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- Mackinac Center Tracks Lawmakers’ Missed Vote
- A Recap of the 100th Michigan Legislature
- School Bus Safety Effort a Prime Example of Overcriminalization
- Three Reasons to Oppose New Corporate Incentives
- Legislative Year Finishes With High Fiscal Notes
- More Legalized Gambling, Selective Tax Breaks, Prescription Rules and More
- Mackinac Center VP Appointed to Federal Panel
- Michigan Bureaucrats Want to Force Unions on Pot Businesses
- Mackinac Center Praises the End of Ineffective Subsidy Program
- State School Aid Deal Fits Decade-Long Upward Trend
- IMPACT November/December 2019
- Politicians Get Too Much Blame — and Credit — for Economic Trends
- Mackinac Center Sues UAW for Fake Union Scheme
- Tax Cuts, Regulatory Freedom and More – in Washington and the 50 States
- The Unintended Results of Michigan’s Divided Government
- Regulatory Reforms on the Move in Michigan
- Students Led Astray by Environmental Education
- Tech Data, Internet Taxes, Facial Recognitions and More
- Dangers of the Regulatory State: Overly Precise Rules
- Passionate Educator’s Career Revived by Online School
- When Michigan’s Bureaucrats Decide Who’s a Criminal
- Michigan's Regulatory Crimes: Bureaucrats' Hidden Criminal Law
- Regulatory Reforms On the Move in Michigan
- Recent Proposals to Change Michigan's Constitution
- Forget Greenland — Trump Should Offer Statehood to These Canadian Provinces
- The Return of Socialism is About the Political Divide
- Acupuncture, Liquor Distillers, Pawnbrokers and More
- Targeted Tax Preferences are Unfair
- What You Really Need to Know about Michigan Charter Schools
- Michigan Should Invest in Student Mobility Scholarships
- Line 5 is a Textbook Example of Environmental Versus Labor Concerns
- Legislators Nix Regulatory Overreach of Rural Health Care Providers
- Filling Classroom Vacancies Requires Better Solutions
- Keep Pure Michigan Spending at $0
- Expungements, Deer Baiting, Pelvic Exams and More
- The Supreme Court Could Free Thousands of School Kids
- Prohibition Doesn't Work — Need it be Said Again?
- Feds Should Follow States' Lead on Expungement Reform
- Transportation Scholarships Will Help More Students Succeed
- Student Mobility Scholarships: Helping Families Access the Best Schools
- The Bipartisan State Budget
- Fantasy Sports Legalization, No Selling Cough Meds to Minors, Internet Gambling and More
- “Miss Virginia” an Inspiration to Michigan Parents
- Delaying Hen Cage Mandate, Create Victim Confidentiality and More
- Michigan’s Corporate Subsidy Board Faces Tough Questioning
- The Student Debt Problem is Widely Misunderstood – Here Are Some Solutions
- Clock is Running out for Michigan Legislators to Help Cancer Patients
- Kmart Property is MEGA Reminder Not to Extend Subsidy Program
- Administrative Law Can Make Any American a Criminal
- Miss Virginia Movie Premiere
- New Study Details the Dangers of Union Card Check
- Protecting the Secret Ballot: The Dangers of Union Card Check
- Public Servants Should Deliver More Than a List of Adjectives
- Healthcare Initiative
- Taxing Out-of-State Purchases, Juvenile Justice Reform and More
- Lawmakers Should Let Good Jobs for Michigan Expire
- What Happens Now to Roads in Michigan
- Are There Better Options for Underperforming Schools?
- New "Raise the Age" Reforms Will Benefit Michigan
- Filling Classroom Vacancies Requires Better Solutions
- An Update on Criminal Justice Policies in Michigan
- More Liquor Regulations, Solar and Wind Tax Breaks
- Keep Pure Michigan Spending at $0
- Communism, Socialism and “Democratic Socialism”
- The Tax Hike Governor Vetoes Additional Road Funding
- Vaping Ban is Bad for Health, Good for Smugglers
- Utilities Have Big Solar Plans for Michigan but Overlook the Long-Term Costs
- A Global Climate Strike Isn't Enough
- The Left and Right Agree to End Taxpayer-Funded Job Wars in Midwest
- A Conservative Case for Expunging Criminal Records
- Protect Family Access for the Incapacitated; Don’t Take Cop’s Gun and More
- The National Vaping Ban is a Bad Idea
- IMPACT September/October 2019
- Whitmer Targets Charter Students in Budget Veto
- A Case Study in Ineffectiveness for the MEDC
- No Need for Veto Work, but if the Governor Insists...
- Retaining Students Who Lag in Literacy Pays Off
- The Corporate Welfare Lady Protests Too Much
- Congress Protects UAW Members as Strike Continues
- Economic Growth Drives Budget Priorities
- Michigan School Privatization Survey 2019
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center
- Majority of Michigan School Districts Contract Out Support Services
- School Aid Budget Proposals Not That Far Off
- Omnipotent Moral Busybodies Appear at Climate Town Hall
- Selective Favors to Companies Won’t Create Jobs
- If a Recession is Coming, Pension Managers Need to Prepare
- Yes, Michigan’s Right-to-Work Law Has Hurt the UAW
- Vaping Ban Would Increase Cigarette Sales and Smuggling
- Senate Bill Revitalizes Skepticism about Corporate Handouts
- Mackinac Center Calls on Supreme Court to Give Parents More Educational Freedom
- How the Espinoza Case Could Affect Michigan
- District School Teacher: ‘Parents Have a Right to Choose’
- Planning for Life Workshop – Holland, MI
- State Should Enact Budget, Debate Road Funding Another Day
- Local Governments Must Confront Billions in Pension Debt
- Career and Technical Education Reform Needs More Than Money
- Michigan’s Ineffective, Unfair and Expensive Corporate Handouts
- Mackinac Center Applauds Expungement Reforms
- Public Employees Should be Allowed to Exercise Their Rights
- Prison for Porch Pirates, Tax on Tow Trucks, Remote Pharmacies and More
- The Need for Civility and the Presumption of Goodwill
- National Groups Push Music Therapist Licensing – Which Benefits Themselves
- Extension of Mislabeled Good Jobs for Michigan Program Would Be Added to the Business Subsidy Scorecard
- Lack of Money For Universities Didn’t Cost Michigan Amazon – Or Economic Growth
- State Gives Solar Preferences on Land 'Preserved' for Farmland
- PRO Act’s Stealth ‘Card Check’ Option Gives Unions Unfair Advantage
- Alaska Protects Public Workers’ First Amendment Rights
- Making Waves with the Mackinac Center
- Science Teacher Thrives in Transition to Charter School
- Wide Media Attention of Mackinac Center Lawsuit
- Licensing Laws are Destructive and Ineffective – But There Are Alternatives
- Low-income Americans Can Benefit From Gentrifying Neighborhoods
- Mackinac Center Sues the State Bar of Michigan for First Amendment Violation
- The State Bar of Michigan Violating the First Amendment
- The Michigan Budget Fight Is Not Over Roads – It’s Everything Else
- Auto Insurance in Michigan
- Largest Local Governments in Michigan Carry $5.5B in Pension Debt
- How Does Your City Weigh Out?
- Lawmakers Shouldn’t Bend to Bad Road Funding Policy To Meet Arbitrary Road Deadline
- Governor Whitmer Stands Up for the Michigan Constitution
- Want More School Librarians in Michigan? Reform State Licensing Law
- Let Corporate Handouts Expire
- Air Quality Reports Can Misrepresent the Data
- Mackinac Center Sues State in Latest Transparency Lawsuit
- Let the Sun Set on This Corporate Subsidy Program
- No More Secret Taxpayer Cash for Companies
- Mackinac Center Policy Forum
- In Praise of a Muskegon Inventor
- More Revenue in Lansing Seems Like a Higher Priority To Gov. Whitmer Than Fixing The Roads
- Planning for Life Workshop – Charlevoix, MI
- How to Prioritize the Budget to Spend $1 Billion More on the Roads in a Single Year
- Attack on Schools of Choice Unfounded
- Minimum Wage Laws Hurt People
- Equalize School District Funding, Eliminate State Board of Education and More
- Ontario’s Energy Woes Should Be a Warning
- Career and Technical Education Reform Needs More Than Money
- Dear Michigan Press: Where’s the Tax-Hike Fever?
- IMPACT July/August 2019
- Cut the Budget, Raise Taxes or Wait
- Fire Departments Spend Millions When They Don’t Have To
- Budget Reforms: In Praise of Cuts to Corporate Welfare
- Union Proposes Trimming Retiree Health Benefits to Save Money; Opposed It When Taxpayers Were Footing the Bill
- Gary Model Suggests Way Forward for Benton Harbor Students
- Michigan Utilities Plan for an Inefficient Future
- Wayne State Ordered To Pay In Mackinac Center Legal Win
- Want More Young People Employed? States Should Stop Barring Them From Working
- A Case Study in Anti-School Choice Activist Journalism
- Taxpayer Subsidized Workforce Development is a Lemon
- Township Wants Higher Taxes to Pay for Optional Employment Benefit
- Schools That Beat the Odds Beyond Graduation
- Minimum Wage Laws Hurt People
- Mackinac Center Environmental Policy Director Attends White House Briefing
- Government Tourism Promotion is not Really 'Economic Development'
- Comparing the Newest Wind Energy Facility in Michigan with the Rest of the US
- The Crime of Pickling Improperly Shaped Cucumbers
- How to Prioritize the Budget to Spend $1 Billion More on the Roads in a Single Year
- Mackinac Center Joins Nationwide Free Market Coalition Letter
- A Seven-Year Switch: Charter Management Perils in the Troubled Highland Park District
- The Supreme Court Has a Chance to Uphold School Choice and Religious Liberty
- Protecting Your Property Against Abusive Governments
- Not Much Difference Between Current Corporate Handouts and Recliner Subsidies
- Wild Turkeys, Community Cats, Lawyers for Animals and More
- Green Jobs: More Jobs, Less Efficiency
- Give More Power to Parents of Special-Needs Learners
- Growth Fuels Budget Priorities in House and Senate Budgets
- Let's Give Workers Voting Rights to Keep or Reject Unions
- Water Quality Has Improved For Michigan
- Freeing Pot Prisoners, Scholarships, Carnival Ride Inspections and More
- Universities or Roads?
- West Virginia Supreme Court Tests Unions' Novel Theory
- Supreme Court Makes it Easier for Property Owners to Defend their Constitutional Rights
- And Another Thing About Roads...
- Overselling Whitmer’s Education Budget
- Small-Dollar Lending Provides Vital Service for Millions of Americans
- Small-Dollar Lending Innovation and the True Cost of Credit
- Aretha Franklin, Medicaid, Mandated Dental Exams and More
- Divide and Conquer: Democrats in Congress Pushing Unions on Workers
- Give More Power to Parents of Special-Needs Learners
- Growth Fuels Budget Priorities in House and Senate Budgets
- The Overton Window
- Road Budget, Drones Scaring Horses, Opioids and More
- Private School Decline May Be Overstated
- Michigan’s Auto Industry Matters Less to the State Workforce
- Putting a Price on Life: The Coming Fight Over Government Rationing of Medical Care
- LARA FOIA Case
- Final Action on Auto Insurance Reform; Fund Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation
- Mackinac Center Files Lawsuits Against New Jersey Unions for Failing to Respect Workers’ Opt Out Rights
- New Jersey Workers Sue Unions for Failing to Respect Their Choice to Opt Out
- Michigan Road Funding at Record Levels Without Proposed Tax Hike
- Policy Circles: Their Influence and Possibilities
- Green Jobs: The Antithesis of Efficiency
- The Price of Auto Insurance
- Planning for Life Workshop – Birmingham, MI
- The Wayfair Decision: How Michigan Policymakers Should Respond
- Anti-Choice State Board Rejects Funds from Top-Rated Grant Application
- Facts Should Matter in the Realm of Education
- Mitch Albom is Wrong About Michigan Auto Insurance Changes
- Report for Schools Changes, but the Goal of Recognizing Excellence Remains
- If You Seek a Pleasant Road Funding Plan, Look About You
- New Auto Insurance Law Will Benefit Michigan Drivers
- The Cost of Road Building is Spiking, and That’s a Problem
- Funding Roads By Taxing Users Will Only Happen if People Care to Fund Roads By Taxing Users
- Who Voted Yes and Who Voted No on Landmark Auto Insurance Reform
- What’s the Appropriate Role of the State in Workforce Development?
- Workforce Development in Michigan
- Should Educator Evaluations Trust Data More?
- IMPACT May/June 2019
- County Road Commissions Fill Pension Potholes
- Unfair and Unnecessary: Fiat-Chrysler Lands State Corporate Handouts
- Restrictions on Rating Factors Won’t Reduce Overall Auto Insurance Costs
- Occupational Licensing and Criminal Backgrounds
- The Policy Circle: Start the Conversation
- Smuggled Smokes: California Closes in on New York
- Tax Evasion and Avoidance: Michigan Ranks 14th in Cigarette Smuggling
- Updated Research Quantifies Relationship Between Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling
- Analysis of the D.R.I.V.E. Alternative on No-Fault Reform
- If You Seek a Pleasant Road Funding Plan, Look About You
- EVs Have Already Had More Than Enough Taxpayer Help
- Michigan May Have Turned a Corner on the Costs of State Employment
- Worries Over Medicaid Costs No Reason to Oppose No-Fault Reform
- Local Control or Too Much Control? Balancing the Rights of Citizens and State and Local Governments
- Beyond the Fight over Social Studies Standards
- Questions About Traverse City’s Fiber Network Plans
- Cutting Hair or Working as an Athletic Trainer in Michigan May Get a Bit Easier
- No-Fault Reform Plans Will Save Drivers Money
- Mackinac Center Applauds Michigan Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms
- On Road Funding, Voters May Not Be As Dumb As You Think
- Better Pension Assumptions Protect Taxpayers
- Unnecessary Regulations Prevent People From Working
- The Problem With Government-Run Internet is the Government-Run Part
- Mackinac Center Praises Proposed Auto Insurance Reforms
- Let Them Work: Michigan Should Reciprocate All Occupational Licenses
- Road Work: Should State Prioritize ‘Horse Boobs’ or Highways?
- “Free” Community College: Still Not a Very Sound Idea
- There is Waste in Michigan’s Budget
- College Funding Plans Should Encourage Competition
- Detroit Children’s Business Fair
- How to Strike a Balance on Short-Term Rentals
- New High School Rankings Need More Context
- Dues Skimming Meets Its Demise
- Mackinac Center Applauds Federal Change Ending Dues Skimming
- Michigan Lawmakers Propose Strict Hunting and Fishing Guide Regulations
- Hike Taxes — Or Just Wait A Half Year
- Michigan Legislature Passes Bills Requiring a Criminal Conviction for Forfeiture
- Critique of CAP Report Card Fires Blanks
- Lessons from Ronald Reagan
- Wealth and Freedom are the Best Means of Protecting Species
- Criminal Justice Reforms are Next Big Measure of State Success
- Happy Tax Freedom Day, Michigan!
- Teacher Evaluations, Cryptocurrency, Hospice Painkiller Administration and More
- Local Governments Get a Raise From Property Tax Payers
- IMPACT March/April 2019
- Charter School Critique Misses the Mark
- Collective Bargaining Does Not Equality Make
- Impose Amusements Tax, Legalize Social Betting Pools, Drivers' License Renewals; More
- Sound Policy in a Time of Divided Government
- More Money for Preschool Not the Answer
- Gas Tax Hike of 45 Cents May Kill More than 22,500 Private Sector Jobs
- Database Details Michigan School Funding Trends
- Roads going for less than $2.5 billion
- Right-to-Work Means Right-to-Freedom
- Say No to Business Subsidies
- Michigan AG Withdraws State From Challenge to Federal Wetlands Rule
- How States Can Support Federal Reforms for Cross-state Health Insurance Sales
- Sunny With a Chance of Apocalypse
- People Are Leaving the Nation’s Largest Unions After Janus Case
- Call to Roll Back Third-Grade Reading Law Misguided
- Michigan Needs Collective Bargaining Transparency
- Education Scholarship Proposal Would Open Doors For Parents, Schoolchildren
- How to Put an End to Corporate Welfare
- Another Day, Another Union Scandal
- Multilateral Disarmament: A State Compact to End Corporate Welfare
- Michigan Grew Most When Business Subsidies Were Illegal
- Unions Lose Again Fighting Against Teacher Rights
- The Increasing Importance of Natural Gas
- Time for a Full and Independent Review of Climate Science
- Civil Asset Forfeiture in Michigan: The Case for Reform and How to Get it
- New Legislature Takes Another Swing at Criminal Justice Reform
- Proposed Cyberschool Cut Doesn't Add Up
- The American Labor Movement Should Embrace Free Association
- Fuel Tax Funds Will Be Diverted
- Mackinac Center Vice President Named Among Crain’s ‘Notable Women’
- Revenue Growth Makes Road Funding Easier
- More Money for Preschool Not the Answer
- Ending the Skimming of Union Dues from Federal Child Care Funds
- Get Rid of the Teacher Licensing Exam
- Detroit Charter Opening Doors of Opportunity
- Gas Tax Hike of 45 Cents May Kill More than 22,500 Private Sector Jobs
- New Policymakers May Revisit Pension Tax
- Mix One Part Green New Deal With One Part Polar Vortex
- Michigan School Funding Situation Better than MSU Study Portrays
- Union Membership Continues to Drop Nationwide
- Cigarette Tax Hike of 75 Percent Will Create Great Lake of Smuggled Smokes
- Ideas for Funding Roads: For Today and For Tomorrow
- Mackinac Center Releases 2019 Policy Recommendations
- A Primer on Michigan's Criminal Justice System
- How Criminal Justice Works in Michigan
- Mackinac Center Launches Workers for Opportunity
- Eau Claire High School Makes Steady Climb
- Mackinac Center Policy Expert Recommendations 2019
- It is a Waste of Money to Give More Tax Dollars to State Universities
- State Licensing Didn’t Stop Funeral Home Horror Shows
- Forfeiture Laws Take Aim at Major Drug Dealers But Hit Poor Most Often
- Questions for Appropriators
- Don’t Confuse Cold Weather Snap for Climate Change
- Supreme Court: Constitution’s ‘Excessive Fines’ Clause Can Apply to Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Business Subsidies Are Bad All Over
- Governor's Executive Order Rebuffed; Require Conviction for Forfeiture
- Saving Money for Michigan Workers
- State of the System
- Gov. Whitmer Calls for Six Expansions of Government in First ‘State of the State’ Address
- Economic Freedom: What it is and Why it Matters
- Pension Tax Affected 8 Percent Of All Taxpayers
- Union Membership Continues to Drop Nationwide
- Mackinac Center Ranked Among Top 5 Percent of U.S. Think Tanks
- Michigan’s Democratic Governor Pushes Special Corporate Tax Break
- Environmental Regulation Boards; Asset Forfeiture Reform
- Dead Last In Payments to Local Governments And Everything Else
- Mich. Tax Bureaucrats Burden Small Business
- The Free-Market Case for a Clean Slate
- How Much to Tax is Different From How to Spend
- Six More Ideas for Savings in the State Budget
- Even After Right-to-Work, Unions Still Big Political Spenders in Michigan
- Corporate Subsidy Money to Roads; Service Animal Tax Deductions; Confidential Addresses and More
- Get Used to It
- Justice in a Free Society
- Auditor General Report Questions Michigan Strategic Fund and MBDP Jobs Program
- New Regulations May Not be Enough to Save Coal Industry
- Criticism of Center Smuggling Scholarship Unfounded
- MSU Report Distorts School Funding Picture
- Taxing the Poor to Pay for Your Electric Car
- Report Cards on Schools Engage Parents in Education Reform
- Michigan Scraps Its Painters License
- Compulsory Kindergarten; Sanctuary Cities; Aretha Franklin Highway and More
- Five Reasons To End the Michigan Economic Development Corporation
- Six More Ideas for Savings in the State Budget
- School Safety is a Top Concern for Parents
- Civil Asset Forfeiture Law Needs Reform
- Michigan Parents Need School Options
- National School Choice Week
- IMPACT January/February 2019
- Economic Freedom Means Economic Growth
- John Bogle, Hero to the Little Guy Investor, Passes Away
- New Business Subsidies Authorized in Michigan
- State’s Report Card Law Helps Parents Evaluate Schools
- How Right-to-Work Affected Michigan’s State Employee Unions
- More Budget Reform Ideas for 2019
- Michigan Charter Schools Turn 25
- Even After Right-to-Work, Unions Still Big Political Spenders in Michigan
- Think corporate welfare isn’t a waste? Read these studies
- New Report Card Ranks Michigan’s High Schools
- The 2018 Michigan Public High School Context and Performance Report Card
- Mackinac Center Opens New Lansing Capital Office
- Michigan Can Continue to Thrive in 2019
- Airline Employees Sue Union for Same Constitutional Protection as Public Employees
- A Policy Guide to Fiscal Responsibility in Michigan
- A Policy Guide to Energy Choice in Michigan
- A Policy Guide to Union Recertification in Michigan
- Michigan Courts Should Revisit Shaky Legal Ground of Corporate Handouts
- 2019 State Budget: Cut Corporate Welfare for Roads and Economic Growth
- School Employees Dump Michigan Education Association in Droves
- Once a Leader, Michigan Now Falling Behind in Licensing Reform
- Still a Long Way To Go for Detroit
- Restricting Homeschool Freedom Won't Make Children Safer
- Gov. Snyder Punts on Play to Protect Michiganders’ Constitutional Liberties