Diane S. Katz [Mackinac Center]

Diane S. Katz is an adjunct scholar for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, formerly serving as director of science, environment and technology policy from 2002 to 2008. Prior to joining the Center, Katz served for nine years as a member of The Detroit News editorial board, specializing in science and the environment, telecommunications and technology, and the auto industry. Her work has won numerous awards, including top honors from the Michigan Press Association in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998.

Using Taxes to Lobby for Taxes

Published on May 5, 2009 – Michigan Capitol Confidential

The High Cost of Government Regulation

Published on May 29, 2008

Michigan Doesn’t Need More Electricity Regulation

Published on May 21, 2008

Proposals to Suppress Competition in Electricity and Mandate Renewable Energy Use Would Raise Prices Without Improving Service or Environment

Published on May 16, 2008 – News Release

Bad Science Fuels Environmental Policies

The obvious disconnect between environmental policy and science is hardly surprising given the political pressure to act on climate change. … more

Published on March 3, 2008 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Understanding Public Opinion Surveys

Published on Feb. 18, 2008 – MichiganScience

Stemming the Debate

Published on Feb. 18, 2008 – MichiganScience

A Flawed Argument for Higher State Taxes

Published on Feb. 1, 2008

Weight of the Evidence

Published on Nov. 13, 2007 – MichiganScience

Michigan’s Deer Herd Flourishes While Hunters’ Numbers Decline

Published on Nov. 13, 2007 – MichiganScience

State Government Wants to Subsidize a Theme Park in Grayling Township

Published on Oct. 4, 2007 – Michigan Capitol Confidential

The Not So Good Life

By the standards of the last century, air quality today is excellent — notwithstanding the claims of environmental activists. … more

Published on Sept. 4, 2007 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

The Fluorescent Revolution

Published on Aug. 8, 2007 – MichiganScience

Reach Out and Tax Someone

Published on Aug. 3, 2007

Court Ignored Sound Science in Carbon Dioxide Ruling

Consensus is actually antithetical to the proper conduct of scientific inquiry. … more

Published on May 7, 2007 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Supreme Science?

Published on April 12, 2007

Taken For a Ride

It bears noting that any park or other amusement facility that must rely on tax dollars, rather than private investment, is by definition not viable and thus unworthy of taxpayer support. … more

Published on April 9, 2007 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Taken For a Ride

Published on March 12, 2007

Using Taxes To Lobby for Taxes

Published on Feb. 2, 2007

Great Lakes, Great Conundrum

Published on Jan. 31, 2007 – MichiganScience

Internet Policy Strictly a Federal Prerogative

Published on Dec. 5, 2006

The Trade-Offs of Renewable Energy

Published on Nov. 15, 2006 – MichiganScience

Understanding Public Opinion Surveys (short version)

Published on Oct. 23, 2006

Environmental Doomsayers Can Breathe Easy

This welcome news is yet another reminder that prognosticators of eco-catastrophe are off the mark. … more

Published on Oct. 5, 2006 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Ending Cable Monopolies Would Benefit Consumers

Published on Oct. 5, 2006

Katz Roils Waters at U.S. Senate

Published on July 17, 2006

Network Neutrality Bills

Published on June 29, 2006

Congress Seizes on Net Neutrality

Published on June 29, 2006

The State of the Great Lakes

Published on May 12, 2006

An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy (Viewpoint on Public Issues)

There is an alternative to embracing Green Orthodoxy. Few states or school districts have actually evaluated the veracity and impartiality of environmental curricula. … more

Published on April 3, 2006 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy

Published on April 3, 2006

Testimony of Diane Katz Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

Published on March 17, 2006

Government Broadband: Unnecessary and Unfair

More often than not, municipal broadband ventures have saddled taxpayers with unwelcome debt or otherwise failed to deliver promised results. … more

Published on Feb. 6, 2006 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Government Broadband Unnecessary, Improper

Published on Jan. 16, 2006 – Michigan Privatization Report

Cable Franchises Raise Rates and Lower Quality

Published on Dec. 13, 2005

Telecom Policy Staff

Published on Nov. 14, 2005

Telecom Reform: The Right Call for Michigan

Published on Oct. 18, 2005

A Wisconsin Telecommunications Policy Primer

A guide to understanding telecommunications law and regulation in Wisconsin and the United States. … more

Published on Oct. 6, 2005

The Michigan Legislature Should Finish Deregulating Telecom

Published on Sept. 8, 2005

Supreme Court Ruling Shows Telecom Regulation Should Be Abolished

The ruling’s outcome is all well and good. Yet the FCC’s distinction between “telecommunications services” and “information services” is, in fact, imprecise and arbitrary — a regulatory invention that has no place in today’s telecommunications market. … more

Published on Aug. 1, 2005 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

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By Diane S. Katz