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  1. Michigan Privatization Digest - April 30, 2008
     
  2. Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in Grand Rapids Case Involving Privatization of School Bus Services and Public-Sector Unions
     
  3. New high school graduation requirements in action
     
  4. Michigan Education Digest Daily
     
  5. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 6, 2008
     
  6. School leader wins iPod
     
  7. Michigan’s Tax and Business Incentive Climate
     
  8. Legislative Action
    High school students could earn math credit by passing a course in “financial literacy” if a bill introduced by state Sen. Michael Switalski, D-Roseville, is adopted.
     
  9. Shedding light on teacher contracts
     
  10. As Time Goes By
    Maybe it’s time that we as taxpayers and voters query candidates for public office less on what they will do if elected and more on what they won’t do.
     
  11. MEDC Rejects Development Bird-in-the-Hand
    As long as the MEDC exists it should do one thing noticeably well to help facilitate job creation: advance right-to-work legislation.
     
  12. Free Trade a Boon to Michigan’s Ailing Economy
    The competitors who are eating Michigan’s lunch aren’t Mexico or Canada, but other states where investors and entrepreneurs enjoy lower tax rates, better labor climates and fewer excessive and unreasonable regulations.
     
  13. Students for a Free Economy Wins Fisher Award
     
  14. Show Michigan the Money
     
  15. Much to be Done
     
  16. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 29, 2008
     
  17. Issues and Ideas Forum, April 29, 2008
     
  18. Register for Michigan Education Report
     
  19. The Right-to-Work Advantage in Economic Growth: A Look at Past Performance
     
  20. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST OVERVIEW
    Michigan Education Digest is a weekly education news update offered as a service of Michigan Education Report. It is released via email. Subscriptions are free.
     
  21. T-1 Could Help Terminate Union Financial Abuse
     
  22. Michigan Transparency

    Encouraging good government by informing citizens.


     
  23. Mackinac Center’s “Show Michigan the Money” Project Prompts Michigan Department of State to Post Unprecedented Detail in Department Spending
     
  24. Paving Over the Truth
     
  25. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 22, 2008
     
  26. How to Contact Michigan Education Report
     
  27. Kudos to Macomb County
     
  28. ‘Data-driven’ in Michigan
     
  29. Ethanol May Not be as Environmentally Friendly as Some Claim
     
  30. Mackinac Center Provides School District Employee Union Contracts to Public
     
  31. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 15, 2008
     
  32. Government Golf Slices City Revenue
     
  33. Keep the Electoral College
     
  34. A Fallacious Argument Against Electricity Competition
     
  35. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Michigan Department of Transportation v. Tomkins
    On November 16, 2007, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy filed a brief of amicus curiae with the Michigan Supreme Court in the case of Michigan Department of Transportation v Tomkins. The legal dispute involves the amount of compensation a property owner should receive from state government when the state uses eminent domain to take part of the owner’s property. Specifically, the Michigan Supreme Court asked whether a state law that limits the property owner’s compensation to so-called "special-effect" damages violates the common understanding of the "just compensation" guaranteed in eminent domain cases by the Michigan Constitution.
     
  36. Legislators’ Hollywood Dreams Defy Economic Reality
     
  37. Should Home-Schoolers Beware?
     
  38. Author to Speak About Free-Market Health Care Alternatives
     
  39. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 8, 2008
     
  40. Increased Federal Jurisdiction on Michigan Wetlands a Bad Idea
     
  41. Community colleges: ‘Wait and see’ on Detroit charter schools
     
  42. State Should Adopt Health Savings Accounts
    Across Michigan, institutions such as businesses, government, nonprofit organizations and unions are or have attempted to revise the way they address skyrocketing health care costs.
     
  43. Putting the University’s Cart before the Economy’s Horse
    Clearly, if one is looking for the cause of economic growth or decline, the relative number of bachelor’s degrees in a state is a weak indicator at best..
     
  44. My Union Dues Paid For That?
    Because unionized workers in Michigan generally cannot withhold their dues without putting their jobs at risk, those employees and their dues are particularly vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse.
     
  45. New Smog Rules Unfair to Western Michigan
     
  46. Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis
     
  47. Michigan Education Digest Daily
     
  48. Privatization Review a Mixed Bag
     
  49. MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL
    A review and analysis of important state legislative policy issues that do not always receive attention from the general media. Michigan Capitol Confidential will make it easier to keep tabs on your elected representatives in Lansing.
     
  50. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 1, 2008
     
  51. Defending Liberty for Twenty Years
     
  52. Grab Bag Government
     
  53. IMPACT Spring 2008
     
  54. Personal Income Figures Show That the Michigan Slide Continues
     
  55. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 25, 2008
     
  56. Private special ed school might be forced out of building
     
  57. Mamet on the Money
     
  58. Expand the Principles of Proposal A
     
  59. The Times That Tried Men’s Economic Souls
     
  60. “20/20” Investigative Reporter John Stossel to Address Health Care at University of Michigan
     
  61. “20/20” Investigative Reporter John Stossel to Address Health Care at Central Michigan University
     
  62. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 18, 2008
     
  63. Expanding Access to Health Care — A Free Market Perspective
     
  64. School District Checkbook Register Report
     
  65. Simic Verses Lloyd
     
  66. Celebrating Sunshine Week: Mackinac Center Launches School Checkbook Transparency Project
     
  67. New State Job Loss Figures Confirm Need for Policy Reforms
     
  68. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 11, 2008
     
  69. Poetry Slam
     
  70. People Must Demand Honesty and Integrity in Their Leaders
     
  71. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 4, 2008
     
  72. 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.
     
  73. The Wizard of Oz Has No Clothes
    The answer is simple: Politicians don’t care about job creation as much as they care about the perception of it.
     
  74. Can Michigan Attract Knowledge-Based Industries?
    True reform can only come when we first secure a more rewarding business climate as the source of all new job creation.
     
  75. What Michigan Can Do to Improve its Labor Climate
     
  76. Government Education Reinvents Government
     
  77. Michigan Privatization Digest - February 29, 2008
     
  78. Michigan Education Report (2008-01)
     
  79. William F. Buckley Jr., RIP
     
  80. For Further Reading
     
  81. Who is Your Lawmaker?
     
  82. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 26, 2008
     
  83. Protecting Private Property Rights Benefits Michigan’s Economy
     
  84. Report: Biomonitoring an Important New Tool in Evaluating Health Risks
     
  85. The Opportunities and Limitations of Biomonitoring
    Remarkable advances in analytical chemistry now make it possible to measure minute levels of both natural and synthetic compounds in human tissue and body fluids. This “biomonitoring” allows researchers to determine more precisely than ever the degree to which individuals have been exposed to specific chemicals in the environment, and how exposures change over time. Consequently, federal and state officials increasingly regard biomonitoring as a potential new underpinning of environmental and public health regulations.
     
  86. Fuel Hikes Won’t Spur Public Transit
     
  87. Requiem for a Union Local
     
  88. Striking the Root

    In this volume, Lawrence W. Reed identifies the root of many of America’s evils today: a failure to recognize that government rests on the use of force. This fundamental feature of government may be a boon when used to protect our individual freedoms, but it is a bane when used to diminish these freedoms in pursuit of a political faction’s idea of a good cause.

    Although he has no radio show or nationally syndicated column, Reed, president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, is one of the most quietly influential people in the American freedom movement today. It is fitting, then, that this volume draws primarily on his past columns for The Freeman, an unpretentious magazine with a resonant voice that has reached some of America’s most prominent people, including a onetime presidential hopeful named Ronald Reagan. In that tradition of plain speaking, Reed demonstrates that the clarion call of liberty will always find an audience, even in a world clamoring for chains. 97 pages.


     
  89. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 19, 2008
     
  90. MichiganScience No. 6
    MichiganScience is a Mackinac Center quarterly magazine that helps meet the need for accurate and accessible information about the increasingly complex scientific issues confronting voters and lawmakers. The magazine reflects the idea that even the most technical scientific policy issues can be discussed with lively prose and compelling visuals.
     
  91. Privatization Revolution
     
  92. Government Spending Continues No Matter What
     
  93. Russ Harding to Discuss Property Rights
     
  94. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 12, 2008
     
  95. Lawsuit Should Promote Regulatory Accountability
     
  96. A Taxing Question
     
  97. MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL
    A review and analysis of important state legislative policy issues that do not always receive attention from the general media. Michigan Capitol Confidential will make it easier to keep tabs on your elected representatives in Lansing.
     
  98. Climate Change Debate at MSU
     
  99. Governor Criticized for Wrong Thing on SOS Prison Proposals
     
  100. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 5, 2008
     
  101. What I Want to Read in 2008
     
  102. Automotive Production Expands – Elsewhere
    Michigan has carefully built and continues to maintain a culture of decline that is overtly hostile to outsiders and fearful of their competition.
     
  103. The Unvarnished State of the State
    Someone once said that politicians will do the right thing, but only after they have exhausted every other option. Michigan may have reached that point.
     
  104. Beach Affront
    We should not happily accept the erosion of one of the pillars of our society — the right to own property, which necessarily includes the power to exclude.
     
  105. How MESSA and the MEA Work
     
  106. A Flawed Argument for Higher State Taxes
     
  107. Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis, February-March 2008
     
  108. Expansion Defeats Limitation in Governor’s Speech
     
  109. Environmental Researchers to Discuss “When Green is Mean” at University of Michigan
     
  110. Tally of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations in State of the State Address Will be Available After Speech
     
  111. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 29, 2008
     
  112. Gov. Granholm Proposes Record 24 Expansions of Government and Four Limitations in 2008 State of the State Address
     
  113. Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s 2008 State of the State Address
     
  114. Right-to-Work Mythbusters
     
  115. Globalization is Good for Michigan
     
  116. MEA Document Provides Interesting Details
     
  117. Davey Award Winner
     
  118. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 22, 2008
     
  119. Inflation Is Still With Us
     
  120. Michigan Privatization Digest - January 10, 2008
     
  121. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 15, 2008
     
  122. A Really Gross Domestic Product
     
  123. Mission Creep
     
  124. A Great (Lake) Decision
     
  125. IMPACT Winter 2007
     
  126. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 8, 2008
     
  127. Expanded Around the State

    The latest privatization initiatives, controversies and news from around the Great Lake State.

    Dear Reader:
    You will notice that the format for this edition of Michigan Privatization Report has been revised. Around the State is not only our most popular feature, there are so many privatization initiatives to report on that we felt compelled to expand this section. We are still committed to in-depth privatization articles and essays — as you will find in the rest of this issue.
    James Hohman
    Fiscal Policy Research Assistant


     
  128. Migration Trends, Indiana Campaign Show Need for Policy Changes in Michigan
    Indeed, if the state’s economic landscape doesn’t change soon it may need to change its official motto from “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you” to “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, move to Florida.”
     
  129. Michigan Needs Worker Freedom of Choice
    Ultimately, voluntary unionism is not anti-union. It is decisively pro-worker. It encourages unions to be more accountable and responsible.
     
  130. Let the Union Buyer Beware
    On average, union employees spent 41 percent of their time representing members, according to their own report.
     
  131. How to Fix What's Broken
     
  132. Michigan Leads the Nation in Outbound Moves
     
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