July 2025

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July 23, 2025
EVENT CANCELLATION: Planning for Life Workshop
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July 30, 2025
Energy Crisis or Opportunity: Navigating Net-Zero Mandates in Michigan
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August 2025

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August 13, 2025
Housing Boom or Bust: The Issues Facing Michigan
Energy Crisis or Opportunity: Navigating Net-Zero Mandates in Michigan
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August 21, 2025
Housing Boom or Bust: The Issues Facing Michigan
Energy Crisis or Opportunity: Navigating Net-Zero Mandates in Michigan
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September 2025

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September 3, 2025
Internet Access in Michigan: Policy, Progress and Pitfalls
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September 10, 2025
Planning for Life Workshop
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September 11, 2025
President’s Council Breakfast featuring Joseph G. Lehman and Chris Koopman
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Past Events

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Using a case study of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, Lawrence W. Reed will illuminate the pros and cons of monopolies and free markets and draw conclusions for today. This event is sponsored by the Charles M. Bauervic Foundation and presented in conjunction with Northwood University.

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Join us as we discuss reforms Michigan has made in the last decade as well as ideas for further progress.

Friday, August 26, 2022

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy announces our 2022 Planning for Life Workshops around Michigan.

Thursday, August 11, 2022

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy announces our 2022 Planning for Life Workshops around Michigan.

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy announces our 2022 Planning for Life Workshops around Michigan.

Thursday, August 4, 2022

Michiganders were shocked to learn in 2020 that state law appeared to grant Gov. Gretchen Whitmer the power to issue unilateral and indefinite emergency orders. The scope of these powers was virtually limitless: they forced certain businesses to close, controlled who you could invite into your own home, prohibited the use of your own property, and restricted your right to exercise your religion freely, among many other dictates. While Gov. Whitmer’s use of emergency powers was unprecedented and eventually ruled unconstitutional by the Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan law contains many other grants of emergency power to the governor and other officials in the executive branch.

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Michiganders were shocked to learn in 2020 that state law appeared to grant Gov. Gretchen Whitmer the power to issue unilateral and indefinite emergency orders. The scope of these powers was virtually limitless: they forced certain businesses to close, controlled who you could invite into your own home, prohibited the use of your own property, and restricted your right to exercise your religion freely, among many other dictates. While Gov. Whitmer’s use of emergency powers was unprecedented and eventually ruled unconstitutional by the Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan law contains many other grants of emergency power to the governor and other officials in the executive branch.

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Michiganders were shocked to learn in 2020 that state law appeared to grant Gov. Gretchen Whitmer the power to issue unilateral and indefinite emergency orders. The scope of these powers was virtually limitless: they forced certain businesses to close, controlled who you could invite into your own home, prohibited the use of your own property, and restricted your right to exercise your religion freely, among many other dictates. While Gov. Whitmer’s use of emergency powers was unprecedented and eventually ruled unconstitutional by the Michigan Supreme Court, Michigan law contains many other grants of emergency power to the governor and other officials in the executive branch.

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy announces our 2022 Planning for Life Workshops around Michigan.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Join us for an evening of fellowship among friends of liberty.