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  1. Keeping Michigan on Track:
    A Blueprint for a Freer, More Prosperous State
    Summary: New legislative opportunities will come with the fall elections for the Michigan House, Senate, and governorship. Read the Mackinac Center's policy recommendations for the next Legislature and governor below.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: May 6, 2002. Type: Study.
     
  2. Keeping Michigan on Track
    A Blueprint for Governor Engler and the 90th Legislature
    Summary:   The close of the twentieth century finds Michigan in a position that seemed impossible barely a decade ago: record low unemployment, a thriving economy, growing educational opportunities, and a sense of accomplishment and high spirits. But much can be done to make Michigan an even better place to live and work.
      This report's five sections offer the Governor and the Legislature 41 specific recommendations that will strengthen property rights protection, reform labor law to protect worker rights, improve education for Michigan children, spur economic growth and development, and enhance the state's transportation infrastructure.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Jan. 1, 1999. Type: Study.
     
  3. Fixing the Roads: A Blueprint for Michigan Transportation Infrastructure Policy
    Summary: This comprehensive study is the only one available that documents Michigan's road needs, illuminates the diversion of hundreds of millions of Michigan road dollars to nonroad and non-Michigan use, demonstrates how Michigan can save over $170 million annually, and shows that a gas tax increase is not needed if funding diversions are stopped and modest savings measures are enacted. Several of its recommendations have been implemented. 40 pages.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Apr. 1, 1995. Type: Study.
     
  4. Road Map For a Michigan Renaissance
    Summary: In the aftermath of the 1990 gubernatorial election, innovative proposals for a new incoming administration and legislature were needed. In a 20-point program, The Mackinac Center calls for a Michigan Grace Commission, welfare reform, trucking deregulation, privatization, repeal of the Prevailing Wage law, and specific tax and spending cuts.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Nov. 14, 1990. Type: Study.
     
  5. Detroit Metropolitan Airport: A Case for Privatization
    Summary: The nation's first comprehensive proposal to privatize a commercial airport was inspired by Britain's successful 1987 effort to privatize eight airports, including London's Heathrow. If Detroit Metro were properly privatized, it would benefit county finances, air travelers, and area economic development.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Oct. 1, 1988. Type: Study.
     
  6. High-Speed Rail Will Take Michigan Nowhere Fast
    Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Aug. 31, 2009. Type: General Article.
     
  7. Are Proposals for High-Speed Rail a Boondoggle?
    Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Aug. 14, 2009. Type: General Article.
     
  8. Fuel Hikes Won’t Spur Public Transit
    Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Feb. 25, 2008. Type: General Article.
     
  9. Transporting Privatization
    MPR2007-01: Summer 2007
    Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Jul. 5, 2007. Type: Michigan Privatization Report.
     
  10. Study: Michigan’s Road System Needs Both Reforms and Dollars
    Revenue increases must be tied to policy changes and offsets, according to study’s author
    Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Apr. 16, 2007. Type: News Release.
     
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