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State’s Initial Epidemic Responses Guided By ‘Worst Case But Possible’ Scenario

Tom Gantert | July 28, 2021

Legionnaires’ Disease Spike Cited To Justify Extended Lockdowns, But They May Have Triggered It

Jamie A. Hope | July 27, 2021

88% Of Detroit Third Graders Below Proficient In Reading; New Law Held None Back

Tom Gantert | July 26, 2021

Politicians Believed ‘Grim’ COVID Messaging Would Be The Most Effective

Tom Gantert | July 24, 2021

Benton Harbor Schools Held Back No Third Graders In 2020-21 School Year

Tom Gantert | July 23, 2021

Another Granholm Green Energy Winner That Was A Bust

Jamie A. Hope | July 22, 2021

Liberal Nonprofit News Site Paints Unfair Picture Of Reading Retention Law

Tom Gantert | July 20, 2021

Earlier Poll Anticipated Vaccine Lottery's Underwhelming Results

Jamie A. Hope and Tom Gantert | July 19, 2021

U-M Says ‘No’ To Open Records Law Payroll Request, Michigan Court Of Claims Says ‘Yes’

Jamie A. Hope | July 17, 2021

Michigan’s Subsidized Green Energy Adventures Arrived With Headlines, Faded In Silence

Tom Gantert | July 16, 2021

Former State Health Director Wanted ‘Credible Threat’ Of Police Lockdown Sanctions

Jamie A. Hope | July 15, 2021

Detroit’s Unemployment 8.1% Before Epidemic, Spiked To 40.4% In May 2020

Tom Gantert | July 14, 2021

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

Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff Reports | July 13, 2021

Granholm-Subsidized Biochemicals Incubator Now Makes Ethanol For Cocktails

Tom Gantert | July 12, 2021

The Quiet Shortfall In Michigan Schools

Tom Gantert | July 10, 2021

Credit Or Blame? Whitmer Boasts On Michigan’s Post-COVID Economic Performance

Jamie A. Hope | July 9, 2021

Whitmer’s Renewables Order Would Cover Whole Regions In Turbines And Solar Arrays

Jamie A. Hope | July 8, 2021

Whitmer’s Tax-And-Borrow Missteps Halted Road Repair Progress

Jamie A. Hope | July 7, 2021

Consumers Energy and DTE Seek Higher Rates, Again

Jamie A. Hope | July 6, 2021

State Report Boasts Lower Michigan Case Rate; Silent On Higher Death Rate

Tom Gantert | July 5, 2021

Michigan's Liquor Taxes Among the Stiffest in the Nation

Olivia Miller | July 4, 2021

Michigan Nonprofits Relieved By Supreme Court’s Donor Privacy Ruling

Tom Gantert | July 3, 2021

School Funding Looks Unequal If Major Revenue Sources Not Counted

Tom Gantert | July 2, 2021

New Restrictions On Property Owners Advance Officials’ Pursuit Of ‘Tree City’ Label

Jamie A. Hope | July 1, 2021

Whitmer Blamed Public, 'Variant' For April COVID Spike, State Now Admits Had No Evidence

Madeline Peltzer | June 30, 2021

Teacher Went From $61,701 to $81,328 In Six Years, Tells Newspaper Low Pay A Hurdle

Tom Gantert | June 29, 2021

Clearing Up the Record on Michigan Charter Schools

Ben DeGrow | June 29, 2021

City Demands Vacation Renters’ Data; Homeowners Question Its Security And More

Olivia Miller | June 28, 2021

Workplace Regulators Abuse Power Extending State Emergency Rules Until Christmas Week

Jamie A. Hope | June 26, 2021

Michigan Schools Never Had More To Spend; MSU Prof Calls State Dead Last In Funding

Tom Gantert | June 25, 2021

Teachers Who Are Paid $97K Annually Say Low Pay Is A Problem

Tom Gantert | June 24, 2021

Center-Left Interest Group's Whopper On Michigan Teacher Retirement Benefits

Tom Gantert | June 23, 2021

CDC Data Suggests Stricter Lockdowns Didn’t Reduce COVID Deaths

Tom Gantert | June 22, 2021

Study: Michigan Falls Behind In Recovering From Pandemic

Olivia Miller | June 22, 2021

Michigan’s 100 Year-Plus Teacher Shortage

Tom Gantert | June 21, 2021

Whitmer Says 'Science' Governed State Epidemic Responses; Record Suggests Otherwise

Tom Gantert | June 19, 2021

Michigan Company, Lauded As A Face Of Green Energy in 2012, Now Defunct

June 18, 2021

Michigan Capitol Confidential Inaccurately Described Attendance Policies Of Two School Districts

Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff Reports | June 17, 2021

Heavy Agency Email Chatter Before Lockdown-Defying Restaurant Owner’s Arrest

Jamie A. Hope | June 17, 2021

Another School Establishment Ally Understates Michigan Teacher Salaries

Tom Gantert | June 16, 2021

Governor’s Pandemic Response Was Rarely Backed by Science

Michael Van Beek | June 15, 2021

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

Dawson Bell | June 15, 2021

State Agency’s ‘How To Form A Union’ Adventure Wilted Under Sunshine

Dawson Bell | June 14, 2021

Link Teacher Pay To Quality? But Annual State-Required Ratings Fail To Separate Best

Tom Gantert | June 12, 2021

Attorney General Wanted Lockdown-Defying Restaurant Owner Arrested Before Going On Fox News

Jamie A. Hope and Tom Gantert | June 11, 2021

Michigan School Pension Deficits Eat District Budgets

Jamie A. Hope | June 11, 2021

Whitmer Would Pay Schools More To Educate Fewer Students

Tom Gantert | June 10, 2021

Secretary Of State Fines Motorists For Delayed Service, Blames Legislators

Jamie A. Hope | June 10, 2021

Michigan Op-Ed Writer’s Defense Of Whitmer COVID Orders Confuses Cause With Effect

Tom Gantert | June 9, 2021

Granholm Wind Scheme Lauded At First, But Then Fell Into Obscurity When It Failed

Tom Gantert | June 8, 2021

Vaccination Rate Lags Sharply In Detroit

Tom Gantert | June 7, 2021

No State COVID Death Tracking At Nearly 3,500 Care Facilities

Olivia Miller | June 5, 2021

How Does Michigan’s Tax System Rank?

Olivia Miller | June 5, 2021

Was This State COVID Spending Item ‘Appropriate?’ Auditor General Can’t Say

Jamie A. Hope and Tom Gantert | June 4, 2021

Democrat’s Amendment Insinuates Legislative Leaders Affiliate With Domestic Terrorists

June 4, 2021

State Spent $13 Billion More Last Year Than A Decade Ago, Even After Inflation

Jamie A. Hope | June 3, 2021

No Fine For Restaurant Where Whitmer Caught Skipping Social Distance

Jamie A. Hope | June 2, 2021

Granholm Green Energy Handout: A Glowing Promise And Cattle Feed

Jamie A. Hope | June 1, 2021

See You In Court: Contractors Sue Township Over Unlawful Union Contracting Privilege

Dawson Bell | May 31, 2021

Media Group Gets Teacher Data From Union, Not State, Publishes Different Numbers

Tom Gantert | May 29, 2021

Whitmer Says She Would Use Emergency Law To Impose Her Non-Emergency Policies

Tom Gantert | May 28, 2021

State Health Department Budget Up 25%, Still Failed To Track COVID Nursing Home Deaths

Tom Gantert | May 28, 2021

Billboard: Whitmer Dissed People With ‘One Rule For Others And A Different One For Themselves’

Tom Gantert | May 28, 2021

Bad Information About the Prevailing Wage Abounds

Michael D. LaFaive | May 27, 2021

It's Made No Biofuel For Six Years, But Feds Still Pumping This Granholm Energy Handout

Jamie A. Hope | May 27, 2021

Studies Can’t Prove Lockdowns Didn’t Work - Or That They Did

Olivia Miller | May 27, 2021

This District Has A Student Shortage, Not Teacher Shortage

Tom Gantert | May 26, 2021

Residents Testify Local Airbnb Bans Take Away Freedom And Income

Olivia Miller | May 26, 2021

Number Of Michigan Teachers Rises Even As Enrollment Declines

Tom Gantert | May 25, 2021

Michigan’s Highest-Profile Lockdown Scofflaw: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Tom Gantert | May 24, 2021

State Uses $11M From Prisoners’ Phone Call Charges To Cover Other Prison Program Costs

Jamie A. Hope | May 22, 2021

State Pension Underfunding Enough To Give Pontiac Teachers $11,000 Bonuses

Jamie A. Hope | May 21, 2021

The Old ‘Teachers Out-Of-Pocket For School Supplies’ Canard Resurfaces

Tom Gantert | May 20, 2021

Media’s Flint Police Narratives Misleading And Often Wrong

Tom Gantert | May 19, 2021

Michigan's Public School Funding Higher Than Ever

Tom Gantert | May 18, 2021

Pipeline Shutdown Supported By Progressives Could Cost 23,000 U.P. Households Their Heat

Jamie A. Hope | May 18, 2021

Michigan School Pensions Still Underwater, Democrat's Bill Would Sink Them Lower

Tom Gantert | May 17, 2021

Michigan Officials Ignored CDC Head's Urging To Lock Down In April, COVID Plummeted

Tom Gantert | May 15, 2021

Whitmer Lifted Outdoor Mask Mandate, Tigers May Break Other Rules Saying No Mask Needed

Tom Gantert | May 15, 2021

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

Tom Gantert | May 14, 2021

Michigan Mask Mandate Ends Saturday For The Vaccinated

Tom Gantert | May 14, 2021

A Bizarre Media Hit Piece on Airbnb

Jarrett Skorup | May 14, 2021

Teacher Describes Sacrifices In Union Video; Her Pay Up 27% In Six Years

Tom Gantert | May 13, 2021

School District’s Use Of Sign-Waving Children To Electioneer For Tax Hike Probably Not Illegal

Dawson Bell | May 13, 2021

Michigan Teachers Union Video Disses Profession, Misinforms On Pay

Tom Gantert | May 12, 2021

State Claims Business Groups Involved In Permanent Mask Mandates They Strongly Oppose

Dawson Bell | May 12, 2021

Whitmer’s Overall Approval Under 50% But Still Not Horrible

Jamie A. Hope | May 11, 2021

Cost Of School Pension Underfunding In 2021: 42% Of Teacher Payroll Expense

Dawson Bell | May 11, 2021

Three States Will Refuse Federal Benefit That Makes Staying At Home Pay More Than Working

Tom Gantert | May 10, 2021

Whitmer’s Private Jet Trip During Pandemic Flies In Face Of Her Carbon Order Claims

Jamie A. Hope | May 10, 2021

Wind, Solar Firms Picked For Granholm’s Governor Mansion Soon Went Broke

Tom Gantert | May 10, 2021

Cities Across Michigan Are Banning Airbnb — This Bill Would Stop Them

Dawson Bell | May 8, 2021

Michigan Health Department To Athletes: Never Mind CDC, Wipe Those Surfaces

Tom Gantert | May 7, 2021

Metrics for Michigan: Slow Rolling to Normal

Michael Van Beek | May 6, 2021

Union President Wants Teachers Paid ‘What They’re Worth’

Tom Gantert | May 6, 2021

2006 Law Requires Annual State Pandemic Plan ‘Effectiveness’ Reports; It Didn’t Happen

Dawson Bell | May 5, 2021

Is ‘Vacc to Normal’ Back to Normal?

Michael Van Beek | May 4, 2021

Former Gov. Granholm’s Clean Energy Promises Go National

Tom Gantert | May 4, 2021

Auditors Find State Overpaid Medicaid Home Health Vendors $39.4 Million

Jamie A. Hope | May 3, 2021

Half Of Michigan's 16-And-Above Population Vaccinated

Tom Gantert | May 2, 2021

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