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- Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: How To Use Data to Inform Good Public Policy
- Planning for Life Workshop
- How to Get Michigan Growing Again
- How to Get Michigan Growing Again
- How to Get Michigan Growing Again
- How to Get Michigan Growing Again
- Planning for Life Workshop
- Advancement Internship
- Accounting Assistant
- Private property rights are more important than ‘local control’
- Policy Recommendations 2024
- Assistant Director of Advancement
- Climate panic is an old wine in a new bottle
- Landmark Ruling Ends Judicial Deference to Bureaucrats
- N.Y. report shows why Michigan’s top-down Covid response went wrong
- Happy Janusversary!
- Minimum wage mandates are bad for the economy
- Is it a government or a business?
- Planning for Life Workshop
- Film credits, SOAR earmarks wrong for Michigan
- Ask questions when job promises disappear
- Michigan's electricity forecast looks grim
- IMPACT May/June 2024
- House Budget jeopardizes quality preschool
- President’s Council Luncheon featuring
Joseph G. Lehman and David Bahnsen
- ‘If the Soviets hate this Milton Friedman guy then he must be good’
- Attorney General Nessel Smears Fossil Fuel Companies
- Michigan House Should Protect Teacher Pensions
- Scientific American takes aim at homeschoolers
- Business subsidy bill would set new records
- State economic rankings suggest Michigan’s path to improvement
- Michigan can learn about sustainable budgeting from other states
- Smuggled smokes will maul Maryland
- The growth of environmental anti-humanism
- State’s Lawsuit Against Amazon a Bad Deal for Customers
- Michigan’s Lawsuit Against Amazon Fails Econ 101
- What should have been on the agenda at Mackinac Island
- Whitmer’s efforts to ‘lower costs’ make us all poorer
- Stop the Hollywood handouts
- ‘In the past three years, we’ve made more advancements on school choice than in the preceding three decades’
- ‘Equal’ treatment of schools masks a double standard
- There is a disconnect between economic development programs and economic growth
- ‘We’re not experts,’ says state agency given authority over placements of wind and solar energy installations
- The roots of environmental anti-humanism
- Fossil fuel closures will hollow out the grid
- Rerun on film subsidies remains ineffective, expensive
- How can we fix Michigan colleges?
- The Difference One Can Make (Monograph)
- Suggestions for Michigan’s licensing agency
- ‘If we got to Mach 3, 4, 5…then trillions of dollars could get unlocked’
- Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy
- Examine families when deciding how to grow Michigan's population
- Congressional Testimony Exposes Union Tactics to Undermine Elections
- Michigan’s data privacy proposal is filled with problems
- Lansing bets on a tax hike
- Transform schools with NFL-inspired teacher selection
- Education Revolution: How an Army of Parents and Lawmakers are Reforming Schools
- Challenge to Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme Halted at 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
- Michigan Disconnect: One-third of eligible students already covered
- Cyber schools should get equal funding
- Taxpayers soaked to the last drop
- Has the Ivory Tower Lost its Luster? Rethinking Higher Education in Michigan
- ‘There’s so much we can learn from polls’
- How much pork will be in the upcoming state budget?
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center
- Unions must represent all covered workers, even nonmembers, Michigan Supreme Court rules
- Physical therapy licensure compact is good. Universal recognition would be better
- Return of union dues skim threatens home health workers
- Proof that wind and solar are disasters, not the energy America really needs
- From crisis to choice: A modern history of education reform in America
- AI could make FOIA obsolete
- College sports’ march toward unionized madness
- Lessons from COVID-19 school relief spending
- Taking an inventory of my tax bill
- Bernie Sanders’ 32-hour work week hypocrisy
- ‘There’s a wide-open Overton Window, and a lot of people have ideas’
- Supreme Court should take up Michigan school choice case
- House Republicans propose bills to limit corporate welfare
- Michigan’s Film Incentive Program Doesn’t Need a Sequel
- State takes aim at charter schools
- Why doesn’t Michigan measure up?
- Naked Favoritism
- IMPACT March/April 2024
- Michigan needs a sustainable budget to unleash prosperity
- NorthGate: A case study in political development
- Mackinac Center Hosts Showing of “One Life,” a Film About the Inspirational Sir Nicholas Winton
- Are poor urban districts really underfunded?
- It’s Time To Work: State Licensing Reforms Michigan Should Consider
- New Report Shows How Michigan Schools Spent COVID Funds
- Covid Cash
- The realpolitik of state business subsidies
- ‘If you can make them laugh, they’ll remember things’
- State Board of Education Resolution Would Strangle School Choice in Michigan
- "It's the Economy, Stupid": Insights and Perspectives
- State grant requires taxpayers to subsidize $236,000 per housing unit
- It’s time for Michigan to demand educational opportunity
- Don't separate teacher effectiveness from student achievement
- Mackinac Center Appeals Anti-School Choice Ruling to U.S. Supreme Court
- Court’s Decision Endangers Freedom of Information Act
- Health scare stories rarely add up
- ‘The only way you’re going to get involved is by being involved’
- Restarting Nuclear Plant a Good First Step to Right Government’s Wrongs
- Whatever became of Michigan’s population council?
- Naked favoritism is becoming Michigan’s economic strategy
- Mackinac Center Appeals Flawed Income Tax Ruling
- Happy fourth anniversary, COVID lockdown!
- The man who wrestled global hunger to the ground
- Michigan Could Soon See an Increased Cigarette Smuggling Rate
- Michigan climate policies only help utility giants
- Grading the Grid
- Grading the Grid: Natural Gas and Nuclear Top List of Reliable and Affordable Energy Sources
- Summer Internships Every Year
- Six charts to change your mind about Michigan
- Lawmakers Should Adopt a Sustainable Budget
- Michigan’s budget isn’t sustainable…Yet
- Michigan’s lawless corporate welfare
- ‘Basically it was a free market wish list’
- Proposed tax hike and flavor prohibition recipe for lawlessness
- Pension debt payments save taxpayers on the state’s largest creditors
- New Report Shows School Districts Should Thoroughly Review Existing Union Contracts
- Free community college will cost taxpayers — and hurt students
- Fiscal policy favoritism hurts everyone
- Michigan Taxpayers Denied Permanent Tax Cut
- The Tables Have Turned
- Michigan housing reform: It’s all about supply
- How you tax is almost as important as how much you tax
- The last thing Michigan needs is rent control for mobile home parks
- ‘It’s a policy shift but also a cultural shift’
- Don’t redirect pension funds
- Confound it all with the same old business subsidies
- Whitmer’s PreK for All Plan is wasteful, unnecessary, unfair
- House Bill 5025 does not fix any problems, creates new ones
- Michigan’s renewable energy report card
- If you seek a pleasant peninsula, U-Haul will take you to Florida
- In Detroit schools, nothing succeeds like failure
- IMPACT January/February 2024
- Big Labor’s death knell in Michigan
- Failed subsidy idea gets new hearing anyway
- Prevailing Wage is Poor Economic Policy
- Don’t redirect pension funds
- Despite Right-to-Work Repeal in Michigan, Union Workers Still Have Rights
- Economic Development Deals Should Have Greater Accountability
- Whitmer’s PreK for All Plan is wasteful, unnecessary, unfair
- Super-seniors won’t fix Michigan’s population problem
- Governor pushes for ‘free’ community college, but current results are abysmal
- ‘This is the unholy intersection of Hollywood and politics’
- Confound it all with the same old business subsidies
- Michigan Legislature Should Support Greater Government Transparency
- FOIA Reforms A Good Start, But Can Go Further
- Michigan needs statewide zoning reform to bring down housing costs
- Testimony on House Bill 4907 and 4908
- Michigan earns dishonorable mention for broadband funding plan
- Mackinac Center Announces 2024 Policy Priorities
- Mackinac Center updates business subsidy scorecard
- Governments cite debunked ALICE study to justify welfare spending
- Michigan Supreme Court Orders Expedited Decision on Income Tax Challenge
- Bring back the public benefit
- Michigan population council says out with the old and…in with the old
- How will a Michigan homeschool registry make students safer?
- Michigan students need options
- How will a Michigan homeschool registry make students safer?
- Michigan’s grand plan for blackouts and massive utility bills
- ‘The dealers are protecting themselves, not protecting consumers’
- Governor Seeks Money for Nothing in State of the State Address
- “Good Jobs” Program Produced No Jobs for Michigan
- Michigan’s government has not earned your money
- Michigan Supreme Court Should Hear Challenge to $714 Million a Year Tax Hike
- Michigan deserves the 3.9% income tax rate
- National School Choice Week
- The mirage that’s driving mass transit expansion
- Hawaii offers a case study on the inadequacies of wind and solar
- Growing Michigan Together’s report highlights licensing and immigration reform
- Biden subsidizes Carmageddon
- Bring back the public benefit
- ‘There’s no good outcome here’
- Alaska’s fight for worker rights
- Michigan makes list of ‘Anti-Free Speech’ states
- Promise Zones fall short of their promise
- Membership plunges again for Michigan and national teachers unions
- Michigan population council says out with the old and…in with the old