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Literature Review and Analysis

… taxes were generally unpopular in the Michigan business community. In March 2008, less than six months later, the Legislature adopted the Michigan Film Incentive. [174] Alan Peters and Peter Fisher, "The Failures of Economic Development Incentives," Journal of the American Planning Association 70, …

The Laboratory Library: Book Reviews

… compete with the real thing. Readers are reminded on Page 5 of the greatest fluoridated water satire of them all: Col. Jack D. Ripper from the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove," who went mad and started a nuclear war, convinced that fluoridated public water was a communist plot to rob Americans of their "precious …

Present Day Prohibition

… you’ve ever seen a Ken Burns documentary, you’re familiar with their use of faded photos, archival video and interviews with renowned historians. Films like “The Civil War,” “Thomas Jefferson” and “Lewis & Clark” bring the past to life despite the decades of distance between the subject matter and …

Medicaid Payments Should Go to Caregivers, Not to Unions

U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

… home health care capacity. The consequences of the proposed legislation are serious and would hurt families, as demonstrated by a recent documentary film “The Big Skim,” in which providers tell how they were affected by the previous dues skim efforts. If nothing else, these stories should give Congress …

Section 2: MCL § 15.232 – Definitions.

… recording, and includes letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or combinations thereof, and papers, maps, magnetic or paper tapes, photographic films or prints, microfilm, microfiche, magnetic or punched cards, discs, drums, hard drives, solid state storage components, or other means of recording …

The Story of Nicholas Winton

… hereby granted, provided that the authors and the Center are properly cited. Both the book, "Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation," and the film, "All My Loved Ones," are available now from www.Amazon.com. The fourth edition of Vera Gissing’s personal reminiscences, "Pearls of Childhood," will …

Character Makes All the Difference in the World

A Commencement Address

… recent movie, Ron Howard’s "Cinderella Man." How many of you saw it? The film is a masterpiece from start to finish but I especially loved an early scene … "I promise." Braddock’s character ascends to new heights later in the film when he does what no welfare recipient is ever asked to do and what perhaps …

IV. The Coreless, Canonless Curriculum

… courses. But a student might also satisfy the same requirement by selecting Women’s Studies 100 and English 210, both of which deal primarily with film and other mass-media rather than with written material. (The postmodern curriculum is full of what its designers call “nonprint media” or even, as …

VII. A Few Encouraging Signs

… had to read. She then pointed to slick editions of Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and even The Silence of the Lambs. She had viewed the film The Silence of the Lambs three times and didn’t understand why she now had to read the novel. Simmons also failed to understand why the student had …

MDC Programs to be Eliminated

… Troy Chamber of Commerce Business Consortium for the Arts Lyric Chamber Ensemble City of Southfield Parks and Rec. Cantata Academy Detroit Area Film and TV Detroit Dance Collective Oakland Community College Interlochen Grand Rapids Symphony Ferndale Public Schools Detroit Chamber Winds Judson …

2. “Purely personal” e-mails

… of Appeals decided May 12, 2005 (Docket No 260394),[2] concerned a FOIA request for a videotape of a city council meeting.  The meetings had been filmed by a third party so that they could be broadcast over a local cable channel.  When the council went into closed session in a separate room, the camera …

Unions Would Benefit From a Right-to-Work Law

… was put together by Davis Guggenheim. Now Guggenheim is neither a conservative nor a libertarian, he was the Director of Al Gore's environmentalist film "An Inconvenient Truth." The title is really an odd one when you think about it — what does Superman have to do with schools? But it makes more sense …

No More Excuses

… does not equate high costs with superior outcomes. It doesn’t say, for example, that you should take the tax dollars of Michigan citizens and fund film studios. We’re the Mackinac Center for Public Policy; pur mission is to come here and remind you what the purpose of state government is. And that …

CapCon Interview with Founding Editor Ken Braun and Mackinac Center President Joseph G. Lehman

On its fifth year anniversary, a history lesson

… their lawmakers’ actual votes on actual bills. JL: I have my own favorite CapCon success stories. We did early and hard-hitting work on Michigan’s film incentive program. While our economic analyses were correct, they couldn’t compete for the public’s attention against the Hollywood movie stars the …

In Memoriam: Bruce Beerbower

Operations Administrator

… knighthood (1947), a life peerage (1970) and the Order of Merit (1981). For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.] Olivier’s response to this praise struck me and stayed with me all this time. Olivier said, …

Dr. Jim Hines Talks State Government

‘If renewable energies are so good ... then why not get rid of the subsidies and the mandates?’

… and losers, more often than not, you’re wrong, you’re off. And I think there’s some great examples of that right here in Michigan: solar, batteries, film, where you think something is, or a business is going to be great, and it’s going to produce some great economic benefit for the state, and it turns …

The Bills of September - Bills

House Bills 5285 to 5493; Senate Bills 786 to 882

… Senate Bill 796 (Increase state film subsidy transparency) Introduced … disclosure requirements on state film subsidies. The Film Office would have to post quarterly … that disclose how much each film producer who is promised a … and jobs, and more. Under a film production subsidy law passed …