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Iceberg Ahead: Unions May Play Right-to-Work Off on Teachers

By Michael Van Beek, published on Jan. 8, 2013

WingsWorld

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Jan. 8, 2013

Government ‘Authorities’ Run Amok

By Jack McHugh, published on Jan. 8, 2013

State Budget Issues Big and Small

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Dec. 3, 2012

Stealth Unionization: The Walking Dead

By Derk Wilcox, published on Dec. 3, 2012

Why Michigan Needs a Right-to-Work Law

By F. Vincent Vernuccio, published on Dec. 3, 2012

Why Statewide Education Policy Is Limited

By Audrey Spalding, published on Nov. 5, 2012

Real Merit Pay for Michigan Teachers

By Michael Van Beek, published on Nov. 5, 2012

Shouldn’t Enhancing Your Neighborhood Be Up to You?

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Nov. 5, 2012

$1.6 Billion in Savings Lost Under Prop 2

By James M. Hohman and F. Vincent Vernuccio, published on Oct. 8, 2012

Prop 2 May Put FOIA on Ice for Media, Others

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Oct. 8, 2012

What the Emergency Manager Referendum is About

By James M. Hohman, published on Oct. 8, 2012

Sorry Kids — Say Goodbye to Count Day Goodies

By Michael Van Beek, published on Sept. 3, 2012

Tax Limitation Amendment May Greet Voters in November

By Michael D. LaFaive and Ethan Davis, published on Sept. 3, 2012

School Support Services Contracting Increases to 61 Percent of Districts

By James M. Hohman and Josiah Kollmeyer, published on Sept. 3, 2012

Ballot Proposal Would Exploit Disabled Medicaid Recipients for Union’s Political Agenda

By Michael Jahr, published on Aug. 6, 2012

Emergency Managers: A Distasteful Necessity

By F. Vincent Vernuccio, published on Aug. 6, 2012

‘Protect Our Jobs’ Would Make Union Bosses the Most Powerful People in Michigan

By F. Vincent Vernuccio, published on Aug. 6, 2012

‘Protect Our Jobs’ Would Protect the 3 Percent at the Expense of the 97 Percent

By Joseph G. Lehman, published on July 9, 2012

Emergency Managers Fill the Role of Modern-Day Cincinnatus

By Michael Van Beek, published on July 9, 2012

The Legislature Must Fix Teacher Pensions the Right Way

By James M. Hohman, published on July 9, 2012

Million-Dollar Beer Babies

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on June 20, 2012

Public-Private Education Partnership: Unlikely Consensus, Promising Result

By Thomas A. Shull, published on June 6, 2012

Constitutional Pension Reform, 50 Years On

By Patrick J. Wright and Thomas A. Shull, published on June 6, 2012

State Lawmakers Invite a Local Emergency Manager by Disregarding Michigan’s History

By Michael D. LaFaive and Thomas A. Shull, published on June 6, 2012

Detroit Consent Agreement: Another Kick of the Can?

By David L. Littmann, published on May 7, 2012

The Public School Pension Fund’s Problem Is Not Charter Schools

By James M. Hohman, published on May 7, 2012

Making the Whole Class Flip: The Online Learning Revolution

By Michael Van Beek, published on May 7, 2012

Collective Bargaining Initiative Is About Power, Not Rights

By Patrick J. Wright and Thomas A. Shull, published on April 9, 2012

Close the State School Employee Pension Fund

By James M. Hohman, published on April 9, 2012

Reform Needed to Curb Rising School District Debt Levels

By Michael Van Beek, published on April 9, 2012

Time to Scotch Michigan’s Wholesale Alcohol Monopolies

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on March 5, 2012

Nation’s Highest Gas Tax Coming to Michigan?

By Jack McHugh, published on March 5, 2012

Michigan Senate Should Help End Illegal Unionization

By Anne Schieber and Thomas A. Shull, published on March 5, 2012

Research Shows Right-to-Work Laws the Right Way to Go

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Feb. 6, 2012

State Behind on School Employee Pension Reform

By James M. Hohman, published on Feb. 6, 2012

How Corporate Welfare Hurts People

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Feb. 6, 2012

What a Right-to-Work Law Will Mean for Indiana — and Michigan

By Paul Kersey, published on Jan. 9, 2012

Schools Should Fund Learning, Not Insurance Companies

By Michael Van Beek and Kyle A. Jackson, published on Jan. 9, 2012

The Puzzling Differences Between Michigan and Indiana in This Recession

By Dr. Michael J. Hicks and Kevin Kuhlman, published on Jan. 9, 2012

State Alcohol Control Law Expensive, Unfair, Ineffective

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Jan. 9, 2012

State of the State: How to Move Michigan Forward

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Dec. 5, 2011

Eight Ideas for Reforming Alcohol Control in Michigan

By Michael D. LaFaive, published on Dec. 5, 2011

Gov. Snyder’s BMI Reporting Mandate Violates Doctors’ Hippocratic Oath

By Dr. Megan Edison , published on Dec. 5, 2011

Do We Really Need a Unionized State Government?

By Paul Kersey and James M. Hohman, published on Nov. 7, 2011

Government Employee Union Contract Database Now Available

By Paul Kersey, published on Nov. 7, 2011

Present Day Prohibition

By Michelle Minton, published on Nov. 7, 2011

Liquored Up: Michigan Government Should Exit Its Liquor Wholesale Business

By Michael D. LaFaive and Todd Nesbit, Ph.D., published on Oct. 3, 2011

Michigan Should Lower Its Renewable Portfolio Standard Requirements to Zero

By Daniel Hager, published on Oct. 3, 2011

Michigan $1 Billion Closer to ‘Benefits in Balance’

By James M. Hohman, published on Oct. 3, 2011