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  1. Science, Environment and Technology Initiative
    Summary: Promoting environmental improvement through sound science and new technologies.
    Details: Match Rating: 80. Posted: Dec. 20, 2006. Type: General Article. Part of a larger publication.
     
  2. Groundwater Regulation: An Assessment
    Summary: In proposing the Water Legacy Act, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is attempting to increase state regulation of groundwater use through a costly and intrusive permit regime. If enacted, this drastic change would upend longstanding water rights and further weaken Michigan’s economy.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: May 4, 2005. Type: Study.
     
  3. Recommendations to Strengthen Civil Society and Balance Michigan’s State Budget — 2nd Edition
    Summary: An Analysis of Fiscal-Year 2003-04 Appropriations and Recommendations for 2004-05.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: May 4, 2004. Type: Study.
     
  4. Michigan's Farmland Preservation Program: An Assessment
    An Examination of the Effectiveness of Michigan’s Principal Farmland Preservation Program, and Recommendations for Reform
    Summary: Michigan’s principal land preservation program has failed to achieve its goals.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Aug. 7, 2003. Type: Study.
     
  5. Recommendations to Strengthen Civil Society and Balance Michigan's State Budget
    An Analysis of Fiscal-Year 2002-03 Appropriations and
    Recommendations for 2003-04
    Summary: If Gov. Jennifer Granholm and the Michigan Legislature need specifics on how to close Michigan’s looming $1.7 billion budget deficit, they need look no further than the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s new report on balancing the state budget, released today.

    More than 200 specific recommendations from Mackinac Center analysts total more than $2 billion in cost savings and revenue enhancements. All budget reductions, including those involving federal funds, total $3.7 billion. 157 pages.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Mar. 4, 2003. Type: Study.
     
  6. The Clean Michigan Initiative: An Assessment
    Summary: An Examination of the Goals, Results and Fiscal Consequences of Michigan's Most Ambitious Environmental Bond Program
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Oct. 23, 2002. Type: Study.
     
  7. 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.
     
  8. Environmental Quality 2000: Michigan and America at the 30th Anniversary of Earth Day
    Summary: Public opinion about the environment is often marked by unwarranted pessimism about the state of our air, water, and natural resources. But the most recent government data show that America in general, and Michigan in particular, have seen impressive gains in environmental quality since the first Earth Day 30 years ago. This report presents decades of facts and figures on Michigan and U.S. air and water quality, land use, and other environmental factors to show that, far from worsening, environmental conditions have actually improved substantially-and are likely to continue improving.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Apr. 4, 2000. Type: Study.
     
  9. "Urban Sprawl" and the Michigan Landscape: A Market-Oriented Approach
    Summary: Government officials and environmental activists use "stopping urban sprawl" as a mantra to support greater government control over private land use decisions in Michigan through central planning aimed at farmland preservation and urban revitalization. This study critically examines suburbanization and land use in Michigan to determine that the state's economy and farmland and citizens' quality of life are not threatened by economic growth and development, or what activists have dubbed "sprawl." The study argues that restrictions on suburban growth do not address the causes of why people move out of inner cities any more than the Berlin Wall addressed the problems of East Germany's repressive socialist economy. The study concludes by recommending a market-based approach to land use policy and identifying "urban sprawl" as the natural evolution of free people pursuing peaceful ends and their shot at the American Dream.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Oct. 29, 1998. Type: Study.
     
  10. Reforming the Law of Takings in Michigan
    Summary: If the state of Michigan takes from a land owner some, but not all, of the use or value of his land, the owner is not entitled to any compensation. This forces a few land owners to bear the entire cost of these takings that are intended to benefit the public as a whole. Many states have initiated reforms that would permit land owners to be more fairly compensated. This study outlines the practice of takings jurisprudence in Michigan, reviews the legislative responses in Michigan and other states, and makes specific recommendations for reform in Michigan. 40 pages.
    Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Apr. 15, 1996. Type: Study.
     
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