help on ‘bond security’
- How to Renew Michigan
- Testimony of Michael LaFaive Before the State Senate Finance Committee
- LaFaive Invited to Testify Before Senate Finance Committee on Repeal of Michigan Business Tax
- Letter Grade
- Wasting Money on Windmills
- State raises bar on MEAP, wants same for accreditation
- Replacing Michigan Business Tax With Flat Corporate Income Tax Would Improve Tax Foundation Corporate Tax Ranking From 48th to 22nd
- Reed to Appear on Stossel Thursday Night
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 8, 2011
- Chrysler Commercial a Good Use of Money?
- Not Dead Yet
- Union Tactics Draw Attention
- Virtual Learning Reality
- Detroit Parents Comparison Shop for Schools
- Is Adding School Debt Just Like Refinancing Your Home?
- Health Insurance Exchanges in Michigan a Losing Bet
- The EPA’s War on Energy
- Cigarette Taxes Fuel Rampant Smuggling
- Happy Birthday, President Reagan
- Blog posting leads to school shutdown
- District adopts rules on wearing Sikh daggers
- More Good News for Michigan’s Economy
- MichiganVotes.org Feb. 4 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Can School Choice Work in Detroit?
- Michigan Legislature Talks Right-to-Work Law
- Let's Win One for the Gipper
- Benefits in Balance — How to save Michigan $5.7 billion
- Step freeze, furlough agreed to in Memphis
- Harding Correct on Flawed Coal Plant Moratorium
- Repeal Ban on Great Lakes Directional Drilling
- Senator: Mackinac Center Research Shows Eliminating MBT Will Spur Job Creation; Balancing Public-Sector Benefits Enough to Replace Difference
- Big Labor's Latest Tactic: 'Bannering'
- Teacher tenure under fire
- Extending Exemptions
- Half-Good Role Model on Right-to-Work
- Oakland Press Features Mackinac Center Viewpoints
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WTCM, Oct. 15, 2010
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WJR, Sept. 17, 2010
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WGN, Sept. 15, 2010
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WJR, Aug. 6, 2010
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WMKT, Aug. 5, 2010
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WMKT, April 1, 2010
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WJR, March 9, 2010
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WMKT, March 4, 2010
- Patrick Wright Discusses Day Care Unionization on WMKT, Jan. 14, 2010
- Michigan Carpenters’ Union Constructing a Fake Dispute
- Government Is Not a Jobs Bank
- Editorial Cites Center Analyst on Bloated Benefits
- 'Hire Michigan' Won't Increase Hiring in Michigan
- Reforming Compensation at State Universities is Tricky Due to State Constitution
- Celebrating Black History Month, 2011
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 1, 2011
- LaFaive Discusses Tax Subsidies and Film Incentives on WMKT, Jan. 31, 2011
- Study: More Students Opt for Online Learning
- Time to Hang(ar) It Up
- Public-Sector Unions Fight to Keep Bloated Benefits
- Lansing Expands Virtual Academy
- River Rouge Teachers Agree to 15 Percent Pay Cut
- Detroit Public Schools Contracts Out Custodial Services
- Gov. Snyder to Break Michigan's MEGA Habit
- MichiganVotes.org Jan. 28 Weekly Roll Call Report
- MEA Wants Money, Not Accountability
- Some Districts Add to Fund Balance
- Gov. Snyder’s Proposed Corporate Income Tax, Including Elimination of MEGA Program and Film Subsidies, Holds Promise for Michigan Economy, Analyst Says
- Legal Options for Public Employee Compensation Reform
- State Legislators' Guide to Repealing ObamaCare
- New Report Finds Alternative Fuels Do Not Benefit Military
- Saginaw Debates Effect of Privatization on Retirement Costs
- Virtual Learning Can Improve Student Outcomes and Save Money
- Virtual Learning in Michigan's Schools
- A Virtual Learning Revolution
- Politicized Resource Allocation Yields Lackluster U.S., Michigan Recoveries
- LaFaive: SOTU 'Granholm-esque' in Parts
- 'Book Him!': Michigan Film Subsidy Scandal Leads to More Charges
- The Case for Item Pricing Repeal
- Four Cheers for Gov. Snyder
- Requiring Cost-Benefit Analysis of New Environmental Regs a Step in the Right Direction
- Gov. Granholm Leaves Michigan to Find Work
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 25, 2011
- Sherry Loar Talks About Day Care Unionization on WJR, March 2010
- Tax Hikes Chase Jimmy John's From Illinois
- Gov. Snyder Agrees With Center Scholars on Overturning Michigan's Item Pricing Law
- National School Choice Week
- Why Unions Are Losing Members
- Russ Harding on WJRW
- Mackinac's iPhone App
- Benefit Balance
- Study Says Some Taxpayers Get More Bang for School Bucks
- Film Subsidy Program Just 'Good PR'
- Britton, Deerfield Merger Going Smoothly, Officials Say
- MichiganVotes.org Jan. 21 Weekly Roll Call Report
- The Bottom Falls Out
- How Bad is Detroit’s Detroitification?
- Ballot Bluff
- DPS Opens $5.6 Million Police Headquarters
- Center Analysis of Gov. Snyder Speech
- March Madness?
- Tourism Subsidy Raises Concerns
- Legislation Would Prevent Forced Unionization
- The EPA's War on Energy: Watch now!
- Saginaw eyes sports budget
- Tea Party Reaction to Gov. Snyder's First State of State
- Issues & Ideas Forum, Jan. 20, 2011
- Projection: Repealing MBT and Surcharge Creates 120,000-plus Jobs
- Michigan Posts Record Drop in Unemployment Rate for December
- GR Press Editorial Correct on Muni Spending
- Action, not Talk, Needed for Regulatory Reform
- Advice for Gov. Snyder
- Past State of the State Speeches Show Wide Variation in Proposed Government Expansions/Contractions
- 2011 SOS Expansions/Limitations Tally
- Student regrouping key part of teacher-led school
- Sympathy for Politicians, Staff
- Harding's 'Blueprint' Could Help Gov. Snyder on Regulatory Reform
- Editorial Cites Center Work in FOIA Case
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 18, 2011
- What to Expect from Snyder's State of the State
- Editorial Cites Center Work on Teacher Benefits
- Media Reporting on Michigan's Public-Sector Benefits
- Michigan's Obamacare Tax Hike Collaborators
- WSJ Editorial Cites Center Analyst on Teacher Pay
- Alternative Education Backers Speak Up in Holt
- Limiting Term Limits
- 101 Recommendations to Revitalize Michigan
- MichiganVotes.org Jan. 14 Weekly Roll Call Report
- House Democrats Break With Environmental Supporters
- Business Owners Favor MBT Surcharge Repeal
- Detroit bus attendants will keep jobs
- ObamaCare's Michigan Collaborators
- Illinois Jobs Coming to Michigan?
- Binding Arbitration a National Problem
- Natural Resources Trust Fund in Need of Change
- Michigan No Longer First for Outbound Moves
- Teachers agree to new evaluation process
- Mackinac Center Debate Workshops
- Burn Notice
- MBT Surcharge Repeal Could Create 27,900 New Jobs Through 2016
- Are Corrections Costs a Mystery?
- State may set bar higher on MEAP
- Michigan's Budget Problems Bigger Than You Think
- Kent County Schools Hire Attorney for Illegal Contract Language Lawsuit
- Motor City Finance: Then and Now
- Center Analysts Talk EPA, Forced Unionization
- Why Michigan Needs Regulatory Reform
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 11, 2011
- Harding's Prediction on Volt Correct
- We're No. 2!
- State Should Reform Public Act 72 of 1990
- Teacher says she quit paying union dues on principle
- War of 1812
- Budget Watchdog: State Has Billions in Unbudgeted Retiree Costs
- Custodian aims to fill board with privatization foes
- Michigan Fiscal Policy a Two-Sided Coin
- State Should Reform PA 72 of 1990
- Saginaw Fails to Repeal Prevailing Wage
- Many can’t pass Army’s basic skills test
- Editorial Cites Harding's Regulatory 'Blueprint'
- The DNRE Is Dead. Long Live the DNR and DEQ
- Briefs Due Today in Forced Unionization Case
- Littmann to Discuss Economic Outlook
- State Supreme Court Reaffirms Property Rights of Lakefront Owners
- Michigan's Role in Defeating ObamaCare
- Fast Track to School Reform
- Michigan Spends More on Teacher Benefits Than Most Other States
- New Year, Same Fight
- Bonuses Included, Michigan Government Benefits Exceed Private Sector by $5.7 Billion
- 'Ring' in the New Year
- Gov. Snyder Looks to Address Public Benefits
- Bringing Balance to Public Benefits
- Gov. Snyder Should Adopt HSAs for Government Employees
- Forget the Election, Focus on Outcomes (Viewpoint)
- A Fresh Start