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- Michigan Supreme Court Wrong on FOIA
- Michigan Supreme Court Denies Appeal of Disastrous Lower Court Decision in Freedom of Information Act Case
- Political Gridlock Is a Good Thing
- The Rose-Colored Glasses of Political Dusk
- Regulation Without Representation Alive and Well in Washington
- Annual Missed Votes Report from MichiganVotes.org
- Show and Tell
- School Funding in Michigan: Common Myths
- Your Favorites: 2010
- Chevy Volt Will Win Car of the Year
- Gov. Granhom Claims Ignorance of MEGA Failures
- Is Silence Golden?
- Saugatuck Township Uses Zoning Laws to Thwart Private Property Rights
- Poor ROI for K-12 Schools in Michigan and the US
- Nearly 3,000 Roll Call Votes of State Representatives and Senators Tallied for 2009-2010
- Wu-Wu’s Dystopian Petals: A Review of “The Master Switch” by Tim Wu
- Deals and Myths for Christmas
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 21, 2010
- Grateful for President Obama
- The Mackinac Center Is not 'Pro-Business'
- California Leads Nation in Green Economic Suicide
- Editorial Cites Center Analyst on Teacher Insurance
- When Is an Emergency Not an Emergency?
- Christmas Giving Fills School Buses
- Projections vs. Reality
- More federal money for K-12 called unlikely
- Ann Arbor seeks to fire two teachers
- MichiganVotes.org Dec. 17 Weekly Roll Call Report
- The Return of the Company Union
- Update on New Teacher Contracts
- Benchmarking Benefits Methodology Sheet
- Study: High Cigarette Taxes Cause Widespread Smuggling in Michigan, Elsewhere in U.S.
- Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling 2010
- Where There's Cigarette Taxes, There's Smuggling
- Lawsuit says contract illegally prohibits privatization
- Mackinac Center Analysts Pioneered Prison Sentencing/Cost Reform 'Grand Bargain' Proposals
- Study: Worst schools stay open
- Center Suing Kent County Schools, Unions Over 'No-Privatization' Contract Language
- All The Cool Guvs Are Doing It
- Privatize the University of Michigan?
- New Tax Money Will Not Fix Brownfield Process
- IMPACT Winter 2010
- Gladwin leaves MESSA
- Center Analyst Addressed MEA Pay
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 14, 2010
- District, Union Drop Illegal Contract Language Following Suit
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Files Suit Against 10 Kent County School Districts, KCEA, on Behalf of Taxpayers
- Weak dollar brings in foreign students
- Two Governors
- Vocabulary Lesson
- Climate Negotiations Carry a Chilling Message
- Columnist Cites Center Study on Union Disclosure
- State Taxpayers Can Benefit from School, University and Local Government Benefits Reforms
- Kent County School Services Privatization Lawsuit
- Survey: Social studies teachers agree on content, not impact
- Structural Overspending in Michigan’s State Budget: One Way to Fix It
- How to Save $500 Million on Michigan Schools
- Ann Arbor gets extra Great Start money
- Owosso eyes salary, benefit cuts to resolve deficit
- Blueprint for Success
- Bid for Support, Planning Ahead, Par for the Course
- Look to Michigan for a Lesson in What Not to Do
- An Appealing Appeal
- California parents demand switch to charter
- Forget the Election, Focus on Outcomes
- Fieldstone Golf Course Should Be Sold
- Michigan's Cost of Trusting Pols to 'Do What's Right': $11.5 Billion
- ObamaCare's Clear and Present Michigan Budget Danger
- The Underfunded Myth
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Asks Michigan Supreme Court to Review Day Care Union Case
- Salters’ compensation approaching $300,000
- GlobalWatt Sells Someone Else’s Solar Panels – on eBay
- Teacher Tenure Law Needs Changed
- Harding Addresses Regulatory Concerns
- Follow-Up MichiganVotes.org Dec. 3 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Wins and losses in Detroit
- National Park Rangers Rewriting History?
- Warren Woods School District Pays Nearly Double the Private-Sector Average for Health Insurance
- Editorial: End PLAs
- MichiganVotes.org Dec. 3 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Overton Window Cited by Columnist
- Property Rights Come in Many Forms
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 7, 2010
- Don't Tenure Current Teacher Tenure Law
- Patterson, Center's Birmingham Event Cited
- Government Spending Over Par, Overpriced
- Are Intermediate School Districts Bloated?
- Why Do Michigan’s Failed Economic Programs Stick Around?
- Protecting Michigan’s Health Care System
- Lawmakers OK Sale of School for the Deaf Site
- DPS launches ‘full inclusion’ effort
- Cass Tech still a hangout, but not for students
- Littmann: Don't Extend Unemployment Payments
- No Free Lunch for Failing Schools
- Some local districts forego ‘Race’ money
- Mutual Honor Society
- Ethanol for Duckies
- ‘Edujobs’ money approved
- ISD Bloat Redux
- Traverse City Schools Set Transparency Precedent
- Trustees say reporting mandate should stop
- In Memory of Peter C. Cook
- More on an Autism Insurance Coverage Mandate
- Michigan School Privatization Survey 2010
- Center Analyst Debunks School Funding Myths
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 30, 2010
- Just Keep Saying 'No' to Costly State Insurance Mandates
- Littmann: Hold Fed Accountable
- Exactly What Unions Are Expected to Do
- Traverse City Puts Bargaining Details Online
- Big Labor Vs. Lansing Entrepreneur
- Jack McHugh Cited on 'Political Careerists'
- RNC Chairman Candidate Favors Net Neutrality
- Gov. Granholm's 'Mighty Wind' More a Light Breeze
- Students to get mobile phones for homework help
- Right-to-Work: Resistance Is Feudal
- Does Anyone Still Believe in Ethanol?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 23, 2010
- Hohman: State Employee Pay, Benefits Costly
- Harding: Regulatory Reform Needed
- Editorial: Reform Teacher Pay, Benefits
- School’s ‘green’ initiative to include cost-benefit analysis
- Rothwells Good Choice for Snyder, LaFaive Says
- Teachers switch insurance, receive pay hikes
- "Green Energy" Subsidy Factory — not just Cap & Trade — the Real Test for GOP Energy Chair
- Public can’t see new pact before board vote
- MichiganVotes.org Nov. 19 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Reading Between the Billboard Lines
- Teacher salaries a budget target
- ‘Fantastic’ Food and Energy — Let’s Get Real
- Editorials Draw From Michigan Capitol Confidential
- Michigan Falls to Bottom 10 in Key Economic Measure
- School Transparency Laws Finally Catching Up With Mackinac Center Analysts' Research
- Littmann on GM IPO
- Fuel-Economy Standards Debate Could Shift
- Detroit Students Hostages to the Union
- How to Swipe $200K From Your Union
- Unity Studios: Whose Unhappy Ending?
- Tear Down This 'Film Industry' Facade
- Ethanol a 'Solution'? Think Again.
- Governor's Picks for the Civil Service Commission Will Matter
- Saugatuck School District Saves Big on Insurance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 16, 2010
- Weekly MichiganVotes.org Roll Call Vote Report
- College acts against potential financial aid fraud
- Catholic academy intended to attract Latino students
- Wishful Reporting of Governor’s Investment Missions
- More on the School Employee Concession Myth
- Michigan Should Reject High-Speed Rail Money
- Thirst Quencher — Capitalizing on the California Exodus
- Taxpayer Dollars, Not Politics, Makes the Difference in Broadcast News
- Contract talks may hold up $25 million grant
- Veteran’s Woes Illustrate Problem With Government Health Care
- Sen. Switalski: Don't Ban Double-Dating
- Hangar42 Investor in Court Today
- Bill would limit tenure to “effective” teachers
- Sen. Cassis's 'Going Away Present' to Taxpayers
- Labor Files
- Government Subsidies for Green Power Risky
- David Littmann on Gas Prices
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 9, 2010
- Tiger Stadium proposed charter school site
- Michigan's Regulatory Climate Drives Businesses and Jobs to States With Fewer Barriers, According to New Mackinac Center Study
- MSU Continues Plagiarism Investigation
- Minimum Wage Hypocrisy in Congress
- Trimming Ethanol Subsidies Early Test for New GOP Congress and Michigan Legislature
- A MichiganVotes.org Apology to Rep. Dave Agema
- Story Broken by Michigan Capitol Confidential Becomes Front-Page News in Lansing State Journal
- State Supreme Court Will Hear MEA PAC case
- Keeping Homeless Youth in School is Project Goal
- Hydraulic Fracturing the Key to Michigan’s Energy Future
- It Shouldn’t Take a Superhero to Fix Public Education
- MEGA “GlobalWatt” Deal Raises Questions
- Bus Drivers to Get Pay Raise, Time Off
- Union Criticism May Have Helped Candidate Win
- MichiganVotes.org Nov. 5 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Getting Railroaded?
- District loses $3.7 million in alleged Ponzi scheme
- Beast of Burden
- Why Do Michigan’s Failed Economic Programs Stick Around?
- Transform Medicaid First
- Michigan’s Economy: From Worst to Average
- GM IPO Raises Questions
- Newspaper: Union Postcard Got It Wrong
- The Real Work Is After the Election
- Renewable Electricity 'Net Metering' Capacity: 1/28,000 of Michigan’s Total Needs
- Elected Officials Work for the People, not the Government
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 2, 2010
- Center President Addresses Ballot Proposals
- MEA, MESSA to Get Aid for Retiree Health Care
- Tax Hike Would Fund Whose Future?
- IMPACT Fall 2010
- Bloated Regulatory System Hurts Agriculture
- School Funding Myths, Privatization Featured
- Crippling Our Economic Competitiveness
- DHS Funding Continues for Forced Unionization
- The School Employee Concessions Myth
- Supreme Court won’t hear teacher case
- Michigan Court of Appeals Judges – Not on the Same Page?
- The myth of the ‘highly qualified’ teacher
- Michigan Court of Appeals Denies Motion to Recommit — Once Again Without Comment — in Day Care Union Case
- Trustee: Sell schools to prevent vandalism
- Mike Barone Gets It
- Overregulation Killing Economic Recovery
- Is College Accessibility Really a Problem?
- MEA Ignoring Membership
- Carrot and stick for Detroit parents
- The Alternatives: New Media
- Lehman Cited in National Review on Elections
- And They Think California Is a Lost Jobs Basketcase?
- Green for Green
- An Evening With the Mackinac Center
- Michigan Mediocre on New Business Tax Climate Index (and Awful on MBT)
- ISD Bloat?
- Government Benefits Outpace Private Firms
- Union recommends Democrats to its conservative members
- Superintendent pay sparks headlines
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 26, 2010
- Tax Rates Matter
- Natural Resources the Key to Energy Security
- How to Create Jobs
- Retirement Benefits for Public School and State Employees Significantly Above Those in Michigan’s Private Sector, According to New Mackinac Center Study
- Low-income numbers on rise in Dearborn
- Michigan’s Public-Employee Retirement Benefits: Benchmarking and Managing Benefits and Costs
- Reforming Michigan’s Auto Insurance Industry
- Report: Half of Michigan college students graduate
- Armada teacher receives $25,000 Milken Award
- Political Careerists to Dominate Legislature
- Oct. 22 Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Virg Bernero on Education: Was Lost, But Now He's Found
- GlobalWatt Finds Colorado Partner
- New Energy Policy for a New Governor
- Jail time for missing conferences?
- Bribing Voters?
- Oops! $300k School Super Under-Reports Pay
- Con-Con: No Pros, Just Cons
- Superintendent getting $300k retiring
- The Alternatives
- Healthcare Corporatism
- Livonia super gets $50k raise
- Environmental Regulation in Michigan
- Political Careerism and Current Legislature Candidates
- Good News on Natural Gas Threatened by Regulatory Overreach
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 19, 2010
- New 2011 Legislators 88 Percent Political Careerists
- 'Rich States, Poor States'
- Unelected EPA Bureaucrats Threat to Rule of Law
- Recaps of New Teacher Contracts
- Fees and Thank You
- Unions Would Benefit From a Right-to-Work Law
- In deficit, Ishpeming privatizes custodial work
- Albion looks to lure back students
- L. Brooks Patterson at Center Event
- Center Files Motion in Forced Unionization Case
- A 19th Century Solution to a 21st Century Issue
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief to Michigan Supreme Court in Michigan Education Association v. Secretary of State
- Green Investments Yield Little ‘Green’
- MEA lawsuit may be costing teaching jobs
- Bare-Knees-Over-Broken-Glass to Vote for Local Tax Hikes?
- EPA Decision a Boon for Mechanics and Lawyers
- Go for the Movie, Stay for the Audience Reaction
- 'An Evening With the Mackinac Center' Live Video
- Federal school money on hold
- Mackinac Center Files Motion for Reconsideration in Home-Based Day Care Union Case
- How to Hold Elected Officials Accountable
- An Evening With the Mackinac Center
- Pontiac Contracts With Oakland County Sheriff for Police Services
- Teachers Picket as One of Michigan's Wealthiest School Districts Faces Big Deficit
- Taylor announces concessions
- MEA tops lobbyist spending list
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 12, 2010
- Bailout Wal-Mart?
- Lack of Transparency at MEDC, MEGA
- Constitutional Convention Not the Answer
- Putting education on speed dial
- Mackinac Center Idea Tops Bestseller List
- Flier on candidate reception draws questions
- The play’s the thing
- Governor: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose on Job Projections
- Governor Describes Film Subsidies as Jobs Program, so "Why Not Give Them Spoons?"
- Pocket Full of Kryptonite
- Poor Subsidizing Rich to Buy New Cars
- How to Fix Flint Schools
- Covert asks for cash advance
- Government Subsidy Deal Off for Competitor to Lansing Restaurant Owners
- Beacon of Truth
- Global Warming Fears a Threat to National Security
- Slaves to Green Ideology
- Pseudo School 'Cuts'
- Joe Lehman on Comcast Newsmakers
- State of Embarrassment
- GlobalWatt Media Coverage Goes National; MEDC Gives Texas Different Story
- North Carolina's Lessons for Michigan
- Horse Racetracks Are Beneficiaries and Victims of State's Gambling Schizophrenia
- DPS willing to sell to charter operators
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 5, 2010
- Taxpayers Never Get Early Retirement from Paying for Government Pensions
- A Little Good News for Kids and Taxpayers
- Choice and Privatization Reform for Basic Welfare Services
- Consolidating School Districts Won’t Save Michigan $600 Million
- Michigan Schools Contract Out More Than Ever (Viewpoint)
- Baltimore would end ‘step’ increases
- Schools pay more for retirement
- GR Press Cites Mackinac Center Study on Public School District Consolidation
- Bad Week for Michigan Corporate Welfare Machine
- Michigan FY 2011 Budget Ignores the Problem
- Muskegon enrollment down by 800
- A Plan to End ‘ObamaCare’ — and the Current Health Care Status Quo
- Recaps of New Teachers Union Contracts
- MEA: Merit Pay Works!
- Media Reporting on MEGA Investigation
- Parents say volunteer screening is unfair
- Life is Good for State Employees
- Bill would require schools to hold policies, not MESSA
- GlobalWatt Claims on Applications for MEGA Deals Disputed, Raise Questions About MEDC Scrutiny
- MEGA Questions Surround GlobalWatt
- GlobalWatt's the Deal?
- Politician Embraces Center Idea
- Detroiters May Lose Right to Garden
- Reconsidering Worker Rights
- Big Savings With School Contracting
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 28, 2010
- Hangar 42 Issues Unresolved
- Court of Appeals Dismisses Forced Unionization Case Again
- Superintendent defends salary
- State may sell, then lease back School for the Deaf site
- State Park Campground Additions a Bad Idea
- Sept. 24 Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Panel would study service consolidation
- Michigan Court of Appeals’ Second Terse Dismissal of Day Care Union Suit Again Fails to Address Core Legal Questions
- Ain't No Party Like a Chrysler Party
- We Still Need to Reform Teacher Pay
- A Chance at Redemption: How the UAW Can Learn From the Past
- Study: Bonus pay didn’t improve student performance
- Broken Windows on Display in Michigan Senate Finance Committee
- More Taxpayer Money for Social Engineering
- Legislators Realizing Center Scholars Were Correct
- Clio, intermediate district at odds over GenNET
- Would Tea Partiers Favor Wealth Redistribution Without the Bureaucracy?
- Virtual Learning Forum
- Teacher retirements may not be helping newcomers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 21, 2010
- Littmann: How to Fix Michigan
- May elections will cost schools more
- Students use public transit
- Schools would become senior housing
- Study Verifies What Center Analysts Have Known All Along Regarding Failure of Film Subsidies
- Court of Appeals Must Explain Itself
- Sept. 17 Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Escape Is Never the Safest Path
- ‘Lab school’ would offer teacher training
- Bloated Public Sector Hurts Job Growth
- Issues And Ideas Forum Live Video
- Michigan Supreme Court Votes Unanimously to Require Michigan Court of Appeals to Explain Its Rejection of Day Care Unionization Lawsuit
- East Grand Rapids limits choice enrollment
- Issues & Ideas Forum, Sept. 16, 2010
- Lawsuit Over Forced Unionization Gets Green Light
- Michigan School Privatization Up 8 Percent
- Bay City schools could move election
- More schools than ever privatizing services
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 14, 2010
- Consolidating School Districts Won’t Save Michigan $600 Million
- 'The Star-Spangled Banner': A Key to My Past
- 'Jobs' Fund: More Funds Than Jobs?
- ‘Edujobs’ rules leave out many charter teachers
- Special education numbers down
- Storm Front
- Flint Transit Manager: MichCapCon Story 'Accurate'
- Center Analysts Cited on Job Growth, Road Construction
- Detroit Public Schools Students Bear the Pain of Limited Educational Opportunities
- School Aid Fund surplus sent to community colleges
- Public School Support Service Privatization Increases 8.0 Percent in Michigan
- Michigan Schools Contract Out More Than Ever
- State Budget Deal Kicks Can Down the Road to New Guys
- Districts choose improvement plans
- Cool Cities Are Not So Cool When You Don't Have a Job
- Grand Rapids Press Recognizes Importance of Right-to-Work in Michigan's Future
- School invests in solar
- Michigan Public School Health Insurance Costs Soar Above National Trends
- Plagiarism, Credibility Issues for MSU Study
- Common School Funding Myths
- The Unstable Funding Myth
- The Sales Tax and Lottery Myth
- The School Employee Concession Myth
- Professor says consolidation study misapplied his work
- Districts bargain raises, insurance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 7, 2010
- Joe Lehman and David Littmann to Speak at West Michigan Policy Forum
- Studying Right to Work
- Worth the Wait?
- Licensing Requirements Help Trade Associations More Than Consumers
- Sept. 3 Michigan Legislature Report
- Teachers union sues Detroit Public Schools
- Right-to-Work: Looking Back, Moving Forward
- Holland wants legal opinion on rate hike
- Taking Stimulus Dollars Isn’t Hypocritical
- Free Press Column Riffs on The MC
- Plagiarism Investigation Continues at MSU
- Charter schools begin to specialize
- Improve your search with these tips
- Republican Vows — Seven Lean Years Later
- 10-year-old can't enroll in Windsor high school
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 31, 2010
- The 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry: A March to Liberty
- Right-to-Work Is Right for Michigan
- Principal sees potential in Facebook
- Students featured in reality show
- Schools receive automatic ‘A’ for reporting
- Phony 'Sandbox Party' Uses Taxpayer Dollars to Lobby for More Goverment Spending
- It Would Be a Living...
- Aug. 27 Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Retirement spree means no DPS layoffs
- Tea Partiers, Conventions, Politicians and Real Change
- Horse Racing Subsidies Fail to Win, Place or Show
- July Was a Good Month for Michigan
- Merit Pay in Mt. Clemens?
- Littmann: UAW in a 'Time Warp'
- Flight Fight
- Union: Federal money should end privatization
- Disaster Losses From Global Warming Debunked
- Snyder the Tax Cutter?
- Community colleges want to offer baccalaureates
- This Time It’s Liquor Distribution
- Plagiarism at MSU? You Decide.
- ...And a Few More Questions for Virg
- Environmentalism Is a Threat to Liberty
- MSU Investigates School Consolidation Study
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 24, 2010
- 2010 Awards
- Michigan Legislature No Slouch at Fiscal Malpractice
- Schools Start to Comply With Transparency Law
- State, National Media Report on Possible Plagiarism in MSU School Consolidation Study
- About half of districts posting financial data
- Another Year of Hollow School “Progress” Reports
- DPS ordered to bring back union guards
- Performance pay in Mount Clemens
- Plagiarism, Flawed MSU Studies, and the People vs. the Ruling Class
- Another Question for Snyder
- Questionable MSU Scholarship Hurts Policy Debate
- Aug. 20 Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Pay Attention to Candidates' Stance on Subsidies
- MSU: 'Full Year' to Investigate Plagiarism Issue
- Granholm: Give surplus to community colleges
- PowerPoint Postscript
- MSU Consolidation Study Seriously Flawed
- Center Analyst Alerts Grand Rapids Press to Possible Plagiarism in MSU Study on Which it Reported
- FOIA Lawsuit Should Continue
- Michigan Film Subsidy Program Shortcomings
- Montessori program gains charter status
- Choice and Privatization Reform for Basic Welfare Services
- Plagiarism in MSU Study?
- Michael LaFaive, Ralph Nader: Separated at Birth?
- Environmentalists Missing in Action on Protecting Great Lakes From Wind Farms
- Government Press Release Journalism
- City's 'Free Land' Offer Not Quite a Modern 'Homestead Act'
- Nearly 19,000 apply for 71 teacher jobs
- Center Analyst: MSU School Consolidation Study Appears to Contain Plagiarized Material
- 'Edujobs' Will Hurt Public Schools
- Consolidation vs. cooperation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 17, 2010
- Low-Carbon Fuel Standard a Gift to Ethanol Lobby
- 'Bail Out Irresponsible Unions Act' Proposal Getting 11th Hour Push in Congress
- The Defendants Plead Guilty, Your Honor
- The Secret of Economic Growth in Michigan
- Center Analysts at Heart of School Funding Issues
- Los Angeles Times rates city teachers
- The Public Employee Union Problem
- Bill would facilitate tribal language courses
- College comes early for home-schoolers
- Guide Someone Hunting on National Forest Land and You Could be Breaking the Law
- Aug. 13 Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Asking the Questions Others Won't
- Interest payments eat into revenue
- An Open Letter to Rick Snyder
- This Economic Engine Needs a Tune-up
- Explaining Why Public Schools Are 'Broke'
- "Edujobs" Fact Check, Part II
- Student loans surpass credit card debt
- An Open Letter to Virg Bernero
- 'Laid Off Teachers' a Fiction
- Public Sector Still Doing All Right
- 'EduJobs' Fact Check
- The Foundation Allowance Myth
- Riverview restores busing
- New Report Misses the Mark on Higher Education
- Teachers Should Pay Fair Share of Health Care
- Michigan Primaries a Tea Party Failure?
- Wind Power Will Blow Household Budgets
- School leaders: MESSA facing more competition
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 10, 2010
- Our Economics Knowledge Deficit
- More MEA Obfuscation
- Governor, DHS Disagree on Small-Business Owners They Forced Into Union
- Impure Michigan
- The Unequal Funding Myth
- Oakland County Gives Local Governments Something to Shoot For
- MEA Lawsuit on Retiree Health Benefits Misguided
- College president wants out of MPSERS
- Proposal: Turn high school into university center
- FBI to review Pontiac finances
- Governor's Role in Forced Unionization Case
- Mail Call
- Aug. 6 Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Grantees say they’ll spend money in Michigan
- Breaking News: Complaint Filed Against Hangar42 Principals
- Michigan Capitol Confidential Coverage Goes National
- A Rocking Good Time
- ‘Edujobs’ said to benefit unions
- Center Video: Gov. Granholm Boasts of Role in Forced Unionization of Home Day Care Workers
- The Granholm-AFSCME Partnership
- Bob King's First Amendment
- MEGA Careful?
- Hangar42 in Court
- IMPACT Summer 2010
- Summer school at farmers market
- Hangar42 Deal Shows Misguided Incentive Policies
- Parks and Wrecks
- Editorial on Tax Subsidies Ignores Facts
- Will reform proceed without 'Race' money?
- Court: Teachers can sue over assaults
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 3, 2010
- Mackinac Center Ideas Permeate Primary Election
- Charges Filed in Film Studio Deal
- School Funding Myths Explored, Corrected
- Lansing board considers downsizing itself
- Charge Filed in Hangar42 Case Shows Greater Need for Transparency in State Government, Center Analyst Says
- The Class Size Myth
- States reconsider scholarships
- DPS to require pre-algebra in seventh grade
- Here's Michigan's REAL Tea Party
- Michigan Education Association May Help Fund Oklahoma Revenue Grab
- Michigan Capitol Confidential Stirs Radio Discussion
- Michigan's REAL Tea Party Groups and Leaders
- Islamic Academy plans expansion
- No Conversation Allowed
- Let He Who Is Without Jobs Sin Cast the First Stone
- We Report. They Decide
- United States no Longer Among Top Nations in Protecting Private Property Rights
- Michael Moore Film Subsidy Blog Picked Up by Other Media
- Students can choose: Business or ‘green’
- Dangers of Status Quo Budgeting in Higher Education
- Migration Troubling, Especially in Michigan
- Greatest Tragedy of Gulf Oil Spill Isn't Environmental
- Michigan out of ‘Race’
- Students for a Free Economy Celebrates Milton Friedman Legacy Day
- Luxury Is Not an Illness That Needs Cured
- Michigan’s meaningless teacher certification reform
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 27, 2010
- University to offer programs at charter site
- Michael Moore Appears Ready to Take Film Subsidy for Anti-Subsidy Film
- It's Not Rocket Science
- New State Data Show Michigan Public Schools Spent Record Amount Per-Student
- Poll: Voters split on mayoral oversight of DPS
- Community college sets higher entry bar
- Bill would require 200-day school year
- MichiganVotes.org July 23 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Cap-and-Trade Dead but Not Gone
- Ann Arbor 'Sculpturegate' Gets National Attention; Fox News Appearance
- About Those Companies Getting All the Electric Car Battery Subsidies ...
- Michael LaFaive Discusses 'Sculpturegate' on Fox News
- MME shows slight improvement
- Bill Reveals New Politically Correct Economic Development
- Federal Government Wants to Decide Which Car Models Americans Drive
- Mandatory Fire Sprinklers – Reigniting or Fizzling Out?
- Regular Joe
- Michigan standards get mixed grades
- Derailed: Michigan Should Heed Greece's Experience With Light Rail
- Clarenceville privatizes custodial services
- Inside the Overton Window
- Chetly Zarko, RIP
- New Teacher’s 'Hybrid' Pension Label a Phony Political Confection
- Contrary to Popular Belief ...
- Ribbon-Cutting
- Angelo M. Codevilla — Our Era's Tom Paine?
- Godwin Heights trying mini-laptops
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 20, 2010
- Do Unemployment Benefits Stimulate the Economy?
- Cost to Revive Economy With Battery Plant Subsidies: $5 Trillion
- MichiganVotes.org July 16 Weekly Roll Call Report
- The 'Green' in Green Jobs Is Money
- City, school district team up on demolition
- Holland workers move to high-deductible plan
- ‘Project ReImagine’ taking shape in N.I.C.E.
- Court: School data law violates Constitution
- The Sales Tax and Lottery Myth
- Michigan Taxpayers Writing Check to Second Electric Car Battery Maker for $100 Million
- Schools consolidate on labor to save money
- Mike Bouchard and Right-to-Work Legislation
- Tuition up, but so is enrollment
- Gulf Moratorium Similar to Directional Drilling Ban
- Michigan Exports to China Grow
- Detroit Taking Center's Advice 8 Years Later
- Teachers to run DPS elementary school
- Opinion mixed on minority-teacher emphasis
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 13, 2010
- Michigan Needs Regulatory Certainty
- Alpena board implements contract
- Candidate Questionnaire for Tea Party Activists: 2009-2010 Edition
- DPS students working on district construction
- Failing schools eligible for turnaround money
- DPS principals to be judged on performance
- MichiganVotes.org July 9 Weekly Roll Call Report
- School retirements don’t add up
- Political Society vs. Civil Society
- Michigan Public Payrolls Protected in Recent Recession
- Students Prepare for Careers in Sagging Michigan Film Industry
- Governor Surrenders on Service Tax
- Severe Weather in Michigan
- Berkley battles allegations
- Federal Labor Board Sets Up Snap Union Elections
- EPA Action on Sulfur Dioxide Points to Future Under Cap-and-Trade
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- An Apology
- Census Bureau: Michigan Beats Most States in Tax Revenue Growth
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 6, 2010
- The Unequal Funding Myth
- Tax Hikes Kill Jobs and Tax Cuts Create Them
- Are Public Schools Underfunded? No
- ‘The Overton Window’: Made in Michigan
- CMU, AFT agree on new bargaining unit
- Schools would get $11-per-pupil bump
- MichiganVotes.org July 2 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Lawmaker: Shift ‘Race’ money to jobs
- Reality Check: Governor’s Budget 'Poor Mouthing'
- The 4th of July
- Bobb says superintendent is out; board pushes back
- Genesee County Land Bank Threatens Private Property Rights
- G.R. Press: AG's Office Knew About Hangar42 Months Ago; Legislators Addressing Transparency
- Ann Arbor Teachers Union Keeps District Out of Balance
- Selective Disclosure
- Why More Government Regulation Seldom Works
- Michigan Taxpayers to Write $100 Million Check to Korean Battery Maker
- Cap-and-Trade and Michigan's Economy
- Center Analysts Detail Public-Sector Power
- Districts Save With Health Savings Accounts
- Judge puts new school health fund on reserve
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 29, 2010
- Columnist: Film Subsidy Proponents Should Welcome Transparency
- Gutted School Pension 'Reform' Could Come Back to Bite Schools
- Clare to begin Chinese language immersion program
- Yeah, That's How to Boost Confidence in Detroit's Finances (NOT)
- An End to MEAP Tests?
- School Boards Wary of No-Cut Promise
- MEA Rally: Massive Failure or Just Waste of Time and Money?
- MEA Complains About More Money To Spend On Education?
- Subpoenas Issued in Hangar42 Investigation
- State Has Better Things to do Than Worry About Bird Feeders
- South Lyon Ties Wages to Per-Pupil Funding
- School Funding Goes Up ... MEA Wants More
- You Can't Make This Stuff Up (MichiganVotes Edition)
- Threats of Eminent Domain Should Not Be a Bargaining Tool
- The Unstable Funding Myth
- Big Waste, Bad News
- Kelo Decision Five Years Ago Today
- New School Pension Reforms Will Be Worthless
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 22, 2010
- Michigan Adopts National Standards
- Michigan’s Borrow-and-Spend Politicians Eye Kids’ Piggybanks
- DPS Suit: Who's to Blame?
- Isn't Lottery Money Supposed to Be for Public Schools?
- Attorney General Investigating Hangar42
- The proper role of a public school board
- 'Wannabes' may not return to Howell
- Nominees for Top 5 Worst Government Services
- Livonia considers charter school
- Salary survey under way
- Center Calls for Hangar42 Investigation Cited
- MichiganVotes.org June 18 Weekly Roll Call Report
- 'Administration of a Tax': The Big Lie Behind Government Secrecy on State Corporate Welfare Checks
- EPA Crying Over Unspilled Milk
- The Man Who Would Be (Bob) King
- Support staff makes concessions
- Joe Lehman, Glenn Beck and the History of the Overton Window
- Legislature to Tea Party's Unfunded Liability Concerns: "Whatever"
- America: The Story of Whom?
- The Kalamazoo Promise vs. School Choice
- Joe Lehman Explains the Overton Window on Fox News Channel With Glenn Beck
- Michigan Unemployment Rate Down to 13.6 Percent
- 'Doubling Down' with Detroit Retiree Pensions
- Mackinac Center Legal Director Calls on Legislature, Law Enforcement to Scrutinize Hangar42 Deal
- Overton Window Video From Glenn Beck Show
- Monroe recalls 187 employees
- Joe Lehman Discusses the Overton Window on Glenn Beck's TV Show
- Joe Lehman to Discuss 'Overton Window' on Glenn Beck Show at 5:20 P.M. on Fox News Channel
- New Questions Arise Over Hangar42 Funding
- Service Tax Is Bad Policy
- Film Office Director Agrees With Center on Hangar42 Movie Studio Deal
- Mackinac Center President Joseph G. Lehman To Discuss Overton Window on Glenn Beck’s Fox News Show Today
- Teachers sue over retirement contributions
- Politics Trumps Science on Great Lakes Drilling
- Gov. Granholm’s Tax Hike Proposal Would Kill 30,000 Michigan Jobs in First Year, According to Tax Analysis Model
- Low-performers eligible for grants
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 15, 2010
- Tax Hikes Kill Jobs, Tax Cuts Create Them
- Inspire Your Desktop!
- Think Tank of the Future
- Parent-Judge Conferences?
- High-Speed Rail a Fast Way to Waste Money
- The Overton Window at The Corner
- Film Subsidy Rationale Revealed: Pixie Dust!
- Retirement, insurance both create savings
- Eight superintendents retiring in southwest Michigan
- Experts differ on why colleges hike tuition
- 'Jungle Primary' Proposal Won’t Get Michigan Out of the Woods
- Another LIFO Victim
- MichiganVotes.org June 11 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Lawmakers Fail to Answer Questions About Film Subsidy Transparency
- Joe Lehman Talks About the Overton Window With Glenn Beck
- U.S. Senate Resolution Would Limit EPA Power
- Blowing the Lid off Film Subsidy Duplicity
- Clear the Farms to Promote Hunting and Gathering?
- Transparency Demanded for Film Subsidy Program
- Lehman Discussing the Overton Window in Studio With Glenn Beck
- Joe Lehman Discusses the Overton Window on Glenn Beck's Radio Show
- Ypsilanti joins busing consolidation plan
- MIRS Reports Huron Valley Schools Super Paid More Than $400k in Final Year of Employment
- East Lansing Should Look to China on Property Rights
- Michigan Capitol Confidential Praised
- Mackinac Center President to Discuss Overton Window Theory on Glenn Beck’s Radio Show Wednesday
- Washtenaw school choice quadruples
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 8, 2010
- Knockout Punch
- Throwing Down the Gauntlet
- More and More a Political Animal
- Michigan Taxpayers Have Already Made Compromises
- How Michigan’s School Foundation Allowance Works
- Adding private schools to the school choice debate
- Poll: Merge high schools, maintain tax rate
- 15 Specific Ideas to Move Michigan Forward
- Civil Society
- MichiganScience No. 14
- Retirement boost in Spring Lake
- Fact-Checking and Adding Context to the Governor’s Economic Diversity Speech
- MichiganVotes.org June 4 Weekly Roll Call Report
- MEDC Letter an Admission of Failure
- No agreement on education fix
- A Lasting Legacy
- States With More College Grads Don't Have Better Economies
- Changes in Brownfield Laws Will Help Michigan
- Flint imposes contract
- 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Michigan Film Office
- The Underfunded Myth
- Administrators retire, then return
- A Tale of Two Counties
- Government Secrecy Rules on $10 Million Film Studio Subsidy
- Tax Hikes Will Force More Michigan Residents Out
- MEDC Failures Lead to Less Transparency
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 1, 2010
- Teacher job bailout now uncertain
- Budget bills show per-pupil gap
- Governor Declares Climate Action Council Dead
- MichiganVotes.org May 28 Weekly Roll Call Report
- The Right's Partisan Oil Spill 'Gotchas' Misguided and Counterproductive
- Freedom of, not From, Information
- Paying Teachers Not to Teach
- Michigan Department of Education Miscalculates Average Teacher Salary
- State Report Shows Status of State Employee Pension Plan Worst in 15 Years: Less Than 80% Funded, With More Than $3 Billion in Unfunded Liability
- Eradicating Jobs, Not CO2
- Second ‘Race’ application wins union nod
- Media Missed Opportunity to Enlighten Public on Current Climate Change Science
- Ferris charters virtual school
- Economic Opportunity Needs a Moral Dimension
- Federal Regulators Harming Environment in Gulf Oil Spill
- More Information Trickles Out Regarding Hangar42
- Michigan Teacher Pay Tops in the Nation
- Statewide Media Respond to MEDC Complaints Over Criticism of its Failures
- Media Covers Grand Rapids Movie Studio Deal After Mackinac Center Analysts Release Results of Months-Long Investigation
- Private schools cope with weak economy
- Senator suggests pay-to-learn
- Stop Pointing Out Our Failures, Says MEDC
- The Constitutional Convention Begins
- When Enough Really Isn't Enough
- Editorial: Privatization Saves Schools Money
- Supreme Court to hear education tax credit case
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 25, 2010
- A Law Unto Itself
- New Facts Exposed in Hangar42 Investigation
- Buena Vista on ‘restructure’ list
- Clear Conclusions from a Muddy Report on Michigan Tax Burdens
- New Type of "Renaissance Zone": Real Estate Development Bailout Zones
- Reports vary on higher education staffing
- Some say retirement plan won’t help much
- MichiganVotes.org May 21 Weekly Roll Call Report
- State's Decision to Deny Wolverine Power Plant Smacks of a Double Standard
- Service Tax Not Supported by Facts
- Catholic schools to share staff
- Two languages, two cultures, one global citizen
- Homestead Act of 1862: America's Grandest Privatization Act
- Risk Assessment: Parts I-IV
- School aid fund has unexpected surplus
- Funding Questions Surround Hangar42 Studios Deal, According to Center Analyst
- Hangar42 Studios' Incentives Raise Questions
- Film Noir
- Cap-and-Trade: A Thorning Subject
- Center Analyst's Research, Commentary Attract Attention
- Mixed voting seen on second ‘Race’
- Great Lakes Wind Development Too Risky
- Michigan Teacher Salaries Highest in Nation When Compared to Relative Wealth of States
- Center Analyst Details Massive Personnel Costs For Port Huron Area School District Budget
- Reading 'proficiency' varies by test
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 18, 2010
- Average Teacher Salaries in Michigan Highest in the Nation When Compared to Relative State Wealth
- The School Employee Concession Myth
- Teachers Union Isn't Pulling Its Own Weight When Making Concessions
- Chetly Zarko v. Howell Education Association
- Defending Freedom ... of Information
- Audit reveals larger deficit
- Districts may hire drivers through firm
- 'Why would investors allocate capital in a state that deprives them of their rights?'
- "No Justice Loot, No Peace?"
- 'Out of Balance' and Bad at Math
- MichiganVotes.org May 14 Weekly Roll Call Report
- The Great Early Education Gamble
- Teachers face retirement choices
- Day Care Union Case: Update at the Supreme Court
- New York Times Addresses UAW/Big 3 Issue That Center Analyst Addressed Five Weeks Ago
- Linden reopener depends on MEA
- Film Industry in Michigan Hits Another Snag
- Teacher Retirement Plan Getting Expensive
- Mackinac Center, MPA Protecting FOIA
- Utica Teachers Agree to Concessions
- Utica teachers agree to freeze
- Even at Michigan Supreme Court, State Continues to Duck Central Question of Whether Home-Based Day Care Providers Are Government Employees
- How School Funding Works: Myths About Michigan’s Foundation Allowance
- Michigan Unemployment Woes Continue Despite Millions Spent on 'Economic Growth'
- House Resolution a Poor Substitute for Veto Power
- Staying on Unemployment
- Custodians agree to concessions
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 11, 2010
- News Release: Mackinac Center, Michigan Press Association Ask Michigan Supreme Court to Overturn Ruling That Would ‘Gut’ State’s Freedom of Information Act
- An Expensive Pension Deal for Westland Police Officers and Firefighters
- Average Teacher Salaries Continue to Rise
- Opinion: 'Evil Party and Stupid Party' at Work on School Pension Reform
- Audit: Extra high school money had little effect
- Michigan’s Best State Laws
- Law would allow algebra substitutes
- Bobb wins in court — for now
- Michigan Pension Fund Shortfall $11.5 Billion, Not $51.3 Billion
- Newspapers Editorialize Against Deposit Bill
- Rate hike takes up most of savings
- Climate Accountability Act Needed in Michigan
- Stock Market Drop Harbinger of Things to Come?
- Time to Abandon Midwest Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord
- Taxing Times
- Center Attorney to Discuss Day Care Union E-mails
- Northwest considers privatization
- 'Detroitification' Threatens Los Angeles — and Michigan Public Schools
- 'No Comment' from Day Care Union Lawyer on E-Mails, Senate Hearing
- I Am SFE
- Comments on 'Out of Balance: Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation Over 20 Years'
- Millage results vary by region
- Taxpayers Are Not Sheep, Part II
- Leaders of the PAC
- Newspaper Death Act
- Center Issues & Ideas Forum on Environment and Economics
- Center Expert Explains School Funding Increases
- GVSU approves first virtual charter school
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 4, 2010
- Taxpayers Are Not Sheep Lining up to Be Sheared
- Michigan Tax Burden Grows Despite Claims to the Contrary
- Michigan Service Tax Defended by Phantom Facts
- Bills Swap Selective Business Tax Breaks for Broad-Based Relief
- Michigan’s Gift to Texas? People
- The Paying Class vs. the Government Class
- Bobb says Teach for America returning to DPS
- Berrien Springs partners with home-schoolers
- MichiganVotes.org April 30 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Cherry Picking: More Day Care Union Connections?
- School taxes on Tuesday ballot
- Michigan’s Tax and Business Incentive Climate
- MEA Wounds Governor’s School Pension Reform
- Live From New York, It's Saturday Night Labor!
- Fourth Time's a Charm
- Editorial Blasts Michigan Film Subsidy Program
- Stealth Unionization of Small-Business Owners Called 'Skewed and Wrong'
- Dollar Bay takes over alternative school
- Issues & Ideas Forum, April 29, 2010
- Michigan’s Rank Position
- The MEA President Lays on the Guilt Trip
- Untrustworthy
- Federal Reserve Study: Economic Freedom Matters
- School Funding Myths
- Public Ownership Violates Property Rights
- MESSA Rates up 20 Percent in Port Huron
- State MEGA Audit Finds MEGA Problems
- Breaking News: House Vote Would Force Charter Schools Into Underfunded Pension System
- Connecting the Day Care Union Dots
- Districts take sides on Wayne RESA millage
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 27, 2010
- Is This the Death Blow for the Living Wage?
- MEGA Jobs MIA in Flint
- Groups train residents how to lobby
- Do You Need Government Money to Attend College?
- Trenton board won’t support tax
- Anti-bullying bills again before Legislature
- Poll: Charter school support growing
- Reading It Wrong — Again
- MichiganVotes.org April 23 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Turning Away 'Roeth'
- Thoughts About Earth Day
- More Money for MESSA
- Michigan joins ‘Innovation’ competition
- Earth Day 2010: Michigan’s Environment as Eden or Waste Land?
- State Employee Pay Grows 25 Percent Above Inflation Since 1999
- New Air Standards Unrealistic
- Michigan Film Jobs Disappear Despite Millions in Subsidies
- Checking on the UAW
- Michael Moore Inadvertently Makes Case Against Film Subsidies (Again)
- MESSA rates up 24 percent in Jackson
- Can We Build Better Teachers?
- But I Thought That Went Without Saying ...
- Mackinac Center Policy Staff Discuss 'Texting While Driving' Ban
- Michigan Film Subsidies: Two Years, $117 Million and No Film Job Growth
- Questions Surround Forced Unionization Scheme of Small-Business Owners, New State Agency
- Analysis: Fewer 'Shell-Shocked' Financial Panic Survivors at 2010 Tea Parties
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 20, 2010
- News Release: Fewer People Employed in Michigan Movie Industry Than Before Film Tax Credits Began, According to Center Analyst
- Intellectually Bankrupt
- MEGA Marks 15th Anniversary
- Flight Plan
- Teacher Health Insurance Costs
- Judge: Bobb overstepped authority
- "They're sure not working for you"
- MichiganVotes.org April 16 Weekly Roll Call Report
- Attitude Adjustment
- Watchdog
- Dark Side of the Mitten
- Senate plan drops pension ‘sweetener’
- Speaking Truth About Power
- Facts for Tax Day in Michigan
- Tax Day Rallies
- Teacher Contracts Under Scrutiny
- MSU drops retiree health benefit
- Goodrich, Fenton opt for state’s “choice” program
- Benefits, Not Salaries, Key to School Costs
- Center Scholar on FDR in Wall Street Journal
- Online Learning Can Improve Michigan Public Education
- Taxpayers Never Get Early Retirement
- Constitutional Convention Won’t Fix Michigan’s Problems
- Union backing still seen as key to 'Race'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 13, 2010
- Mackinac Center Speakers at 'Tax Day' Events Across Michigan
- Small-Business Owners Object to Forced Unionization
- Do They Really Need More Money?
- ISD, local district could share superintendent
- Cash, Corporations, Unions and Free Speech
- Onaway reduces spending
- April 9 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Back to semesters in Grand Rapids
- Alex Chilton R.I.P.
- NFIB Criticizes Drive to Make Private Businesses and Contractors Into 'Government Employees'
- Union backing seen as necessary
- Schooling the MEA in Basic Economics
- Unfinished Business
- MEGA Critique: A Response
- District saved $25,000 on four-day week
- Lehman: Bold Strokes Needed to Save Michigan
- Firm develops iPad math programs
- NFIB Files Brief in Support of Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Case
- DNRE Applying Double Standard in Detroit Asbestos Violation
- IMPACT Spring 2010
- Cox: Schools can publish some photos, video
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 6, 2010
- Inside Baseball
- New Glenn Beck Book Title Includes Reference to Center
- Some question ‘Race’ process
- April 2 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report
- Clerks: School elections waste money
- Proposal Would Punish Prudent School Districts
- White House Gives Preference to Car From Company It Owns
- Bill would put all charter teachers into state retirement system
- Whitehall teachers OK contract
- Getting Schooled
- Delaying CO2 Requirements Helps Politicians, but Not Americans
- FOIA: One Word Makes a $7 Million Difference
- Becker Appointed to NLRB
- Grand Rapids bus contract up in air
- Michigan Public Employees Compensation Growing Despite Concessions Claims
- New Research Suggests 'Reforming' Rather Than Closing Failing Schools a Forlorn Hope
- MichiganScience No. 13
- 'Cause You Know It Don't Matter Anyway
- Parents pin hopes on charter school lottery
- Michigan 21st in 'Race to the Top'
- Golden Ticket
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 30, 2010
- Michigan’s Mythical Coming Drought
- Little League Advice for Schools
- Economic Development 'Chicanery'
- Paper Trail
- Bill would force schools to spend balance
- Michigan’s Gift to Texas? People
- Broadband Lack of Success
- 'Green Bonds' House Bill Encourages More Debt
- Are Seniors Hypocritical to Oppose Health Care Plans?
- Michigan Employment and Personal Incomes Better, But…
- A MEGA Blast From the Past
- Breathe Easy
- Forced Unionization of Small-Business Owners Appealed to Michigan Supreme Court
- MEGA Cliché 'Mistakes Were Made' Not Good Enough
- School asks for state investigation
- Local Officials Call for Help
- Let the Sun Shine In
- Charter high school to close
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Appeals Loar v. DHS to Michigan Supreme Court
- Federalized Health Care and Our Bad Habits of Democracy
- MEGA Prescient
- MEGA Show Trial?
- Funds Disclosure
- New Census Data: Michigan Economy Suffering More Than State Budget
- Editorial Praises Center's School Transparency Efforts
- Center Analysts Discuss Health Care Takeover
- Resolution to Support the Repeal of Act 312
- Plan would add 'teacher consultants'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 23, 2010
- Is This the Downsizing Detroit Needs?
- Reorganization of Departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality Is Bad News
- More Questions Surround Forced Unionization of Small-Business Owners, MHBCCC Funding
- A Case for Private School Choice in Detroit
- Harding to Discuss Natural Resources, Economic Recovery
- Pinckney joins regional bus plan
- What MEAP Scores Mean
- What Transparency Should Look Like at the MEDC (but Doesn't)
- Legislature's Most Persistent Targeted-Incentives Booster to Run Hearings on Embezzler's Tax-Break Deal
- Center Scholar Tapped to Help Warren With Budget Crisis
- Lakeview considers private busing
- Senator Jason Allen's Targeted Tax Break/Subsidy Bills
- School Choice Ahead
- A Mackinac Center Profile
- Climate Change Panel Examines the 'Changing Debate'
- Legislators Should Look Closer to Home to Cut Spending
- Online classes planned in Grand Rapids
- No Checkbook Left Behind
- MEGA Jobs Announcements Symbolic Drop in the Bucket
- This Just In: Convicted Embezzler's Business Awarded State Tax Subsidy
- DPS will shrink along with city
- Sunshine Week 2010 Update: Several Kent County Schools Now Posting Checkbooks Online
- Sunshine Week 2010: 65 Michigan School Districts Get an 'A' for Putting Spending Online
- Union Corruption Update
- Revised 'No Child' would be carrot-and-stick
- MEAP reading scores up
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 16, 2010
- Rejecting State Employee Raise
- Parents ask for teacher concessions
- Private vs. Public Sector
- Superintendent, Teacher Pay
- Mayoral control a sticking point
- Alternative education under pressure
- Quick! Change the Subject
- Protecting Small-Business Owners From Stealth Unionization
- Center Analyst Empties 'Brain Drain' Myth
- Melton: Let voters decide school spending
- Trade Disagreement
- Flint to review administrator load
- Legislative Pay Evidence of a Larger Problem
- This Just In: Spending More on Higher Education Hurts, Not Helps, State Economy
- Center Legal Analyst Testifies on Bills to End Stealth Unionization
- 2010 census a civics project in Niles
- Teacher research in Michigan
- Supposed Benefits of Pension Obligation Bonds Sink With Market
- Nicely Played, MEA!
- League of Women Voters' Stance on Energy Policy Hurts Women
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Director to Testify Today on Bills to Prohibit Stealth Unionization of Small-Business Owners
- State Employee Pay Raise Could Cost Them Jobs
- Divided opinion on service tax
- Group plans seven Detroit high schools
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 9, 2010
- "Fighting for School Reforms" — Against Whom?
- 35, 34, 33...
- Pledging Regulatory Reform
- Evaluations of Early Education
- Michigan Service Tax Proves (Groucho) Marx Correct
- Fenton support staff moves to Teamsters
- Court upholds Grand Rapids privatization
- Regime Uncertainty: Michigan’s Legislative Creativity and Business Investment
- DPS could get grant money, if sides agree
- Districts may share superintendent
- 36 Days
- CBO Agrees With Littmann — Six Weeks Later
- Editorial Praises Center Study
- I'm Just a Bill Constitutional Amendment
- Ignore the Facts! Green Jobs are Good
- MEA President Gets 15 Percent Pay Hike
- So far, Michigan an also-ran
- Why Is the State Bribing Teachers to Retire?
- Center Helps Public School District Follow State Law
- 37 Days
- Wall Street Journal Columnist Cites Center Scholar's Book
- MichiganScience No. 12
- Private backers boost Bobb’s income
- Are You My Employer?
- Michigan Rolling in Dough? Gives Out Raises, Plus Millions in Tourism Subsidies
- The Plain Language of the Law: Senate Fails to Reject Government Pay Hike
- Kermit the Frog Meets the Underpants Gnomes: Ron Gettelfinger's Pitch for Green Auto Jobs
- Forced Unionization of Small-Business Owners Spreads to Other States
- Questions Surround Film Subsidy Report
- Forced Unionization Draws More Attention
- Fixing Michigan's Roads
- Dove Academy: The end goal is a college degree
- Group launches Detroit high school initiative
- Cap-and-Trade Dead; Long Live Cap?
- New Poll Supports Center Research
- Teacher certification tests don’t tell us enough about quality
- Health care poll: Public workers should pay more
- Michigan not seen as 'Race' front-runner
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 2, 2010
- In Memory of Sarah Grether
- Center Analyst Addresses Taxes, Spending
- Issues and Ideas Forum, March 16, 2010
- Pension plan didn’t spark retirement, two say
- Progressing Backwards
- "Larry the Liquidator" on Senate Bill 1174
- In Memoriam: Sarah E. Grether, 1988-2010
- University contributions down
- Gov. Granholm Gambling on Michigan's Economic Future With Energy Subsidies
- And They Say They Need More Money
- Mixed results in bond votes
- The Last Thing Michigan Needs Is More Expensive Energy
- New Bill Could End Forced Unionization of Small-Business Owners
- Union sues in privatization case
- Climate Distortion 101
- Don't Look Now
- Employment Creation in Michigan Illustrates the Ineffectiveness of the State's Incentives
- I Was "Just a Bill," But Now About to Be a Law!
- Do They Really Need More?
- Regional concessions on the table
- Detroit awards private bus contracts
- We’re Just Some Bills
- Some will get certificates, not diplomas
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 23, 2010
- Give. It. Up.
- Service Tax: $1.3 Billion Tax Hike on Thousands of Services
- School, Government Employee Unions Drain Their Host
- 'Detroitification' Happens to States and Nations, Too
- Municipal Costs Need a Watchful Eye
- Covert owes $700,000 to MESSA
- Back to semesters in West Ottawa
- Michigan: A National Leader in Tax Hikes
- Mackinac Center President Joseph Lehman to Speak at Detroit Athletic Club
- Teacher evaluation talks begin
- Thomas Sowell's Field Guide to Intellectuals
- A Sign of the Times
- Stimulus Helps 4-Year-Old Buy New Home
- Gubernatorial Fact Check
- Off the Tracks
- Meanwhile, Back on the Government-Run Health Care Front ...
- Free Style Skating
- Lansing to study millage
- Alice in Subsidy Land
- The Michigan Zombie Child Care Council
- Governor Offers $2.1 Billion Toast to Health of Government
- Stimu-less?
- Charter School Study Flawed
- Pay Attention!
- Board adopts beverage ban
- Center Analyst Addresses 'Industrial Policy'
- Which Would You Choose: Growth or Economic Decline?
- What Unites the Tea Party Movement?
- Rush Limbaugh on Mackinac Center Lawsuit
- Pros, cons of social promotion
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 16, 2010
- Can They Even Spell 'Green?'
- Tourism Study Raises Questions
- Separate and Equal
- Welcome, Allies Against Outsized Government Class Privileges
- More homeless students identified
- Union: Retirement idea unfair
- Ann Arbor wants to bring back students
- Planet Lansing
- Mike LaFaive Critiques Governor's Budget
- Michigan’s Brains Remain Constant
- Whatever
- MCLF Lawsuit Featured on Fox News
- Michigan House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing on MHBCCC
- Michigan Legislature Eliminates State Funding for Day Care Union 'Employer,' but Agency Somehow Continues to Operate
- Is the MHBCCC Defunded?
- An Excerpt from “Indivisible”
- Governor’s Tax Hike Proposals Increase Already Juiced System
- Governor Wrong About Headlee Limits
- Mackinac Center Fiscal Director: ‘Governor’s Tax Hike Proposal Is Madness’
- Churches play role in education
- Lansing Proposes, the MEA Disposes
- Welcome to Bizarro World
- Don’t Blame Mexico for Michigan’s Problems
- Most School Health Care Plans Are Too Expensive For Michigan
- Tax more? Spend less? Reform first?
- Judge: District can impose insurance cap
- Happy Birthday, William Henry Harrison
- Proposed Budget More Important Than State of the State
- Catholic school will forgive tuition
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 9, 2010
- Pension Obligation Bonds: Borrowing Our Way to Prosperity?
- Headlee’s Social Welfare Problem
- Most School Health Care Plans Are Too Expensive For Michigan
- Cap Con Daily: Online and On-Message
- Response to a Welfare Worker's Cry From the Heart
- Economy Contracts, Government Expands
- Teachers and Taxpayers
- School group eyes ballot initiative
- MEA can’t be on agenda
- Mackinac Center Scholar Assisting Pontiac
- DHS Won't Tell Legislator Where They Got Funding
- Who Won't They Unionize?
- Diversifying Michigan for Trial Lawyers
- Failure rate up as more students take AP
- Veto-Proof?
- Cap Con Daily Has the Latest on Michael Moore
- Michigan School Funding Problems Solved!
- Respect My Authoritah!!!
- Michigan Capitol Confidential Daily Unleashed
- Schools buy ‘best school’ rating
- Campaign to Increase Michigan Taxes Emboldened by Success in Oregon
- Center to Tally State of the State Expansions, Limitations
- State of the Statists
- School Choice: Polluting Our Planet?
- Mackinac Center Analysts on 'State of the State' Address
- Two plead guilty in DPS payroll scam
- State of the State Tally
- State of the State: Blown Away
- Students protest layoffs, seniority
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 2, 2010
- My Book Report on Plunder
- Moore Film Subsidy Draws More Coverage
- Is Proposal A Working?
- Granholm: Change pensions to save money
- Specializing in special education
- Schools team up to seek custodial bids
- Doctor Shortages and Socialized Medicine
- Security upgrades planned
- At Ford, Grievances Are Job One
- Detroiters Yearn For Tuition Tax Credits
- Senator Prusi's Bright Idea
- Expects cuts in 2010, lawmakers tell parents
- Equality of Sacrifice
- Moore Film Subsidies
- Anybody Got a Sword?
- HB 5771: Ban 'Stealth Unionization'
- Kabuki Dance: Mortgaging Taxpayers for Government Retiree Benefits
- LaFaive: Obama Didn't Go Far Enough on Tax Cuts
- Filmmaker Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" Approved for Taxpayer Subsidy in Michigan
- Michael and Me and Taxpayer Makes Three
- Michael & Me
- News Release: Court of Appeals Decision Undermines Freedom of Information Act, Says Mackinac Center Senior Legal Analyst
- Court blocks union e-mail release
- Creatures of the State
- Gas Tax Hike Another Obstacle to Recovery
- Growing Special Education Enrollments in Charter Schools
- What President Obama Should Say Tonight
- Furloughs planned in Livonia
- How to Make the State Vehicle Fleet More Expensive
- Preschool reports at odds
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 26, 2010
- 'Obligation' Legislation Burdens Taxpayers for Nonobligations
- Littmann: Bank Tax a Disincentive
- Benton Harbor recall over privatization
- Michigan Unemployment: Topping the Charts for 46 Months
- Charter School Demand Continues to Rise
- Mackinac Center Scholar on SCOTUS Campaign Finance Ruling
- Like Stealing Candy From a Baby
- The Pathology of Incubator Fever
- Board turnover in Madison
- Kersey: Voters Could Embrace Bishop Plan
- Get the Data on Michigan Support Service Contracting
- Show Us the Savings
- Lawsuit Dismissal Deserves Explanation
- Electric Avenue
- Jobs-and-reform mostly jobs-and-jobs
- Bill would give tax credit to school donors
- Mapping Out an Underhanded Scheme
- Center Scholars Part of School Funding Summit
- Democrats and GOP Legislators Slam Savings at Sec. of State
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Seeks Court of Appeals Reconsideration in Home-Based Day Care Union Case
- Woodhaven caps insurance costs
- Bishop Unveils Reform Proposals
- Cadillac Hacks
- Beware Michigan Tax “Restructuring”
- Environmentalism: From Science to Faith
- Detroit's Demolition Derby
- State Legislators Concerned Over Forced Unionization of Private Business Owners
- Schools cutting, but also building
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 19, 2010
- High School Debate Workshops: “I Have Seen the Influence”
- School Funding, State Budget Explained
- Busted
- Asked and Answered
- Kids in Head Start Still End Up Behind
- Michigan's Economic Development Failures
- Straus signs ‘Race’ application
- School Savings
- Schools of choice popular in Berrien County
- Teachers’ union mum on concessions
- Cigarette Tax Increases Bring Increased Crime
- Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public-Sector Union
- U.S. Department of Autos
- MASStroturf
- How to Remove an Ineffective Tenured Teacher in 13 Easy Steps
- Unions: Let’s not Race
- Half of Washington Smokes Expected to Be Illegal With Proposed Tax Hike
- Union Corruption Update
- There Is an Endless Number of Jobs
- Boardman River Dams: Episode 2
- Boardman River Dams: Episode 1
- Advice to board: Tax, spend, save
- Happy Birthday John Hancock
- Van Beek Invited to Address State Board of Education
- Insanity: Doing the Same Thing Over and Over and Expecting Different Results
- Michigan Government Revenue Forecasted to Increase, But …
- Harding to Discuss Cap-and-Trade
- Huron to apply for bonds
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 12, 2010
- The Truth About Sacred Lies
- School Health Insurance Data Online
- State board to discuss school finance
- Nobody happy with ‘Race’ memos
- Poor showing could affect ‘Race’
- Big Business Loves Big Government
- New Ozone Standard More About Politics Than Science
- DFT recall organizers rally
- Time to ZIP It?
- Suit alleges ‘secret’ insurance fees
- School Health Insurance Database Unveiled
- Elegy for Cities Embracing Smart Growth
- Michigan's Tax System Is Much Better Than Michigan’s Economy
- Private Business Owners Remain Union Captives
- News Release: Health Insurance Information for More Than 500 Michigan School Districts Available Online
- Private students lose aid, too
- Green Jobs Bubble
- Spreading the Story of Norman Borlaug
- We're Not in Kansas Any More
- Environmental Justice Still an Elusive Concept
- Mackinac Center Legal Brief Part of Howell Teachers Union Case Today
- Unions: 'Race' memo goes too far
- New jobs for education leaders
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 5, 2010
- Michigan Court of Appeals Dismisses Without Explanation Mackinac Center Lawsuit in Home-Based Day Care Union Case
- Collecting More Taxes From Fewer People
- While I Was Away
- Spending Too Much Doesn't Equal a Shortfall
- Vote Early and (not so) Often
- Price Theory for Legislators in One Lesson
- The Expensive Mystery of “Project Cherrywood”
- How to Find and Eliminate Wasted State Money
- Chesaning: MESSA costs up
- New Year’s Resolutions for Real Reform