Political debate should be an attempt to persuade, not overcome
November 15 MichiganVotes Roll Call Report
Entrepreneurs drive employment and prosperity
MLive errs in comparison of academic performance
Not all families can afford adequate transportation to access better schools
The debate has reinforced the blue-green divide
Without the Legislature’s timely intervention, the commission’s decision threatened to make it more difficult for cancer patients in rural areas of Michigan to access this treatment.
Some Michigan classrooms lack a teacher with full credentials, even though many people with teaching credentials aren’t teaching. Rather than focusing heavily on producing more teachers, the state should find ways to entice some of those teachers into the classroom.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was right to veto funding for the Pure Michigan advertising campaign in the new state budget.
November 8 MichiganVotes Roll Call Report
Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue could overturn Blaine amendments
Efforts to eliminate flavored cigarettes or vaping products won't succeed
Reforms will help improve public safety
Plan would reduce barriers to school choice for low-income families
Michigan could support low-income families’ efforts to transport their children to better schools and boost these children’s chances for upward socioeconomic mobility by creating Student Mobility Scholarships. A transportation scholarship plan is rooted in the idea of providing a more level playing field for Michigan's most economically disadvantaged families. The idea is for the state to assist qualifying families in paying some of the costs incurred from transporting a student to a school of their choice.
Budgets generate a lot of conflict, but not a lot of partisan spending
