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- The Mackinac Center Addresses Gov. Snyder's Veto of Donor Privacy Bill
- Mackinac Center Tracks Lawmakers’ Missed Votes
- In Memory of Stan Brock
- Michigan Pays Off Debt from the 80s
- Legislature Forbids Local Governments From Creating Needless Licensing Requirements
- Union Release Time Was Once Unconstitutional
- When Corporate Handouts Were Unconstitutional in Michigan
- From Prohibited to Permitted: A Legal History of Corporate Handouts in Michigan
- Fewer Parents Taking Education for Granted
- Michigan made better choices on forest management
- Fireworks, Campaigns, Coal Ash, Wages and More
- Striking a Balance on Environmental Regulations
- Proposed Law Changes Licensing Rules for Some Psychologists
- President's Council Luncheon
- Even Amended, Michigan’s Paid Sick Leave Would Cost Employers $1.1 Billion
- Red or Blue, Criminal Justice Still Gets a Green Light
- School Districts Exaggerate the Harms of Losing Students to Choice
- Amazon and Foxconn Ignite Opposition To Business Subsidies
- Minimum Wage, Fantasy Sports, Donor Privacy, 5G and More
- Bullying is a Huge Problem – School Choice is Helping Solve It
- Michigan Should Adopt a Pilot Program to Fund Roads With Road Usage Charges
- Union Release Time is a Rip-Off for Taxpayers
- More Insights from Mackinac Center’s Corporate Welfare Scorecard
- Lawmakers Have the Authority to Repeal Paid Leave Act
- The Costly Part of Government-Owned Broadband
- Serve the Public by Protecting the Integrity of Evidence in Criminal Proceedings
- IMPACT November/December 2018
- A Look at What Happens After Minimum Wage Hikes in Michigan
- What You May Expect To See In Lame Duck
- Amazon and Foxconn Ignite Opposition To Business Subsidies
- School Districts Exaggerate the Harms of Losing Students to Choice
- Red or Blue, Criminal Justice Still Gets a Green Light
- The Good News And Bad News For UAW Members
- For Some Students, Transportation is a Barrier to a Better Education
- Make Michigan’s Bail System Smarter, for All of Us
- Collaborative Management Can Balance Competing Interests for Federal Lands in Michigan
- Just A Reminder Of The Growing State Budget
- Last Call: Reviewing Pre-election Votes Of The 2017-2018 Legislature
- Comparing Michigan’s Largest Counties on Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Accessing Better Detroit Schools Out of Reach for Some
- Bail Reform Effort in Michigan: What It Is and What It Isn’t
- How to Collaboratively Manage Michigan’s Federal Lands
- Conflict to Cooperation: Collaborative Management of Federal Lands in Michigan
- Legislature Says Yes To Subsidies, No To Tax Cuts
- Forcing Accountants to Stay in College Doesn’t Make Them Better CPAs
- Brews and Views
- Celebrating Russell Kirk’s 100th Birthday
- Helping More Michigan Students Learn to Read
- Cities and Suburbs Should Grow Together
- Seventy Percent of Michigan School Districts Contract Out for Services
- Let Markets and Innovation Drive Energy Efficiency
- Michael Dorr
- New Jersey Wants to Make it Harder for Public Workers to Leave Their Union Despite the Janus Decision
- Michigan School Privatization Survey 2018
- How Bail Works in Michigan and Recommendations for Reform
- Michigan Needs Bail Reform
- Money and Justice in West Michigan
- The State Budget is Larger Than $10 Billion
- How Much Will the Repeal of Prevailing Wage Save Taxpayers in Michigan?
- Choice Satisfies Most Parents, Appeals to Most Voters
- How to Control the Pension Debt
- Policy Guides
- New Study Explains ‘Voters Not Politicians’ Ballot Proposal in Plain English
- Proposal 2 of 2018:
An Explainer and Key Arguments
- Business Subsidies, Online Voter Registration, Licensure Reform and More
- Proposal 2 of 2018
- Plaintiffs Sue New Jersey for Failing to Protect Employee Freedoms
- IMPACT September/October 2018
- Don't Put Faith in Class-Size Reduction
- The Facts on Michigan’s Roads – and How To Improve Them
- Roads in Michigan: Quality, Funding and Recommendations
- Speed Limit Reductions, ‘Points’ for Out-of-State Tickets, Aircraft Owner Tax Breaks, Online Voter Registration and More
- Michigan Needs to Rethink How it Does Economic Development
- Company Turns Down Taxpayer Subsidies
- Planning for Life Workshop – Farmington Hills
- Unreasonable Demands Stifle Real Environmental Progress
- Bail Reform: Improving Pretrial Release to Benefit Defendants and Taxpayers
- Innovative School Districts Seek Greater Flexibility
- Michigan Wages and Benefits Recovers
- The New Face of the FCC: Q&A with Chairman Ajit Pai
- Want Faster Internet? What Rural Communities Should Explore
- How Much Will the Repeal of Prevailing Wage Save Taxpayers in Michigan?
- Same Old Story About the Problems in Public Schools
- Aircraft Sales Tax, Police Sex With Prostitutes, Choose Life Plates, More
- How to Control the Pension Debt
- Little Pink House Screening
- Looking for Legal Help?
- Choice Satisfies Most Parents, Appeals to Most Voters
- Enforcing Janus Rights for Public Workers
- Here’s One Way Michigan Miscalculates High School Graduation Rates
- What Would it Mean to Unleash the MEDC?
- Paid Leave, Parole and Minimum Wage
- Mackinac Center Applauds Gov. Snyder’s ‘Outside the Box’ Reforms
- Prisons Are Not a Jobs Program
- Michigan Parents and Voters Strongly Support School Choice
- Choices & Voices: A Survey of Michigan Charter School Parents
- Free Speech or Government Speech?
- Socialism Didn’t Make Detroit Great
- Copper Mines, Foreign Language Requirements, Eminent Domain and More
- Guiding Quality Growth in the Charter Sector
- How Taxpayers Get Fleeced in Michigan
- Coping with the Growing Number of Felons in Michigan
- Spending Interests Want Spending
- Volunteer Fire Departments Save Money, Delivery Quality Service
- IMPACT July/August 2018
- What Would it Mean to Unleash the MEDC?
- More Subsidies And Regulations, Mental Health Restraint Rules, Auto Insurance For Seniors and More
- Enforcing Janus Rights for Public Workers
- Later High School Start Times Should Stay Local Decision
- No One Will Win The Tariff Game
- Superintendent Earns Praise Painting School – Which Would Be Illegal If He Were Paid
- Poll: Mich. Voters Back Tax Benefits for School Choice
- A Plea for Skepticism about the MEDC: An Open Letter
- Michigan’s Trial Courts Have a Major Funding Problem
- Election Night: More Corporate Handouts or More Personal Income Tax Cuts?
- Mail-in Elections, More Corporate Subsidies, Training Tax Assessors And More
- A Flip Of A Switch
- MDE Overreach a Serious Concern
- Why Taxpayers Are Shelling Out More Money for Worse Service
- When the Cell Door Closes, a Window of Educational Opportunity Should Open
- Campaign Promises Show Misunderstanding of Charter School Landscape
- State Lawmakers Should Cut Business Subsidies Even More Next Year
- Freedom For Government Workers
- Three Important Criminal Justice Reform Opportunities for 2018
- Declawing Cats, Debarking Dogs, Strategic Plans and More
- Can Technology Help Predict Crime and Flight Risk?
- Michigan Catching Up On State Employee Pension Debt
- Climate Lawsuits Expose Contradictory Government Policies
- Politicians Subsidize Less Than 1 Percent of Job Creation
- New Bills on Guns, Garbage, Farm Weddings and More
- New Evidence Suggests Harsher Sentences Don’t Always Deter More Crime
- A Lesson in Endpoint Bias
- ISD-Run Special Education at Bottom of the Pack
- Public Safety Workers in Michigan Now Enjoy Right-to-Work
- Making Waves with the Mackinac Center
- Where Michigan Stands on Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Mackinac Center’s Forfeiture Expertise Cited
- Firearm Seizures, Sexual Assault, Lock Away Painkillers and More
- State Corporate Handout Program Milks Taxpayer for Cass City Operation
- Is One Subsidy Really Any Better?
- Neither Inmates Nor Counties Get Out of Jail Free
- Policy Proposed for Medicaid Workers Too Broad, Harms Patients and Consumers
- How Business Subsidies Cut to the Front of the Line for Michigan Tax Dollars
- National Publications Cite Mackinac Center in Wake of Supreme Court Decision
- A Political Fiction that Won’t Go Away
- Snyder Budget Whacks $10 Million from Business Subsidy Programs
- Legislature Approves New Business Subsidies
- Supreme Court Restores, Strengthens Rights For Millions Of Public Employees In Janus Ruling
- 2018 Marks Final Year of High School Debate Workshops
- Another MBDP Jobs Subsidy Project Doesn’t Work
- Higher Taxes Would Offer Little for Ottawa Schools
- State Business Handout Program Wastes Another $2 million
- Foster Care Scholarships, Pavement Ideas, Career Predictions
- Smart Regs for Smart Tech: How Government Can Allow Next Gen Internet Networks to Flourish
- Detroit is Becoming Friendlier to Entrepreneurs
- Neither Inmates Nor Counties Get Out of Jail Free
- IMPACT May/June 2018
- Is One Subsidy Really Any Better?
- Business Subsidy Programs Grow State’s Bureaucracy, Not Its Economy
- Planning for Life Workshop – Bay Harbor Yacht Club
- Whitmer Education Plan Trips Over Charter Schools
- Mackinac Center and Virginia Tech Professor Dr. Marc Edwards Sue Wayne State Over Flint Water Documents
- Michigan Lawmakers Consider More Handouts
- Planning for Life Workshop – Midland, MI
- Auto Insurance Reform for Seniors, Repeal Prevailing Wage, Medicaid Work
- Like All Spending, Environmental Spending Needs a Plan and Oversight
- Lawmakers Repeal Prevailing Wage and Pass Work Requirements for Able-Bodied Medicaid Population
- Lawmaker Blasts Utilities, Nearly Hits Donor Privacy Rights
- State Considers Licensing Naturopathic Physicians
- Study Links Catholic Education and Self-Discipline
- Should Government Get Involved? What to Consider First
- Michigan’s New Testing Regime is Better But Should Be Improved
- Connect Southeast Michigan Transit Proposal: Looking Backward
- Involuntary Mental Health Treatment, Government Job Training, Aliens, Wine Tasting
- Reverse Course on Restricting Medicaid Workers With Criminal Backgrounds
- Getting More College Grads Won’t Improve State Prosperity
- Beer Glut: The Overregulation of Alcohol in Michigan
- Why Michigan Should Repeal Prevailing Wage
- Bicycle Clearance, Extend the Statute of Limitations for Sex Crimes, More
- Privacy Policy
- Bonfire of the Bureaucratic Vanities
- Detroit Charters Send More Graduates to College Than Peers Do
- Residential Levies for Business Subsidies, Truck Platoons, Baby Boxes and More
- Michigan’s Convoluted Electricity System Leads to Strife and Strain
- Why Prescription Drugs Are So Expensive and What the State Can Do About It
- Kayak Tax Proponents Try to Disguise Cash Grab as Safety Measure
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center
- New Scorecard Ranks Every Michigan Legislator on Corporate Handouts
- The Lawmakers that Voted for the Most Business Subsidies and the Least
- How Michigan Legislators Voted on Taxpayer-Funded Business Subsidies
- 'Clear and Convincing Need' Bill Would Limit Overregulation
- Require Conviction for Police to Keep Seized Assets, School Safety Responses
- Token Symbols of Growth Damage the State Economy
- Solar Subsidies Are More than 'Fair'
- Think Big: Don’t Expand Transit, Uberize It!
- More Guilty Verdicts Mean More Cash for Local Courts
- What I Would Like To See From Campaigns This Year
- Detroit Children’s Business Fair
- Budgets, Beer Tents, Vehicle Bike Racks and More
- Proposed Bill Package Would Rein in DEQ Abuses
- City Denies Alcohol License to Restaurant it Doesn’t Like
- No More Additional Favors for Solar
- Pump the Brakes: Michigan Should Rethink Driver's License Suspensions
- The Battle Between Taxes and Fees in Storm Sewer Finance
- Michigan Doesn't Fit Profile for Teacher Walkouts
- School Safety, Frail Prisoners, Pyramid Schemes and Budgets
- MEDC Is a Moth to a Failure Flame
- Net Metering Decision Raises Hackles of Solar Supporters
- Health Policy Consensus Group Calls for Short-Term Health Plan Reform
- Medicaid Work Requirements, Alien Driver's Licenses, Dead Voters and More
- A Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism
- Union Attempt to Force Teacher to Pay Fees Deemed Illegal Under Right-to-Work
- Free-Range Michigan?
- More Competition Among Liquor Stores on the Way – For Now
- Arbitrary Michigan Licensing Laws: Auto Mechanic vs. Makeup Artist
- Three Criminal Justice Proposals before the Michigan House this Week
- Updated Research Highlights Impact of Cigarette Tax Evasion
- Ban Pit Bull Bans, Licensure Mandates for Foresters and Shampooers, More
- Strong Link Between Cigarette Tax and Illegal Smuggling Rates
- New Law Removes Obstacles to Classroom
- Rural School Makes Fast Rise
- You Don’t Need Six Figures to Live Comfortably
- DeVos is Right About Michigan Charter Schools
- It’s Time To Review and Repeal Occupational Licensing Laws
- Emotional Support Animals, License Mandates and More License Mandates
- State Funding for Universities Continues Upward Climb
- Are Competition And Consumer Choice In Education Good Or Bad?
- How a Top-Performing Charter School in Detroit Overcame Government Obstacles
- Is it Constitutional to Require Criminal Defendants to Fund Their Own Prosecution?
- The Great Lakes Trough Truce
- Back To The Future With Renewable Energy Puffery
- Study on Arkansas Tourism Campaign Should Make You Scratch Your Head about Pure Michigan
- Constitutional Amendments on Parents' Rights, State University Boards, More
- The Steel Industry, Not Taxpayers, Should Pay for New Soo Lock
- State’s Education Woes Require Full Assessment
- Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling
- Where Michigan Lawmakers Stand on ‘Right to Try’ Laws
- New Pure Michigan Return-on-Investment Figure Won’t Include All Costs
- Pure Fiction: State Tourism Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignores Costs
- Passing Bicycles, Peppier Pepper Spray, High School Internship Credit, More
- Michigan School Employees Can Officially Resign from Their Union at Any Time
- IMPACT March/April 2018
- Hamtramck Academy Tops Mackinac Report Card
- Awareness and Education Effort Launched Around Landmark Janus Case
- When the Goal of Spending Money is to Spend Money
- Democratic Attorney General Candidates Favor Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
- Dearborn Schools Rise to the Top
- Bipartisanship on Criminal Justice Reform Continues to Grow
- A Look At The State Budget for Business Subsidies
- MSU Sex Crime Lawsuits, Online Voter Registration, Dead Voters, More
- What Michigan Government Lacks in Transparency
- State-led Health Care Reforms
- Cutting the Competition?: The Effects of Licensing Barbers in Alabama
- Want Money For Roads? Take It from This Failing Program
- Free Credit Freezes, Expel Student Sex Offenders, Release Frail Prisoners
- Salt Bill Would Raises Prices On All To Benefit One Company
- Put ISD Funding on Education Budget Table
- Property Tax Revenue On a Slow Rise
- The Flexible State Budget
- Governor’s 6-Year-Old Corporate Handout Program Should Be Shuttered
- Juvenile Justice Shouldn’t Create Lifelong Obstacles
- More Road Repair Money, Restrict Metadata Collection, Medical Marijuana, More
- Raising the Age: Should 17-Year-Olds be Eligible for Juvenile Justice in Michigan?
- English as Official Language, More Road Repair Money, a Foster Care Alternative
- Detroit Schools Will Sell to a Prison, But Not a Charter School
- Mackinac Center Ranks Michigan’s Elementary and Middle Schools
- The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: Public Elementary and Middle Schools, 2017
- State’s MBDP Job Creation Claims an Inconvenient Fiction
- ACLU and Mackinac Center Call on Legislature to Require a Conviction Before Police Can Keep Property
- Education Budget Should Back Parents' Priorities
- Study: Michigan Business Development Program of Questionable Merit
- An Assessment of the Michigan Business Development Program
- Michigan Is Not a Windy State
- One Tax Cut and One Increased; an Unfair Levy Repealed; Stronger Pepper Spray
- Michigan’s Long 'Bad Driver Tax' Nightmare Will Finally End
- Meet Some Law Enforcement Officers Who Support Forfeiture Reform
- IMPACT January/February 2018
- Michigan May Surpass 2000 Employment Levels Soon
- Mackinac Center Policy Expert Recommendations 2018
- Airbnb Ban the Latest in Detroit’s Short-sighted Thinking
- Lawyers 'Double Dipping' on Asbestos, Traffic Stop Etiquette, Impaired EMTs
- Crime Shouldn’t Pay, but Requiring Reimbursement May Not Pay Off
- Illinois Takes Pension Advice From ‘The Simpsons’
- New Video Series Looks Underneath the Hood at How School Funding Works
- Michigan’s Prevailing Wage Law Needs to Go
- Michigan Charters Get More Bang for the Buck
- Extreme Cold Highlights Our Need for Better Energy Options
- Cats and Dogs, Chickens and Fish
- Traverse City Continuing Push for Government-Run Internet
- Michigan Considers Allowing Ex-Offenders to Work as Health Professionals
- Do Michigan Charter Schools Get More Bang for the Buck?
- Charter Schools a Valuable Investment for Taxpayers
- Doing More With Less: The Charter School Advantage in Michigan
- Snyder, New Report Pitch for More Education Dollars
- Politicians Cannot Keep Up With Dynamic Economy
- Come or Go, Amazon’s HQ Decision Means Little to Michigan Economy
- Income Tax Breaks, Environmental Rules Reviews, Ransomware and more
- Renewable Energy is Not Cheaper After All
- New Additions to Mackinac Center Board of Scholars
- Michigan House Votes to Protect Electronic Data
- Increasing Voter Turnout in School Elections
- Cash Bail Hurts Innocent Poor People
- Mackinac Center Tallies Proposed Expansions and Limitations in Gov. Snyder’s Last State of the State
- Is This Working? The Effects of Occupational Licensing on the Workforce
- Gov. Snyder Should Make Link Between Jobs and Criminal Justice Reform
- School Choice Week Puts Michigan Progress in Perspective
- Education Policy Expert Provides Important Perspective on New School Finance Study
- Veto Override, Higher Income Tax Exemptions, Charter Schools and ISD Money, more
- As Medicaid Costs Skyrocket, States Have a New Opportunity to Innovate
- Laws of Evidence: How Sound Forensic Science Policy Can Help Prevent Wrongful Convictions
- Deed Restrictions, Neighborhood Watch Vehicles
- Many Michigan Families Sacrifice for Choice
- What People Are Saying About Our 30th Anniversary
- Michigan’s Most Popular Uber Destination is in the City That Once Banned It
- Governor Granholm Called to Underfund Pensions 6 Years Before Company Bankruptcy
- How to Help Those with a Criminal Record Find Work
- 2017 Was Good For Michigan
- Michigan’s Prevailing Wage Law Drives Up Costs
- Detroit Ignores State Law, Turns Down Money to Avoid Selling Abandoned School
- You Can Legally Warm Your Car Now
- Professor Sues Wayne State University for Failure to Respond to FOIA Requests
- Michigan’s Well-Being Metric Stuck in “Balanced” Position
- School Choice Breaks Down Racial Barriers
- State Forces Hotels And Inns To Fund Private Marketing Bureaus
- Airline Employees Sue Union For Same Constitutional Protection As Public Employees
- Facts About Michigan’s Infrastructure You Never Hear
- State Reforms of Occupational Licensing
- Michigan's Increasing State Budget
- Michigan Legislature’s 10 Most Revealing Votes of 2017
- Michigan Well-Being Metric Stuck in 'Balanced' Position
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation