Mackinac Center in the News

Lawrence Reed on Gov. Granholm's first year in office, for the

Detroit Free Press … more
Dec. 26, 2003

Paul Kersey on binding arbitration in the

Traverse City Record-Eagle … more
Dec. 18, 2003

Lawrence Reed on the Wright Brothers, for

National Review Online … more
Dec. 17, 2003

Jack McHugh on state property taxes for the

Oakland Press … more
Dec. 16, 2003

Michael LaFaive on government and 'cool cities,' in the

Ann Arbor News … more
Dec. 8, 2003

Michael LaFaive on Redford school spending (see 2nd letter):

Detroit News … more
Dec. 8, 2003

Mackinac Center study: Telecom regs raise costs, stifle investment, and kill jobs.

Dec. 8, 2003

Editorial cites Mackinac Center land preservation study:

Muskegon Chronicle … more
Dec. 2, 2003

Michael LaFaive on state cuts to MSU Extension program:

Lansing State Journal … more
Nov. 24, 2003

Michael LaFaive on Flint's plan for city-owned manufacturing plants:

Flint Journal … more
Nov. 24, 2003

Jack McHugh on school unions and charter schools:

School Reform News … more
Nov. 24, 2003

Columnist cites Mackinac Center study on farmland preservation:

Detroit News … more
Nov. 19, 2003

Diane Katz on Internet tax increase lobbyists, for

National Review Online … more
Nov. 19, 2003

Lawrence Reed on private fundraising by government schools:

Detroit News … more
Nov. 13, 2003

Mackinac Center Viewpoint on 'cool cities' prompts column:

Detroit Free Press … more
Nov. 11, 2003

Paul Kersey on overtime regulations, in the Florida

St. Petersburg Times … more
Nov. 11, 2003

Joseph Lehman on local votes to hike taxes in the

Detroit Free Press … more
Nov. 6, 2003

Jack McHugh on the new 'bad driver fees':

Tecumseh Herald … more
Nov. 6, 2003

Michael LaFaive on 'cool cities,' in

Booth Newspapers … more
Nov. 4, 2003

Mackinac Center dedicates Joseph P. Overton Library at 13th biannual Leadership Conference

Nov. 3, 2003

Joseph Lehman on the student 'achievement gap,' in

Booth Newspapers … more
Nov. 3, 2003

Michael LaFaive on liquor price controls in the

South Bend Tribune … more
Oct. 27, 2003

Joseph Lehman on charter school accountability in the

Detroit News … more
Oct. 27, 2003

Michael LaFaive on state government overspending, in

Booth Newspapers … more
Oct. 24, 2003

Mackinac Center economic development recommendation cited:

Detroit Free Press … more
Oct. 24, 2003

Lawrence Reed on the 20th anniversary of the Grenada invasion, for

National Review Online … more
Oct. 24, 2003

Editorial agrees with Mackinac Center findings on farmland tax credits:

Lansing State Journal … more
Oct. 20, 2003

Diane Katz's farmland preservation study highlighted:

Lansing State Journal … more
Oct. 20, 2003

Michael LaFaive on business subsidies in the Orlando

Sun Sentinel … more
Oct. 20, 2003

Michael LaFaive on schools and economic development:

Booth Newspapers … more
Oct. 20, 2003

Mackinac Center position on discriminatory business tax credits cited:

Detroit Free Press … more
Oct. 17, 2003

Jack McHugh on Detroit charter schools, in the

New York Sun … more
Oct. 15, 2003

Jack McHugh on Detroit charter schools, for the

Oakland Press … more
Oct. 14, 2003

Michael LaFaive on the scheduled state income tax cut

Oct. 13, 2003

Donald Boudreaux and Adam Pritchard on organ donation incentives:

Boston Globe … more
Oct. 13, 2003

Paul Kersey on 'project labor agreements,' for the

Bay City Times … more
Oct. 13, 2003

Brian Carpenter on competition from charter schools:

Detroit News … more
Oct. 12, 2003

Mackinac Center recommends closing teacher strike loophole

Oct. 9, 2003

Michael LaFaive and Lance Weislak on urban revitalization:

Detroit News … more
Oct. 9, 2003

Columnist recommends Mackinac Center tuition tax credit plan:

Detroit News … more
Oct. 8, 2003

Joseph Lehman on MEAP test scores, for the

Detroit News (scroll down) … more
Oct. 8, 2003

Diane Katz on telecom deregulation, Part I, for

National Review Online … more
Oct. 7, 2003

Jack McHugh on Lansing Public Schools' $75 million bond proposal, for the

Lansing State Journal … more
Oct. 7, 2003

Diane Katz on telecom deregulation, Part II, for

National Review Online … more
Oct. 3, 2003

Diane Katz on telecom deregulation, Part III, for

National Review Online … more
Oct. 3, 2003

Mackinac Center cited as inspiration for Kentucky think tank:

Kentucky Standard … more
Oct. 3, 2003

Dow Foundation makes major grant to Mackinac Center.

Nearly $1 million earmarked for education policy research … more
Oct. 1, 2003

Jack McHugh on driver's license fee increases in the

Holland Sentinel … more
Sept. 29, 2003

Paul Kersey on the nurses' strike at Northern Michigan Hospital

Sept. 26, 2003

Paul Kersey on the state's report on Petoskey's hospital strike: Traverse City

Record Eagle … more
Sept. 25, 2003

Paul Kersey on unions' influence and shrinking UAW ranks:

Detroit Free Press … more
Sept. 19, 2003

Paul Kersey on how union costs make libraries smaller & more expensive

Sept. 16, 2003

Paul Kersey on UAW health care demands:

Oakland Press … more
Sept. 13, 2003

Lawrence Reed on Michigan's tax limitation amendment:

Detroit News … more
Sept. 8, 2003

Jack McHugh on Intermediate School Districts (free registration required):

Midland Daily News … more
Sept. 5, 2003

Michael LaFaive on corporate welfare and special tax breaks:

Detroit News … more
Sept. 2, 2003

Paul Kersey on unions' effects on employment in the

Detroit Free Press … more
Sept. 1, 2003

Paul Kersey comments on Labor Day for the

Detroit News … more
Aug. 31, 2003

Michael LaFaive on Gov. Granholm's efforts to cut spending:

Booth Newspapers … more
Aug. 28, 2003

State adopting Mackinac Center idea to privatize ski resort:

Michigan Information Research Service … more
Aug. 26, 2003

Jack McHugh on the need for Intermediate School Districts:

Booth Newspapers … more
Aug. 25, 2003

Brian Dickerson cites Mackinac Center idea to reduce public school waste:

Detroit Free Press … more
Aug. 25, 2003

Joseph Lehman on public school student fees in the

Detroit Free Press … more
Aug. 21, 2003

Tom Bray cites a new Mackinac Center land preservation study:

Detroit News … more
Aug. 13, 2003

Diane Katz on a failed $800 million land preservation program:

Detroit News … more
Aug. 12, 2003

Lawrence Reed named advisor to national organ donor network

Aug. 11, 2003

Michael LaFaive on college student jobs in the

Detroit News … more
Aug. 11, 2003

Lance Weislak on University of Michigan tuition pricing for the

Detroit News … more
Aug. 11, 2003

Diane Katz explains property rights (scroll to 2nd letter):

Detroit Free Press … more
Aug. 9, 2003

Diane Katz on Ann Arbor's proposed tax for land purchases:

Detroit Free Press … more
Aug. 8, 2003

Michael LaFaive on Detroit's lighting department, in the

Detroit News … more
Aug. 6, 2003

Joseph Lehman on state subsidies for life science businesses:

Associated Press … more
Aug. 6, 2003

Michael LaFaive on Mackinac Center student workshops:

Jackson Citizen Patriot … more
Aug. 6, 2003

Paul Kersey on the Petoskey hospital strike on

Michigan Public Radio … more
Aug. 4, 2003

Jack McHugh on the new 'Driver Responsibility Fee':

Grand Rapids Press … more
Aug. 3, 2003

Paul Kersey on state intervention in Petoskey hospital strike

Aug. 1, 2003

Joseph Lehman on school district mergers in the

Grand Rapids Press … more
July 30, 2003

Jack McHugh on the new 'Driver Responsibility Fee,' WKAR radio, Lansing

July 29, 2003

George Weeks cites the Mackinac Center on economic development:

Detroit News … more
July 27, 2003

Joseph Lehman on abolishing Intermediate School Districts: Port Huron

Times Herald … more
July 27, 2003

Lawrence Reed on organ donation incentives that save lives, in

USA Today … more
July 24, 2003

Lawrence Reed on the Headlee Amendment's 25th anniversary:

Detroit Free Press … more
July 23, 2003

Letters praise life of Joseph Overton (scroll to 3rd and 4th letters):

Detroit News … more
July 22, 2003

Michael LaFaive on using state pension funds to support high-risk firms: the

Grand Rapids Press … more
July 13, 2003

Paul Kersey on the Teamsters' hospital strike in the

Petoskey News-Review … more
July 11, 2003

Kenyan leadership center named after Joseph Overton (free registration required):

Midland Daily News … more
July 9, 2003

Tom Bray devotes his column to Joseph Overton in the

Detroit News … more
July 9, 2003

Sports editor Chris Stevens devotes his column to Joseph Overton (free registration required):

Midland Daily News … more
July 8, 2003

James Damask on the cigarette tax/terrorist connection: the

Gladwin County Record … more
July 7, 2003

Michael LaFaive on privatization of a state-owned ski resort, as he recommended:

Lansing State Journal … more
July 6, 2003

Robert Hunter on West Michigan unionization in the

Holland Sentinel … more
June 30, 2003

Michael LaFaive on federal spending in Michigan:

Booth Newspapers … more
June 30, 2003

Joseph Lehman on the Medicare bill in

Human Events … more
June 30, 2003

Robert Hunter on a looming Goodyear strike, in the

Akron Beacon Journal. … more
June 27, 2003

Joseph Lehman on funding for Michigan Virtual University in the

Lansing State Journal … more
June 23, 2003

Robert Hunter on tax money spent on labor union business:

Cybercast News Service … more
June 16, 2003

Jack McHugh on funding for state road patrols, in the Wayne State

South End … more
June 3, 2003

Diane Katz on the DNR's land purchases and inability to pay property taxes: the

Detroit News … more
June 3, 2003

Daniel Hager on government concern about obesity in the

Miami Herald … more
June 3, 2003

Michael LaFaive on possible state backing of high-risk loans for business: the

Detroit News … more
May 29, 2003

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