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  1. The Granholm Administration: A Review of Year One
     
  2. Michigan Education Report (2003 Hiatus)
    Michigan Education Report was not printed in 2003.
     
  3. Ask the Economist: The Benefits of Right-to-Work Laws; and What Is Inflation?
     
  4. Public Policy and American Business: The Privatization Revolution
     
  5. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 23, 2003
     
  6. Federal Labor Law Aggravates NMH Strike
     
  7. Greater Transparency Could Have Helped Budget Battlers
     
  8. Charities Lobby for Higher Taxes
     
  9. Mackinac Center Applauds DNR’s Contract for Private Management of State-Owned Ski Area
     
  10. Why Michigan Should Start Refusing Federal Funds
     
  11. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 16, 2003
     
  12. Consolidating Elections Is The Right Thing To Do
     
  13. Interview About Michigan’s “Cool Cities” Campaign, for “On Point,” Public Radio’s Nationally Syndicated Evening News Program
     
  14. Your Tax Dollars At Work
     
  15. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 9, 2003
     
  16. Telecom Regs Stifle Competition and Investment, Raising Costs and Killing Jobs, Analyst Says
     
  17. Video of Former FCC Chief Economist Thomas W. Hazlett, Speaking on the Failure of Federal Telecom Policy and What Should Be Done About It
     
  18. Joseph P. Overton Library Dedication
     
  19. MSU School Finance Study Too Narrow to Support Tax Hike Recommendation
     
  20. Crossed Lines: Regulatory Missteps in Telecom Policy
    Violation of property rights is the defining feature of current telecom policy.
     
  21. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, December 2003
     
  22. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 2, 2003
     
  23. Charter School Forces Flint Public Schools to Compete
     
  24. Lack of Transparency Complicates State Budget Challenge
    No one — neither the governor, nor the legislative appropriations committees, nor the heads of 20 state departments can know where all the money is going.
     
  25. Are Targeted Incentives Constitutional?
     
  26. Solving the Organ Donation Crisis Through Incentives
    As LifeSharers grows, so does the incentive to become a registered donor: preferred access to an ever-larger pool of donated organs.
     
  27. Land Preservation Double-Cross
    A slim majority of county commissioners has so far refused to put the millage on the ballot, citing significant unanswered questions about its economic effects.
     
  28. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 25, 2003
     
  29. Want to Monitor Your State Government? Now, It’s Easy
     
  30. Government Cancels Christmas; Civil Society Restores It
     
  31. Privatization: Back to School with Privatization
     
  32. Dumping Retirees
     
  33. The Fallacy of State Economic "Unilateral Disarmament"
     
  34. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 18, 2003
     
  35. NMH Nurses’ Vote Puts Hospital, Teamsters in Legal Limbo
     
  36. The Time Is Right for a Right-To-Work Law
     
  37. Taxpayers Fund Lobbying for Internet Access Tax
     
  38. Petoskey Nurses Vote Today
     
  39. Veterans' Homes: Privatization Could Mean Lower Costs, Better Service (General Article)
     
  40. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 11, 2003
     
  41. Measure Land Preservation Program by Its Results, Not Its Goals
     
  42. The Pros and Cons of Zero-based Budgeting
     
  43. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 4, 2003
     
  44. MESSA: Keeping School Districts From Saving Money on Health Care
     
  45. French Fried by the Welfare State
    The French can advance civil society only when they get serious about replacing government programs with private initiative, when discussion gets beyond such infantile reasoning as, “If you want to cut government subsidies, you must be in favor of starving the elderly.”
     
  46. How to Make Cities “Cool”
    Our state and its city governments would do better to focus on their more important functions (schools, roads and public safety, for example), which are often carried out in ways that are anything but cool.
     
  47. The Candy Police
    When state governments can tell local school districts what to do with regard to a detail as tiny as whether or not students can buy candy on school grounds, it’s time to question whether local control has become a thing of the past.
     
  48. Mackinac Center to Host 13th Leadership Conference
     
  49. Reinventing Education in Pennsylvania
     
  50. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 28, 2003
     
  51. How the State Government Can Consolidate Human Resources
     
  52. Remembering Grenada, Two Decades Later
     
  53. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 21, 2003
     
  54. Let Automakers Increase Fuel Efficiency
     
  55. Great Things in Mind for Michigan
     
  56. The Top Ten Things People Believe About Canadian Health Care, But Shouldn’t
     
  57. Privatizing State Fairs Could Save Michigan Nearly $60 Million
     
  58. Habitat Destruction: Coral Reefs
     
  59. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 14, 2003
     
  60. Why Michigan Should Shelve its "Economic Development" Programs
     
  61. A Bit More Light on Union Finances
     
  62. 2,948 Jobs Won’t Be Created if State Income Tax Cut Delayed, Economic Model Shows
     
  63. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, October 2003
     
  64. Analyst Says: Close Teacher Strike Loophole That Allowed Anti-Charter School Protest
     
  65. Government Can’t Do Cool: How Overregulation Kills Cool, Hip Cities
     
  66. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 7, 2003
     
  67. The Candy Police
     
  68. Don’t Blame Deregulation for the Blackout
    In the end, the blackout was primarily the result of failures at the transmission level — the level where almost no deregulation has occurred.
     
  69. Eliminate Intermediate School Districts
    ISDs have become bureaucracies in search of a mission — funded to the tune of $878 million per year in property taxes statewide — with abuses such as those at OISD as the result.
     
  70. Air Travel: A Hundred Years of Safety
    Rather than scrimp on safety measures to gain short-term profits, airlines have found it even more in their interest to ensure the safety of their passengers. No one makes money by putting passengers in danger.
     
  71. Detroit School Establishment Turns Away $200 million Gift
     
  72. S&P School Web Site Provides a Wealth of Data
     
  73. Dow Foundation makes major grant to Mackinac Center
     
  74. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 30, 2003
     
  75. Hearings Should Focus On Reforming Economic Development Policy, Mackinac Center Says
     
  76. Destruction is no Blessing
     
  77. Air Travel: A Hundred Years of Safety
     
  78. Mackinac Center Calls State Report on NMH Strike "Deeply Flawed and Inflammatory"
     
  79. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 23, 2003
     
  80. Signs of Wisdom at UAW
     
  81. K-12 Education Funding Hinges on Appeal Now Before Supreme Court
     
  82. Michigan High Schoolers To Hone Debate Skills at Mackinac Center Workshops
     
  83. A Victory for the Gas-Powered Engine
     
  84. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 16, 2003
     
  85. Inaugural Presentation of the Overton Award
     
  86. Bay County Taxpayers Paying Extra for "Union Only" Deal
     
  87. The Ultimate Rationale for School Choice
     
  88. State Audit Questions MEDC Job Claims
     
  89. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 9, 2003
    * Granholm to give MEAP oversight back to Dept. of Education
    * Legislators want to overhaul Intermediate School Districts
    * New state dropout tracking system not delivering data, critics
    say
    * D.C. voucher plan passes U.S. House
    * U.S. House Republicans introduce plan to slow college tuition
    hikes
    * Private firm solving school district problems, taking heat from
    parents
    * COMMENTARY: Head Start reauthorization faces fight
    * Some Florida seniors can skip senior year
    * ANNOUNCEMENT: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy's 16th
    Annual High School Debate Workshops 2003
    * ANNOUNCEMENT: MSU Policy Briefing on "Educating Michigan's
    Youth"

     
  90. "Anti-Sprawl" Report Deeply Flawed
     
  91. FCC Order Will Fail to Open the Telecom Market
     
  92. New "tool tax" audits send mixed message to job providers
     
  93. Resource Conservation and Private Management Solutions
     
  94. Clare Schools Using Privatization to Keep Teachers
     
  95. The Best Way to Empower Workers
     
  96. A Hard Pill for UAW Members to Swallow
    Gettelfinger no longer can shield UAW members from competitive pressure. Instead, the UAW must prepare domestic autoworkers for competition.
     
  97. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 2, 2003
    * To save money, public schools finding ways to keep enrollment
    down
    * NAACP files suit to stop Florida achievement test
    * Michigan lawmakers to push school start past Labor Day
    * Schools try marketing to gain students
    * New York schools pay millions to get parents involved
    * Court dismisses school prayer lawsuit
    * Houston district docks officials' pay

     
  98. Michigan’s Primary Land-Use Plan a Failure
    By every measure, Michigan remains largely a rural state. More than 18 million of Michigan’s 36 million acres is forestland, a share that has actually grown by 2 million acres in the past 20 years.
     
  99. Will Michigan Have its First Unionized Parochial High School?
    The risk for parochial and other religious schools in Michigan is that their mission could be undermined by having to cater to union demands.
     
  100. With Friends Like This, We're Winning
     
  101. Budget Balancing Endgame
     
  102. Agenda and Facts Collide in Land-Use Report
     
  103. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 26, 2003
    * Oakland Intermediate School District board members refuse to
    resign amid financial scandal
    * Fees for school activities increase
    * USA Class of 2003 lags in math, science scores
    * Miami teachers' union chief pleads guilty to fraud
    * Educating illegal immigrants costs $7.4 billion per year
    * COMMENTARY: Granholm should support Detroit charter bill

     
  104. Ripe for Reform: Binding Arbitration
     
  105. -untitled-
     
  106. Invest in the Future
     
  107. State Close To Deal To Privatize Porcupine Ski Area
     
  108. Eliminate Intermediate School Districts
     
  109. A Hard Pill for UAW Members to Swallow
     
  110. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 19, 2003
    * Michigan's Republican Senators send Granholm scaled-down
    charter school bill
    * Teacher shortage now a teacher glut
    * State Dept. of Education strikes down district's activity fee
    * More states using high school exit exams
    * Department of Education clarifies free speech guidelines
    * Power outage disrupts Detroit area school preparations

     
  111. Don’t Blame Deregulation for the Blackout
     
  112. Land-Use Council Prescribes Social Engineering
     
  113. Re-Hyping the Head Start Program
     
  114. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 12, 2003
    * Studies, testimony show higher spending doesn't improve
    achievement
    * Michigan district may be charging tuition, officials allege
    * Per-pupil spending to be unaltered
    * Critics say states hard pressed to pay for new federal
    requirements
    * Houston school district officials falsified dropout rates
    * Poll: Most believe affirmative action can't make up for past
    discrimination

     
  115. Charter Schools Don’t Need More Michigan Department of Education "Oversight"
     
  116. Michigan's Farmland Preservation Program: An Assessment
    Michigan’s principal land preservation program has failed to achieve its goals.
     
  117. Lawrence W. Reed Named Advisor to LifeSharers
     
  118. State’s Largest Land Preservation Program a Failure
     
  119. Remarks Before the Midland Area Chamber of Commerce
     
  120. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 5, 2003
    * Bill package aims at increased accountability for intermediate
    districts
    * Senate Head Start bills reject House proposal for state
    takeover
    * Wayne State University raises tuition
    * Creationism bill introduced in Michigan House
    * Massachusetts superintendent fails mandatory English test
    * German schools in trouble

     
  121. Paul Kersey on the Petoskey hospital strike on Michigan Public Radio
     
  122. Will Michigan Have its First Unionized Parochial High School?
     
  123. The Headlee Amendment: Serving Michigan for 25 Years
    We could have what Colorado has: a Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which limits spending growth to population growth plus inflation and requires immediate refunds of surplus revenues above that limit.
     
  124. Reverse Robin Hoods at the University of Michigan
    It makes no sense to hold tuition below market rates if it doesn’t achieve the goal of giving a financial leg up to students from poorer families.
     
  125. Repeal Michigan’s Anti-Takeover Law
    Anti-takeover laws … often promote the very harms they are supposed to prevent, while imposing great costs and delays on the shareholders and other stakeholders in the corporations.
     
  126. MEMORANDUM
     
  127. State Should Remain Neutral in Hospital Strike
     
  128. A New Baseball Statistic for Opening Day
     
  129. Jack McHugh, Guest on "Politics with Bill Ballenger," WKAR Radio
     
  130. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 29, 2003
    * MEAP scores to arrive late
    * Granholm to veto education cuts
    * D.C. voucher opponent shifts opinion
    * Union attempts to organize Catholic school
    * Urban students behind in reading, writing
    * Study: Private schools in India effectively serve the poor

     
  131. Draculand: Romanian Central Planners to Subsidize Dracula Theme Park
     
  132. Giving Laptops to Sixth Graders Won’t Improve Their Education
     
  133. Repeal the Michigan Control Shares Acquisition Act of 1988
     
  134. IMPACT Spring 2003
     
  135. We're All Licensees Now
     
  136. Stronger Incentives for Organ Donation Save Lives
     
  137. State looks to build venture capital for high-risk startups
     
  138. Joseph P. Overton: Character for a Free Society
     
  139. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 22, 2003
    * School districts will pay part of laptop program cost
    * Charters outperform traditional schools on tests
    * Report: Nation lacks qualified teachers
    * Fraud allegedly plagues federal school Internet fund
    * "Head Start" pilot program generates opposition
    * University of Michigan raises tuition

     
  140. Measurement: The Key to Charter School Marketing
     
  141. Why Haven’t Michigan’s High Teacher Salaries Improved Student Performance?
     
  142. MEDC Budget Cut a Step in the Right Direction
     
  143. MEA Tells Members to Quit Reading Mackinac Center Journal
     
  144. Legislation Would Resurrect Michigan’s Un-Dead Death Tax
     
  145. Lessons from the First Airplane (Long Version)
     
  146. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 15, 2003
    * Hundreds returned to list of failing schools in Michigan
    * School districts across the nation contract out services to
    save money
    * Teachers union relaxes opposition to "No Child Left Behind"
    * Governments often take huge bites out of lottery money for
    schools
    * House revises teacher college standards
    * Editorial: More money for schools ineffective without reform

     
  147. Privatization: Fashionable and Sensible
     
  148. Eulogies for Joseph Overton
     
  149. News Stories, Columns, Poems, and Web Sites Dedicated to Joseph Overton
     
  150. Executive with think tank killed in ultralight crash
     
  151. My Good Friend Joe
     
  152. Americans Work Until Today to Pay for Government
     
  153. Eulogy by the Hon. John Moolenaar
     
  154. The Mackinac Center helps Michigan
     
  155. The Mackinac Center's Impact Beyond Michigan
     
  156. Your Support Will Help the Mackinac Center Fight For...
     
  157. Ways You Can Help the Mackinac Center
     
  158. Why 1851?
     
  159. Eulogy by June Cramer
     
  160. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 08, 2003
    * Union Says Michigan teacher salaries 2nd in nation
    * Students' history knowledge lacking
    * Flint public schools advertise to compete with charters
    * President Bush touts D.C. tuition voucher program
    * Survey: Parents support school grading plan

     
  161. Teamsters May Be Set to Lose Petoskey Hospital Strike
     
  162. Thank You For Expressions of Condolence, Tribute and Support
     
  163. Eulogy by Scott Overton
     
  164. Eulogy by Lawrence W. Reed
     
  165. Lessons from the First Airplane
    Just nine days after Langley’s failure, the Wrights took turns flying their carefully designed plane for as long as 59 seconds at Kitty Hawk. The craft cost them about $1,000. It cost American taxpayers nothing.
     
  166. The Driving-Point Tax: River of Money Could Corrupt Cops, Courts
    Minor offenses aren’t overlooked. For example, a motorist unable to find his or her proof of insurance when requested by a police officer — even if they were, in fact, insured — would be assessed $300.
     
  167. Ford Did Indeed Have A Better Idea
    It was clear to Ford that hard work and entrepreneurial risk-taking were the sources of America’s great wealth. “Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves,” he wrote. “The government is our servant and never should be anything but a servant.”
     
  168. Eulogy by Joseph G. Lehman
     
  169. Mackinac Center Mourns Loss of Leader
     
  170. Personal Tributes from Around the Nation and the World
     
  171. Select News Stories - Joseph Overton
     
  172. Joseph P. Overton
     
  173. Tributes from Joe Overton's Mackinac Center Colleagues
     
  174. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 1, 2003
    * Michigan House to take up charter school bill
    * Disabled students bill receives U.S. Senate committee approval
    * Legal obstacles, budgets slow spread of tuition vouchers
    * Commentary: Dropout rates deceiving
    * Washington, D.C. schools threaten to fire employees who misuse
    credit cards
    * California charters on par with traditional schools

     
  175. MACKINAC CENTER MOURNS LOSS OF LEADER
     
  176. Wedding Toast to Joseph and Helen Overton
     
  177. Joseph Overton Visitation and Funeral Times and Places
     
  178. Does the Michigan Economic Development Corporation Even Matter?
     
  179. Regression Analysis Results
     
  180. Independent Ideas Are Needed to Save Money
     
  181. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 24, 2003
    * U.S. Supreme Court upholds race-based law school admissions,
    overturns undergraduate 'point' system
    * Computer program tracks teacher development
    * "Nation's Report Card" cause for celebration, concern
    * Commentary: Shorter school day is counterproductive
    * Parents happy with Florida voucher program
    * Money keeps Washington, D.C. public schools from competing with
    charters

     
  182. Non-Profit Housing Legislation Might Result in Less Housing for the Poor
     
  183. Prescription Drug Advertising: Problem or Solution?
     
  184. Supercenters—And Shoppers—Under Attack
     
  185. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 17, 2003
    * President Bush praises states for education reform
    * Think tank says school choice can revitalize inner cities
    * New York parents happy with charter schools
    * Legislature approves optional four-day school week
    * Commentary: Teacher unions may interfere with reforms
    * Washington, D.C. charter school closes itself for poor performance
    * Elimination of research papers leaves students unprepared for college

     
  186. WE Can Stop the Spam!
     
  187. Muskegon ferry loan shouldn't be granted
     
  188. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 10, 2003
    * Education secretary approves Michigan accountability plan
    * Teachers often scapegoats, says survey
    * Commentary: Anti-privatization law is bad policy for schools
    * Report finds Head Start programs don't give students head start
    * Charter school authorizers perform well despite roadblocks
    * Professors push for formal grammar lessons

     
  189. Consolidate School Elections with General Elections
     
  190. Debate Workshops 2003
     
  191. What’s Wrong with Government Funding of the Arts?
     
  192. Cool It With the Committee on “Cool”
     
  193. Research Institute Announces Debate Workshop Schedule, Speakers
     
  194. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 3, 2003
    * Granholm proposes new need-based scholarship
    * Study: Most teachers paid relatively well
    * Some Washington state districts exaggerate budgets to obtain
    funding
    * Report: Charter schools have more teachers who teach outside
    their subject areas
    * Students call "free speech zones" unconstitutional
    * Texas school funding system to be changed
    * NOTICE: Mackinac Center announces high school debate workshop
    schedule, speakers

     
  195. The Driving-Point Tax: A River of Money Could Corrupt Cops, Courts
     
  196. Beachfront Property Rights Need Protection
    Regulators would do far better … to focus attention on the dumping of raw sewage and chemicals that are triggering abnormal plant and algae growth along the lakeshore.
     
  197. Contract Out School Services Before Laying Off Teachers
    The fact that poor-performing private companies have been fired — a point the MEA makes very clear — doesn’t prove that privatization doesn’t work. It proves that it does.
     
  198. Michigan Unions Continue to Lose Support among Workers
    Labor unions should abandon the old, outmoded adversarial model of labor relations and instead study ways they can create a better atmosphere; in which labor and management cooperatively solve problems in ways that promote free enterprise.
     
  199. History Shows Markets, Not Politicians, Should Set Gas Prices
     
  200. Mackinac Center will use Economic Model to Analyze Michigan Tax Proposals
     
  201. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 27, 2003
    * Study claims poor and minorities have limited access to school
    choice
    * Parents upset over vote to end Louisiana school vouchers
    program
    * First Lady asks schools to keep educational programs
    * Supreme Court to decide on public funding for religious
    education
    * Researchers challenge validity of study finding after-school
    programs of little help to students
    * Michigan Merit Award criteria questioned

     
  202. Mackinac Center Says Supreme Court FMLA Ruling Could Open Dangerous Policy Door
     
  203. Dealing with Urban Sprawl the Free Market Way
     
  204. Should Government Hand Out Economic Favors?
     
  205. Whose Mailbox is it Anyway?
     
  206. Government Should Neither Favor nor Oppose Labor Unions
     
  207. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, May 2003
     
  208. Dear Governor: Please Don’t Offer My Business Special Favors
    A business owner writes the governor.
     
  209. Testimony on House Resolution No. 42 – A resolution to memorialize the Congress of the United States to enact the President's tax cut proposals
     
  210. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 20, 2003
    * Michigan Senate votes to restore school funding
    * Granholm meets with "failing schools" principals
    * Minority leaders plan protests against Florida achievement test
    * Intermediate school district approves bus privatization
    * Union leader attacks "No Child Left Behind" Act
    * McBain schools approves schools-of-choice program

     
  211. Corporate Welfare in Telecom Harms Consumers
     
  212. Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win
     
  213. Government Subsidy Machine
     
  214. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 13, 2003
    * Charter schools cost less, study finds
    * State school budget shortfall larger than expected
    * National testing may cost more than expected
    * Doctors say mood drugs overused by schools
    * Bill would allow students to carry cell phones
    * D.C. Mayor says District students "trapped in bad schools"

     
  215. No Money Where Your Mouth Is
     
  216. Should Government Deny Workers a Choice in Comp-Time?
     
  217. Policy Analyst: For Safety of Residents,
    Privatize Detroit Public Housing
     
  218. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 6, 2003
    * FBI raids Florida teachers' union headquarters
    * Commentary: Charter schools still misunderstood
    * Federal government issues school prayer guidelines
    * Some Michigan schools lack qualified teachers
    * States fail to list districts in need of improvement

     
  219. DNR Purchased at Least $16 Million-Worth of Michigan Land Knowing It Could Not Pay Its Taxes
     
  220. State debates MEDC’s value
     
  221. County Police Can Patrol Highways for Less
    The state could give grants to county sheriff departments equivalent to 77 percent of the amount it currently spends for road patrols, or $128 million. This would allow sheriff’s departments to hire more deputies, and also boost their overhead to support the expanded operations.
     
  222. If DNR Can’t Pay Its Property Taxes, It Should Sell Some Land
     
  223. Eagle Sightings Signal Improved Michigan Water Quality
    The United States and Canada have identified 14 areas within Michigan’s jurisdiction in which water quality does not support a full range of uses, such as drinking or fish consumption.
     
  224. Frivolous, Trendy Teacher Training in Michigan
    “The curricula offered by university education departments are heavy on fuzzy ‘self-wareness,’ ‘multicultural,’ and other faddish or politicized material, and light on the hard knowledge of the subjects that teachers must eventually teach.”
     
  225. Thank You for Contributing
     
  226. Decline in Union Membership Part of Long-Term Trend, Analyst Says
     
  227. How the State Should Encourage Economic Development
     
  228. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 29, 2003
    * State allows new charter schools
    * Report finds students' writing skills decline
    * African-American parents embracing home schooling
    * Protests organized against education budget cuts
    * Michigan schools confirm prayer is protected

     
  229. Arkansas and Ohio Should Emulate Michigan’s Proposal ‘A’
     
  230. What Is the Best Way to Teach Reading?
     
  231. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 22, 2003
    * Colorado passes voucher law
    * Math and science education decline in Britain
    * Denver teachers may receive merit pay
    * Commentary: Charter school decision ignores the law
    * State education departments fear federal funding won't cover
    cost of mandates under "No Child Left Behind" Act

     
  232. Property Rights, Condemnation, and Special Interests

    Summary

    Taking property from families to flip to commercial developers is a great way to generate increased property tax revenues and future campaign contributions. Of course, this scam makes a mockery of private property rights.

    Main text word count: 790


     
  233. How We’ll Know When We’ve Won
     
  234. Legislature’s First 100 Days Documented by MichiganVotes.org
     
  235. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 15, 2003
    * Hundreds of Michigan schools fail federal requirements
    * Ypsilanti Public Schools uncovers illegal computer software
    * Michigan House approves time limit on charter school decisions
    * Virus disrupts students' travel plans
    * Education official touts religious schools
    * NOTICE: Free seminar for economics teachers

     
  236. Freedom or Free-for-All?
     
  237. The Poverty of the United Nations
     
  238. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 8, 2003
    * Senate favors August vote on retaining Detroit reform board
    * Utica School District to accept nonresident students
    * Affirmative action case may affect primary education
    * National Education Association reports $47 million in political
      spending
    * NYC Mayor Bloomberg's school curriculum reform meets strong
      criticism
    * Notice: free seminar for economics teachers


     
  239. Regulatory Power Threatens Rights of Beachfront Property Owners
     
  240. High Health-Care Costs Affect Auto Insurance
     
  241. A Way to Ease the Pain of Budget Cuts
    By what standard of social justice does the state inflate the wages of workers who would most likely be earning above-average wages without government intervention?
     
  242. Remembering Prague Spring
    The freedoms aborted in 1968 were won in the “Velvet Revolution” of November 1989 when, sapped of any moral legitimacy or resolve, communist rule and Soviet domination evaporated as millions of jubilant Czechs danced in the streets.
     
  243. Feds Endanger Michigan Ferry Business
    How refreshing it would be for the federal government to advise the folks at Lake Express LLC, “If you need money to make money, then go get it the honest way: Prove yourself to your investors and to your customers.”
     
  244. Abolishing MEDC a Great Idea, but Not the Only One
     
  245. Will Unions & Management Team Up to Preserve Northwest Airlines?
     
  246. Don’t Stifle Telecom Competition, Analyst Warns
     
  247. Don’t Stifle Telecom Competition
     
  248. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 1, 2003
    * Nearly 400 Michigan schools may face federal sanctions for
    failure
    * D.C. board of education president outrages establishment with
    commentary approving vouchers
    * Milwaukee school board member says union is targeting voucher
    advocates for defeat
    * Abandonment of bilingual education is working in California
    * Security expert says schools could become terrorist target
    * Granholm gives thumbs up to Bush education plan
    * Notice: free seminar for economics teachers

     
  249. Frivolous, Trendy Teacher Training In Michigan
     
  250. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 25, 2003
    * Charter school bill passes Michigan House
    * State universities plan tuition hikes
    * Lawmakers push for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
    reform
    * New plan would reinstate Michigan Merit Award
    * U.S. House resolution condemns 9th Circuit's Pledge of
    Allegiance ruling

     
  251. "Outside the Box" Police Proposal Would Save Taxpayers $65 Million
     
  252. The Declaration, the Constitution, and the Brilliance of the Founders
     
  253. Paycheck Protection:  A Matter of Fairness
     
  254. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: The British Connection
     
  255. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 18, 2003
    * Public school debt reaches $200 billion
    * Secretary of Education defends No Child Left Behind Act
    * School choice increases funding, say schools
    * Parochial schools oppose standardized testing, cheer vouchers
    * Michigan schools sign prayer agreement


     
  256. Private Fitness Programs Show How Civil Society Works
     
  257. Knowing the Real Impact of Government
     
  258. MEA Teachers Face Maximum Dues Hike to Ease $10 Million Union Shortfall
     
  259. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 11, 2003
    * MEA may raise teacher dues by maximum amount
    * Granholm budget would restore public school funding, cut
    scholarships
    * Editorial: Keep tracking school spending in hard times
    * High-stakes testing overemphasized, says study
    * Schools receive federal anti-terrorism funding
    * California school district plans to appeal pledge ruling


     
  260. News Stories Prompted by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy Study of the Clean Michigan Initiative
     
  261. Michigan Education Association Dues Increase Memo
    This Feb. 6 memo from MEA officers to MEA members was obtained by Michigan Education Digest, a publication of the Mackinac Center. It explains to MEA members why their dues may be going up by $111.90 per year.
     
  262. From this Week's Michigan Education Digest:
     
  263. Seventy Years Since FDR: A Time To Remember John T. Flynn
     
  264. Lawrence Reed and a panel of journalists discuss the state budget on Off the Record
     
  265. Governor prepares to deal with huge shortfall in first budget proposal
     
  266. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 4, 2003
    * State law gives financial incentive for district consolidation
    * Detroit Public Schools denies misspending Title I grant money
    * Plymouth-Canton Community Schools restricts students' wartime
      television access
    * Legislators withdraw alternate school budget-cutting options
    * Kilpatrick criticizes proposed cuts in federal after-school
      programs
    * Court allows controversial Pledge of Allegiance ruling to stand


     
  267. Associated Press State and Local Wire
     
  268. Recommendations to Strengthen Civil Society and Balance Michigan's State Budget
    If Gov. Jennifer Granholm and the Michigan Legislature need specifics on how to close Michigan’s looming $1.7 billion budget deficit, they need look no further than the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s new report on balancing the state budget, released today.

    More than 200 specific recommendations from Mackinac Center analysts total more than $2 billion in cost savings and revenue enhancements. All budget reductions, including those involving federal funds, total $3.7 billion. 157 pages.
     
  269. Mackinac Center Offers Granholm, Legislature Specifics for More than $2 Billion in Budget Savings
     
  270. Gov. Granholm: Profile in Budget Courage
    With government at all levels consuming over 40 percent of national income — more than ever before in our nation’s history — now is the time for bold initiatives to re-shape what state government does and does not do.
     
  271. How to Fix the Organ Donation Crisis
    Who can calculate the value of a life saved or the improvement in the quality of life of a dialysis patient or of one who is constantly being admitted to hospitals with congestive heart failure?
     
  272. Attack on SUVs Unwarranted
    Highway safety in general has dramatically improved despite a doubling of licensed drivers and twice as many registrations. The fatality rate hit a historic low of 1.51 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2001, down from 5.5 in 1966.
     
  273. Michigan Court of Appeals Accepts Appeal To Dismiss Teachers’ Union Attack
     
  274. Long-term Rx for state budget
     
  275. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 25, 2003
    * U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Detroit school takeover case
    * Rochester schools may pull students out of International
       Baccalaureate Academy to save money
    * National PTA losing membership
    * Michigan schools examine alternate budget-cutting plan
    * Report: After-school programs cost $1 billion per year, don't
       perform
    * Michigan universities claim nothing left to cut from budgets


     
  276. School Choice Interview on WDEO Radio
    Brian Carpenter talks about school choice on WDEO Radio's "Kresta in the Afternooon."
     
  277. House Committee Approves Living Wage Preemption
    Mackinac Center analyst testifies that prohibition of local wage laws is “appropriate” measure
     
  278. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 18, 2003
    * Michigan schools consider four-day weeks
    * Kilpatrick replaces Detroit school board
    * Fight for private-school scholarships brews in Washington, D.C.
    * Portage Public Schools privatizes driver training, saves money
    * Canton subdivisions petition to switch school districts
    * Commentary: Parental control key to fixing schools

     
  279. Testimony on H.B. 4160
     
  280. Executive Order Cuts School District Funding
     
  281. K-mart: Another MEGA Failure
     
  282. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 11, 2003
    * Livonia ties administrators' pay increases to M.E.A.P. scores
    * Senate bill would raise dropout age to 18
    * Study finds more African Americans choosing home schooling
    * Pennsylvania district introduces plan to grade parents
    * Study: Greater school funding doesn't always mean higher
    M.E.A.P. scores
    * Gun fire strikes school board member's home
    * Michigan requests leniency for federal "failing schools"
    designation
    * New York parents sue schools for choice guaranteed under
    federal law

     
  283. Privatization: Catch It If You Can
     
  284. IMPACT Winter 2003
     
  285. MEGA Corporate Tax Loophole Worth $45.5 Million
     
  286. Celebrating Dr. Hans F. Sennholz on His 81st Birthday
     
  287. Gov. Granholm Proposes 14 Expansions of Government, 6 Limitations
     
  288. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 4, 2003
    * Coalition urges tax increases to fill state budget gaps
    * Michigan Education Association reports $10.7 million deficit
    * Oakland Schools dismisses superintendent
    * GAO releases biannual report on performance of U.S. Dept. of
      Education
    * Commentary: The truth about grade inflation
    * D.C. teachers union investigation broadens to bank

     
  289. Historic Preservation for Strip Malls?
    Surely, no property owner can be expected to underwrite the private operations of tenants who are running fledgling businesses that may not be able to survive in the marketplace of supply and demand.
     
  290. A Lesson from Great Britain
    For a visitor to give every exhibit the attention it deserved would have required 200 hours in the building.
     
  291. Time to Refocus Special Education on Reading Achievement
    The fact that the IDEA program comes with federal money [means] school districts have a strong incentive to classify more students as being learning disabled.
     
  292. Mackinac Center: Cut this and this ...
     
  293. Northern Iraq: An Unusual Reminder of Freedom
     
  294. New Website Provides "One-Stop Shopping" for State Budget Research
     
  295. Prevailing Wage Repeal Would Save State $400 Million Annually
     
  296. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 28, 2003
    * Study: Public schools resegregating
    * East Lansing school district forced to cut millions
    * Boston Teachers Union demands greater spending from financially
    troubled district
    * AFT dissolves D.C. teachers' union leadership; takes over amid
    theft allegations
    * State education budget problems hurt charter school enrollment
    * Editorial: Class sizes not affected by hiring more teachers

     
  297. Health Care: Let’s Put People First, Not Government
     
  298. Does Holland, Michigan Need 'Living Wage'?
     
  299. Membership Opportunities
     
  300. Major Ag Cuts Advocated
     
  301. MACKINAC CENTER OFFERS BUDGET CUT IDEAS
     
  302. Sales Tax on Services Is Bad Policy
     
  303. The Folly of "Living Wage" Laws
     
  304. Why Invest in the Mackinac Center?
     
  305. Forthcoming study will recommend more than $1 billion in total savings
    Mackinac Center report identifies $34 million in state agriculture department savings; $59 million in one-time revenue.
     
  306. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 21, 2003
    * Granholm to cut school funding
    * Editorial: President Bush right to oppose affirmative action
    * Commentary: Granholm wants new early-childhood programs
    * Poll: Grand Traverse area residents split on effectiveness of
    Proposal A
    * State begins rating schools

     
  307. Proposed Budget Reductions for the Michigan Department of Agriculture

    Gov. Granholm and the Michigan Legislature can save $34 million in the state agriculture budget, and sell state land for another $59 million.


     
  308. New Labor Rule Would Improve Union Financial Accountability
     
  309. Senate Bill Would Revive Telephone Price Controls
     
  310. Granholm’s Resistance to Tax Hikes Is Sound Policy
     
  311. Proposed Rulemaking on Labor Organization Annual Financial Reports
     
  312. Cut State Spending
     
  313. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 14, 2003
    * Think tank asks Court of Appeals to dismiss MEA lawsuit
    * District of Columbia teachers' union misspends millions
    * STUDY: Michigan teacher quality lacking
    * Metro Detroit superintendents seek help to bridge language gap
    * New study shows positive public school response to school choice

     
  314. Telephone Rate Regulation Rings Hollow
     
  315. New Hope for Free Markets in Africa’s Most Populous Nation
     
  316. Michigan’s Prison Costs And What To Do About Them
     
  317. Associated Press State and Local Wire
     
  318. Department of Labor Proposes New Union Financial Reporting Rules
     
  319. Mackinac Center asks Michigan appeals court to dismiss union legal attack
     
  320. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 7, 2003
    * Detroit plan for 15 charter schools fails
    * Warren Consolidated district contemplates closing schools
    * Study claims testing harms students
    * Honor society established for home school students
    * Bush announces increased aid for low-income students

     
  321. Why Tax Credits Are Better than Vouchers
    Senior Fellow Andrew Coulson writes for The Independent Review, defending tax credits as the best vehicle for choice in education.
     
  322. Union Agreement Threatens West Michigan
    Union corporate campaigns and undemocratic, push-button labor deals run roughshod over the rights of employers and employees to fairly and freely make their own decisions about unionization.
     
  323. Reviewing the Engler Tenure
    No governor in recent Michigan history has done more to lighten the state tax burden than John Engler. Michigan has made more progress in this regard than any other major state.
     
  324. Thomas M. Cooley and the Role of Government
    Cooley was no advocate for special privileges and perks for the wealthy or politically well-connected, and he condemned the cozy, corrupt relationships that often tied powerful interests and government.
     
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