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1.5 Million In Michigan Probably Contracted Virus - Not 154,688

Nearly one-in-seven; confirmed cases just 10% of total, per CDC head, researchers

Tom Gantert | October 24, 2020

Top Michigan Health Official Says 'Talking Without A Mask On Increases The Risk'

Dr. Joneigh Khaldun says to limit talking when dining indoors

Tom Gantert | October 23, 2020

Hospitals Predict Crisis, But Current 71% Occupancy Rate Not Abnormal

Tom Gantert | October 22, 2020

Michigan Governor Rated No. 46 By Center-Right Legislator Group

Especially on education policy, Whitmer gets no love from ALEC

Tom Gantert | October 22, 2020

Risk Appears Minimal, But Health Department Locks Down U-M Undergrads Anyway

Tom Gantert | October 21, 2020

Whitmer Supports Defunding Police 'In Spirit'; Her Last State Police Budget Added $522 Million

Tom Gantert | October 21, 2020

Top Epidemiologists: ‘Grave Concerns About Damaging Impacts ...Of Prevailing Policies’

'Most compassionate ... to let those less at risk ... build up immunity through natural infection'

Tom Gantert | October 20, 2020

Remember That Promise About Fixing Roads? Michigan Is Spending Less On Them Under Whitmer

As a candidate in 2018, she called Michigan roads dangerous

Tom Gantert | October 20, 2020

Free Market Cato Institute Gives Michigan Gov. Whitmer 'F' On Fiscal Policy

Tom Gantert | October 20, 2020

‘No Way To Cut State Budget’ — Not Even These Items?

Michigan budget director draws a line

Tom Gantert | October 19, 2020

State Civil Rights Commission’s School Report Raises Questions Whether It’s Serious, Credible

Ideological spin easier to come by than facts and serious analysis

Tom Gantert | October 17, 2020

Courts, Legislature Eye Unconstitutional Property Tax Foreclosure Takings

Governments take and sell tax delinquent property, collect their taxes and fees, pocket the balance

Dawson Bell | October 16, 2020

More People Getting It In Michigan, But Way Fewer Dying From COVID

Tom Gantert | October 15, 2020

House Democratic Leader Misstates Supreme Court’s Ruling Against Emergency Powers Law

Tom Gantert | October 15, 2020

Civil Rights Commission Speaks Erroneously About Charter Schools

Yes, they must follow state and federal laws

Tom Gantert | October 14, 2020

Whitmer Assails Supreme Court; Questions The Legitimacy Of Its Ruling On Executive Orders

She demeans serious and fundamental constitutional disagreements as mere partisanship

Tom Gantert | October 14, 2020

New York Metro States To Michigan Residents: Come Here And You Sit Inside Two Weeks

Tom Gantert | October 13, 2020

Farewell Wayfair Projected Jobs: $2.5 Million In Taxpayer Handouts Can't 'Buy' 503 New Michigan Jobs

Tom Gantert | October 13, 2020

No Charge For Vehicle Seizure Data Over Three Years, But Wayne County Wants $19k This Time

Tom Gantert | October 13, 2020

Whitmer's Government 0-for-3 Before Supreme Court Defending One-Person Governance

High Court ruled executive branch can't take legislative branch powers

Tom Gantert | October 12, 2020

Whitmer Cites Five Experts To Rebut Senator's 'Herd Immunity' Challenge; He Has Thousands

Tom Gantert | October 12, 2020

‘The Science’ Revolts: Social, Health Costs Of Lockdowns And School Closures Exceed Benefits

Top-tier epidemiologists warn of ‘irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed’

Tom Gantert | October 12, 2020

House Speaker Says Whitmer Endangered Legislators By Not Disclosing Capitol Terrorism Plot

Tom Gantert | October 10, 2020

Spend $99 Challenging This Group’s Agenda And It’s ‘Climate Science Disinformation’

They invoke science but their arithmetic equates $99 with $364,000

Tom Gantert | October 10, 2020

State Data Rebuts Civil Rights Commission’s Claim Schools In Poor Cities Are Underfunded

For example, Benton Harbor and Flint Schools received about 50% more than the average district

Tom Gantert | October 9, 2020

Whitmer Scolds Yoopers Who ‘Dropped Their Guard’ On Virus; 29 In Hospital There Due To COVID-19

Tom Gantert | October 8, 2020

Michigan College Professors’ Political Contributions Resemble One-Party System

Tom Gantert | October 8, 2020

State Health Department Director Quintupled Coronavirus Fines

Tom Gantert | October 8, 2020

Very Few COVID-Related Emergency Room Visits Now

Tom Gantert | October 7, 2020

30% Of State Workers Flee Their Unions

More than 9,000 in Michigan have canceled memberships and dues payments

Dawson Bell | October 7, 2020

Few Kids In Class, But Federal Virus Relief Pushes Michigan School Funding To Record $16 Billion

Tom Gantert | October 6, 2020

Meet The New Coronavirus Mandates and Restrictions

Mostly same as the old ones, but now based on powers previous legislators granted to the health department

Tom Gantert | October 6, 2020

Whitmer Asks Supreme Court To Return Her Unilateral Governance Until Oct. 30

Tom Gantert | October 5, 2020

Civil Rights Commission: Cut Charter Schools That Serve Mostly Poor, Minority Students

Former Democratic leader: Commission ‘tells half the students in Detroit and Flint they're only worth three-quarters of a person’

Tom Gantert | October 5, 2020

Whitmer Initially Defiant On Losing Emergency Powers, Now Says Will Work With Legislature

Senate Majority leader reported radio silence from administration as of 1 p.m. Sunday

Tom Gantert | October 4, 2020

Judge Says Whitmer Wrong: Unilateral Governance Ended With Supreme Court Ruling

Governor claims she gets a three-week extension on executive order powers

Tom Gantert | October 3, 2020

Gov. Whitmer Defiant After Supreme Court Shuts Down Her Unilateral Governance

Rules give 21 days to request rehearing; Whitmer claims she can govern alone until then

Tom Gantert | October 3, 2020

Truck Stop Fined For No ‘Keep Out If Sick’ Signs, Hand-Sanitizer Violations, More

Tom Gantert | October 2, 2020

Michigan Capitol Confidential Removes Story Citing CDC Data On Pneumonia Deaths

Tom Gantert | October 2, 2020

Federal Cash Floodgates Opened Wide To Michigan In 2020

Total state government spending went from $57.8 billion to $67.0 billion in one year

Tom Gantert | October 2, 2020

Michigan Supreme Court Takes Away Whitmer’s Unilateral Emergency Powers

She’ll need legislative consent now; one-person governance ends

Jack McHugh and Jarrett Skorup | October 2, 2020

Unfair Playing Field? Flint Schools Get 50% More Than Average

State’s Civil Rights Commission joins the interests promoting the underfunded narrative

Tom Gantert | October 1, 2020

Budget 2021: State of Corporate and Industry Handouts

Lawmakers should cut unnecessary and ineffective subsidy programs

Michael D. LaFaive and James M. Hohman | September 30, 2020

Lawmakers should cut unnecessary and ineffective subsidy programs

September COVID-19 Hospitalizations A Fraction Of April

They’re down 85%; Whitmer cites current figure to extend 204-day emergency

Tom Gantert | September 30, 2020

Despite Epidemic, State Of Michigan Rolling In Dough

Tom Gantert | September 30, 2020

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Big On Spending, Light On Restoring

Spent $117,198 in seven years studying the Michigan Monkey Flower

Tom Gantert | September 30, 2020

More Great Lakes Spending Hype: It’s A Multiplier!

Tom Gantert | September 29, 2020

WSJ Reports Most COVID-19 Fatalities Lack Life Insurance

Most of the fatalities are older people where coverage is no longer practical

Tom Gantert | September 28, 2020

Flint Started Online School Early, And 55% Of Students Showed Up

Tom Gantert | September 28, 2020

337 Hospitalized In Michigan With COVID-19 On Sept. 25; 3,357 Were Hospitalized on April 20

Tom Gantert | September 26, 2020

Health Officials Say Don’t Play Contact Sports; Whitmer Says Follow The Science, Play Contact Sports

Tom Gantert | September 25, 2020

Corporate Subsidy Agency Claims Giving 18 Firms Average $321 Per Job Saved Those Jobs

Tom Gantert | September 25, 2020

State Health Department Halloween Advisory: Trick Or Treat With Household Members

Tom Gantert | September 24, 2020

Whitmer Declares Small Business Week; 13% Of Owners Don’t Think They’ll Survive Virus, Lockdowns

Tom Gantert | September 24, 2020

Michigan Unions Back In Court To Keep State Employee Dues Flowing

2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocked dues withholding without employee consent and reapproval

Dawson Bell | September 24, 2020

Michigan No. 14 In Closed Businesses Since March 1; Whitmer Declares Small Business Week

Tom Gantert | September 23, 2020

Fossil-Fuel Friendly Group Scores Many Michigan Congressional Democrats 0%

Republicans straggle between Amash and Walberg at 100% and Upton at 61%

Holly Matkin | September 23, 2020

Michigan Coronavirus Deaths Down Dramatically

Tom Gantert | September 22, 2020

Power Play: State Levies Legally Dubious Virus Rule Fines On Business

Tom Gantert | September 21, 2020

State Uses Unrelated Law To Extract More From Businesses Breaking Pandemic Rules

Tom Gantert | September 21, 2020

Doxxing That Causes Harm Becomes 10-Year Felony Under Michigan House Bill

Posting private or identifying information about an individual with malicious intent

Tom Gantert | September 21, 2020

Law's ‘Immediate Danger’ Justifies Ongoing Emergency, But Not Cancelling Casinos Or Football

Tom Gantert | September 19, 2020

Cancel The Illegal 'Historic Abolitionist' Strike: U-M Grad Employees Return To Work

Demands included 'cut all ties with police' - and letting grad student instructors work from home

Dawson Bell | September 18, 2020

Michigan's Big Ten Campuses Deemed High Risk For COVID-19 Yet Football Continues

Tom Gantert | September 17, 2020

Whitmer's Football Flip-Flops Look Like Politics Not 'Science'

Initially against it, governor reversed course after presidential politics entered the mix

Tom Gantert | September 17, 2020

Recipe For School Budget Trouble: Enrollment Down, Teaching Staff Up, Pension Expense Rising

Bay City officials use the old ‘state funding cuts’ excuse — but their funding went up, not down

Tom Gantert | September 16, 2020

State Takes On First $800 Million In New Road Repair Debt

First installment on $3.5 billion of 'bonding' will cost taxpayers $565 million in interest

Tom Gantert | September 15, 2020

COVID-19 Hospitalization Cases Now 2,100 Less Than On April 30

September 14, 2020

Official Michigan Regional Virus Risk Map Out Of Date

‘Map colors reflect official risk levels...’ - not anymore

Tom Gantert | September 14, 2020

District Alleges Teacher Shortage, Fires Pro-Trump Teacher Over ‘Liberals Suck’ Tweet

Teacher was twice rated ‘highly effective’ by district

Tom Gantert | September 14, 2020

Left-Wing Group Funneling Money To Lansing Voter Outreach, Triggers Election Law Complaint

‘Targeting a demographic to increase turnout’ is flip side of targeting ‘to suppress the vote’

Tom Gantert | September 12, 2020

Those Who Do Not Learn from History…

Years of bad economic development deals haven't prevented politicians from trying again

Michael D. LaFaive | September 11, 2020

Years of bad economic development deals haven't prevented politicians from trying again

Michigan Woman Could Be Key To Changing Federal Labor Law

Dawson Bell | September 11, 2020

Not '100% Safe': State Medical Director Tells Parents To Cancel Play Dates

'...be creative and have video conference calls with your children’s friends...'

Tom Gantert | September 10, 2020

Five Times More Whitmer Executive Orders Than Ohio

But Florida's governor has issued even more

Tom Gantert | September 10, 2020

Michigan Averaged 125 COVID Deaths A Day In April; It’s Down To 4.9 In September

Tom Gantert | September 10, 2020

Whitmer Hints She Won’t Lift State Of Emergency Until Coronavirus Vaccine Available

That could mean another two years or longer of lockdowns and restrictions

Tom Gantert | September 10, 2020

Liberal Group Gives City Of Lansing $443,000 For Voter Outreach

Funders and founders a who’s who of the moneyed left

Tom Gantert | September 9, 2020

State School Board Member Claims Teachers And Students Dying; Data Doesn’t Support It

Tom Gantert | September 9, 2020

Michigan Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge To Whitmer's Emergency Powers Sept. 9

Tom Gantert | September 8, 2020

Southfield Schools: Too Dangerous To Teach Classes, But Do Send Kids For $150 Per Week Daycare

Tom Gantert | September 8, 2020

$600 Weekly Fed Unemployment Boost Also Boosted Michigan Income Tax Collections

Tom Gantert | September 8, 2020

More Charters A ‘Complete Assault On Public School System’? Not Quite

Results of 2011 expansion not what school choice opponents said

Tom Gantert | September 7, 2020

Could Be More Lockdown Fallout: Opioid Overdoses Up 22%

‘I’ve seen far too many people die’ of overdoses, says state’s chief doctor

Tom Gantert | September 5, 2020

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

Tom Gantert | September 4, 2020

Governor Allows High School Swim Team Members To Remove Mandated Masks 'When Swimming'

Other athletes must mask-up even on the field

Tom Gantert | September 4, 2020

Saginaw County Stops Requiring Union-Scale Wages On Government Projects

After state prevailing wage law was repealed, local versions became hard to administer

Dawson Bell | September 3, 2020

In UP, One Confirmed COVID Case In The Hospital; Its Bars Still Closed For Indoor Service

Tom Gantert | September 2, 2020

Backed By Police Unions in 2018, Whitmer Silent On Police Union Reforms

Police collective bargaining contracts implicated in departments’ failure to dismiss bad actors

Tom Gantert | September 1, 2020

New Study Shows 21st Century Jobs Fund a Bust

These programs should be repealed and their administrative agencies shut down

Michael D. LaFaive and Dr. Michael J. Hicks | August 31, 2020

These programs should be repealed and their administrative agencies shut down

Face Mask Mandates For Some But Not Others Among Inconsistencies In Epidemic Orders

Tom Gantert | August 31, 2020

Whitmer's 'Enhanced' Executive Order Penalties Appear Outside The Law And Constitution

State sidestepping state of emergency law by pulling sanctions from a different law

Tom Gantert | August 31, 2020

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

Gets less from some sources and more from others

Tom Gantert | August 29, 2020

MEGA Mistake: Big Corporate Welfare Program Still a Waste

State economic development incentives often don’t result in much development.

Michael D. LaFaive | August 28, 2020

State economic development incentives often don’t result in much development.

Former Crain's Detroit Business Publisher Calls Rand Paul 'Bed-Wetting Snowflake'

Tom Gantert | August 28, 2020

Hasn't Opened Yet, And Traverse City's Government Broadband Needs Surprise Loan

Private sector competition is ‘not going to just roll over’

Dawson Bell | August 28, 2020

Perpetual State Of Emergency? Michigan One Of 15 States That Don’t Rule It Out

Tom Gantert | August 27, 2020

Cancel The Narrative: Schools Serving Michigan’s Poor Among State's Highest Funded, Not Least

Tom Gantert | August 27, 2020

Whitmer's Idea Of Bullying: Is It Small Business Politely Pleading To Reopen?

Tom Gantert | August 26, 2020

Michigan Hospitals Less Full Than Nonpandemic Years

Keeping occupancy down one of the rationales of ongoing lockdowns

Tom Gantert | August 26, 2020

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