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

Hold Political Opinionmakers Accountable for Fabricated Evidence

James M. Hohman | April 12, 2021

Holland Restaurant Owner Arrested Over COVID Orders

Taylor Piotrowski | March 19, 2021

Transparency Laws are Designed to Keep the Government Accountable. But do They?

Stephen Delie | March 18, 2021

UK Variant In Just 0.02% Of Michigan’s COVID Cases; WaPo Blames It For Current Surge

Tom Gantert | April 7, 2021

Michigan 12th-Most Restrictive State For COVID Policies

Tom Gantert | April 6, 2021

Flint Has 29 Cents For Each Dollar Needed To Cover Pension Promises

Tom Gantert | April 1, 2021

Michigan Has More Teachers Per Student Than 13 Years Ago

Tom Gantert | March 30, 2021

Fewer Students And More Teachers Means - A Michigan Teacher Shortage?

Tom Gantert | March 29, 2021

Michigan Job Losses Nation's 12th Worst Since Pandemic Began

Tom Gantert | March 29, 2021

High School Prom Planners Await Government Permission

Tom Gantert | March 26, 2021

Michigan Daily COVID Deaths: 12 On March 21, Versus 133 On Dec. 14

Tom Gantert | March 25, 2021

Media Off-Base On COVID Hospitalization Rate Report

Tom Gantert | March 25, 2021

Michigan Residents’ 2020 Employment Income Decline Is Nation’s Eighth-Worst

Tom Gantert | March 25, 2021

Mayor Calls Stimulus ‘Critical’; His Pay Rose From $132k To $137k In 2020

Tom Gantert | March 23, 2021

Government Workers A Protected Class In 2020

Tom Gantert | March 23, 2021

Celebrate Sunshine Week By Suing A Government Open Records Act Scofflaw

Tom Gantert | March 22, 2021

After A Year Of COVID, Media Asks If Lockdowns Actually Work

Tom Gantert | March 18, 2021

Dodgy Metrics, No Real Accountability At Tax-Funded Tourism Marketing Program

Michael D. LaFaive | March 15, 2021

Biden Blowout: Spending Bill Unnecessary and Harmful

Michael D. LaFaive | March 9, 2021

Michigan’s Right-to-Work Law Led to Huge Drop in Union Membership

Jarrett Skorup | March 4, 2021

Indefinite Emergency Powers Are Unconstitutional

Patrick J. Wright and Michael Van Beek | March 1, 2021

Money for Nothing: Most Federal COVID Relief Went to Closed Classrooms

Ben DeGrow and Allison Rigterink | February 22, 2021

Texas Energy Crisis a Warning for Michigan

Jason Hayes | February 16, 2021

Michigan Attorney General Rebuffs Lawmaker Request To Investigate Nursing Home COVID Deaths

Tom Gantert | March 15, 2021

Florida: Wide-Open Restaurants, No Mask Mandate, Plunging Case Counts

Tom Gantert | March 15, 2021

Detroit Schools Get Clean Audit, Released From State Fiscal Oversight

Tom Gantert | March 12, 2021

North Dakota Repeals Mask Mandate, COVID Case Numbers Plunge

Tom Gantert | March 10, 2021

Virus Hard On Everyone? Not These Rochester School Employees

Tom Gantert | March 10, 2021

Whitmer, Now Fauci: Michigan Business Man Vents Lockdown Frustrations With Billboard

Tom Gantert | March 9, 2021

Iowa Drops Mask Mandate, Cases Plummet

Tom Gantert | March 9, 2021

Shortage? 10.5% More Teachers In Michigan For 2.1% Fewer Students

Tom Gantert | March 8, 2021

Detroit Teachers Average Salary Went Up 15%

Tom Gantert | March 8, 2021

Top Heads Of Detroit Teachers Union Enjoyed Big Raises During Epidemic

Tom Gantert | March 5, 2021

In Flint, No Sneeze Guards, No School — Despite $53K+ Per Pupil In Promised COVID Bucks

Tom Gantert | March 5, 2021

Federal Spending Blowout — In Michigan’s Budget

Tom Gantert | March 4, 2021

Vaccination Rate Higher in Michigan, But Texas Mask Free And Open

Tom Gantert | March 3, 2021

His Government Service Hardship Included 8% Raise, $155K Golden Parachute

Tom Gantert | March 3, 2021

COVID May Be On The Run In Michigan

Tom Gantert | March 2, 2021

Michigan No. 30 In School Reopening

Tom Gantert | March 2, 2021

49% Of Charter School Kids Black; State Civil Rights Commission Says Fund Them At 75%

Tom Gantert | February 27, 2021

Berkeley's Robert Reich Complains About CEO Pay, Collected $300k To Teach Three Classes

Tom Gantert | February 26, 2021

Whitmer Suggests ‘Effective’ Reopening of Schools Depends On Tripling Virus Testing

Tom Gantert | February 26, 2021

Gas, Coal, Nukes Supply 88% Of The Power Keeping Michigan's Lights And Furnace Fans On

Tom Gantert | February 24, 2021

Fewer Teachers Get Required Assessments With COVID, But Results The Same

Tom Gantert | February 19, 2021

Michigan Government First Stops Businesses, Then Subsidizes Some

Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff Reports | February 19, 2021

Firm Made $1.6 Billion, Corporate Subsidy Agency Boasts Offering It $2.6 Million

Tom Gantert | February 18, 2021

More Detroit School District Students Chronically Absent Than Not

Tom Gantert | February 17, 2021

Virtual Classes Cancelled At Ann Arbor Schools During Cold Snap

Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff Reports | February 16, 2021

Big 2020 Paychecks For Many Government Workers In Michigan

Tom Gantert | February 16, 2021

Community College President Paid Over $525,000 Last Year

Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff Reports | February 15, 2021

A Timeline of Inconsistency

Michael Van Beek | February 9, 2021

No Proof ‘Pause’ Worked

Michael Van Beek and Christopher C. Douglas, Ph.D. | February 4, 2021

All That is Not Permitted is Prohibited

Michael Van Beek | January 28, 2021

Gov. Whitmer’s Switcheroo on Schools

Michael Van Beek | January 19, 2021

Biden’s ‘American Rescue Plan’ Should Be Thrown Overboard

Michael D. LaFaive and Jarrett Skorup | January 18, 2021

Pandemic Response Boosts Michigan Budget

James M. Hohman | January 15, 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