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Recommendations

… bureaucratic overlap in providing city permits, inspections, and billing. In addition, the city also must curtail onerous building and zoning codes and licensing restrictions. In Detroit, investors run into a wall of fear over industrial pollution when they attempt to expand business and jobs. As is the unfortunate …

An Agenda for 1993

… productive activity. Accordingly, all department directors should be instructed to search for any and all instances where needless or overly burdensome licensing requirements act as barriers to individual and business enterprise. A statewide conference of small businesspeople should be called to solicit instances …

Chapter XI: Managing the Michigan Solid Waste Stream: Markets or Mandates?

General Summary and Conclusions

… dumped in landfills or incinerators. State solid waste budgets can include administrative expenses, waste facility inspection, remedial actions, licensing and permitting, litter collection, and educational programs. What funds collected from imposition of a statewide tax on waste disposal should not …

Fiscal Policy in Michigan

… balance the budget. So many requests poured in that we decided to update our original study and add several ideas, including selling off "racino" licenses and redirecting tobacco settlement revenue to the general fund. We also authored more press releases, posted 12 Current Comments, and conducted scores …

MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 28, 2006

… according to The Daily. The district, which does not participate in "schools of choice," will require parents to give proof of address with a driver's license, a utility bill, a property affidavit or a mortgage payment book. The district sent 3,200 letters to students' homes to notify parents that registration …

It Shouldn’t Be Hard To Be Humble

… bigger or better, or more self-righteous, or somehow immune from the rules that govern others — the absence of humility, in other words, gave you license to do unto others what you would never allow them to do unto you. These days, however, it's a different story. Being humble rubs against what millions …

Michigan Privatization Digest - May 4, 2009

… vendors, including one of its own employees. The employee's bid was the lowest of the three, but she did not have a Certified Public Accountant's license, which was a requirement of the bid, according to The News. The county also voted to end its general accounting office at its Feb. 25 meeting. References: …

Detailed Analysis of Mona Shores' Teacher Contract

… Individualized Education Plan meetings after school hours: $21 per meeting The district will reimburse the renewal fee for their state of Michigan licensing and all other state-required certifications. Summer employment: Instructional planning: $30/hour Curriculum projects: $120/day Teacher Mentoring: …

Detailed Analysis of Forest Hills' Teacher Contract

… coordinator: $1,532 K-6 teacher in charge: $1,149 K-12 department chairs: $1,915 The district will reimburse up to $160 for required certification or license. Tuition reimbursement for Master's degree: $1,000 per course for up to 4 courses per year Teaching overloads (more than 1.0 FTE): $7,664 Class size …

Should Michigan Create a Health Insurance Exchange?

… Virginians purchase health insurance across state lines, is to let clinicians licensed by other states practice in Virginia under the terms of their license but subject to Virginia’s malpractice laws. Reforms such as these would spur the growth of retail clinics and other innovations that bring quality …

Seven Principles of Sound Energy Policy

… nuclear plants can operate for 50 to 70 years. In fact, the Turkey Point nuclear plant, operated by Florida Power and Light has had its operating license extended to 80 years. We often hear about the rapid growth of renewable energy. But we should remember that these options have been available for …

Section 2: MCL § 15.232 – Definitions.

… result. Software does not include computer-stored information or data, or a field name if disclosure of that field name does not violate a software license. (r) “Technical infraction” means a minor rule violation by a law enforcement officer or agent, related solely to the enforcement of administrative …

MCLF Defends Home-Based Day Care Workers

… assist the Department in carrying out its duties and functions, including licensing, regulating, assisting, providing training for, and administering the … her own business — Wonder Care — in Brighton for nearly 13 years, with a license to care for 12 children. The setting is pastoral, with horses nearby and …

Endnotes

… https://perma.cc/62GL-K7JK. 71 Janna E. Johnson and Morris M. Kleiner, "Is occupational licensing a barrier to interstate migration?" (American Economic Journal: Economic … 347-373. 72 Thomas J. Cooke, Mark Ellis and Richard Wright, "Occupational licensing and interstate migration in the United States" (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, …

Cumulative Weekly Roll Call Reports 2013

… to increase the annual vehicle registration (license plate) tax by approximately 80 percent, with comparable … January 9, 2013, to authorize a new specialty license plate, with the profits delivered to a government-funded … that state databases containing information on licenses issued to individuals to purchase, carry, possess, …

The Making of Michigan

Lynne Deur and Sara Michel

… Groseilliers, who explored Lake Superior up to Hudson’s Bay. As Deur and Michel point out, Radisson and Groseilliers "were not forgiven for trading without a license. French officials fined the pair and ignored their stories of Hudson’s Bay. The two angry traders later went to Europe and convinced businessmen from …

Dollars and Sense: An Introduction to Economics

… explains that many cities have created climates that are very hostile to enterprise through high taxes, zoning, burdensome regulations, occupational licenses, and poor services. Criterion 5: The Role of Government McCarty’s book does not have a section specifically devoted to the role of government in …

Taking Measures

… disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result. Fortunately, the …

The Law of Eminent Domain

… disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result."[25] Justice Clarence …

Mona Shores Teacher Contract Summary

… Individualized Education Plan meetings after school hours: $21 per meeting The district will reimburse the renewal fee for their state of Michigan licensing and all other state-required certifications. Summer employment: Instructional planning: $30/hour Curriculum projects: $120/day Teacher Mentoring: …

Rescuing "The Motor City"

… Contract out for garbage collection. Savings: $6.4 million annually. Privatize inspections for mechanical, electrical, plumbing or building permits and licenses. We estimated in 2000 that the possible savings for privatizing these positions could top $5.1 million. Sell Bell Isle: $370 million in one-time …

$2.1 Billion in Michigan Budget Reforms

… program: $1.1 million. Migrants found and occupied their own housing without state government interference long before the state began inspecting and licensing such units in 1978. The figure above is an estimate of the 2015 General Fund portion of the gross appropriation. The Mackinac Center first recommended …

Literature Review

… living rises, net in-migration falls.[48] Titled “An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of the Three Labor Market Freedom Indices and Occupational Licensing on Interstate Living-Cost Differentials,” the study finds that the cost of living index for U.S. states is negatively associated with all three variables …

Notes and References

… and noting that banks play a role in spreading the drug traces when tellers count money, rubbing bills against one another). Leonard W. Levy, A License to Steal: The Forfeiture of Property 136 (1996). Drug Laws Work Against Innocent, Detroit News, Oct. 24, 1989. Id. U.S. v. $13,715.00, 736 F.Supp. …

Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy

Remarks before the Economic Club of Detroit

… people. It may be true, as British economist John Maynard Keynes once declared, that "in the long run, we’re all dead." But that shouldn’t be a license to enact policies that make a few people feel good now at the cost of hurting many people tomorrow. I can think of many such policies. When Lyndon …

The Future of the Unified Bar

… Monopoly: A Constitutional and Empirical Analysis of Unauthorized Practice Prohibitions, 34 Stan L Rev 1 (1981); Gelhorn, the Abuse of Occupational Licensing, 44 U Chi L Rev 6 (1976). 66 State Bar of Michigan Statement of Revenues and Expenses, Mich B J, June 1993 at 618. 67 Dennis L. Ramey, Association …

Tributes to Stephen P. Dresch

… Freelance Writer Formerly with the Hartford Courant Waiting in line at the Mackinac Bridge tollbooth last summer, my wife and I noticed that the license plate on the car in front read, "Holy Hug." At the booth the attendant told us, "You're paid for – the car in front paid your toll." "Wow," we thought, …

Michigan Law

… in the present case was no doubt shaped by Poletown’s disregard for constitutional limits on the exercise of the power of eminent domain and the license that opinion appeared to grant to state and local authorities. Nevertheless, there is no reason to depart from the usual practice of applying our …

II. Unions Should Only Charge Fees Related to Statutory Duties

… and recite the Pledge of Allegiance); Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977) (holding that a resident of the state of New Hampshire could obtain a license plate that did not include the state’s motto of "Live Free or Die"); Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises, 471 U.S. 539, 559 (1985) …

Endnotes

… McElhaney, “The Lesser Prairie-Chicken: Gone With the Wind?,” The Revelator (Center for Biological Diversity, Nov. 6, 2017), https://perma.cc/LK62-SFW7; “License to Kill: Wind and Solar Decimate Birds and Bats” (Institute for Energy Research, 2015), https://perma.cc/96ED-SJ88. 74 K. Shawn Smallwood, “Comparing …

Medicaid Reform Around the States: The Good the Bad and the Ugly

… to do to them? In some states they are going to take away your driver’s license so they’ll just drive without a license. Other states they’ll say oh, we’ll have a penalty. In Massachusetts they …

Endnotes

… further details, see Danzon and Harrington, note 63 supra, and the other references listed in note 80 supra. Several authors have argued that state licensing rules and minimum capital and surplus requirements are unlikely to constitute a significant entry barrier (e.g., Klein, note 80 supra). Regulatory …

Michigan lags behind some states

Alternative teacher certification

… teacher certificaiton because I did not have enough information. Generally MEA has not been impressed with efforts to short-circuit the route to license teachers, because they do not provide an adequate balance between subject mastery and pedagogy. One must know the subject AND be able to convey to …

News Coverage (Hundreds of items)

… Column: Early budget settlement boosts Granholm's credibility Booth Newspapers, July 18, 2003 State budget approval carries price tags; trailer license fees increase fourfold Booth Newspapers/AP, July 17, 2003 Adult education advocates say drastic cuts bad for students Booth Newspapers/AP, July …

Obamacare: "Final Report of Stakeholder Work Group Recommendations"

Text of Michigan Department of Community Health Document

… should be one piece of the financing strategy to support the ongoing operation of the Exchange. B. The Exchange shall publish the average costs of licensing, regulatory fees and any other payments required by the Exchange, the administrative costs of the Exchange, and its audited financial statements …