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  1. The Top 25 Current Comments of 2006
     
  2. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 26, 2006
     
  3. Private Compassion is the Best Cure for Michigan’s Pain
     
  4. The Failure of Government Intervention: Buy Union this Christmas
     
  5. IMPACT Winter 2007
     
  6. Driving Privatization Excitement
     
  7. John Riecker Joins Mackinac Center Board of Directors
     
  8. Mackinac Center Policy Areas
     
  9. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 19, 2006
     
  10. Two Who Made a Difference
     
  11. Web Site Map
    An overview of the Web site.
     
  12. Venezuela’s Destiny
     
  13. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 12, 2006
     
  14. From Worst to First: The Best Business Tax is None
     
  15. A Shared Destiny
     
  16. Greeley and Bobsy: Wellsprings of Freedom
     
  17. Incentives Matter, at Any Age
     
  18. ‘Economic Icon’ Dale M. Haywood
     
  19. Governor’s Mercury Proposal Lacks Sound Science
     
  20. Study Finds Cabela’s Has No County Jobs Impact
     
  21. Governor’s Mercury Directive Lacks Sound Scientific Basis
     
  22. Assessing Stricter Mercury Controls in Michigan
    On April 17, 2006, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm directed the Department of Environmental Quality to draft a rule under the state’s Clean Air Act to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by 90 percent. The governor ordered the reductions to occur in two phases. The first phase is supposed to entail the reduction schedule established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last year. The second phase is supposed to exceed the federal requirements by reducing emissions 90 percent by the year 2015.
     
  23. Internet Policy Strictly a Federal Prerogative
     
  24. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 5, 2006
     
  25. Businesses Taxes: A Pernicious Sham
     
  26. The AFL-CIO Picks the U.N. Over the Constitution
    How we interpret our labor law, or any other law for that matter, is for us to decide, not a foreign dictator or world body.
     
  27. Time to Get Serious About School Employee Pension Reform
    Private-sector employers are realizing defined-benefit systems like MPSERS do not serve today’s aging and mobile workforce.
     
  28. Property Owners Hit by Regulatory Takings Deserve Compensation
    Regulatory takings occur when the government enacts a regulation or law that diminishes the value of the property but does not take ownership.
     
  29. Youth Violence and the Media
     
  30. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 28, 2006
     
  31. Grover Cleveland and Sound Currency
     
  32. Thankful for Think Tanks
     
  33. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 21, 2006
     
  34. Michigan Education Report (2006-04)
     
  35. How Milton Friedman Influenced Michigan and the World
     
  36. Mackinac Center in the New York Times
     
  37. In Memory of Milton Friedman
     
  38. New York Times Story Describes Mackinac Center President as “Johnny Appleseed” of Free-Market State Policy Think Tanks
     
  39. Around the State 2006-02
     
  40. Proposal 5 Defeat Means Voters Want Changes
     
  41. Mackinac Center Launches New Science Magazine
     
  42. MichiganScience No. 1
    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.
     
  43. Is it Smarter to Lower Michigan’s Investment Disincentives a Lot or a Little?
     
  44. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 14, 2006
     
  45. Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in U.S. Supreme Court Cases Involving Use of Union Fees for Political Causes
     
  46. Trash Talkin’ Politicians
     
  47. Michigan’s Gross State Product Plummet Shows Need for Changes
     
  48. Let Market Decide Tiger Stadium’s Fate
     
  49. Subsidized Art Isn’t Free Expression
     
  50. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 7, 2006
     
  51. Proposal 5 and the Fine Print
     
  52. Arrest Pontiac Police Costs
    Reforms need to be made that take Pontiac beyond the point of simply keeping its fiscal head above water.
     
  53. Public Bans on Private Actions
    Liberty is more often eaten away one small bite at a time than by one big gulp.
     
  54. Bold Changes Needed in State Permitting
    Even if a company or individual can bear the cost, they may not be able to afford the time delays associated with agency demands for new data.
     
  55. Don’t Expect Much From Politics
     
  56. Mission Creep: Prop 5 Cash Isn’t About Classrooms
     
  57. Proposal 4: Eminent Domain
     
  58. Proposal 5: K-16
     
  59. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 31, 2006
     
  60. Why Government Should Not Be in the Business of Subsidizing Businesses
     
  61. A Proposal for Property Protection
     
  62. It’s Time for Michigan to Go to Work
     
  63. “The Wire”: A Barbed Portrayal of Urban Public Schools
     
  64. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 24, 2006
     
  65. Understanding Public Opinion Surveys (short version)
     
  66. Prop 1: The Forgotten Proposal
     
  67. Growing Up Means Resisting the Statist Impulse
     
  68. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 17, 2006
     
  69. Choice and Accountability in Public Schools
     
  70. Woe Be Gone, Taxpayers
     
  71. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, October 2006
     
  72. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 10, 2006
     
  73. The Flint Sit-Downs: A Striking Lesson
     
  74. Decades of Dollars and Disappointment
     
  75. Ending Cable Monopolies Would Benefit Consumers
     
  76. Get Rid of the Labels
    Ideas worth supporting are those that are tested and found worthwhile because they produce results, not rhetoric.
     
  77. Environmental Doomsayers Can Breathe Easy
    This welcome news is yet another reminder that prognosticators of eco-catastrophe are off the mark.
     
  78. Proposal 4 Would Place “Reasonable and Significant Restrictions” on Michigan’s Use of Eminent Domain
     
  79. Proposal 4: A Legal Review and Analysis
    Proposal 4 of 2006, which will appear on the November ballot, is a proposed state constitutional amendment that would alter state law regarding eminent domain, the legal theory that permits the government to take private property for public use if the government pays just compensation.
     
  80. How the Late Great Detroit Statler Lives On
    “Life is service. The one who progresses is the one who gives his fellow human beings a little more, a little better service.”
     
  81. “I Am Going to Arrest You”
     
  82. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 3, 2006
     
  83. School Choice Snapshot: A 2006 Survey of U.S. Policy and Advocacy Organizations
    The Mackinac Center for Public Policy worked on this survey project from November 2005 through September 2006. We provided assistance to the survey researcher, Adam B. Schaeffer, who was then a National Research Initiative Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., by collaborating on the survey instrument, offering relevant and limited information from our database, handling technical details of inviting and following up with participants, and editing and publishing this document.
     
  84. IMPACT Fall 2006
     
  85. Michigan: A Taxing Place To Do Business
     
  86. Universities and Economic Development
     
  87. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 26, 2006
     
  88. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 21, 2006
     
  89. The “Stop Overspending” Proposal Would Have Provided a “Meaningful Restraint” on State Spending Growth
     
  90. The Stop Overspending Michigan Initiative: A Review and Analysis
    The proposed “Stop Overspending” state constitutional amendment, which failed to gain ballot status in the November 2006 election, addressed four major areas ...
     
  91. Assessing the Case for Cable Franchise Reform
    Advances in technology now make it possible for both cable firms and telecommunications companies to provide voice, data and video services to most homes and businesses. This constitutes a dramatic change from the days of cable dominance in the video market, and that of the “Baby Bells” in telephone service. What hasn’t changed, however, is the franchise regime that has long limited access to the local market and thus inhibited competition. In this paper, Diane S. Katz examines the effects of this obsolete regulation on consumers and the economy, as well as the myriad benefits of reform.
     
  92. Yet Another Regulatory Burden on Electricity Supply in Michigan
     
  93. Municipal Control of Franchising Inflates Cable Rates and Impedes Broadband Investment
     
  94. Hayek Was Right: The Worst Do Get To The Top
     
  95. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 19, 2006
     
  96. Minimum wage hike claims first casualty
     
  97. Around the State 2006-01
     
  98. A Superintendent Provides Choice in Edmonton
     
  99. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 13, 2006
     
  100. Public Schools Can Provide a Choice to Every Parent
     
  101. An Analysis of Proposal 5: The ‘K-16’ Michigan Ballot Measure
    On Nov. 7, 2006, Michigan voters will be asked to consider a proposed new law that would, if passed, require annual state spending to increase at no less than the inflation rate for the following state budget areas: public school districts and charter schools; certain specific budget items in state spending on public school districts and charter schools; and state universities and community colleges. The proposal also contains new requirements for state payments to districts with declining enrollment and places liability for school employee pension cost increases on state government, rather than school districts. The proposed new law will appear as “Proposal 5”on the ballot, and its mandates would take effect in the 2006-2007 school year.
     
  102. Proposal 5 Could Aggravate School Finance Problems and Reduce Schools’ Incentives To Improve
     
  103. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 12, 2006
     
  104. Teachers’ Strikes, Court Orders and Michigan Law
     
  105. “What’s Going On” Redux: A Motown Classic Hijacked
     
  106. A Student’s Tribute to a Hero
     
  107. Michigan Education Report (2006-03)
     
  108. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 5, 2006
     
  109. Reforming America’s Secret Collectivism: The System of Compelled Union Representation
     
  110. Jazzing Up Civil Society
    Gretchen Valade improved Detroit’s cultural scene with her gift, just as tens of thousands of Americans have done with their own contributions to countless organizations and enterprises.
     
  111. An Unhealthy Policy Prescription
    Romney’s plan will allegedly perform the miracle of covering all of Massachusetts’ 555,000 or so uninsured residents without new taxes or a government takeover of health care.
     
  112. Survey 2006: School Outsourcing Continues to Grow
    With savings of this magnitude, it is not surprising that superintendents are investigating privatization.
     
  113. Mackinac Center Survey:
    Michigan School Privatization Increases
     
  114. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 29, 2006
     
  115. Want Economic Growth? Make Incentives Available to All
     
  116. Taxes Do Matter
     
  117. Frank Knox: Prescient and Principled
     
  118. Scientific Minds are a Terrible Thing to Waste
     
  119. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 22, 2006
     
  120. A Museum You Don’t Want to Miss
     
  121. The Difference One Can Make (Original Version)
     
  122. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 15, 2006
     
  123. On a “Lost City” and a Lost Perspective
     
  124. "It Can Happen to You"
     
  125. Creating Compensation for Regulatory Takings
     
  126. A Blighted History of Property Rights Protection
     
  127. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 8, 2006
     
  128. The City of Pontiac: a “Going Concern”?
     
  129. Tributes to Stephen P. Dresch
     
  130. Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    With gas so plentiful and cheap, some Ohioans came to think it shouldn’t have a cost at all.
     
  131. Michigan Dithers on Medicaid Estate Recovery
    Michigan is the only state that has not implemented estate recovery in some form, despite the fact that the requirement has been on the books for more than 10 years.
     
  132. The School Choice Movement’s Greatest Failure
     
  133. Seeking Opportunity
    There are many reasons people move, but it is probably easiest to sum all of them up with one word: opportunity.
     
  134. Seminar Provides a ‘Kelo’ of Prevention
     
  135. Twenty-Nine Seconds That Changed History
     
  136. Michigan Court of Appeals Ruling in Bay Mills Lawsuit “Terrific News for More Than 10,000 Schoolchildren”
     
  137. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 1, 2006
     
  138. On Carbon Dioxide Emissions, the Supreme Court Should Look to the Law
     
  139. NEA, AFT Annual Meetings Resemble Political Conventions
     
  140. How to resign your union membership
     
  141. Summer of Privatization
     
  142. SOS: Sensible Spending with Taxpayer Protection
     
  143. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 25, 2006
     
  144. Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (General Article)
     
  145. Gasoline Prices in Perspective
     
  146. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 19, 2006
     
  147. The Price of Abandoning Principle
     
  148. Katz Roils Waters at U.S. Senate
     
  149. Romney Care: Bad Medicine for Michigan?
     
  150. Data Show Michigan is #1 in Resident Departures
     
  151. Appeals Court Hears MEA Union Suit Involving Bay Mills Public Charter Schools
     
  152. Government Putts
     
  153. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 11, 2006
     
  154. Guidance Directives: Regulation by Bureaucratic Fiat
     
  155. What Detroit Can Learn From Bangalore: Remove Destructive Taxes
     
  156. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 5, 2006
     
  157. IMPACT Summer 2006
     
  158. Character Makes the Difference (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    You can’t choose your height or race or many other physical traits, but you fine tune your character every time you decide right from wrong and what you personally are going to do about it.
     
  159. Why Colorado Matters to Michigan
    Similarly, the K-16 Proposal in Michigan would cost more and accomplish less than its advocates are sharing with Michigan taxpayers.
     
  160. The Property Rights Fight Since Kelo
    While federal reform efforts have stalled, Michigan residents are well placed to prevent the government from cynically confiscating the property where they live, work and worship.
     
  161. The Pursuit of Happiness
     
  162. Congress Seizes on Net Neutrality
     
  163. Restoring Our Heritage of Property Rights
    America’s Founders created a system of government designed to protect property rights. The Founders were influenced by the 17th century philosopher John Locke, who held that everyone who labored had a natural right to property. Property rights, he wrote, reward effort and reduce conflict. Preserving “lives, liberties, and estates” is “the great and chief end” of government.
     
  164. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 27, 2006
     
  165. The Contemporary Litigation Environment
     
  166. A Convenient Deceit?
     
  167. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 20, 2006
     
  168. Court Properly Restrains Feds’ Worst Wetlands Excesses, But Ruling Could Ultimately Leave Federal Agencies With Broad Wetlands Authority
     
  169. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Attorney General v. Michigan Public Service Commission
    A Mackinac Center “friend of the court” filing to the Michigan Supreme Court in a case involving the Michigan Public Service Commission’s renewable-energy surcharge on electrical bills.
     
  170. Regulations Run Amok in Michigan: Part Two
     
  171. Regulations Run Amok in Michigan: Part One
     
  172. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 13, 2006
     
  173. Wise spending pays for killing biz tax
     
  174. Is Every "Choice" a Good One?
     
  175. Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!
     
  176. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 6, 2006
     
  177. Making State Agencies More Accountable
    Agencies and commissions have become so used to having free reign that they broadly construe their mission even where the Legislature only gives a particular agency or commission a limited task.
     
  178. Federal-Mogul Lesson: Get Rid of the SBT and Fix the Fundamentals
    What will it take before government understands that gimmicks don’t work, and that only fixing the fundamentals of our business climate through broad-based reforms will?
     
  179. Double-but-Nothing: More Education Spending Hasn't Yielded Better Results
    Our educational institutions usually do not create incentives for instructional improvement by rewarding effective teachers and sanctioning ineffective ones.
     
  180. Grover Cared
     
  181. Detroit Should Sell Tiger Stadium As Is
     
  182. Memorial Day: for the Love of Liberty
     
  183. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, May 2006
     
  184. Debate Workshops 2006
     
  185. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 30, 2006
     
  186. Character Makes All the Difference in the World
     
  187. Michigan Should End Its Tax Favoritism
     
  188. Michigan Education Report (2006-02)
     
  189. Sinking fund legislation could balloon local property tax millages
     
  190. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 23, 2006
     
  191. Secret Ballot?
     
  192. City of Sylvan Lake
     
  193. Mackinac Center President Comments on Passing of Herbert D. Doan, Chairman of the Dow Foundation
     
  194. Municipal Finance Expert Louis Schimmel Joins Mackinac Center
     
  195. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 16, 2006
     
  196. State College Money Should Follow Students, Not Lobbyists
     
  197. The State of the Great Lakes
     
  198. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 9, 2006
     
  199. Union Monitor
     
  200. The Wrong and Right Approaches to Michigan’s Economic Malaise
     
  201. Fair Share Plans Are Anything But
     
  202. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Michigan Education Association v. Superintendent of Public Instruction et al
     
  203. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 2, 2006
     
  204. 42 Days of Infamy? (General Article)
     
  205. Great Values, Great Movies
    In “The Patriot,”Mel Gibson’s character expresses skepticism about the American Revolution with a question that seems especially poignant today, when our own homegrown government takes more of our earnings in taxes than George III ever imagined possible: “Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away?"
     
  206. How Big Is Bush’s Big Government?
     
  207. Averaging Our Way to Average (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    The proposed mandate would substantially weaken the limited influence parents have in the current system.
     
  208. 42 Days of Infamy? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    We can speculate, however, that a worker might sign a public petition at the request of a friend, but vote another way when protected by privacy.
     
  209. A Voter’s Checklist for School Elections
     
  210. Law of the Land
     
  211. Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in MEA Lawsuit Involving Bay Mills Charter Schools
     
  212. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 25, 2006
     
  213. MEGA Grant Requests: What Companies Say
     
  214. Earth Day in Michigan: Room To Celebrate
     
  215. The Final Phase of the Great Depression
     
  216. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 18, 2006
     
  217. Around the State
     
  218. A Window Into Lawmakers’ Souls
     
  219. Federal Mogul: More Evidence that “Targeted Incentives” Don't Work
     
  220. The Best Way To Support the Arts
     
  221. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 11, 2006
     
  222. Regulation’s Real-World Impact
     
  223. The Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative: “Enlightened Self-Interest”
     
  224. A Magnificent Exposition
     
  225. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 4, 2006
     
  226. 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.
     
  227. Replacing the Single Business Tax With – Nothing
     
  228. An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy
     
  229. Protecting Art From Politicians
    Using tax dollars to fund artistic pursuits is not in the best interest of Michigan citizens.
     
  230. How To Replace the SBT With Nothing (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    Here’s how to save $1.855 billion by injecting competition into government operations, providing public employee fringe benefits comparable to (generous) Private-sector plans and eliminating non-core functions.
     
  231. Support the Arts: Just Don’t Use Other People’s Money
     
  232. IMPACT Winter/Spring 2006
     
  233. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 28, 2006
     
  234. MSAs Increase Freedom and Choice
     
  235. Irony in Ironwood
     
  236. Michigan’s Lemon Industrial Policy
     
  237. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 21, 2006
     
  238. Happy Anniversary, Free Speech!
     
  239. Testimony of Diane Katz Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
     
  240. The Downside of a Minimum Wage Increase
     
  241. Entertaining Art: To Tax or Not To Tax — That Is the Question
     
  242. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 14, 2006
     
  243. Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?
     
  244. Michigan Privatization Report (MPR)
    View the Michigan Privatization Report (MPR) and/or subscribe for a paper copy.
     
  245. Melville W. Fuller: A Model Chief Justice
     
  246. MESSA Reference Page
     
  247. Time to Revive Competition in Electricity Supply
     
  248. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 7, 2006
     
  249. Fixing Michigan's Fiscal Policy- 2006 Edition
    Michigan's economy has been losing ground to other states for half a century. Here's how to turn it around.
     
  250. Michigan Education Report (2006-01)
     
  251. Proposed Limitations and Expansions of Government
     
  252. A Supreme Court To Be Proud Of
    The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller did not stretch either the law or the Constitution beyond what the words said. When the justices found law to be in conflict with the Constitution, they usually sided with the latter, because liberty under the rule of law was their highest priority.
     
  253. Change To Win What?
    Organized labor has moved well beyond its core mission of championing workers’ issues to financing and promoting a range of policies and groups that have nothing to do with labor.
     
  254. Michigan’s Russian Roulette
    The governor’s five-year plan does not include reducing the cost of producing goods and services in Michigan — something that would attract industries trying to compete globally. Instead, the plan is built around the 21st Century Jobs Fund and other state programs that substitute central planning for the market process.
     
  255. Putting the Government's Cart Before the People's Horse
     
  256. How To Replace the SBT With Nothing
     
  257. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 28, 2006
     
  258. Michigan Can't Afford the Status Quo
     
  259. Around the State
     
  260. The Money Myth
     
  261. Michigan Cases in U.S. Supreme Court To Define Scope of Federal Wetlands Regulation
     
  262. Today’s Oral Arguments in U.S. Supreme Court Wetlands Cases Suggest Court Is “Concerned About Federal Encroachment”
     
  263. Search Instructions
     
  264. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 21, 2006
     
  265. Celebrating Black History Month, 2006
     
  266. Corn Flakes and Greatness
     
  267. Patterson: Blow Up the Single Business Tax
     
  268. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 14, 2006
     
  269. The State of the Michigan Economy
     
  270. We’ve Only Just Begun?
     
  271. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, February 2006
     
  272. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 7, 2006
     
  273. Government Golf: Unfair Competition Hurts Business, Taxpayers
    As citizens and taxpayers, we should be asking ourselves: Is golf one of the legitimate functions of government?
     
  274. Banks and Credit Unions: The Unlevel Playing Field
    Banks, especially small and mid-sized community banks, have been consistently losing market share to credit unions because the latter enjoy status as nonprofit financial cooperatives for tax purposes.
     
  275. Supporting Companies That Oppose Eminent Domain Abuse
     
  276. 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.
     
  277. Parents Still Have an Option to Check Kids’ Safety
     
  278. Change To Win What?
     
  279. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 31, 2006
     
  280. Past as Prologue: Will We Learn From History?
     
  281. State of the Statist
     
  282. Around the State
     
  283. Mackinac Center To Tally New Granholm Initiatives Tonight
     
  284. Time to Park Old Thinking
     
  285. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 24, 2006
     
  286. The Great Communicator
     
  287. Takeover of Detroit Schools Shows Few Intended Results
     
  288. Mackinac Center Reiterates Its Policy on Toyota Land Case
     
  289. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 17, 2006
     
  290. Keeping the Lights on for Privatization
     
  291. The First Phase of the Great Depression
     
  292. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in DPG York v. Michigan
    A Mackinac Center “friend of the court” filing to the Michigan Court of Appeals in a case involving the preferential sale of state land.
     
  293. Mackinac Center Files Legal Brief in Toyota Land Case
     
  294. Navigating Wetlands to the Supreme Court
     
  295. Wal-Mart Exposes Contradictions on the Left
     
  296. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 10, 2006
     
  297. New Data Shows Michigan Citizens Still Fleeing State
     
  298. Demography is Destiny
     
  299. The Sun Sets on “Opportunity Scholarships” in the Sunshine State
     
  300. An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities
     
  301. Michigan Landowners To Be Heard at U.S. Supreme Court
    Congress has effectively entered into land-use regulation, a domain traditionally left to state and local government. Worse, Congress delegated its authority to the Army Corps of Engineers, whose employees, whatever their expertise, never face the crucible of an election.
     
  302. Hope in State Graduation Standards Misplaced (Viewpoint on Policy Issues)
    Given state bureaucrats’ lack of success implementing the law’s one existing requirement, we should not place much hope in an additional mandate to fix public education or improve the economy.
     
  303. Happy 300th Birthday, Ben!
     
  304. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 3, 2006
     
  305. Public Pension Plans Need To Reflect Reality
    When it comes to defined benefits, corporations and municipalities have seen the warning signs and are changing course to avoid getting burned. Public school employee unions and their allies in Lansing would be wise to do the same.
     
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