The Wall Street Journal
Michigan’s Gender Studies Secret
“The Mackinac Center’s interest is in transparency that ‘affords parents the opportunity to understand what their children are learning, and to fully engage with local government officials about these lessons.’ The FOIA sought access to student assignments and reading for the class as well as lesson plans and other materials prepared by the teacher.”
The Editorial Board
National Review
Michigan’s Right-to-Work Law Is Popular. Democrats May Try to Repeal It Anyway
“Still more might simply believe their union is not providing services that justify the costs of their dues. Regardless of their individual reasons, forcing these workers to support a union shows a clear disregard for their right to free association.”
Steve Delie, Director of Labor Policy, and Michael LaFaive, Senior Director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative
The Detroit News
Lansing must tackle these five issues to serve the people of Michigan
“None of these issues are particularly partisan, and there is a chance for bipartisan legislation on all of them. Their main feature is that some groups benefit from the policies and fight hard to keep them.”
James M. Hohman, Director of Fiscal Policy
Midland Daily News
Natural Gas is fueling jobs, wage growth, and a greener America
“American oil and natural gas are among the cleanest and most efficiently produced hydrocarbon resources in the world. Russian production has higher levels of both fugitive methane and CO2 emissions.”
Dr. Timothy G. Nash is Director of the McNair Center at Northwood University. Jason Hayes is the Mackinac Center’s Director of Environmental Policy
Chalkbeat
Michigan seeks $10K fee for access to data on districts’ COVID aid spending plans
“‘It is bizarre that the Michigan Department of Education could provide similar documents very quickly a few months ago but cannot do so now,’ Skorup said. ‘These are documents or data filled out by school districts and sent to the state. It seems like they should … be compiling this information in a spreadsheet.’”
Koby Levin, reporter at Chalkbeat Detroit
Fox & Friends
MI Gov faces backlash over electric vehicle push
Michigan Capitol Confidential Managing Editor James David Dickson on Fox and Friends