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Schools With Many Poor Families Get More Per Kid In Michigan, Not Less

Tom Gantert | November 18, 2019

Look For The Union Label On Legal Pot Shops?

Dawson Bell | November 16, 2019

Teachers Filing Union Unfair Labor Complaint Appear To Be Doing Well

Tom Gantert | November 15, 2019

Local School Union Claims Unfair Labor Practice, Cites Cuts That Weren’t

Tom Gantert | November 14, 2019

Tlaib Against Corporate Welfare Except When She Votes For It

Tom Gantert | November 13, 2019

Targeted Tax Preferences are Unfair

James M. Hohman | November 12, 2019

What You Really Need to Know about Michigan Charter Schools

Ben DeGrow | November 12, 2019

College Instructors Not Getting Rich, But Downtrodden A Stretch

Tom Gantert | November 12, 2019

Teacher Shortage? For Physics Maybe, But Not Phys-Ed

Tom Gantert | November 11, 2019

Detroit Schools Fiscal Decline Began Before Emergency Manager

Tom Gantert | November 9, 2019

Detroit Schools Enroll More Low Income Students, Get More Money

Tom Gantert | November 8, 2019

Michigan’s Not Good For Wind Power, So Consumers Energy Customers Will Pay More

Tom Gantert | November 7, 2019

Conflict Of Interest: Officials With Turbine Tower Leases Approve Wind Development

Dawson Bell | November 5, 2019

Olympic Pool Holds 12 Times Annual Road Runoff Saved By $475K Great Lakes Grant

Tom Gantert | November 5, 2019

The Bipartisan State Budget

James M. Hohman | November 4, 2019

Taxpayers Pay $50 Million For State Police Double-Dipping Program Since 2015

Sandy Malone | November 4, 2019

EPA Gives Over $6M For Environmental Justice Activism

Tom Gantert | November 2, 2019

Mission Creep: Money Touted As Protecting Lakes Goes To ‘Environmental Justice’

Tom Gantert | November 1, 2019

Bill Would Allow Banks To Offer Secretary Of State Services

Tom Gantert | October 30, 2019

Large Hospitals Want State Monopoly On New Cancer Treatment

Dawson Bell | October 30, 2019

New York Times Fits Narrative By Misreporting CapCon Article

Tom Gantert | October 29, 2019

Federal Appeals Court Doesn’t Buy U-M’s Story On Speech-Chilling Bias Response Team

Sandy Malone | October 28, 2019

Michigan’s Corporate Subsidy Board Faces Tough Questioning

Jarrett Skorup | October 27, 2019

City Enters Local Broadband Business By Saddling Costs On Private Vendors

Holly Matkin | October 26, 2019

Detroit School District Enrollment Up For First Time This Century

Tom Gantert | October 25, 2019

The Student Debt Problem is Widely Misunderstood – Here Are Some Solutions

Jarrett Skorup | October 24, 2019

Clock is Running out for Michigan Legislators to Help Cancer Patients

Lindsay B. Killen | October 24, 2019

Kmart Property is MEGA Reminder Not to Extend Subsidy Program

Michael D. LaFaive | October 24, 2019

State Taxpayers Giving Company $7 Million To Move 21 Miles

Madeline Peltzer | October 24, 2019

Flint Schools Back In Debt After One-Year Hiatus

Tom Gantert | October 23, 2019

Public Servants Should Deliver More Than a List of Adjectives

James M. Hohman | October 22, 2019

Legacy Media, Journalism Prof Question Mystery News Site

Tom Gantert | October 22, 2019

Resort Owners On Subsidy Agency's Committee, Get Its Subsidies, Praise It In Newspaper

Dawson Bell | October 21, 2019

Charter Schools Targeted By Veto To Protest At Governor’s Detroit Office

Tom Gantert | October 19, 2019

Court Denies Records Request For Controversial Activist’s Texts With Mayor

Dawson Bell | October 18, 2019

What Happens Now to Roads in Michigan

James M. Hohman | October 17, 2019

Lawmakers Should Let Good Jobs for Michigan Expire

Michael D. LaFaive | October 17, 2019

Politicians Bet Taxpayer Dollars On Soccer, Taxpayers Lose

Dawson Bell | October 17, 2019

Is There Really A Teacher Shortage? Grand Rapids Shows It’s Complicated

Tom Gantert | October 16, 2019

In Michigan, More Getting Richer, Poor Getting Less Poor

Dawson Bell | October 15, 2019

CMU Tuition More Than Doubled Since 2000; Revenues Up But Enrollment Stagnant

Tom Gantert | October 14, 2019

MSU Tuition, Overall Spending Up Big Since 2000; State Funding Down

Tom Gantert | October 12, 2019

An Update on Criminal Justice Policies in Michigan

Jarrett Skorup | October 11, 2019

Five Unionized Public Schools Don't Get Funding Hike, Union Silent

Tom Gantert | October 11, 2019

Corporate Subsidy Formula: Big Promises In Headlines, Failures Invisible

Tom Gantert | October 10, 2019

Keep Pure Michigan Spending at $0

Michael D. LaFaive | October 10, 2019

540 Apply For One Teaching Opening, Zero For Six Others

Tom Gantert | October 9, 2019

Teacher Shortage? District Gets 1,177 Applications for 30 Openings

Tom Gantert | October 8, 2019

Since Motorcycle Helmet Law Repeal, Deaths Up, Injuries Down

Holly Matkin | October 7, 2019

A Global Climate Strike Isn't Enough

Jason Hayes | October 6, 2019

Focus On 'Teacher Shortage' Claims: Is It A Myth?

Tom Gantert | October 5, 2019

A Conservative Case for Expunging Criminal Records

Jarrett Skorup | October 4, 2019

Gov. Whitmer's Veto Turns $338 Million Transportation Increase Into $37 Million Cut

Tom Gantert | October 4, 2019

Measure Would Protect Electronic Communications From Warrantless Search

Tom Gantert | October 3, 2019

Whitmer Targets Charter Students in Budget Veto

Ben DeGrow | October 2, 2019

Whitmer Vetoes Funding Hike For Schools That Enroll More Poor Kids

Tom Gantert | October 1, 2019

Media Repeats Unexamined Teachers Union Claims At Own Risk

Tom Gantert | October 1, 2019

A Case Study in Ineffectiveness for the MEDC

Jarrett Skorup | September 30, 2019

No Need for Veto Work, but if the Governor Insists...

Michael D. LaFaive | September 30, 2019

Government Pension Underfunding Threatens U.P. Hospital’s Future

Dawson Bell | September 30, 2019

Millionaires Eligible For Welfare? Proponents Of Rule Change Say It’s Technically Possible

Dawson Bell | September 28, 2019

The Corporate Welfare Lady Protests Too Much

Michael D. LaFaive | September 27, 2019

Lawmaker Wants To Make Gun-Free Zones Liable If Someone Hurt

Tom Gantert | September 27, 2019

Economic Growth Drives Budget Priorities

James M. Hohman | September 26, 2019

Detroit Schools Betting The Post-Bailout Future On Enrollment Turnaround

Tom Gantert | September 26, 2019

School Aid Budget Proposals Not That Far Off

Ben DeGrow | September 25, 2019

Senate Democrat Gets Chance To Oppose Corporate Subsidies, Takes It

Tom Gantert | September 25, 2019

Omnipotent Moral Busybodies Appear at Climate Town Hall

Jason Hayes | September 24, 2019

Michigan Unemployment Claims Set Record Low

Tom Gantert | September 24, 2019

Selective Favors to Companies Won’t Create Jobs

James M. Hohman | September 23, 2019

Doubling State’s 1,100 Wind Turbines Won’t Replace This One Coal/Gas Plant

Tom Gantert | September 23, 2019

State Funding For Michigan’s Universities Fell — But Tuition Rose Much More

Tom Gantert | September 21, 2019

Unsupported Numbers In State Budget Impasse News Story

Tom Gantert | September 20, 2019

Despite Bluster And Bullying, 32,208 Left Teachers Union Since Right-To-Work

Tom Gantert | September 19, 2019

State Law Restricting New Clinics May Limit Promising Cancer Treatment

Dawson Bell | September 18, 2019

Vaping Ban Would Increase Cigarette Sales and Smuggling

Michael D. LaFaive | September 17, 2019

Michigan’s Roads Appear Middling-To-Poor, Not The Nation’s Worst

Holly Matkin | September 17, 2019

State’s Pension Fund Managers Get The Big Bucks — Not The Governor

Tom Gantert | September 16, 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

Senate Bill Revitalizes Skepticism about Corporate Handouts

James M. Hohman | September 12, 2019

Teacher, Poet, Pizza Guy — At $82k, Says Side Job Needed To Pay Bills

Tom Gantert | September 12, 2019

‘Right Now’: Timetable For Group’s ‘Stop Burning Fossil Fuels’ Demand

Tom Gantert | September 11, 2019

Even Without 45-Cent Gas Tax Hike, Transportation Spending Up 58 Percent Since 2011

Tom Gantert | September 10, 2019

Michigan’s Ineffective, Unfair and Expensive Corporate Handouts

James M. Hohman | September 9, 2019

Enacting A New State Law Costs $272,500, On Average

Tom Gantert | September 9, 2019

Octogenarian Bailiffs Finally Get Dismissed From Detroit Court

Dawson Bell | September 7, 2019

Ann Arbor Teacher Doesn’t Like Betsy DeVos, Or School Choice

Tom Gantert | September 6, 2019

Will Wild Rice Really Save The Great Lakes?

Tom Gantert | September 5, 2019

National Groups Push Music Therapist Licensing – Which Benefits Themselves

Jarrett Skorup | September 5, 2019

Extension of Mislabeled Good Jobs for Michigan Program Would Be Added to the Business Subsidy Scorecard

James M. Hohman | September 5, 2019

Lack of Money For Universities Didn’t Cost Michigan Amazon – Or Economic Growth

Jarrett Skorup | September 4, 2019

644 Michigan Communities Levy Local Road Taxes

Tom Gantert | September 4, 2019

Media Misreports Whitmer’s 45-cent Gas Tax Hike, Even As Its Chances Fade

Tom Gantert | September 3, 2019

Senate Votes To Maintain Electricity Subsidies

Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff Reports | September 2, 2019

Despite New Law, Some Cities Digging Deeper Pension Holes

Dawson Bell | August 31, 2019

Unionization Campaign Roils Royal Oak Hospital

Dawson Bell | August 30, 2019

State Gives Solar Preferences on Land 'Preserved' for Farmland

Aaron Lehman | August 29, 2019

Republican Tax Hike Opponents Too ‘Ideological’ — Or Just Enough?

August 29, 2019

Road Workers Oppose Strike, Bail On Union

Dawson Bell | August 28, 2019

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