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- Natural gas: A wellspring for the US and global energy future
- Gretchen Whitmer’s auto job race to the bottom
- Green energy policies create shortages, high prices
- Democrats make right-to-work repeal a 2023 priority
- Florida labor reforms have not strengthened unions
- Don’t panic over ‘forever’ chemicals
- Teachers Not Subject to Freedom of Information Act, Court Rules
- ‘What we have now is a system that’s run by politicians, and it works poorly’
- Michigan voters reject repeal of right-to-work law
- Green Energy Policies Create Shortages and High Prices
- Once More Into the Battery Breach
- Medicaid for All
- More Than 140,000 Michiganders Have Left Their Unions Since 2012
- School service contracting dipped slightly in 2022
- Producing energy takes more than Biden, supporters realize
- New Democratic majorities can help Michigan add jobs with full expensing
- IMPACT November/December 2022
- New Poll Shows Strong Support for Michigan's ‘Right-to-Work’ Law as 10th Anniversary Approaches
- Michigan adds jobs as auto employment plummets
- ‘That’s the art form and that’s what I love about it’
- Cami Pendell Joins Mackinac Center As Director of Legislative Affairs
- Secure, affordable, reliable energy: It’s what American families need
- Natural Gas is a Wellspring for Our Energy Future
- The Truth About Natural Gas
- Celebrating 10 Years of Right-to-Work in Michigan
- ‘It just shows the power of small things to make big impacts’
- Medicaid for all
- Labor market liberty: Where do Michigan cities rank?
- Whitmer Admin Still Unilaterally Wielding Emergency Powers
- It’s Time to Shake Up Higher Education
- Secrecy Enables Pork Barrel Waste
- Michigan is dead last in long-term job growth
- Once more into the battery breach
- Tennessee adds right-to-work to state constitution
- Q: Why do many people prefer Florida to California?
- Whitmer admin still unilaterally wielding emergency powers
- Michigan Parents Remember
- Michigan’s revenue growth gets spun as reduced spending
- Countering Green Ideologies
- ‘There is a misconception that elections are about convincing people on issues. ... Elections are how we keep score on issues.’
- Lessons from the Robber Barons: Monopolies and Markets
- Ohio jobs head for right-to-work states
- Michigan’s Emergency Power Laws Are Ripe For Abuse
- Curse of the masked governor
- Emergency Powers in Michigan Law
- Federal drug program is very ineffective at helping the poor
- Whitmer’s Line 5 ‘no change’ claim is a lot of gas
- Whitmer tried to raise taxes
- School board races have always been political
- For teachers, labor isn’t working
- Biden’s student debt charade ignores causes of tuition spike
- We need better unions
- Whitmer, Nessel must end Line 5 legal games
- Red state, blue state, whatever
- ‘We’re going to give every kid the option to pursue the best education possible’
- Unleash the power of the atom!
- Whitmer supported $4.5 billion in corporate subsidies
- Proposal 2 Would Further Curtail Legislative Control of Election Procedures
- Proposal 2 of 2022
- More evidence Traverse City Fiber plan is falling behind
- Midland is Number One for liberty
- Detroit’s Broadband Network Destined for Failure
- Candidates for the Legislature: Please Champion Legislation
- Macomb Mom Fights for Parents’ First Amendment Rights
- Detroit’s broadband network flunks first test
- Giving students more money won’t solve rising cost of tuition
- Making It Easier to Work: What Michigan Should Do on Occupational Licensing
- New spending bill includes half-billion-plus in business subsidies
- ABC Michigan and Mackinac Center Plan to Appeal Dismissal to Prevailing Wage Challenge
- ‘How is this policy tough on crime if they’re not charging people with crimes?’
- Jonathan Savas v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Agency
- New Report Weighs Pros and Cons of Term Limits Proposal
- An Analysis of Proposal 1 of 2022
- Secrecy enables pork barrel waste
- Fuel Efficiency Standards Aren't Worth the Costs
- The Costs and Benefits of CAFE Standards
- Want more nurses? Make it easier for nurses to work
- Michigan Families Lose Challenge to Discriminatory Blaine Amendment
- What’s the difference between school and jail?
- Michigan Mom Sues School Board After They Report Her to Feds
- Chippewa Valley Mom Fights to Restore Her First Amendment Rights
- There are two sides to corporate welfare
- Senate Passage of Emergency Power Reforms Helps Safeguard Against Misuse
- Mackinac Center Alert: Vote NO on Senate Bill 844
- ‘It’s really great to see that states are prioritizing cutting taxes instead of just growing government’
- IMPACT September/October 2022
- Indiana works with Right-to-Work
- Michigan’s Transparency Loophole
- Economic Freedom in Michigan and the United States
- Whitmer Should Get on Board With Reduced Income Tax Rate
- ‘There’s a tax break industrial complex that’s got everybody hornswoggled’
- High revenue lets Michigan spend more and reduce taxes
- Economic Freedom in Michigan and the United States
- Economic Freedom of Michigan Cities Below National Average
- Economic Freedom in the City: Ranking Michigan's Labor Markets
- Cut Taxes to Help Michigan Catch Up
- COVID Ratcheted up Federal Transfers to the State Budget
- ‘In today’s world your email address and your cell phone numbers are digital currency’
- Planning for Life Workshop
- Municipal water: Free markets can help us avoid Flint 2.0
- There are more electric car chargers than there are electric cars
- Voting Against Subsidies Isn't Killing Jobs
- EVENT CANCELLATION: Energy, Environment and Emergency Powers: An Overview of Current Issues in Michigan
- Benton Harbor Water Quality: Is Government Mismanagement Leading to a Flint Redux?
- Revamp the Way Michigan’s Publicly Funded Universities Operate
- Legislature Should Clarify Michigan’s Emergency Powers
- ‘I know this from the colorful mail I receive from readers’
- Planning for Life Workshop
- White House Preparing for Recession
- Michigan Schools Can’t Beat the Heat
- The Good News About the Budget
- Planning for Life Workshop
- No one subsidizes business like Michigan
- We Are Still Owed A Tax Cut: If Not Now, When?
- Preventing the Next Lockdown: Fixing Michigan’s Emergency Powers
- ‘There’s a lot of reasons for skepticism.’
- White House preparing for recession
- IMPACT July/August 2022
- Nuclear Wasted: Why the Cost of Nuclear Energy is Misunderstood
- Is there a way out of the energy crisis?
- ABC Michigan Fights Prevailing Wage
- ABC Michigan, Mackinac Center Challenge Governor’s Prevailing Wage Reinstatement
- Labor Unions Are Not in a ‘Resurgence’
- Preventing the Next Lockdown: Fixing Michigan’s Emergency Powers
- What we know about the Michigan Parents' Council
- Hybrid Homeschooling Gives Families More Flexibility
- Want Jobs? Stop Playing Favorites With Utilities
- A Fix for Michigan’s Emergency Powers Laws
- Michigan Schools Can’t Beat the Heat
- ‘Show the effects that bad policy has on individuals’
- Voters in Holland will decide whether to hike taxes to fund government broadband
- Preventing the Next Lockdown: Fixing Michigan’s Emergency Powers
- The good news about the budget
- Food production must remain a priority
- Hybrid Homeschooling Gives Families Across Metro-Detroit More Flexibility
- General Motors change suggests Michigan should reflect on its credential goals
- Cigarette Smuggling May Leap with National Menthol Ban
- Tobacco Product Standard for Menthol in Cigarettes and Characterizing Flavors in Cigars
- ‘It’s no different than building a network of friends’
- Supreme Court Reinvigorates Separation of Powers
- Supreme Court Curbs EPA’s Overarching Authority
- GM’s Corporate Welfare Must Be Disclosed Under Unanimous Michigan Supreme Court Opinion
- Case for Education Tax Hike Doesn’t Add Up
- Nuclear Defense: Why Nuclear Energy is Safer Than You Think (Part 2)
- New Energy Plan Will Raise Prices and Weaken Michigan’s Fragile Electricity System
- Mackinac Center in The Wall Street Journal: Electricity Blackouts are Coming to Michigan
- Tide of School Choice Support Keeps Rising
- Planning for Life Workshop
- U.S. Supreme Court Once Again Prohibits Religious Discrimination in School Choice Decision
- A Fix for Michigan’s Emergency Powers Laws
- Governor, Attorney General and Health Department to Pay Mackinac Center $200,000 in Attorneys Fees
- Nuclear Defense: Why Nuclear Energy is Safer Than You Think (Part 1)
- ‘That’s wrong. It’s morally wrong. It’s economically wrong. It’s just bad policy.’
- Mackinac’s Director of Research Testifies on Emergency Powers
- Is There Anything Global Warming Can’t Do?
- Bureaucratic Emergency Powers Should Be Curtailed
- Lawmakers Should Fix Utility Favoritism Instead of Approving More
- Intermediate School Districts Get Bigger and Richer While Students Languish
- Bureaucratic Emergency Powers Should be Curtailed
- Universal Licensing Recognition: Why Not Michigan?
- Mackinac Center in WSJ: Indiana Benefits from Becoming a Right to Work State
- WSJ Ed Board Supports Mackinac Research on Student Opportunity Scholarships
- What’s Really Unfair About School Funding?
- Michigan Must Close Asset Forfeiture Loophole
- Where Are All the Jobs?
- Poland Honors Former Mackinac Center President
- Why Do Michigan Flower Growers Need a State License?
- Getting a Fuller Picture of Education Choice
- ‘Not yet, but we’re close’
- Bright Panels, Dark Secrets: The Problem of Solar Waste
- IMPACT May/June 2022
- Replacing State Gas Tax Would Improve the Future of Michigan Roads
- Michigan's Road Forward: Replacing the Fuel Tax With Mileage-Based User Fees
- There’s Room for a Tax Cut Compromise in Michigan
- What’s Really Unfair About School Funding?
- U.S. Court of Appeals Shouldn’t Let Unions Buy Their Way Out of Litigation
- Michigan Must Close Asset Forfeiture Loophole
- Where Are All the Jobs?
- 'Transparency is for government and privacy is for people'
- Allow People to Rent Out Their Own Vehicles
- James David Dickson Joins Michigan Capitol Confidential As Managing Editor
- Michigan Doesn’t Need Its Own College ROI Calculator
- Michigan Aims to Catch Ohio, Give Families Extra Education Aid
- Why People Believe In Selective Business Subsidies
- Don’t Let Companies Rewrite Corporate Welfare Rules
- Why Are Counties Jumping Into Auto Insurance Debate?
- Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarships: Overview and Fiscal Analysis
- Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?
- Opportunity Scholarships Benefit Students Without Harming Public Schools
- Michigan Should Not Bring Back Dietitian and Nutritionist Licensing
- Nuclear Power Is the Safe, Affordable, Clean Option
- Help Families Pay for Their Own Tutors
- ‘Powers that no one had exercised before’
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center
- Roe Leak Will Do Lasting Damage to Court Independence
- Don’t Let Companies Rewrite Corporate Welfare Rules
- Why Are Counties Jumping Into Auto Insurance Debate?
- Michigan Economic Development Corporation Sued For Lack of Transparency
- Mackinac Center Sues MEDC Over Pure Michigan FOIA
- Diverting Money from Schools, Roads, and Public Safety to Perpetuate Corporate Welfare
- Gov. Whitmer Supports the Palisades Nuclear Plant
- ‘You keep grinding and grinding and grinding — it's almost like a rugby scrum —until there is that opening’
- Turn State Universities Into Nonprofit Institutions
- Whitmer’s Spending Hike Is More Unsustainable Than the Tax Cut She Vetoed
- Dragonslayers: Six Presidents and Their War With the Swamp
- Manufacturing Employment Share 20% Higher in Right-to-Work States
- Michigan Aims to Catch Ohio, Give Families Extra Education Aid
- Greater transparency is needed between parents, Michigan schools
- The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: A Spatial Analysis of Border Counties
- Michigan Is About to Lose a Big Source of Green Energy
- Congress Keeps Getting the Law of Supply and Demand Wrong
- Just What Is the President’s Role in Current Gasoline Prices?
- Give Lower-Income Families True Choices
- The Sky is Not Falling on Medical Care for Auto Injuries
- Federal Debt Is Unpopular Until You Get Elected
- Seven Principles of Free Market Environmentalism and Seven Principles of Sound Energy Policy
- Parent’s Guide Counters Green Misinformation
- Indiana Leaders Safeguard Free Speech for Teachers
- No Victor In Michigan’s Misguided War Against COVID-19
- 'These past two years in general really show you that when parents band together they can really push for change'
- The ‘most pro-union president’ ever has been a dud for workers
- Michigan Per-Pupil Revenues Soar Again
- A Parent’s Guide to Countering Green Ideologies
- The Oscar for Bad Policy
- Court Should Recognize That Unions Cannot Charge Nonmembers Grievance Fees
- Technical professional and Officeworkers Association of Michigan v. Daniel Lee Renner
- The U.S. Supreme Court Denies Challenge to State Bar Dues
- Governor Vetoes Tax Cut as State Spending Skyrockets
- Just What Is the President’s Role in Current Gasoline Prices?
- Latest Spending Bill Reflects Mackinac Coalition Guidance
- Michigan Needs to Modernize K-12 Funding
- From School Aid to Student Aid: Modernizing K-12 Funding in Michigan
- The Sky is Not Falling on Medical Care for Auto Injuries
- ‘At the start, it had nothing to do with policy, it was about us understanding the issue’
- Court to Hear Challenge to Michigan’s Discriminatory ‘Blaine Amendment’ Today
- Legislature Should Hold Line on Auto Insurance Reforms
- Medicaid Payments Should Go to Caregivers, Not to Unions
- How to Effectively Expand Internet Access in Michigan
- Whitmer Cries Wolf On Tax Cut
- Gov. Whitmer's Veto Disappointing to Families, Small Businesses
- Lehman Talks Overton
- IMPACT March/April 2022
- Give Lower-Income Families True Choices
- National Renewal and the Prescription for a Better Future
- Rhode Island Schools Must Remove Unconstitutional Anti-Janus Contract Language
- Bob Williams Passes: Champion of Freedom, Friend of Mackinac Center
- A Policy Guide to Reforming Occupational Licensing in Michigan
- A Policy Guide to Tax Cuts
- Mackinac Center Sues Rochester Community Schools for Failing to Follow FOIA law
- A Policy Guide to Healthcare
- Rochester Parent Sues District For Not Providing Curriculum Documents
- Tax Cuts Would Make Michigan’s Budget Sustainable
- Give High Schoolers More Access to Career Training Options
- Fix Roads Faster Than They Fall Apart
- A Policy Guide to Education
- Energy Policy
- A Policy Guide to Corporate Handouts
- Don’t Be Fooled by Gas Tax Kabuki
- ‘They are trying to juggle all these different values and different demands.’
- More Transparency From State Agencies Desperately Needed This Sunshine Week
- Pure Secrecy: Mackinac Sends Transparency Demand to MEDC
- Fix Roads Faster Than They Fall Apart
- Michigan Supreme Court Shouldn't Immediately Reverse Its Emergency Powers Decision
- Workers for Opportunity Helps Expand Florida Employees’ First Amendment Rights
- Tax Cuts Would Make Michigan’s Budget Sustainable
- Legislature Approves Long-Needed Tax Relief
- School Choice Mythbusting with EdChoice
- Give High Schoolers More Access to Career Training Options
- Michigan Lawmakers Should Keep An Old Promise On Taxes
- ‘People will vote for the party that does not raise their taxes.’
- Mackinac Center Applauds House Bills Cutting Income Tax and Paying Down Pension Debt
- Corporate Welfare Proposal is a Bad Deal for Taxpayers
- Part 2 - Vaccine Mandates and Liberty: Where Do We Find Scholarly Research?
- The Script Doesn’t Change: Hollywood Welfare Still Bad For Michigan
- We Are Owed a Promised Tax Cut...and They Work
- Economic Index Offers Policymakers Red Alerts
- Índice económico muestra alertas rojas a encargados de política pública
- Families Should be Able to Choose the Best Educational Fit for Their Kids
- Part 1 - Vaccine Mandates and Liberty: Where Should We Draw the Line?
- Tax Cuts Would Provide Relief for Families and Businesses
- Governor’s Budget Downgrades Charter Schools
- Mackinac Center Honors Legacy of Radio Giant Frank Beckmann
- Moving students past the 'there oughta be a law!' reflex
- Michigan Food Delivery Drivers Don’t Need New Government Mandates
- 'Remember When We Thought Cellphones Were Going to Cause Brain Cancer?'
- Members of Congress Defend Independent Workers
- General Motors Could Eliminate Jobs and Still Collect Full Taxpayer Cash Under Proposed Deal
- Flush with Cash, Flint Classrooms Finally Reopen
- Lawmakers Ought to Lower Taxes
- School Choice Week Returns as Demand for Options Soars
- Michigan’s Constitution Demands Transparency, No Matter the Wishes of Corporate Welfare Bureaucrats
- IMPACT January/February 2022
- General Motors Should Not Get SOAR Subsidies
- State Should Hold Spending Increases to Population Plus Inflation Through the Sustainable Michigan Budget
- Approve a Sustainable Michigan Budget
- Lawmakers Ought to Lower Taxes
- The Hyperbolic Debate on Taxpayer Subsidized Business Expansion
- Banning Phones While Driving, Automated Vehicle Roadways and More
- “Get Out There, Motivate Others, And Do What You Believe In”
- Teaching Students to Engage With Dissenting Views
- Governor Floats Tax Breaks in State of the State, but Misses the Bigger Picture
- Some State Schools Drop Out-of-State Tuition
- School Choice Week Returns as Demand for Options Soars
- Corporate Welfare: Fighting for Job Announcements, Not Real Jobs
- Mackinac Center Announces Policy Priorities for 2022
- Auditor General Report Shows Number of COVID-19 Deaths State Didn't Track
- Corporate Handouts: Lansing Politicians Should Care About the Science
- Governor Whitmer Wants More Corporate Handouts
- Proposed Legislation Would Have Workers Pay Their Bosses
- All Taxpayers Deserve to Soar, Not Just Politicians’ Favored Few
- Michigan’s Constitution Demands Transparency, No Matter the Wishes of Corporate Welfare Bureaucrats
- Mackinac Center Public Policy Recommendations 2022
- Michigan Severely Undercounted COVID-19 Deaths in Long-Term Care Facilities
- “Don’t Stop. Keep Talking to People. Keep Promoting the Idea.”
- Green Subsidies, Freight Trains, Gas Tax and More
- Disadvantaged Students Harmed the Most by Remote Schooling
- MDHHS FOIA Documents
- Whitmer Administration Retreats and Rages When Challenged on Policies
- Arts Tax, Balloon Ban, Carbon Credits and More
- School Districts Shut Down Classrooms Again
- Secrecy and Corporate Subsidies do not Create Jobs
- For Economic Recovery, States Should Try Economic Freedom