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  1. Thoughts on Michigan’s Unemployment Rate
     
  2. Landmark Michigan Supreme Court Decision Puts Bounds on the Growing Power of State Agencies
     
  3. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in SBC Michigan v. Michigan Public Service Commission
     
  4. Mackinac Center Changes

     
  5. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 22, 2008
     
  6. Property Rights Video Collection
    The Mackinac Center's Property Rights Network is dedicated to preserving and expanding private property rights in Michigan.
     
  7. Out of Bounds
     
  8. Lean thinking for schools
     
  9. Reed to Become President Emeritus of Mackinac Center; Board Unanimously Names Lehman Successor
     
  10. An Intern’s Service to Michigan
     
  11. DEQ Permit Denial Sets Dangerous Precedent
     
  12. Document on UAW Web Site Outlined Strategy for 'Changing the Rules of Politics in Michigan to Help Democrats'
     
  13. Reform Michigan Government Now
     
  14. UAW-Posted PowerPoint Presentation on 'Reform Michigan Government Now' Proposal
     
  15. Legislative Alert
     
  16. Property Rights Network Promo
     
  17. Long on Words, Short on Reform
     
  18. ‘It’s hard, but it’s fun’
     
  19. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 15, 2008
     
  20. First class or 21st century?
     
  21. Aristotle on Mixed Economies
     
  22. IMPACT Summer 2008
     
  23. Biomonitoring and Controversy Surrounding a Great Lakes Pollution Study are Featured in the Latest Issue of MichiganScience
     
  24. Court of Appeals sides with schools in reporting cost case
    "The state Court of Appeals ruled that state officials have been shortchanging school districts by not compensating them for changes in reporting requirements."
     
  25. The First Attempt
     
  26. Plainwell schools add hours for struggling students
    "Dozens of Plainwell elementary school students who have trouble reading will come to school an hour early next fall."
     
  27. Student expelled after attack on freshman
    "A student from Wayland Union High School was expelled for her alleged role in a videotaped attack of a freshman student."
     
  28. GVSU decides not to reauthorize Kalamazoo charter school
    "Grand Valley State University has declined to renew the charter of Kalamazoo's Advantage Academy."
     
  29. DPS sues former employees for allegedly issuing illicit contracts
    "The Detroit Public Schools has filed a lawsuit against one of its former department managers for allegedly issuing more than $45 million in unauthorized contracts."
     
  30. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 8, 2008
     
  31. MichiganScience No. 7
    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.
     
  32. Teacher Quality: For Teachers Only to Judge?
     
  33. Latest Economic Numbers Confirm Failure of Status Quo
    The question that apologists for the status quo have failed to answer is why investors and job providers increasingly avoid Michigan.
     
  34. Changing Direction. Are We There Yet?
    Michigan’s political establishment has a proven ability to postpone the hard work of truly reforming and downsizing state government.
     
  35. Keep Michigan’s Successful Electricity Competition Law
    Given a state unemployment rate of more than 8.5 percent, Michigan cannot afford to abandon competition in electricity supply for the benefit of its two biggest utilities.
     
  36. Mackinac Center names essay contest winners
     
  37. West Ottawa Schools proceeds with tenure hearing
    "West Ottawa Public Schools is proceeding with its first tenure hearing in hopes of firing a teacher."
     
  38. Great Lakes Directional Drilling Ban Should be Lifted
     
  39. DPS board cuts 1,700 jobs
    “Detroit Public Schools will eliminate 1,700 jobs to stave off a $408 million budget deficit.”
     
  40. Resident concerned about Mesick contract ratification process
    "A Mesick man was reportedly "baffled" by the lack of transparency during teacher contract ratification procedures."
     
  41. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 1, 2008
     
  42. Fruitport schools financially stable due to schools of choice
    "The Fruitport Community Schools have bucked the trend of district financial troubles, due largely to the number of schools of choice students it receives each year."
     
  43. Northville unions agree to $1.2 million in concessions
    "Northville school support staff prevented the contracting of custodial, transportation and food services by accepting $1.2 million in concessions."
     
  44. Detroit not the only school district seeing red
     
  45. Michigan Privatization Digest - June 30, 2008
     
  46. A Teacher Quality Primer
    While it is true that Michigan students learn a variety of skills in their time at school, perhaps the most important charge of public schools, beyond providing a safe and healthy environment, is to ensure that students are learning their three R’s. Unfortunately, the achievement levels of Michigan public school students raise doubts about the quality of public education in the state. This volume has been written to assist policymakers at the state and local levels who want to initiate and support teacher quality reforms to improve K-12 public education in the state.
     
  47. MESSA costs go up 17.5 percent for Swan Valley
    Swan Valley schools is facing a $33,000 budget hole, thanks in part to a 17.5 percent increase in union insurance costs.
     
  48. DPS overspending pegged at $408 million for 2009
    Detroit Public Schools could cut 1,400 staff members in an attempt to solve a $408 million overspending issue in the fiscal 2009 budget.
     
  49. Petoskey to continue savings with food service privatization
    Petoskey schools has extended its contract with Chartwells after saving $150,000 in its food service program.
     
  50. Lawton administrators change insurance, share in savings
    Administrators in the Lawton Community Schools will share in the savings after agreeing to switch to a less expensive insurance.
     
  51. Gouging Consumers and Businesses Alike
     
  52. Alternative program considered a success in Westwood
     
  53. Divisive Government?
     
  54. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 24, 2008
     
  55. Hart Enterprises: A Wetland Case Study
    This study analyzes a dispute between Hart Enterprises Inc., a medical device manufacturer located north of Grand Rapids, and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. The department alleges that Hart Enterprises’ property contains a nearly one-acre wetland — an area that lies in the way of the company’s proposed expansion of its parking lot. Because of the DEQ’s ruling, the department expects the company to request a wetland permit — request that might be denied, or that might be granted only with significant conditions attached.

    Readers may view a supplemental video of Russ Harding interviewing Alan Taylor of Hart Enterprises.
     
  56. Legislative Alert
    Back to school for administrators?
     
  57. Author Discusses Teacher Quality Primer
     
  58. Issues and Ideas Forum, June 18, 2008
     
  59. Golf and University Privatization
     
  60. A Visible Difference: Observations from Warsaw
     
  61. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 17, 2008
     
  62. Detroit Cristo Rey: A new option in Catholic education
     
  63. An Unexpected Ally
     
  64. Mackinac Center hosting forum on teacher quality
    Mackinac Center hosting forum on teacher quality
     
  65. Many minority students don't graduate from high school
    Many minority students don't graduate from high school
     
  66. Detroit school receives grant for drug testing
    Detroit school receives grant for drug testing
     
  67. Grand Rapids high schools adjust attendance policies
    Grand Rapids high schools adjust attendance policies
     
  68. The Internet and F.A. Hayek
     
  69. Special ed parent: ‘We have not had a voice’
     
  70. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 10, 2008
     
  71. The Worst Legislature in Michigan History
    These failed policies will see Michigan taxpayers actually writing huge checks to politically “sexy” enterprises favored by political elites.
     
  72. Greenhouse Gas Accord Will Further Damage Michigan's Economy
    Michigan’s future energy policy is far too important to leave to the behind-closed-doors manipulation of government officials.
     
  73. Privatization Rolls on Despite Rhetorical Opposition (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
    Since our last survey, media reports from around the state indicate that additional schools are using privatization to yield savings.
     
  74. House-Passed Legislation Threatens Michigan’s Water Rights
     
  75. Advertising on Michigan Education Report
     
  76. What’s the Purpose of a Tax?
     
  77. Issues and Ideas Forum, June 4, 2008
     
  78. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 3, 2008
     
  79. Missed deadline costs teacher more in union fees
     
  80. State Should Help Rank and File Monitor Unions
     
  81. Legislative Alert
     
  82. The High Cost of Government Regulation
     
  83. Martin “Marty” Wing: Rest in Peace
     
  84. Fifteen years later, home-school parents say legal battle was worth it
    Mark and Chris DeJonge built a home recently in Shelbyville in rural western Michigan, where they continue to teach their younger children. The couple was happy to retire from the public eye after a 10-year legal battle over requiring home-schoolers to provide certified teachers as instructors.
     
  85. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 27, 2008
     
  86. Creeping Socialism: The “Health Care for Michigan” Initiative
     
  87. 30 Michigan high schools on Newsweek’s top school list
    30 Michigan high schools on Newsweek’s top school list
     
  88. Michigan Doesn’t Need More Electricity Regulation
     
  89. How one district overhauled its academic plan
    Gladwin Superintendent Rick Seebeck describes his district’s push to improve
     
  90. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 20, 2008
     
  91. Michigan’s Climate Consultant Skews Cost Estimates
     
  92. Detroit Schools $45 million in debt, may see another state takeover
    Detroit Schools $45 million in debt, may see another state takeover
     
  93. May/June 2008 Michigan Capitol Confidential articles
     
  94. Tuition Tax Credit program signed into law in Georgia
    Tuition Tax Credit program signed into law in Georgia
     
  95. Michigan students struggle to pass Algebra I
    Michigan students struggle to pass Algebra I
     
  96. Proposals to Suppress Competition in Electricity and Mandate Renewable Energy Use Would Raise Prices Without Improving Service or Environment
     
  97. Proposals to Further Regulate Michigan’s Electricity Market: An Assessment
    More than a dozen bills are pending in the Michigan Legislature to expand regulation of the electricity industry and to impose new environmental requirements on energy production and sales. As a group, these legislative proposals assume the necessity of government intervention in the production and distribution of energy. This report details the drawbacks for consumers and the economy of substituting political forces for market forces in electricity service.
     
  98. Dearborn charters struggle to keep up on state tests
    Dearborn charters struggle to keep up on state tests
     
  99. Oak Park chief of staff purchases personal shower, gym on school property
    Oak Park chief of staff purchases personal shower, gym on school property
     
  100. Charter school research presents unique obstacles
     
  101. Grand Rapids Schools contract for custodial services
    Grand Rapids Schools contract for custodial services.
     
  102. Flint Schools pink slip another 28 employees
    Flint Schools pink slip another 28 employees
     
  103. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 13, 2008
     
  104. Michigan Privatization Digest - April 30, 2008
     
  105. Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in Grand Rapids Case Involving Privatization of School Bus Services and Public-Sector Unions
     
  106. New high school graduation requirements in action
     
  107. Michigan Education Digest Daily
    Pinckney Community Schools is closing an elementary school
     
  108. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 6, 2008
     
  109. School leader wins iPod
     
  110. Michigan’s Tax and Business Incentive Climate
     
  111. 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.
     
  112. Shedding light on teacher contracts
     
  113. 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.
     
  114. 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.
     
  115. 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.
     
  116. Students for a Free Economy Wins Fisher Award
     
  117. Show Michigan the Money
     
  118. Much to be Done
     
  119. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 29, 2008
     
  120. Issues and Ideas Forum, April 29, 2008
     
  121. Register for Michigan Education Report
     
  122. The Right-to-Work Advantage in Economic Growth: A Look at Past Performance
     
  123. 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.
     
  124. T-1 Could Help Terminate Union Financial Abuse
     
  125. Michigan Transparency

    Encouraging good government by informing citizens.


     
  126. Mackinac Center’s “Show Michigan the Money” Project Prompts Michigan Department of State to Post Unprecedented Detail in Department Spending
     
  127. Paving Over the Truth
     
  128. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 22, 2008
     
  129. How to Contact Michigan Education Report
     
  130. Kudos to Macomb County
     
  131. ‘Data-driven’ in Michigan
     
  132. Ethanol May Not be as Environmentally Friendly as Some Claim
     
  133. Mackinac Center Provides School District Employee Union Contracts to Public
     
  134. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 15, 2008
     
  135. Government Golf Slices City Revenue
     
  136. Keep the Electoral College
     
  137. A Fallacious Argument Against Electricity Competition
     
  138. 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.
     
  139. Legislators’ Hollywood Dreams Defy Economic Reality
     
  140. Should Home-Schoolers Beware?
     
  141. Author to Speak About Free-Market Health Care Alternatives
     
  142. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 8, 2008
     
  143. Increased Federal Jurisdiction on Michigan Wetlands a Bad Idea
     
  144. Colleges: ‘Wait and see’ on Detroit charter schools
     
  145. 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.
     
  146. 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..
     
  147. 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.
     
  148. New Smog Rules Unfair to Western Michigan
     
  149. Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis
     
  150. Michigan Education Digest Daily
     
  151. Privatization Review a Mixed Bag
     
  152. 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.
     
  153. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 1, 2008
     
  154. Defending Liberty for Twenty Years
     
  155. Grab Bag Government
     
  156. IMPACT Spring 2008
     
  157. Personal Income Figures Show That the Michigan Slide Continues
     
  158. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 25, 2008
     
  159. Private special ed school might be forced out of building
     
  160. Mamet on the Money
     
  161. Expand the Principles of Proposal A
     
  162. The Times That Tried Men’s Economic Souls
     
  163. “20/20” Investigative Reporter John Stossel to Address Health Care at University of Michigan
     
  164. “20/20” Investigative Reporter John Stossel to Address Health Care at Central Michigan University
     
  165. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 18, 2008
     
  166. Expanding Access to Health Care — A Free Market Perspective
     
  167. School District Checkbook Register Report
     
  168. Simic Verses Lloyd
     
  169. Celebrating Sunshine Week: Mackinac Center Launches School Checkbook Transparency Project
     
  170. New State Job Loss Figures Confirm Need for Policy Reforms
     
  171. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 11, 2008
     
  172. Poetry Slam
     
  173. People Must Demand Honesty and Integrity in Their Leaders
     
  174. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 4, 2008
     
  175. 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.
     
  176. 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.
     
  177. 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.
     
  178. What Michigan Can Do to Improve its Labor Climate
     
  179. Government Education Reinvents Government
     
  180. Michigan Privatization Digest - February 29, 2008
     
  181. Michigan Education Report (2008-01)
     
  182. William F. Buckley Jr., RIP
     
  183. For Further Reading
     
  184. Who is Your Lawmaker?
     
  185. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 26, 2008
     
  186. Protecting Private Property Rights Benefits Michigan’s Economy
     
  187. Report: Biomonitoring an Important New Tool in Evaluating Health Risks
     
  188. 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.
     
  189. Fuel Hikes Won’t Spur Public Transit
     
  190. 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.


     
  191. Requiem for a Union Local
     
  192. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 19, 2008
     
  193. 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.
     
  194. Privatization Revolution
     
  195. Government Spending Continues No Matter What
     
  196. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 12, 2008
     
  197. Russ Harding to Discuss Property Rights
     
  198. Lawsuit Should Promote Regulatory Accountability
     
  199. A Taxing Question
     
  200. 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.
     
  201. Governor Criticized for Wrong Thing on SOS Prison Proposals
     
  202. Climate Change Debate at MSU
     
  203. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 5, 2008
     
  204. What I Want to Read in 2008
     
  205. 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.
     
  206. 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.
     
  207. 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.
     
  208. How MESSA and the MEA Work
     
  209. A Flawed Argument for Higher State Taxes
     
  210. Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis, February-March 2008
     
  211. Expansion Defeats Limitation in Governor’s Speech
     
  212. Environmental Researchers to Discuss “When Green is Mean” at University of Michigan
     
  213. Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s 2008 State of the State Address
     
  214. Tally of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations in State of the State Address Will be Available After Speech
     
  215. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 29, 2008
     
  216. Gov. Granholm Proposes Record 24 Expansions of Government and Four Limitations in 2008 State of the State Address
     
  217. Right-to-Work Mythbusters
     
  218. Globalization is Good for Michigan
     
  219. MEA Document Provides Interesting Details
     
  220. Davey Award Winner
     
  221. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 22, 2008
     
  222. Inflation Is Still With Us
     
  223. Michigan Privatization Digest - January 10, 2008
     
  224. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 15, 2008
     
  225. A Really Gross Domestic Product
     
  226. Mission Creep
     
  227. A Great (Lake) Decision
     
  228. IMPACT Winter 2007
     
  229. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 8, 2008
     
  230. 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


     
  231. 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.”
     
  232. 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.
     
  233. Let the Union Buyer Beware
    On average, union employees spent 41 percent of their time representing members, according to their own report.
     
  234. How to Fix What's Broken
     
  235. Michigan Leads the Nation in Outbound Moves
     
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