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  1. Issues and Ideas Forum, September 11, 2008
     
  2. Teacher Quality
     
  3. State board, nonprofit group at odds over Camp Tuhsmeheta
     
  4. The Best and the Brightest
     
  5. Test article for Kara
     
  6. Study: Market-Based Incentives for Teachers Key to Student Achievement
     
  7. Board member: All teachers shoulder blame
    "The treasurer of the Saginaw board of education thinks elementary and middle school teachers should share the blame for the poor performance of high school students."
     
  8. Brighton tries to solve overspending crisis
    "Students in Brighton will have to pay to play sports and a program to identify students with learning disabilities was cut as the school board attempts to correct a $2 million overspending crisis for the 2008-2009 budget."
     
  9. Vendors won't send DPS textbooks
    "Students in Detroit Public Schools will begin classes with only 60 percent of the textbooks they need."
     
  10. Group hopes to fund college scholarships for Detroit grads
    "A Detroit-area businessman has started a group to raise money in hopes of funding college scholarships for Detroit Public Schools graduates."
     
  11. Privatization numbers up again
     
  12. Panel OK’s new special education rules
     
  13. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 19, 2008
     
  14. DELETE ME
     
  15. Michigan State Supreme Court Strikes Proper Balance
     
  16. School Services Privatization Rises for Fifth Consecutive Survey, According to Mackinac Center Research
     
  17. Survey 2008: School Service Privatization Grows Again
     
  18. State to hold hearing on special education changes
    "A legislative hearing will determine whether proposed changes to special education rules will be implemented."
     
  19. Directional Drilling
     
  20. United Way starts program to curb dropout rates
    "The United Way of Southeastern Michigan has launched a $10 million initiative to reduce high school dropout rates for the Detroit-area."
     
  21. California court overturns ruling on homeschooling
    "A California state appellate court has ruled that parents are allowed to educate their own children."
     
  22. Michigan residents want teacher benefit reform
    "A phone survey commissioned by Detroit Renaissance shows that Michiganders support sweeping reform to improve the state, including reforming benefits for state employees and public school teachers."
     
  23. MME scores improve slightly in most subjects
    "Students showed slight increases in reading, writing and science scores in the second year of the Michigan Merit Exam, which includes the ACT, but more than half failed the mathematics section."
     
  24. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 12, 2008
     
  25. Legislators take up special ed rules
     
  26. Pulp Fiction
     
  27. Judge rules for Warren charter school
    "A new charter school in Warren will open next month after winning a court decision in its dispute with the city."
     
  28. Solzhenitsyn R.I.P.
     
  29. Muskegon charter recognized for student achievement
    "WayPoint Academy in Muskegon received recognition for continuous academic improvement and decreasing the achievement gap between student groups."
     
  30. Public school competing for charter students
    "Muskegon Public Schools is hoping to enroll most of the students living in its district who formerly attended a now-closed charter public school."
     
  31. Quincy teachers won't bargain to save jobs
    "The Quincy teachers union voted 60-21 against contract concessions that could have saved the jobs of fellow school employees."
     
  32. Finding algebra in fashion design
     
  33. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 5, 2008
     
  34. Great Lakes Directional Drilling Ban Should Be Lifted
    Our leaders in Washington and Lansing should encourage the responsible development of our abundant oil and natural gas reserves by eliminating arbitrary road blocks such as the ban on directional drilling.
     
  35. Amending the State Constitution for Partisan Advantage?
    To the extent that this document is what it appears to be, it leaves little doubt that the Reform Michigan Government Now ballot initiative is a partisan power play.
     
  36. Do Unions Really Need the Money?
    But even with this very generous definition of what constitutes a representation expense, our review of union financial reports reveals that a typical union local in Michigan spends little more than half of its money on representing its members.
     
  37. Mackinac Center Asks Oakland County School Districts to Publish Their Checkbook Registers
     
  38. Schools adjust to rising fuel costs
    "School districts across Oakland County are adjusting their budgets and enacting cost-saving measures to cope with rising fuel prices."
     
  39. Bay City high schools switch to trimesters
    "Bay City Public Schools will move to a trimester system in its high schools starting in 2009-2010."
     
  40. Friedman, Freedom and All That Jazz
     
  41. Detroit Schools might have to repay $1.3 million to feds
    "A report from the U.S. Department of Education recommends that Detroit Public Schools be required to pay back at least $1.3 million in misused funds."
     
  42. Michigan ranks last in graduating black males
    "A national report found that Michigan has the lowest graduation rate for black males in the country, with Detroit Public Schools graduating the second lowest number of black males when compared to other large urban districts."
     
  43. Governor’s Office Refuses to Post Expenditure Details of Overspending Departments
     
  44. Legislative Alert
     
  45. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 29, 2008
     
  46. How to stop bullying in our schools
     
  47. Michigan adopts NCLB ‘growth model’
     
  48. Savings from “Reform Government” Initiative: Four Pennies a Week
     
  49. July/August 2008 Michigan Capitol Confidential articles
     
  50. Thoughts on Michigan’s Unemployment Rate
     
  51. Landmark Michigan Supreme Court Decision Puts Bounds on the Growing Power of State Agencies
     
  52. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in SBC Michigan v. Michigan Public Service Commission
     
  53. Mackinac Center Changes

     
  54. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 22, 2008
     
  55. Property Rights Video Collection
    The Mackinac Center's Property Rights Network is dedicated to preserving and expanding private property rights in Michigan.
     
  56. Out of Bounds
     
  57. Lean thinking for schools
     
  58. Reed to Become President Emeritus of Mackinac Center; Board Unanimously Names Lehman Successor
     
  59. An Intern’s Service to Michigan
     
  60. DEQ Permit Denial Sets Dangerous Precedent
     
  61. Document on UAW Web Site Outlined Strategy for 'Changing the Rules of Politics in Michigan to Help Democrats'
     
  62. UAW-Posted PowerPoint Presentation on 'Reform Michigan Government Now' Proposal
     
  63. Reform Michigan Government Now
     
  64. Legislative Alert
     
  65. Property Rights Network Promo
     
  66. Long on Words, Short on Reform
     
  67. ‘It’s hard, but it’s fun’
     
  68. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 15, 2008
     
  69. First class or 21st century?
     
  70. Aristotle on Mixed Economies
     
  71. IMPACT Summer 2008
     
  72. Biomonitoring and Controversy Surrounding a Great Lakes Pollution Study are Featured in the Latest Issue of MichiganScience
     
  73. 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."
     
  74. The First Attempt
     
  75. 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."
     
  76. GVSU decides not to reauthorize Kalamazoo charter school
    "Grand Valley State University has declined to renew the charter of Kalamazoo's Advantage Academy."
     
  77. 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."
     
  78. 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."
     
  79. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 8, 2008
     
  80. 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.
     
  81. Teacher Quality: For Teachers Only to Judge?
     
  82. 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.
     
  83. 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.
     
  84. 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.
     
  85. Mackinac Center names essay contest winners
     
  86. West Ottawa Schools proceeds with tenure hearing
    "West Ottawa Public Schools is proceeding with its first tenure hearing in hopes of firing a teacher."
     
  87. Great Lakes Directional Drilling Ban Should be Lifted
     
  88. DPS board cuts 1,700 jobs
    “Detroit Public Schools will eliminate 1,700 jobs to stave off a $408 million budget deficit.”
     
  89. Resident concerned about Mesick contract ratification process
    "A Mesick man was reportedly "baffled" by the lack of transparency during teacher contract ratification procedures."
     
  90. 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."
     
  91. 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."
     
  92. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 1, 2008
     
  93. Detroit not the only school district seeing red
     
  94. Michigan Privatization Digest - June 30, 2008
     
  95. 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 "the 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 local and state policymakers who want to initiate and support teacher quality reforms to improve Michigan's primary and secondary schools.
     
  96. 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.
     
  97. 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.
     
  98. 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.
     
  99. 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.
     
  100. Alternative program considered a success in Westwood
     
  101. Gouging Consumers and Businesses Alike
     
  102. Divisive Government?
     
  103. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 24, 2008
     
  104. 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.
     
  105. Legislative Alert
    Back to school for administrators?
     
  106. Author Discusses Teacher Quality Primer
     
  107. Issues and Ideas Forum, June 18, 2008
     
  108. Golf and University Privatization
     
  109. A Visible Difference: Observations from Warsaw
     
  110. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 17, 2008
     
  111. Detroit Cristo Rey: A new option in Catholic education
     
  112. An Unexpected Ally
     
  113. Mackinac Center hosting forum on teacher quality
    Mackinac Center hosting forum on teacher quality
     
  114. Many minority students don't graduate from high school
    Many minority students don't graduate from high school
     
  115. Grand Rapids high schools adjust attendance policies
    Grand Rapids high schools adjust attendance policies
     
  116. Detroit school receives grant for drug testing
    Detroit school receives grant for drug testing
     
  117. Special ed parent: ‘We have not had a voice’
     
  118. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 10, 2008
     
  119. The Internet and F.A. Hayek
     
  120. 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.
     
  121. 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.
     
  122. 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.
     
  123. House-Passed Legislation Threatens Michigan’s Water Rights
     
  124. Advertising on Michigan Education Report
     
  125. What’s the Purpose of a Tax?
     
  126. Issues and Ideas Forum, June 4, 2008
     
  127. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 3, 2008
     
  128. Missed deadline costs teacher more in union fees
     
  129. State Should Help Rank and File Monitor Unions
     
  130. Legislative Alert
     
  131. 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.
     
  132. The High Cost of Government Regulation
     
  133. Martin “Marty” Wing: Rest in Peace
     
  134. 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.
     
  135. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 27, 2008
     
  136. Creeping Socialism: The “Health Care for Michigan” Initiative
     
  137. 30 Michigan high schools on Newsweek’s top school list
    30 Michigan high schools on Newsweek’s top school list
     
  138. Michigan Doesn’t Need More Electricity Regulation
     
  139. How one district overhauled its academic plan
    Gladwin Superintendent Rick Seebeck describes his district’s push to improve
     
  140. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 20, 2008
     
  141. Michigan’s Climate Consultant Skews Cost Estimates
     
  142. Detroit Schools $45 million in debt, may see another state takeover
    Detroit Schools $45 million in debt, may see another state takeover
     
  143. May/June 2008 Michigan Capitol Confidential articles
     
  144. Tuition Tax Credit program signed into law in Georgia
    Tuition Tax Credit program signed into law in Georgia
     
  145. Michigan students struggle to pass Algebra I
    Michigan students struggle to pass Algebra I
     
  146. Proposals to Suppress Competition in Electricity and Mandate Renewable Energy Use Would Raise Prices Without Improving Service or Environment
     
  147. 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.
     
  148. Dearborn charters struggle to keep up on state tests
    Dearborn charters struggle to keep up on state tests
     
  149. Oak Park chief of staff purchases personal shower, gym on school property
    Oak Park chief of staff purchases personal shower, gym on school property
     
  150. Charter school research presents unique obstacles
     
  151. Grand Rapids Schools contract for custodial services
    Grand Rapids Schools contract for custodial services.
     
  152. Flint Schools pink slip another 28 employees
    Flint Schools pink slip another 28 employees
     
  153. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 13, 2008
     
  154. Michigan Privatization Digest - April 30, 2008
     
  155. Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in Grand Rapids Case Involving Privatization of School Bus Services and Public-Sector Unions
     
  156. New high school graduation requirements in action
     
  157. Michigan Education Digest Daily
    Pinckney Community Schools is closing an elementary school
     
  158. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 6, 2008
     
  159. School leader wins iPod
     
  160. Michigan’s Tax and Business Incentive Climate
     
  161. 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.
     
  162. Shedding light on teacher contracts
     
  163. 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.
     
  164. 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.
     
  165. 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.
     
  166. Students for a Free Economy Wins Fisher Award
     
  167. Show Michigan the Money
     
  168. Much to be Done
     
  169. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 29, 2008
     
  170. Issues and Ideas Forum, April 29, 2008
     
  171. Register for Michigan Education Report
     
  172. The Right-to-Work Advantage in Economic Growth: A Look at Past Performance
     
  173. 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.
     
  174. T-1 Could Help Terminate Union Financial Abuse
     
  175. Michigan Transparency

    Encouraging good government by informing citizens.


     
  176. Mackinac Center’s “Show Michigan the Money” Project Prompts Michigan Department of State to Post Unprecedented Detail in Department Spending
     
  177. Paving Over the Truth
     
  178. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 22, 2008
     
  179. How to Contact Michigan Education Report
     
  180. Kudos to Macomb County
     
  181. ‘Data-driven’ in Michigan
     
  182. Ethanol May Not be as Environmentally Friendly as Some Claim
     
  183. Mackinac Center Provides School District Employee Union Contracts to Public
     
  184. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 15, 2008
     
  185. Government Golf Slices City Revenue
     
  186. Keep the Electoral College
     
  187. A Fallacious Argument Against Electricity Competition
     
  188. 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.
     
  189. Legislators’ Hollywood Dreams Defy Economic Reality
     
  190. Should Home-Schoolers Beware?
     
  191. Author to Speak About Free-Market Health Care Alternatives
     
  192. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 8, 2008
     
  193. Increased Federal Jurisdiction on Michigan Wetlands a Bad Idea
     
  194. Colleges: ‘Wait and see’ on Detroit charter schools
     
  195. 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.
     
  196. 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..
     
  197. 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.
     
  198. New Smog Rules Unfair to Western Michigan
     
  199. Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis
     
  200. Michigan Education Digest Daily
     
  201. Privatization Review a Mixed Bag
     
  202. 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.
     
  203. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 1, 2008
     
  204. Defending Liberty for Twenty Years
     
  205. Grab Bag Government
     
  206. IMPACT Spring 2008
     
  207. Personal Income Figures Show That the Michigan Slide Continues
     
  208. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 25, 2008
     
  209. Private special ed school might be forced out of building
     
  210. Mamet on the Money
     
  211. Expand the Principles of Proposal A
     
  212. The Times That Tried Men’s Economic Souls
     
  213. “20/20” Investigative Reporter John Stossel to Address Health Care at University of Michigan
     
  214. “20/20” Investigative Reporter John Stossel to Address Health Care at Central Michigan University
     
  215. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 18, 2008
     
  216. Expanding Access to Health Care — A Free Market Perspective
     
  217. School District Checkbook Register Report
     
  218. Simic Verses Lloyd
     
  219. Celebrating Sunshine Week: Mackinac Center Launches School Checkbook Transparency Project
     
  220. New State Job Loss Figures Confirm Need for Policy Reforms
     
  221. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 11, 2008
     
  222. Poetry Slam
     
  223. People Must Demand Honesty and Integrity in Their Leaders
     
  224. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 4, 2008
     
  225. 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.
     
  226. 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.
     
  227. 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.
     
  228. What Michigan Can Do to Improve its Labor Climate
     
  229. Government Education Reinvents Government
     
  230. Michigan Privatization Digest - February 29, 2008
     
  231. Michigan Education Report (2008-01)
     
  232. William F. Buckley Jr., RIP
     
  233. For Further Reading
     
  234. Who is Your Lawmaker?
     
  235. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 26, 2008
     
  236. Protecting Private Property Rights Benefits Michigan’s Economy
     
  237. Report: Biomonitoring an Important New Tool in Evaluating Health Risks
     
  238. 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.
     
  239. Fuel Hikes Won’t Spur Public Transit
     
  240. Requiem for a Union Local
     
  241. 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.


     
  242. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 19, 2008
     
  243. 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.
     
  244. Privatization Revolution
     
  245. Government Spending Continues No Matter What
     
  246. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 12, 2008
     
  247. Russ Harding to Discuss Property Rights
     
  248. Lawsuit Should Promote Regulatory Accountability
     
  249. A Taxing Question
     
  250. 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.
     
  251. Governor Criticized for Wrong Thing on SOS Prison Proposals
     
  252. Climate Change Debate at MSU
     
  253. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 5, 2008
     
  254. What I Want to Read in 2008
     
  255. 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.
     
  256. 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.
     
  257. 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.
     
  258. How MESSA and the MEA Work
     
  259. A Flawed Argument for Higher State Taxes
     
  260. Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis, February-March 2008
     
  261. Expansion Defeats Limitation in Governor’s Speech
     
  262. Environmental Researchers to Discuss “When Green is Mean” at University of Michigan
     
  263. Tally of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations in State of the State Address Will be Available After Speech
     
  264. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 29, 2008
     
  265. Gov. Granholm Proposes Record 24 Expansions of Government and Four Limitations in 2008 State of the State Address
     
  266. Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s 2008 State of the State Address
     
  267. Right-to-Work Mythbusters
     
  268. Globalization is Good for Michigan
     
  269. MEA Document Provides Interesting Details
     
  270. Davey Award Winner
     
  271. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 22, 2008
     
  272. Inflation Is Still With Us
     
  273. Michigan Privatization Digest - January 10, 2008
     
  274. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 15, 2008
     
  275. A Really Gross Domestic Product
     
  276. Mission Creep
     
  277. A Great (Lake) Decision
     
  278. IMPACT Winter 2007
     
  279. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 8, 2008
     
  280. 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


     
  281. 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.”
     
  282. 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.
     
  283. Let the Union Buyer Beware
    On average, union employees spent 41 percent of their time representing members, according to their own report.
     
  284. How to Fix What's Broken
     
  285. Michigan Leads the Nation in Outbound Moves
     
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