Whitmer's Back-and-Forth on Football Raises Questions On The 'Science' She Cites

Tom Gantert | September 4, 2020

Without Context, Water Use Claims Are Misleading (Millions? Billions? Trillions?)

Tom Gantert | January 16, 2020

Corporate Subsidy Formula: Big Promises In Headlines, Failures Invisible

Tom Gantert | October 10, 2019

Michigan Teacher Pay Scales: Top Out Fast, Then Go Nowhere

Tom Gantert | September 14, 2019

No Such Thing As An Average Teacher Salary In Michigan

Tom Gantert | September 13, 2019

Will Wild Rice Really Save The Great Lakes?

Tom Gantert | September 5, 2019

Website Calls Detroit Charter School ‘Struggling,’ Silent On Failing District Schools Nearby

Tom Gantert | August 20, 2019

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Licensure Mandates Cost Michigan Jobs And Millions In State Revenue

Sandy Malone | December 2, 2019

What the Mackinac Center is Thankful for in 2019

Jarrett Skorup | November 28, 2019

House Republicans 'No Way' on Detroit School Choice Restrictions

Tom Gantert | June 7, 2016

Michigan vs. Minnesota Report Says Little About What Policies To Pursue

Jarrett Skorup | June 18, 2014

Official Implies Low Youth Vaccination Rates Sent More To Hospital; His Region Had Two

Tom Gantert | September 25, 2021

Traverse City News Outlet Reports ‘Teacher Shortage’ With Debunked Myth, Bad Data, Biased Sources

Tom Gantert | September 24, 2021

Whitmer Claims Credit For 15,000 New Auto Jobs, But Fed Data Shows We’ve Lost That Many

Tom Gantert | September 18, 2021

Gaylord School Official Brought Armed Officers When Ordering Students To Mask-Up Or Else

Tom Gantert | September 14, 2021

Michigan In Trouble If Flint Meets State Government's Definition Of ‘Thriving City’

Tom Gantert | September 11, 2021

Conventional School Interests Warned Lifting Cap On Charters Meant A 'Wild West' Expansion

Tom Gantert | September 3, 2021

Michigan’s Teacher Pension Fund Earned Just 5.3% Last Year

Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff Reports | July 13, 2021

Michigan School Revenues Up 47% Over Two Years

Tom Gantert | August 28, 2021

Local United Way Raises Money For School Supplies State Already Must Provide

Tom Gantert | August 27, 2021

U.S. Appeals Court Upholds State Health Department’s School Mask Mandate Authority

Tom Gantert | August 24, 2021

School and Road Funding Up $2.3 Billion; Teachers Union Head Says Michigan Not Taxed Enough

Tom Gantert | August 16, 2021

Media Heavy Breathing Aside, 100% Of Very Few Juvenile COVID Cases Is Still Very Few

Tom Gantert | August 12, 2021

Kent County Health Department Order Could Devastate Organized Sports

Tom Gantert | August 11, 2021

Michigan Households Paid Nation’s 10th-Highest Electricity Cost In May 2021

Tom Gantert | August 5, 2021

Fewer Children In Michigan Schools But Bigger Staffs

August 2, 2021

A Bad Look For A County Health Department

Jack McHugh | August 31, 2021

Teacher Contract Analysis

These Parents And Children Looking For Alternatives After Virtual Instruction Failed Them

Dawson Bell | June 15, 2021

Union Complains About New Teachers’ Low Pay - In Contracts It Negotiated

Tom Gantert | May 14, 2021

Institutionalized Obfuscation By School Spending Advocates

Tom Gantert | April 30, 2021

Officials Take Credit When Pandemic Ebbs, Blame The People For Surges

Tom Gantert | April 19, 2021

Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm Oversaw Parade Of Failed Green Energy Boondoggles

Jarrett Skorup | December 21, 2020

In the ‘Birthplace of Organized Labor,’ Union Membership Plummets

Jarrett Skorup | October 31, 2020

Second Wave Agony: Maybe The State’s Epidemic Policy Is To Blame, Not Its People

Tom Gantert | October 30, 2020

Underfunded? Detroit Is State's 15th Best Funded Larger School District

Tom Gantert | August 29, 2020

Five School Options For Parents And Children This Fall

Parker Thayer | July 30, 2020

Costly Drugs For Rare Diseases A Moral Dilemma For Society

Parker Thayer | June 28, 2020

Possible Fire Sprinkler License Would Be Nation's Most Restrictive

Madeline Peltzer | July 15, 2019

Homeowner: Are All Uses Not ‘Permitted’ By Zoning Forbidden?

Dawson Bell | March 14, 2019

Respected Think Tank Shatters Michigan ‘Teacher Shortage’ Myth

Tom Gantert | February 26, 2019

Michigan School Funding ‘Dead Last’? Watch That Methodology

Tom Gantert | February 11, 2019

One Source Of School Finance Confusion: ‘Equity In School Funding’

Tom Gantert | February 9, 2019

Warning: Michigan School Finance Is Complicated

Tom Gantert | February 8, 2019

Diversity Programs Big Business at U-M

Derek Draplin | February 4, 2019

School Budgets Caught A Cold In 2000s, But Michigan Taxpayers Suffered Economic Pneumonia

Tom Gantert | January 30, 2019

Michigan’s Electric Companies Sign Onto Green Agenda

Evan Carter | December 31, 2018

Michigan Schools And Families Were Hurt By 800,000 Lost Jobs

Tom Gantert | November 12, 2018

Utility’s Plan To Replace Coal With Solar Passes Regulatory Hurdle

Evan Carter | October 8, 2018

U-M Research Guide Leans Left On ‘Fake News’ And Media Bias

Tom Gantert | August 28, 2018

Gov. Rick Snyder’s Fiscal Policy Legacy

James M. Hohman | July 28, 2018

This Michigan Utility Is Planning Your Energy Future

Evan Carter | July 23, 2018

By Honoring Football Anthem Protests, Union Dishonors Teachers Who Dissent

Tom Gantert | July 6, 2018

Dems Get 99.9 Percent of 2018 Teacher Union Political Cash

Tom Gantert | June 21, 2018

Detroit’s Tax-Related Debt To Wayne County Down $70 Million Since 2010

Aaron Lehman | June 19, 2018

Despite Positive Buzz For Detroit, Downward Population Trend Continues

Evan Carter | June 8, 2018

Even In Low-Paying School Districts, It’s Hard To Beat Teacher Pay And Benefits

Tom Gantert | June 1, 2018

Michigan Dems Don’t Like Current Policies, Ignore Facts About What Came Before

Tom Gantert | May 29, 2018

Union In Potential Landmark Case Gave To Sharpton, Progressives, Dem Party

Evan Carter | May 18, 2018

Special Tax Breaks For Privileged Firms Means Money Comes From Someone Else

Tom Gantert | April 17, 2018

Despite Right-To-Work Laws, Unions Find Ways Make Workers Keep Paying

Jack McHugh | April 16, 2018

For Each Gallon Of Water Michigan’s People Use, 288 Gallons Fall From The Sky

Tom Gantert | April 12, 2018

Average Teacher Pay Doesn’t Support Liberal Site’s Narrative? Use It Anyway

Tom Gantert | March 24, 2018

DTE Earns Big Gas Pipeline Profits, Lobbied For More Gas-Fired Electricity

Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff Reports | March 7, 2018

Getting Harder For Union To Spread Teacher Pay Disinformation

Tom Gantert | February 27, 2018

Did School Choice Opposition Help Doom Detroit’s Bid For Amazon HQ?

Tom Gantert | February 15, 2018

Media Plays Games, Misleads Readers When Its Target Is School Choice

Tom Gantert | January 29, 2018

DTE Produces Enough Wind Power To Run 24,000 Homes - But Part Of The Day Only

Tom Gantert | January 15, 2018

Teacher Shortage Claims: Republicans Did It

Tom Gantert | January 10, 2018

Past Mistakes Haunt Builder Trying to Find Work

Jarrett Skorup | December 22, 2017

Charters Schools ‘Segregated’? Children Only Attend If Their Parents Choose

Tom Gantert | December 11, 2017

Are Any Left? 100 Years Of ‘Michigan Teacher Shortage’ Headlines

Tom Gantert | November 29, 2017

The Most Bizarre Licenses in Michigan

Jarrett Skorup | November 21, 2017

Insurance Reform Opponents Spin 'No' Votes; Drivers Just Want Rate Relief

Tom Gantert | November 6, 2017

Spending And Tax Collections Up, But East Lansing Still Asks For Local Income Tax

Tom Gantert | November 2, 2017

Fake News: HuffPost Article on DeVos Filled With Mistruths

Tom Gantert | October 30, 2017

Rep. Sam Singh Says He Opposes Corporate Giveaways; His Voting Record Says Otherwise

Tom Gantert | October 20, 2017

Meet The New Teachers Union Myths, Same As The Old Ones

Tom Gantert | September 18, 2017

More Inaccuracies in New York Times Attack on Michigan Charter Schools

Tom Gantert | September 12, 2017

False Claims, Inaccuracies Rife in New York Times Article On Michigan Charter Schools

Tom Gantert | September 8, 2017

It’s Labor Day, But Union Officials May Not Be Celebrating

Tom Gantert | September 4, 2017

Change In Regulations On Electricity Markets Could Hit Schools

Jacob Weaver and Jason Hayes | August 29, 2017

Holland Going Into The Broadband Business

Evan Carter | August 23, 2017

School Officials, Teachers Unions, Media All Complicit In Edu-Disinformation

Tom Gantert | August 7, 2017

Most Teacher Salaries Are Increasing

Tom Gantert | July 27, 2017

There You Go Again: Teachers Union Spins Misleading Food Stamp Claim

Tom Gantert | June 24, 2017

Government Internet Coming to Traverse City

Evan Carter | June 19, 2017

Schools in Poorer Towns ‘Poorly Funded’ — If You Don't Count All Their Funding

Tom Gantert | May 6, 2017

Election Today! And Plenty of Taxpayer-Funded Electioneering, Too

Tom Gantert | May 2, 2017

Taxpayer Funded Electioneering in Full Swing Before May 2 Tax Votes

Tom Gantert | April 24, 2017

Property Tax Bills May Spike Due To School Pension Underfunding

Tom Gantert | April 11, 2017

School Claims Its Tax Hike Emails Don't Invade Privacy - but Opponent's Would

Tom Gantert | April 10, 2017

Union Rules: Ineffective Teacher's Raise is 4x That of 'Teacher Of The Year'

Tom Gantert | March 17, 2017

Michigan Will Soon Restrict Real Estate Agents When Displaying Their Names

Jarrett Skorup | March 13, 2017

Close Failing Public Schools? Not In Michigan — Yet

Tom Gantert | February 22, 2017

DeVos, Charters, School Choice Threaten Democratic Party Finances

Tom Gantert | January 19, 2017

DeVos Attacked For Supporting Free Speech, Due Process On Campus

Derek Draplin | January 18, 2017

State Officials Caused Michigan's Pension Crisis

Tom Gantert | January 16, 2017